Kerry Beal

You had a Spinzall? I've still got one - I occasionally do the debate about if I will drag it out and so something with it - or should I sell it. It was fun for making butter I recall.

Nice to see you back Scoop!

He’s got more than 1 eG name!

Looks like the Creami has some competition too - and endorsed by Dana Cree (actually more than endorsed - looks like she is one of the partners involved in the manufacture) - Frolic However you buy their 'pods' of mix I guess instead of making your own.

Maybe replace some of the sucrose with other sugars? Here's @UnConundrum's treatise on sugars in ice cream - Under-Belly on sugars in ice cream.

Nope - was pretty warm after the last spin!

Digging through my pile of gums and stuff - I came across Sucro - sucrose esters - anybody use those and where do they fit in? I suggest you don't taste them to figure out if they are dextrose - they aren't. They form a scum on the back of your teeth and aren't at all sweet!

I just took some tomato juice out of the fridge and added each ingredient one at a time to it, tasting as I went - realize that I've been using hydroxy methyl cellulose instead of carboxy methyl cellulose and it added a bit of weird flavor but not the offending flavor - so I'm not sure what this is all about. I will get some fresh dextrose to try.

I did discuss that with the girl who I was working with on this - it's a solid wood door - hubby took it off last year and stripped it down and put on the requisite number of layers of finish - not anxious to have the door off again for any length of time!

Was waiting for Amazon to deliver this pistachio oil yesterday - heard a big bang at the front door - looked out to see the truck driving away - they must have thrown it from the curb around 50 feet away from the door. Door is missing a bit of varnish and there is a dent in the wood. Can didn't do so well either. Needless to say - money was returned to me. So I added about 3 tbsp of oil to the top of the pistachio in the freezer and this morning I ran it once through the pacojet and here is the beautiful paste I was left with. Smooth as a babies butt! Gave the hazelnut gelato a spin - it's very rich - very tasty. Scoops like a dream. This is the strawberry sorbet - excellent texture, scoops beautifully but tastes like ass so has been washed down the drain. I'm not sure what the faulty ingredient is. There was a sulfury smell and taste. I'm suspicious that my dextrose might be the responsible party but it doesn't taste off in the container. I've got a memory of a recipe I binned a while back that used dextrose though.

Yeah - realized there are a lot of toes in the pics! Breaking down particle size - not like using a melanger.

Hazelnut paste - used the 4 blade cutter to chop roasted blanched hazelnuts, added a couple of tbsp of roasted hazelnut oil, froze and then pacotized 6 or 7 times. Today I used the pistachio gelato recipe from Modernist cuisine to start a batch - I didn't add the oil because the paste was much more liquid than expected - so just the total of paste and oil with the liquidy paste. Found some pistachio flour in the freezer - didn't have any pistachio oil to add to it - so just processed a bunch of times without freezing. Very viscous - so I have added some oil now that I have obtained it - and I'll spin it a few more times as soon as I can make some noise in the house without disturbing anyone and make a batch of gelato with it. Also this evening I took some strawberries that I got at the farmers market yesterday and started a batch of strawberry sorbet based on the Underbelly formula by eG's own @UnConundrum - here

Amused me when @mgaretz asked if we could find McCains in Canada. I've always pictured New Brunswick as owned by the McCains and the Irvings.

Ninja Creami for sale on the Ninja Canada site for $199 - not sure if you can add the Summer10 code to get the 10% discount on top of that or not.

I pressure cooked some 35% cream and then some milk with some added milk solids - 2 hours each high pressure. Tasty! I'll be interested to try it with just the cream 'burnt' - will be more subtle for sure but I'll bet it will be nice. Burned cream Ice Cream Ice Creams and Sorbets, Pacojet Source: adapted from Kriss Harveys Vanlla INGREDIENTS 245 grams of cream 35% -caramelized in pressure cooker 2 hours 700 grams of milk - caramelized in pressure cooker 2 hours 200 grams sugar 50 grams atomized glucose 70 grams milk powder 1.5 grams stabilizer 4 yolks DIRECTIONS Cook to 85º C. Cool over ice - divide between two pacojet containers - freeze 24 hours.

Indeed - would make sense to me.

So if you truly want to up your game - you need a Turbo Chef! The ultimate air fryer.

Page 199 has their blister eggs

Looks better undressed than I expected!

True that!

Leaves and flower of a tulip tree based on leaf identification.

Not exactly gardening - but I attended a party this afternoon for a colleague who is moving away. The host lives in an historic house in Dundas - lots of old trees. Found this on the ground while leaving.

Remember the first time I went to a supplier and tried to buy a box of 1000 sheets of parchment - they would only sell me a package of 100 sheets saying I'd never go through 1000. I was back in about a month - so they had no issue with me buying the big box!

Not sure if the blade in the creami would allow that - but the Pacojet instructions do mention using the blade for whipping. So perhaps I should do a little trial when I get my next egg whites.