General Q&A about cooking.
I've never seen a Western Cuisine restaurant steam fish with soy sauce and mandarin peel, 陳皮, like Hong Kong restaurants. Can I do this at home? I feel unconfident because restaurant commercial ste...
In 2017, my family and I travelled to Maritime provinces in Canada, then Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts to view fall foliage. We noticed that all restaurants there cooked seafood in just two ...
I recently made some potato and leek soup. The recipe I followed said that after cooking the ingredients until soft, I should liquify the soup in a blender. I let the blender run for about two minu...
A recipe for fudge called for sifting confectioner's sugar into the pot rather than just adding it. The recipe also called for whisking continuously, so the sugar would be distributed immediately....
Food keeps sticking to my pan, and my fry pan is too shallow! When I stir fry rice, for ex., some rice always flies out the pan! Also, the rice cooks onto the bottom of the pan when I fry it and ...
I'm guessing these are snips of red, orange, green peppers? But then what's the white liquid? Openrice page for Shang Palace in H.K..
Can you please ID this dish? It's from Shang Palace, H.K.. Google translated "海參的協奏曲", captioned on that Openrice page, to Sea Cucumber concerto. I'm guessing the fried nest was made with potato, ...
I chanced on this clay pot (煲仔) on Tripadvisor for a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. I see cellophane or glass noodles, and spring onions. Or are those scallions? How are the scallops ...
Can you please ID this dish? It's from Shang Palace in H.K.. I see char marks and think this was wok fried. I see wok fried shredded carrots and mushrooms, and some egg slices on top. But what are ...
Can you please ID this dish? It's from Shang Palace in H.K.. I see sesame seeds and carrot slices. But I can't figure out the other ingredients. Thanks.
Can you please ID this dish? It's from Shang Palace, H.K.. I see broccolis as decoration. But what's that gelatin? I think I see some mushrooms inside the gelatin. Thanks.
I mostly use my multipot as a pressure cooker, but today I used its slow-cooker function to make soup. The manual says that when using it as a slow cooker, leave the pressure vent open (not closed...
I have a copy of Elizabeth David's 'Italian food', which contains a number of traditional Italian recipes. One of these recipes is ragù (which we'll use for lasagne) and one of the ingredients in ...
I'll add my own pic the next time I buy clams, but this Youtube shows my problem. I buy clams at Whole Food Market for years. They sell them on ice, not in running water. How To Clean Sand Out...
I don't speak any Asian language. Why shake raw sea cucumbers "in a box for more than an hour to deliver a unique texture"? What's the science behind this? 吃喝玩樂 - Diary of a Growing Boy: A s(chl)o...
I don't speak any Asian language. Why no sushi course in traditional kaiseki? Do kaiseki restaurants not serve sushi? Can I still order sushi separately at kaiseki restaurants? 吃喝玩樂 - Diary of a G...
I used some pre-made pizza dough bought from my local supermarket to prepare some pizza balls (basically pizza dumplings). A problem I encountered was that the dough was very non-sticky so that I c...
I don't know Chinese, but I'm assuming that this blogger is correct in his English. But I don't see any sundried mandarin peel? Steamed garoupa with sundried mandarin peel (古法陳皮咸肉蒸老鼠斑) - a very ...
I don't speak any Chinese, but I stumbled this question on Quora. At 2:24, Hong Kong Chef Paul Wong says you can cold water bath noodles, but not vermicelli. Why?
I screen shot 4:31, from a Hong Kong television cooking show. I stumbled this YouTube video only because I'm learning how to cook 象拔蚌 or Geoduck. I don't speak any Chinese. What's Chef Paul Wong do...
About three weeks ago we had our first night of temperatures below freezing, so I picked the remaining viable cherry tomatoes on my plant. The ones I picked were close to full-size but green. (I ...
Someone in my family has serious allergies, and I'm craving for other ways to cook clams WITHOUT black bean or soy sauces or chili. Please don't repeat https://cooking.codidact.com/q/279395.
I know these are restaurants with Michelin Stars, and I have no cooking degree or education. But my first impression is these ingredients don't mix! If you mix them, you'll get gastro enteritis!!!...
I go on a backpacking/camping trip every year where some of the participants are gluten-free and to make them feel included we try to have everyone eat the same thing. The problem with gluten free...
I live in New York City and Toronto. When travelling was safe before COVID, I ate 海蜇頭 at a restaurant in Hong Kong. I'm trying to sidestep Chinese food products, not least because of their f...
Looking for clam recipes I came across this picture: Claims [Typo for Clams] with celery and daikon is light and flavorful. What are those gold flakes on the clams? I added red lines to sig...
I don't want cook clams with pepper, peppercorn or chili. I stumbled this picture. I tried cook this at home. First I added white wine to a rondeau pot, and simmered. Then I put clams, celery, a...
It's possible to 3D print cookie cutters or measuring cups or dumpling makers with PLA, however its not certain that doing so would be safe. The two problems people mention are, Possible impuritie...
I have some bread that is about a week old, and it has some tiny white mold spots on the crust. Would it be safe to trim them off and eat the rest of the bread? If not could I use it in cooking e.g...
I am 3D printing some cookie cutters, but the models came scaled too small. I can scale them up, but was wondering how tall I should make them? How tall is the average cookie-cutter measured fro...
I bought shucked geoduck from Sunny Supermarket in Toronto fresh three times now. After I purge this fresh shuck with saltwater, I sliced it. But slices are these squat wedges in pics 1-2! Bu...
There's nothing like peeling a pound of ginger root to make one wonder if there's a better way to deal with all the branches and knobby bits. I normally peel ginger with a paring knife; for larger...
I cook quite frequently and one thing that I use everytime I cook is a knife. Recently, I've grown unsatisfied with the knives I have as they are all dull and sharpening them doesn't really do the ...
When grating harder foods like carrots or parsnips, I have a problem protecting my fingers when I get down to the last couple inches. Raw carrots are too hard to hold with a fork (at least with su...
For years I've had the strange habit of eating uncooked spaghetti, just a single straw now and then (it has become less frequent, now it only happens a couple of times per year), and only spaghetti...
I'm someone who likes to cook a lot (most of it stems from the fact to eat what you cooked afterwards). But there is one thing in the kitchen that I'm rather hesitant to do: baking. While I do like...
Today I tried a particular sourdough bread recipe for the first time. For a 1.5-pound loaf, in addition to the usual dry ingredients, dried herbs, and sourdough starter, it called for the followin...
I emigrated from the United States and one thing I really miss is the meltability of American "cheese". (The scare quotes are because it's a cheese-based product rather than real cheese.) There's n...
I live in shared flat and today I rummaged through our kitchen a bit. There I was surprised to find the following kitchen tool: It has small holes in it and the area around it heats up pretty qui...
Today I found some interesting things while rummaging through the kitchen in my shared flat. One of the things I found was a waffle maker but sadly it's a bit broken. The hinge between the top and...
Sometimes when backcountry camping, I will have my cold brew sock and access to fairly cold water (just barely possible to go swimming) , but of course not a refrigerator. It will stay fairly cold ...
I made toasted cheese sandwiches with soft, fresh white bread. They where softer then I expected when I took them out of the frying pan. Kind of bendy and floppy around instead of holding their sha...
I almost always end up with extra cold brew coffee and sometimes don't get around to drinking it for a couple of days. I know that it lasts longer than hot brewed coffee, but in general how long wi...
I used to get packages of "chicken leg quarters". These seem to be out of stock in my area recently. Sticking to the general legs part of a chicken, I noticed there are quite a few different pre-...
Some of the prepackaged cookie dough at my local store is specifically marked as being safe for eating without cooking first. What is different about this type of cookie dough compared to regular c...
I've made sourdough bread a few times following the same ("beginner") recipe. After the dough rises overnight in a bowl you put it on a floured surface, fold it in on itself to shape it, and let i...
There are cotton filters for home cold-brewed coffee, but it would also be possible to make cold brew without any sort of filter during the brewing, just run it through a disposable filter afterwar...
I have read a bit about sous vide, which seems to be basically just boiling in a plastic bag. Well, boiling is not true since the temperature is lower, but why is the plastic bag needed? What diffe...
Today I made some dumplings. Even though they were already precooked, I put them into a kind of vegetable broth to cook them properly (which wasn't really necessary but I did it because I like the ...
I've made cold cherry soup a few times from a recipe that calls for thickening it with a little cornstarch, but I always end up with some small clumps of what I presume are the starch in the finish...
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