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Posts by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How can I preserve the crispiness of tortillas in a tortilla casserole?

Today I made a casserole based on tortillas (basically nachos but with more ingredients and in a casserole dish). Besides tortillas, I've added a mix of vegetables (tomatoes, chilli peppers, paprik...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is any nutritional value lost from not cooking oatmeal?

No, no nutritional value is lost from not cooking oatmeal. The only thing you will miss are the nutritional components of whatever liquid you would usually use to cook it. The only side effect mig...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A What is the best way to ripen green cherry tomatoes?

The paper bag method most likely didn't work because the environment wasn't warm enough. As you can read here, the paper bag method should be used in moderately warm environment. Generally speaking...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How can I make (pre-made pizza) dough sticky again?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Jordan‭

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Q&A Nutritional value of cooking pasta

No, there are no significant effects related to consuming pasta raw, neither positive nor negative ones. Pasta is primarily made out of semolina and water. Sometimes, eggs are added. Cooking pasta ...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Meta Reputation is counted vice versa

Referencing this post: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276808. I noticed that on this site, questions and answers might be counted vice versa. Before the bug (if it's a bug), one upvote on answ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Challenges The home made burger challenge

Burger with self-made patties Link to recipe to make self-made patties: https://cooking.codidact.com/articles/276556. Just a simple burger with self-made patties. Added vegetables were lettuce, tom...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Differences between sunflower and rapeseed oils and situations to use them

Today I run out of oil that I use for my pan to roast meat, vegetables and other stuff. I found myself in my local supermarket and was bewildered by the sheer variety of oils. However, in my superm...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How do I get darker sourdough without burning it?

When you baked your bread, you most likely missed some heat from above. (And it seems that the oven you use might be designed that way, meaning that preheating uses top and bottom elements but reta...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Challenges The home made burger challenge

Everyone loves burgers and everyone has their own idea how burgers should be ideally done. So it's burger time! Your task is to create some juicy burgers and share them with us. (And after you've d...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

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

For me it seems that this is only a cosmetics steps. In order to prepare the butter, you need to mix it with the other ingredients, meaning that the butter won't be in its original shape. Putting ...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Home-made veggie meat?

The problem with meat substitutes is that they are substitutes. Without chemical help, it's nearly impossible to achieve a flavour in meat substitutes which is comparable to meat. However, putting ...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Why sift confectioner's sugar when making fudge?

Sifting powdered sugar has nothing to do with making fudge specifically, it's more a general recommendation when using powdered sugar. (For those wondering why I'm using the term powdered sugar eve...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How do you slow-cook soup in a multipot without it venting out too much liquid?

Slow cooking is characterised by a slow and low heat cooking process. For you this means that you put too much heat in the cooking process and that your food essentially (as you noticed) dried out....

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Challenges December(ish) challenge: baked sweets

Snowflake cookies The name of this kind of cookies is related to its look: They look like small snowflakes. (You can't see it very well on the picture but there are small indentations on the surfa...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A What are other uses for an omelet maker besides making omelets?

After some searching on the site @Pestana linked I found that the omelet maker consists of only two pans which are separable and don't seem to be permanently connected. So the pans of the omelet m...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Challenges November 2020 - Bread

Today I made a raisin bread consisting of a special recipe with quark and applesauce.

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A What are the options for gluten free pasta/pasta substitutes that won't turn into gluey paste with overcooking?

A good choice is pasta made out of rice, so to speak rice noodles. Rice naturally contains no gluten and is pretty flexible in how you prepare it. Think of just cooking rice: If you undercook it, t...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How tall are the cutting parts of a regular Christmas cookie cutter?

A quick look on Amazon reveals that most cookie cutters are two to four centimetres tall. The ones I have at home vary between two and a half and three centimetres. As it's a question on how much ...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How do I protect my knuckles when grating vegetables like carrots?

One thing you can try is to tense up your hand so that the whole hand is as flat as possible. (For some people, tensing up the hand leads to a slight overstretch facing upwards where the fingers ov...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Challenges September 2020 - National Cuisine Challenge: Greece

Today, I prepared some Gyros and mixed it with some pasta. (Usually Gyros is served with rice or bread or as a sandwich, similar to kebab.)

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Challenges October 2020 - Seasonal Cooking!

I made a stew consisting of potatoes, pepper bell and octopus with a cheese gratin on top of it. I spiced it up with chilli seasoning so that it can warm me up... ;)

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A How can I fix the broken hinge on my waffle maker?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A What is this kitchen tool that looks like a waffle maker with bigger depressions?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by msh210‭

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Meta Improving recipe formatting

I have also brought this up before (albeit titled differently and asking about tags too). I would like to see some more structures to our recipes as well. As of now, formatting is your own choice w...

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