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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why won't broth from periwinkles be delicious like broth from clams and mussels?

According to Wikipedia, periwinkles, clams, and mussels all belong to the same phylum, Mollusca. Thus I don't understand why the latter can yield delicious broth, but not periwinkles? Don't save...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Safe and shrewd to thaw frozen seafood, take out 1/3, refreeze remaining 2/3, take out second portion of 1/3, refreeze remaining 1/3?

My parents eat this FROZEN lobster meat from Maine weekly. Each plastic bag of frozen lobster lasts 3 servings for them. But they're too lazy to put 1/3 of the frozen lobster meat into, then fre...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A What is the ratio of powdered milk to hot chocolate mix to simulate chocolate milk?

I have mixed powdered milk and hot chocolate in a Nalgene before to celebrate climbing mountains/rock climbs but it has been a while and I don't remember how much of each it takes (I think it was a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A What would one need to do to make 3D printed PLA cookware safe to use?

The good news: PLA itself is non-toxic, and is often used in molded applications for food-safe tools. Everything else is pretty much bad news. Your intuition is correct: The print resolution is go...

posted 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Why put butter onto a sheet of parchment paper and roll into a small cylinder?

What's the point of Step 2 below? It feels like too much work! Why "Put the butter onto a sheet of parchment paper and roll into a small cylinder"? Why the "parchment paper and roll into a small c...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How to take hold of the bones at the head end? How will fillets fall back into place?

I don't understand how to proceed from Step 2 to 3. In Step 2, the bones are under the fish flesh. Then in step 3, how do I "Take hold of the bones at the head end"? In Step 3, how will t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why does stuffing fish with herbs and lemon impart almost no flavor?

This is the first time that I've heard that stuffing fish with herbs and lemon is "pointless, as almost no flavour will be imparted from these trappings." I'm nonplussed! Many cookbooks recommend t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A When does bloating indicate poor quality or old fish?

Except for the special case of a swim bladder, bloating is caused by gasses produced by the decomposition process. In other words, it indicates that lots of bacteria and/or fungi are present, and ...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Ought you cook bivalves in small batches like periwinkles?

Periwinkles are much smaller and harder to inspect than the other examples you give, so it's difficult to identify if one is bad. Generally you would be able to tell right away if some of your scal...

posted 4y ago by Sigma‭

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Q&A When stir frying clams, why thicken the black bean sauce with corn starch?

4 Remove the lid and stir up the cornstarch mixture, add it to the pant and continue stirring until thickened. Transfer the clams to a serving dish and garnish with cilantro. Serve immediately....

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why would you add yogurt to brew Bengal Style Fish Curry?

I inserted a yellow line next to the second last para. below. Why add yogurt to concoct spicy curry? Yogurt and curry just don't mix together, in my mind. Never would I have thought to combine them...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by aditya98‭

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Q&A How can you concoct Red Mullet Soup without bones or heads?

The recipe below doesn't contain any bones. Did the author forget them? Red mullet has particular qualities that make the flavour very rich. The secret of this soup is making a good stock. Addit...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How much honey do I substitute for granulated sugar in bread?

According to this site, white sugar and honey are interchangeable one to one [in bread dough].

posted 4y ago by __shiva_c‭  ·  edited 4y ago by __shiva_c‭

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Q&A How do I choose the best nonstick pan or coating, for high heat on an electric cook top?

After reading https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q/99510 and https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q/115285, I'm still afraid of accidentally buying shoddy non stick coating or pan , damaging it, and wa...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Sodium Bicarbonate in vegan omelets

Is it a common practice between food technicians and vegan chefs to add sodium bicarbonate to vegan Chickpea flour omelets for making the batter more airy?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Sodium Bicarbonate in vegan omelets

A vegan dish made from chickpea flour, sodium bicarbonate, almond milk and sugar is usually referred to as a pancake, not an omelet. Sodium bicarbonate is used as a leavening agent; baking powder c...

posted 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Even after thawing, why do PC Blue Menu Wild Nova Scotian Frozen Sea Scallops spew out so much water?

My rural community has merely one supermarket. It sells merely ONE brand of scallop. The supermarket keeps them in a freezer. When I get home, I cut open the bag, place the scallops in a colande...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A How do I fry donuts safely?

Evidently if you have a large amount of money to solve the problem, there are robotic doughnut makers which include the fryer, so you could be as far away as you like, behind a shield (built in on ...

posted 11mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A What cutlet is this?

It's impossible to say other than it's a flattened breaded fried thing. Typically a cutlet in English (at least in the USA) would be veal (young bovine.) But the only thing visible here is browned...

posted 9mo ago by Spamalot‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A How to avoid air bubbles forming when baking a pancake in the oven?

It's probably the thickness. I do bake pancakes in the oven (because 10 or more at a time without flipping is a lot less bother than standing in front of a pan to tend perhaps 3 at once if small) ...

posted 1y ago by Spamalot‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A Can you install 1 Wok Burner + 1 Fire Gas Grill side by side, on the same cooktop?

The supply of fuel gas is limited by the following factors: the size of the house (building, apartment) connection to the main supply the size of the connection in your kitchen If yo...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Should I stir separated yoghurt?

It depends. I used to dump it. Now I tend to drink it. I don't stir it into the yogurt because that makes the yogurt runnier, by breaking the rather delicate structures yogurt forms itself in cult...

posted 1y ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A How can I get chicken as soft as possible in two hours or less?

I saw this recipe about slow cooker chicken in our recipe category and I wondered if there are other ways to get my chicken as soft as possible without investing hours of cooking? I wanted to prepa...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by dsr‭

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Meta Ideas for new cooking challenges

Bake a cake without using sugar (and chemical substitutes) Consuming too much sugar is something that's not really healthy (even though it's most often tasty., especially in cakes..). So let's bake...

posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭

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