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It's really hard to tell why a particular non-stick pan lost its finish. One common reason is that it was heated too hot; this causes the nonstick coating to degrade. If you stacked other pans insi...
Roasting is dry, high-heat cooking. In this case, it looks like the idea is to concentrate the flavor of the squash by removing excess water and developing Maillard reactions to add additional comp...
This is actually a food safety measure. The purpose of canning is to preserve food against spoilage by microbial action. The method of canning is to heat food to pasteurization -- that is, the com...
I understand that sugar, even the brownest, darkest and "wholeest" is generally a refined sugar with added molasses. In contrast, I understand that a jaggery is the naturally occurring sugar with ...
After I wash mushrooms in salt water, I dry them in a salad spinner. Then I insert the spinned mushrooms into my wok, that's hot with safflower oil. At this point, the wok has no water. After 3 mi...
All commercially available sugars are refined from plant materials. The simplest refining is to chop and/or macerate the plant, filter the juices, and then boil them until the sugar precipitates ou...
Please see the sentences to the right of my red vertical line, in the scan below. Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Fresh Fish 2016, p 41.
I have heard that one way to preserve fresh garlic cloves is to freeze them. I've seen some places that say that a frozen clove will be a little mushier when it's thawed later but is still fine fo...
I have a Whirlpool wall oven with (optional) convection settings. It has three racks. The obvious place to store oven racks is, of course, in the oven. The oven has two preheating modes, "rapid"...
Galvanized metals are dipped in a hot zinc bath. The resulting zinc coating prevents rusting. https://university.upstartfarmers.com/blog/be-careful-about-zinc-in-aquaponics points out that zinc l...
Here's the method I use for situations where it is important that I do the separation, and the quantity demanded is moderate -- say, up to a dozen eggs. It is possible to purchase liquid yolk and ...
Here's a wonderful trick I learned a long time ago. Get a plastic drinking bottle. Not the really solid kind, something you can squeeze easily. Take the cap off. Wrap a bit of sticky tape (or c...
Doubtless it's safer to push knives away from hands. I always hone like this GIF. Source for first image below. But I just saw these images where the knife is being pushed TOWARDS the handle a...
Each time Owen in Vancouver pulls the knife starting at 0:58, he alternates the knife's edges. But why? Why not hone one side with 15 consecutive strokes first, then switch to the other side? Bob...
This is entirely a matter of personal preference. The actual determining factors in honing with a steel are consistency of angle and force on both sides of the blade.
For the sake of safety, do not hone towards your body or anyone else's. There is no special benefit to it, and much more risk.
Oats You can get regular oats and grind them up in a food processor. If the issue is "general" then any brand of oats should be fine. If you have a highly allergic (or similar) situation where the...
I defrosted these Snow Crab claws, but the meat still clings to the shell. I can't yank all the claw meat out of the shell intact and in one go, because the meat keeps splitting and sundering at t...
According to the USDA, your parents' method is safe: If raw or cooked food is thawed in the refrigerator, it is safe to refreeze it without cooking or heating, although there may be a loss of qu...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
I am physically unable to wash sullied fruits and vegetables, particularly ones just plucked from soil. I am disabled, and I injured myself. The water pressure out of my faucets are TOO LOW AND POW...
Thanks to the pandemic, you probably already have a good solution: wear a face mask. And the glasses are already helping protect your eyes.
I cooked with tempeh for the first time recently. The tempeh came in an 8oz "brick", about half to three-quarters of an inch thick. The recipe I was following suggested boiling it for 10 minutes ...
I am a beginner when it comes to bread, and for expedience I make almost all of my bread using a bread machine. I've always used bread flour, followed the proportions specified in the instructions...
While I am not familiar with tempeh, I would think that perhaps cutting it into lozengy shapes, at an angle, so the individual pieces are cut evenly with thin edges, might assist.
