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What you've got is a set of flavors and a desire for a certain texture. That texture should be supplied by something which provides protein as well as body. The classic non-meat patties are made o...
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...
My wife and I recently tried cooking frozen green beans by boiling them on the stove. They tasted fine, but the skin of the green beans was really, really "squeaky" on my teeth. My wife didn't real...
I have a very small kitchen unfit for rich cooking and I reside in a state in which red meat substitutes are generally very expensive due to currently low demand in the local market. Say I have so...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Let's say I want to make zefir. For this, I'll be needing egg whites, and as someone who never knew how to properly separate whites from yolk, I want to find the most efficient way of doing so, and...
Saxitoxins are the mechanism for paralytic shellfish poisoning. They are not produced by the creatures, but absorbed from passing blooms of microscopic creatures. They are not eliminated by cookin...
If you are looking for more onion flavor, my first suggestion would be to use more or larger green onions. The author's preferred green onions might be larger than what you have available.
This technique is cooking the green beans via steaming. The small amount of water in a very hot covered wok efficiently cooks the green beans via heat transfer from the pan to the steam to the enti...
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...
This is a thermodynamics issue: the heat capacity of steel is about 460 times the heat capacity of an equal mass of air -- and there's not a large mass of air in an oven, and each rack weighs a cou...
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"...
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...
Two easy options for thickening ice cream are all-purpose flour and cornstarch. The first has a slight taste while the second is nearly tasteless. This helps you to preserve the original flavour of...
On June 1, I bought three Sugar Kiss melons in the USA. When I got home, I washed them under tap water and EcoMax Hypoallergenic Fruit & Veggie Wash, to try to wash away any COVID19 viruses on ...
Please see the sentences to the right of my red vertical line, in the scan below. Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Fresh Fish 2016, p 41.
Please see the sentences to the left of my red vertical line, in the scan below. Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Fresh Fish 2016, p 41.
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...
As you cook mushrooms, the cellulose cell walls rupture, releasing the cell contents. Most of the weight of a healthy mushroom is water. (Most of the weight of most unprocessed foods is water; mos...
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...
