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Le crueset Dutch oven? If you’re not paying for it, might as well get the nicest one Same thing with a set of All-Clad d5 pots and pans. A nice electric kettle (maybe even a goose neck) and a Brother Tadger fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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I don't know brands but this is 100% a situation where I'd ask someone for a nice sous vide.
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Nov 1, 2021 17:05
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My counters are currently poo poo (tiled for some godawful reason) and I'm not in the position to change them. What's a good table that's easy to clean and sturdy enough to knead dough/do other food prep on? Doesn't need to be easily portable but it would be a plus.
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Nov 1, 2021 22:25
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AnonSpore posted:My counters are currently poo poo (tiled for some godawful reason) and I'm not in the position to change them. What's a good table that's easy to clean and sturdy enough to knead dough/do other food prep on? Doesn't need to be easily portable but it would be a plus. What dimensions are you working with?
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Nov 1, 2021 22:28
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Thinking something like 6 by 3 feet or so, maybe a bit smaller. Not very picky about the dimensions but somewhere thereabouts sounds about right.
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Nov 1, 2021 22:36
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VelociBacon posted:
Pizza STEEL. Slam dunk at it's price point and way, way better than a stone.
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Nov 1, 2021 22:40
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Fart Car '97 posted:Pizza STEEL. Slam dunk at it's price point and way, way better than a stone. Yep. And I’d replace the Peugeot pepper mill with a Unicorn Magnum
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Nov 1, 2021 22:54
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AnonSpore posted:Thinking something like 6 by 3 feet or so, maybe a bit smaller. Not very picky about the dimensions but somewhere thereabouts sounds about right. I had this previously and it was pretty good quality: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/foerhoeja-kitchen-cart-birch-80035920/
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Nov 1, 2021 23:44
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AnonSpore posted:My counters are currently poo poo (tiled for some godawful reason) and I'm not in the position to change them. What's a good table that's easy to clean and sturdy enough to knead dough/do other food prep on? Doesn't need to be easily portable but it would be a plus. Stainless prep table
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Nov 1, 2021 23:57
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barkbell posted:i want an ankarsrum but we talked about different mixer options and we decided to go with 7 qt kitchenaid mixer because it seemed to be more versatile and it looked like it could still handle some of the heavier wet doughs i do. we do have a 40yo 5qt kitchenaid tho so maybe we just need the ankarsrum Just as a heads up, for the 7qt KA and dough. You gotta be making a decent sized batch for the KA dough hook to do a anything at all. Like, I don't do batches of under 1,000g flour because it just barely touches and spins around the top. If you frequently do smaller batches than that, I would either get a Bosch/Ankarsrum, or resign yourself to hand-kneading most of your bread.
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Nov 2, 2021 00:32
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ty for the heads up i maybe need to rethink this...
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Nov 2, 2021 02:02
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/kitche...T&skuId=4598700 Sees like KitchenAid mixer is on sale, these seem really popular.
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Nov 2, 2021 07:14
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obi_ant posted:https://www.bestbuy.com/site/kitche...T&skuId=4598700 Why do they make it so drat hard to compare models. I've got a 10 year old aritsan that struggles to actually move higher than speed 3 and anything thicker than a 70% hydration dough it just stops that I've been putting off repairing for a year, tempted to upgrade at that price and hand off the current one to someone else with the "free, but needs a fix to do anything you couldn't do by hand anyway".
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Nov 2, 2021 14:50
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The lift tops are generally more heavily constructed than the swing tops, right?
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Nov 2, 2021 15:06
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Fart Car '97 posted:The lift tops are generally more heavily constructed than the swing tops, right? Literally what I'm trying to find right now. I know the 7 quarts are built like a tank for the lifts, but I'm not sure if the 5's are as well.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:20
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Yeah bowl lift are sturdier just because there's not a hinge that has sideways force constantly applied to it.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:28
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Seems like this is a solid build at a great price if you're not attached to one of the larger bowl sizes. I'm jumping on it, time to find the artisan a new home (and replacement gears).
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Nov 2, 2021 15:52
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Gears were a large failure point but I think they no longer do any nylon or whatever dumb material. I have repaired one where the entire orbital gearing fell out, idk why the gently caress.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:00
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Costco is the place to buy it from just for the incredible return policy
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It looks like you can put a 5qt bowl on a 7qt kitchenaid mixer. That could be a good solution for me
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Nov 2, 2021 17:40
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Searzall Pro crowdfunding project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/searzall-pro#/ 50% bigger, hotter, more even, uses MAPP PRO gas I might sell off my Searzall and get this
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Steve Yun posted:Searzall Pro crowdfunding project: I thought most folks were unimpressed and thought it wasn't worth the cash? Does FGR have an opinion? Also I have a torch, do I need the proprietary one? WTF is the difference?
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Nov 4, 2021 17:41
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Croatoan posted:I thought most folks were unimpressed and thought it wasn't worth the cash? Does FGR have an opinion? The video implies that using a straight torch imbues the food with a fuel taste? I don't have a torch but I've never heard of this being the case.
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Nov 4, 2021 18:07
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I do not notice a fuel taste when I torch foods, no. I have seared plenty of meats and a few creme brulees. Also to be more clear I was asking more about their proprietary torch that the searzall goes on. I have one from home depot, would I just need the searzall attachment or would I need both?
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Nov 4, 2021 18:28
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I still use my searzall occasionally, generally to make crème brûlée or melt a cold compound butter on a steak or something like that. I really don’t use it to sear anything because I just don’t feel like it works well enough to do so without also cooking the food more than I’d like. So a searzall that is more deficient in that area would be great but I will wait for user reviews this time.
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Nov 4, 2021 18:52
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According to Modernist at Home, butane (bad) and propane (not nearly as bad) can both impart flavors to food, but they reported MAPP didn’t have any noticeable effect so that’s what I have.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:17
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I cook my steaks by putting them into a pie tin and then filling it with isopropyl alcohol and lighting it on fire.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:25
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I thought it was that the heat from a torch was too concentrated in a very small area and that was what caused the off flavor. Either way, I’ve also found the searzalls uses to be extremely limited.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:32
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I've definitely found MAPP Pro to leave an unwanted flavor.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:37
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I guess mAPP will melt the og searzall so they're just going for hotter in round 2
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Nov 4, 2021 20:48
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I was researching what kind of gas was ok for food, so I could get a dual-purpose torch for food/plumbing. Bernzomatic said both Propane or MAPP-Pro were ok. Then I realized a gas grill usually uses Propane so I went with that.
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Nov 4, 2021 21:24
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I've definitely had some really gross gas-flavored crème brûlées at restaurants. I looked at the searzall but was never sold enough to switch from broiling, but I'll look more at this new one
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i like nice words
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bamhand posted:I've definitely found MAPP Pro to leave an unwanted flavor. Even a clean-burning gas can leave off flavors if not combusted completely. Better make your own searzall with a catalytic converter just to be safe 
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The only thing I've used my searzall for is trying to save time blacking the skin of vegetables for a salsa. Took forever and wasn't worth the effort to avoid turning the oven on in the summer.
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BrianBoitano posted:Even a clean-burning gas can leave off flavors if not combusted completely. Better make your own searzall with a catalytic converter just to be safe I’m not sure if it’s actually required or not but I’m pretty sure that my Bernzomatic MAPP-Pro canisters required a different, specific torch head than the regular propane. Given the different energy densities of the gasses involved I wouldn’t be surprised if you could conceivably use an incorrect torch and get incomplete combustion.
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Nov 5, 2021 17:37
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Is it unreasonable to expect an enameled dutch oven to be completely flat? I finally found one that's the same size as my hob recently and it wobbles slightly if I put pressure on one side. It was like this before I even applied any heat.
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Nov 8, 2021 18:37
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my experience is limited but they should be dead flat. even my Misen one is
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Nov 8, 2021 18:53
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Empty Sandwich posted:even my Misen one is What is the quality on Misen stuff these days? I remember a lot of broken knives crushing garlic, but keep seeing people talking about picking up their stuff and I'm not sure if its still right to steer them away. Is their QA still poo poo or have they graduated to "decent but overpriced insta brand"?
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Nephzinho posted:What is the quality on Misen stuff these days? I remember a lot of broken knives crushing garlic, but keep seeing people talking about picking up their stuff and I'm not sure if its still right to steer them away. Is their QA still poo poo or have they graduated to "decent but overpriced insta brand"? I would personally never buy a piece of equipment from a supplier that shipped out huge quantities of plainly defective steel at any point. They just… didn’t check the hardness or microstructure of the material they got that time, so what other mistakes and shortcuts are the Silicon Valley product managers taking with respect to the quality control of their goods? I just wouldn’t trust them when there are so many similarly-priced alternatives. It may be that a random victorinox won’t hold an edge as long as a random Misen, but I’ve also never heard of victorinox shipping someone (or several thousand someones) untempered steel, either. I also think it just plain sucks that there’s such a huge market for Instagram promotion cooking products. There are plenty of places you can buy cookware from that don’t involve a startup skimming profits off the top of branding and selling mediocre quality products. It’s so much easier to me to have faith in a product that’s been sold for more than 5 years and isn’t exclusively found in Instagram ads.
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Misen seems to do a pretty reliably good job if you get in on one of their Kickstarters. After that, seems like QA goes downhill pretty fast.
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