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If you buy coconut milk without stabilizers (guar gum, locust bean gum are the most common types around me) you will discover that it separates into a high-fat cream and a relatively low-fat coconu...
The softest chicken is chicken that has carefully been raised to the minimum safe cooking temperature, then had the cooking process stopped. The options: cooking in a high moisture environment me...
Here's a fun and relevant fact: the "dryness" of a bread is influenced more by the amount of fat in it and the details of baking than by the original water content. In this case, I recommend the f...
They are the same cooking method. However, an outdoor gas grill is typically not built as well as indoor gas grill of the same cost, because they need to include a housing. Practically speaking, th...
Thanks to the pandemic, you probably already have a good solution: wear a face mask. And the glasses are already helping protect your eyes.
Fresh sugar cane and sugar cane juice will spoil quickly; bacteria love it. Reduction into jaggery allows it to last much longer -- if kept dry, indefinitely.
What you are experiencing is a partially overcooked green bean. The exterior membrane is partially detached from the flesh of the bean, but the seeds have not yet been cooked through. Don't boil g...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zucchini (courgette) noodles. You'll want to bring the raw zucchini and an Oxo handheld spiralizer ($15). It's tiny and lightweight, almost as if they had designed it for backpackers. One medium z...
Milk is water, protein, fat, and sugar (lactose). In a half-cup of milk, I google: 4g protein, 4g fat, 6g sugar. I would substitute in a half cup of water, ignore the extra protein, add a drip more...
Each pan of the waffle maker is made by pouring molten metal into a mold, then applying many layers of a non-stick coating. Repairing a break in this location is not reasonable. Waffle-makers in w...
With regard to texture: meat is a sponge of proteins holding water. As you cook it, the sponge tightens, forcing out water. If you stop and let it re-absorb the liquid, and it will regain some tend...
On serrations: Serrated edges are a mixed blessing. They accomplish several purposes: serrations pack more cutting edge length into the same overall blade length. This gives a mechanical advantag...
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...
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...
Did you use a wash? A water wash (a few tablespoons of water applied to the top about halfway through) can give you a crispy crust. An egg wash (whisk an egg in a bowl with a small splash of water)...
While beans are often canned with calcium chloride to keep cell walls strongs and salt for flavor, all of the starch that leaches into the water is inherent in the beans. It just needs to be let ou...
This question appears to be trying to create controversy. If you want to make a specific style of food, you may need specialized equipment. Certainly, specialized equipment makes certain things ea...
"Macaroni" in common usage in the US specifically refers to "elbow macaroni", the kind of dried pasta you are talking about. The US has a standard of identity: (b) Macaroni is the macaroni product...
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