Posts by Zerotime
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...
Yes, you can substitute these ingredients without worrying. Bell peppers and chilli peppers belong to the same family, the Capsicum. The difference in taste is nearly negligible, the main differen...
It depends on the brand you have at hand. Using regular chocolate and milk, any ratio from 8:1 to 2:1 (the larger numbers refer to the liquid you use) is reasonable depending on how sweet and thick...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
This is largely a cultural and economical thing. For the cultural part: Cuisine varies strongly around the globe. What one nation considers a fine dinner, another considers to be not eatable or en...
Cinnamon roll cookies This year, I tried something out that I wanted to do for a long time: making cookies that are closely related to cinnamon rolls. Contrary to regular cinnamon rolls which are ...
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...
Butter cookies The first cookies I baked this year were some regular butter cookies. Unfortunately, I only found unicorn sprinkles in my local supermarket so this is the unicorn butter cookies edi...
When you use any peels, you usually use a grater and grate them, like in the following image with a lemon peel: The reason behind that is that the peel and / or skin on its own isn't easily dige...
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...
Today I made a raisin bread consisting of a special recipe with quark and applesauce.
Most of it boils down to be persistent in trying out and mixing ingredients together to see what works. I can recommend this short article about being a chef and being creative from which I quote t...
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...
No, definitely no! Throw it away, don't eat it and don't use it otherwise. The problem with bread and mold is that even tiniest bit of visible mold can be a sign that the whole bread is already af...
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 ...
As I pointed out in my comment, it's better to not peel ginger at all. Most of the vitamins of ginger are located right beneath the skin and peeling it essentially removes this thin layer of vitami...
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 ...
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...
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.)
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... ;)
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...
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 ...
