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Hair, glasses, bling. But he's a friendly douche and has grown on me. Conant, no question, has a level of douchery that far surpasses Fieri. Conant is a more of a prick though. Flay? No douche. A NYC smartass who's very good at what he does.

You could say that most of the sauces are made a la minute and really cannot be sampled without cooking the whole dish

This whole tasting thing strikes me as odd. Tasting a sauce without the meat is usually a mistake since a sauce is seasoned to taste right when a thin film adheres to a protein, not when sipped from a shot glass. And how do you supply a pan sauce to taste without cooking the whole dish?

you can tell eG has high class members...we always spell douchebag correctly

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Re indexing...please don't do this.... Roast Chicken- see "Chicken,Roast" Just give the page number at "roast chicken" and also at "chicken, roast" Please.

I grew some peppers from seed labeled as peppadew, which I understand is a Malawi pepper. While seeding them under running water...wearing gloves...the heat was so intense that my eyes watered and I coughed uncontrollably. Had to quit. Holy shit. Will the pickling process tame this, or did I grow a bunch of monsters?

Whoa. That's whack.

Or broccoli rabe!

LOL Philly street Italian bears little resemblance to Italian Italian.

Calzone dumplings. Filled with sharp provolone, hot gabagool, genoa salami. Should've made more.

I don't mind Fieri. He embraces his inner douchebag. I respect that.

Gail is a vegan until it costs her money.

I hate the arguing. Tedious, but Bravo thrives on trashiness.

There seem to be more than a few candidates for villain in this group. Should be entertaining.

Yes. The "pH thing" was what I was referring to when I said "manipulate conditions" in my extraction scheme. I think that it could be done safely and expensively by a good chemist. But why bother? Too risky and for what?

I'd say be careful. Tobacco varies in the amount of nicotine it contains. I don't know how anyone could tell you what is safe. You'll get advice on the order of "I did it by this method and nobody died". The scheme of a potentially safe method would be a technique that extracts flavor but no nicotine. According to Wikipedia nicotine base is soluble in alcohol and ether but not water unless in its base form. So in theory one could manipulate conditions to do an aqueous extract of tobacco that would get flavor, but not nicotine. Or you could ether extract tobacco to remove nicotine, and then aqueous extract for flavors. Assuming the flavor is water soluble. Or maybe just buy tobacco flavoring.

That's interesting, but be aware of being ahead of your time. It could confuse the shit out of people. On the other hand, I'd like it. Perhaps using the concept as an alternate indexing tool(ie in addition to the regular index) would meet everybody's needs. A Venn diag with dishes listed and pg #s given.

I'll do pork butt SV for a day or two and get wonderfully juicy, tenderized pulled pork.

Tortilla pizza using Kenji Alt's method of pan heated on stove for the crust and broiler for the top. Takes about 8 minutes start to finish using a 1/4 sheet pan and the Breville. Only trick is getting the crust crisp enough on the stove, which is always longer than I think it should be. Compares very favorably to any frozen pizza I've had.

CH3-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH3 is not the structure of a carcinogen. I'd be very surprised if it were.

10x10 seems more special...shows off the photos better...still fits in a bookcase. I'd pay an extra few bucks for this. It might even sell better in a bookstore or restaurant. maybe

Steam Boy going back with you?

Ivin's Spiced Wafers Peaches

Snacking is what I'm doing with it. Apples and caraway are a great idea. The caramelization from cooking may be adding something that FD wouldn't....