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Anne Whateley posted:The true amazing solution (for drop biscuits) is ATK's method. You melt the butter and pour it into cold liquid, and it turns itself into a slushie of a million tiny pieces. https://www.wnyc.org/story/70598-americas-test-kitchens-best-drop-biscuits/ I was making drop biscuits last night, got 3 small pieces of butter into the flour before I stopped what I was doing and tried this, it worked well and was significantly lazier, which was kind of ideal for how things were going with everything else last night. Thanks for posting the link!
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You're welcome, lazy options with great quality are my favorite thing
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:You're welcome, lazy options with great quality are my favorite thing Me too! I love a good effort:reward ratio.
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I am finally doing it, I am overstepping my bounds. This year I am replacing my father in law's carving knife and his knife holder. His current knife and knife holder are the same ones he's been using since my wife was a child, and they have possibly been in use for longer than she's been alive. He's using one of those really old style slicers that has like a 12 inch long 1cm thick blade attached to a light brown handle, and the whole blade is completely straight so it's even more difficult than normal to sharpen by hand, and he keeps it in a cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels. It couldn't actually slice anything with how dull it is. It hadn't even occurred to me that I never saw the tube get changed, but my wife told me she's pretty sure it's been the same tube since she was a kid. I hope he doesn't cut himself and die, but he got an electric smoker for himself last christmas, and said he liked my knives and the knife holders before so this holiday season he'll be carving the pot roast after receiving these  Don't die, extra dad edit: Realized that was a really macabre way to post that so to be clear, he's actually an extremely safety conscious person who just doesn't know poo poo about knives. He was a pilot in the Vietnam war, later had a career in OSHA, and during retirement has been a safety consultant for pre-inspection stuff as well as an expert witness for OSHA-related safety things. Gonna toss in a couple sets of machine-washable cut resistant gloves for him and my mother-in-law even if it's just so they feel more comfortable washing the thing by hand. signalnoise fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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I got a duck for cheap today (last day of sell-by date), I’ve rather hamhandedly broken it down, and tomorrow we will be having confit duck legs, duck breast and some duck croquettes. My children really have no idea how good they have it, when I was a kid, an extravagant meal meant lentil burgers.
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Scientastic posted:I got a duck for cheap today (last day of sell-by date), I’ve rather hamhandedly broken it down, and tomorrow we will be having confit duck legs, duck breast and some duck croquettes. Oh man I love duck. I’ve been dreaming of duck confit for months.
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Dec 4, 2021 20:32
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Scientastic posted:I got a duck for cheap today (last day of sell-by date), I’ve rather hamhandedly broken it down, and tomorrow we will be having confit duck legs, duck breast and some duck croquettes.
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Scientastic posted:I got a duck for cheap today (last day of sell-by date), I’ve rather hamhandedly broken it down, and tomorrow we will be having confit duck legs, duck breast and some duck croquettes. Oh man, very much gotta do this too in the next few weeks. For your kids, just make sure you’re teaching them to cook! Don’t want them to be food snobs that can’t at least cook to share/impress!
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Dec 5, 2021 00:53
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If anyone is looking for an Xmas gift for a friend (or themselves) I bought myself an electric spice grinder a while ago and love it.
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I finally used up a $50 gift card I got for Xmas a few years ago on five pounds of Rancho Gordon beans. Let’s hope this makes good on my “reducing meat intake except for good stuff” angle I’ve been working on. I recently went to Kalustiyana for black beans that I made so nice I got angry texts from the friend who was eating them post surgery (she wanted the soup as a bath sized portion, which is medically questionable)
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therattle posted:If anyone is looking for an Xmas gift for a friend (or themselves) I bought myself an electric spice grinder a while ago and love it. sure, hook me up with a product link; I've been thinking about getting one off and on.
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Mister Facetious posted:sure, hook me up with a product link; I've been thinking about getting one off and on. I don’t know if this is available in the US but this is what I got and it’s good https://www.wahl.co.uk/product/spice-grinder-2/
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Dec 12, 2021 00:29
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spice grinders are the same thing as cheap blade coffee grinders
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Dec 12, 2021 01:20
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Yeah just get a blade grinder with a metal cup so it doesn't permanently pick up smells
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mystes posted:spice grinders are the same thing as cheap blade coffee grinders I don't drink coffee, so I don't know what there is or what the crappy ones are that will burn out in a month. 
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Dec 12, 2021 11:43
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"Get the good kind of the bad kind of coffee grinder"
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Dec 12, 2021 15:37
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Grinder aficianados always give me douche chills *burr*
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Dec 12, 2021 15:48
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ha ha coffee grinder go brrrr
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Casu Marzu posted:ha ha coffee grinder go burr
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I like my burr grinder because the noise it makes is not as loud as the blade grinders I've had. Most coffee I drink these days is instant coffee that is some kind of pre-sweetened and pre-creamered mix that comes in packets though. It's from the Asian grocery store around here and tastes like what you'd get out of canned coffee from a vending machine, which is nice. I think I stopped giving a poo poo about coffee when kona became impossible to get In any case spices I think are generally gonna be easier on the blade and motor than coffee, so I think it'll be fine whatever you get, as long as it has a metal cup that is removable so you can wash it signalnoise fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Dec 12, 2021 16:14
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The one I have has a removable cup and lid for washing (dishwasher safe) plus an extra insert for grinding small quantities. It’s very good and I am happy with it.
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If you use the grinder for both coffee and spices you can grind a small amount of white rice in between to clean the grinder of oils etc
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Helith posted:If you use the grinder for both coffee and spices you can grind a small amount of white rice in between to clean the grinder of oils etc UNCOOKED rice. To be clear.
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Dec 12, 2021 23:41
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Drink and Fight posted:UNCOOKED rice. To be clear. lol yeah
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Drink and Fight posted:UNCOOKED rice. To be clear.
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Stop wasting your money and stop wasting your rice. Hi I'm Pall Blampton and I'm the inventor of the anti-smell grinder cup metal! Surely you've heard how metal can be useful in neutralizing oil-based odors. One day it hit me. The coffee grinder that I also use as my spice grinder is constantly transferring smells between them because the cup is made of plastic! That day, I knew the cup metal had to be made. Instead of using rice, now you too can use tiny metal flakes and just grind em all up in your coffee grinder. Don't worry, they're made of harder metal than your blades, so they can be used again and again.
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signalnoise posted:Stop wasting your money and stop wasting your rice. Hi I'm Pall Blampton and I'm the inventor of the anti-smell grinder cup metal! Surely you've heard how metal can be useful in neutralizing oil-based odors. One day it hit me. The coffee grinder that I also use as my spice grinder is constantly transferring smells between them because the cup is made of plastic! That day, I knew the cup metal had to be made. Instead of using rice, now you too can use tiny metal flakes and just grind em all up in your coffee grinder. Don't worry, they're made of harder metal than your blades, so they can be used again and again. 
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Any suggestions on where I can get my hands on Gros Michel bananas? I'd really like to try them to see how they compare to the Cavendish, but everywhere I've looked has them for stupidly expensive prices and high shipping costs. I figure you folks might have an inside line somewhere.
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I've seen them at Ranch 99 occasionally. They're good.
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Huh, turns out the microplanes with the metal handles are actually microplanes with a plastic handle with a stainless sleeve.
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SubG posted:Huh, turns out the microplanes with the metal handles are actually microplanes with a plastic handle with a stainless sleeve. I think you mean full shank microplanes
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VelociBacon posted:I think you mean full shank microplanes
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Is the supply chain crisis making everyone's produce markedly worse, or do I need to switch grocery chains? I'm starting to get sick of wilted lettuce, rubbery broccoli, and citrus that barely lasts a week.
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I haven't noticed a difference here in Vancouver but I think a lot of our produce is locally sourced.
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you ate my cat posted:Is the supply chain crisis making everyone's produce markedly worse, or do I need to switch grocery chains? I'm starting to get sick of wilted lettuce, rubbery broccoli, and citrus that barely lasts a week. Its definitely worse for a lot of things, weirdly peppers seem fine though, haven't gotten a bad poblano yet. Its the prices that are killing me for sure though.
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I get most of my produce from a CSA I've subscribed to since before the pandemic and their quality has been more or less the same. The thing that I've noticed, and I think I mentioned it in here before, is eggs. Sometime in the middle of the pandemic I started having trouble building emulsions using eggs from the grocery store. Tried multiple brands, same story. Eventually I tried getting the crunchy hippy locally sourced free range yadda yadda eggs that I can get through the CSA. No problems. Egg yolks get worse at emulsifying poo poo as they age. I haven't done a lot of experimentation, but the "fresh" grocery store eggs behave like the CSA eggs after they've been sitting in the fridge for between two and three weeks.
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you ate my cat posted:Is the supply chain crisis making everyone's produce markedly worse, or do I need to switch grocery chains? I'm starting to get sick of wilted lettuce, rubbery broccoli, and citrus that barely lasts a week. I dunno, but I've had way more poo poo spoiling on me than I ever remember before. I tried a CSA that several people recommended here at one point, but they stopped delivering last winter, raised their prices and the quality got worse pretty much all at once so it was real easy to quit.
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I impulse bought 2 packs of cocktail weenies because they were on sale. I made the standard 'weenies in sweet/spicy bbqish sauce', any ideas on something not that to do with them? I'm drawing a blank.
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Buy a tube of crescent rolls. Cut into 3 triangles per precut triangle, wrap dogs, bake, no regrets.
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