Kerry Beal

High brix items don't usually show as clear a line - go for as thin a sample as you can, push down firmly on the little flap, and as Lisa suggests as bright a light source as possible. Oh yeah - turning the ocular can sometimes help as well - it's like a focus.

Last day for hotel booking today - Also last day for hotel room booking - Tuesday April 17th - Phone number for Hilton Garden Inn - 905 984 4200 address 500 York Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario The rates are accessed but identifying yourself as part of the EGullet Chocolate Conference - booking code is ECB18 It is a long weekend in Canada so the rates aren't as good as other years - the suggestion that we change our dates to get better rates was not entertained by me! There are taxes on top of the quoted rates Tuesday 15th, wed 16th, Thurs 17th - $119 Friday, Sat and Sun 18-20 - $189

I suspect the yellow food coloring helps in the appearance (and picking just the good ones of course)!

Don't recall too much about it - but here is a link to the thread where it was discussed in detail -

Immersion blender?

It is confirmed that Renee from Chocolat-Chocolat and her husband will be joining us this year. They will drive down from Montreal on Friday - with any luck be able to join us for the show and tell, spend Saturday with us and join us for dinner on Saturday. They will head back on Sunday morning. If you want molds from Chocolat-chocolat best bet would be to contact Renee directly and I'll bet she would bring them along. She will be sending me an order before the event so they could be included with that as well I expect.

My plans on Saturday were to work 12 hours, come home 8 at night, getting my packing for heading to PMCA done - then heading out first thing in the morning. Breakfast with @patris, then the drive down to Lancaster. Attend the lecture this morning, then the trade show this afternoon - and get all my questions answered and samples arranged for the workshop. Dinner with @lancastermikeand his delightful wife. Here's what happened instead - Saturday was freezing rain - texted the doc who was to relieve me at 8 pm and asked if she wanted me to stay - which she was thrilled about! So the view above is what greeted me for my drive home yesterday morning. Since southern Ontario and upper NY state were pretty much the same my drive to Lancaster was not going to come off safely. So here I am at home - but it is giving me a chance to catch up on some paperwork for the workshop at least. But it does mean my hopes for some great samples is likely not going to happen.

It was quite fascinating to me though that when Flavio Federico in Brazil posted an Instagram video with his new EZtemper - my followers went up exponentially. Sadly it apparently costs around $3000 US for a Brazilian to import one between duties and taxes. A few enterprising Brazilians have had me send them to friends and family in the US and had them brought down or have picked them up. Here's a link to his post - Flavio's video on Instagram

Workshop

Might be the case. Thought it funny that he declares himself the first owner in the US (except Valrhona) - he's not!

Almost a dutch baby

Since I'm stuck here for the night and the weather seems to be keeping people away - I asked our volunteer to go out to the grocery store and grab me a container of heavy cream so I could make @tikidoc's cream scones. They set upon them like a pack of hounds. Managed to catch a picture before the rest disappeared.

First loaf got ignored in the CSO and got a little browner than I like (I usually tent with a bit of foil) - but I dropped it at the desk and 30 minutes later there was a heel left! Was not expecting to work 24 hours today - but the weather is so bad that I would get stuck in town overnight so I figured I might as well stay. Saves the other doc the nasty drive in and me the nasty drive home. She's the coroner on call tonight so she'll likely have enough work to keep her busy! Leftovers for lunch - I had some red thai curry left that I had made the other day - don't think I had time to post it when I was here last. Looked just like this but with rice under it.

If no one else takes it off your hands there - I will!

I'm trying to edit my response to you - but it won't let me!

Suspect that might disappear before long as well!

So it can hold 6 canisters - the extra canisters I obtained are in two sizes 8 cm (like those with it) and 9 cm. You can put 2 of the larger and 4 of the smaller in there. That gives a larger capacity than the competition. A big container would be fine as long as there is room for air circulation around it. Plastic or glass is fine - health department might have an issue with glass and the set temperature may be a little different.

been a while for me too!

Either pre-bake or perhaps vanilla wafers? Look about the right size.

Interesting - wonder if they'll get rid of the other one too! Didn't realize you could get rid of comments on Instagram.

Bring it along!

I saw it when I looked - thanks!

Lol! Guess that's why Valrhona isn't returning my calls. Advantages I see for mine - you can clean the containers - theirs is one big container. And the cost! Not sure how much it is these days - but when I last looked it was about 7 times the cost. And mine is mine!

There is something supremely satisfying about accomplishing something like this!

I've got the best wire strippers! Many fewer cuts than using a scalpel. Agree with the Marrette connectors - they make life so simple!