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I did this the other day out of curiosity. I am a big fan of Stella Parks. The author of the article you linked to did hers for 6 hours, I did mine for 2 hours as per the book, Brave Tart. Excellent book, BTW. My sugar is much lighter than PLAP, but strangely, not as sweet as untoasted sugar. I haven't used any yet, but I am using it to make Kouign Aman which I plan to do within the next couple of days. Based on taste alone, I would not be bothered doing this again, but I may change my mind once I do some baking with it.

One thing I have learned from cooking my way through my freezer is that I now vacuum pack ALL meats. No exceptions. I too am guilty in the bread department. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 7 different kinds of breads/buns in there.

We had the aged beef braising ribs I mentioned up thread for dinner last night. They were cooked for 48 hours at 134F. I have never, in my entire life, had a piece of beef as good as that. It was exceptionally rich, I guess from all the marblng. I had ordered beef cheeks from this same butcher and we went out to pick them up today. I asked about the ribs and he said he always dry ages them for a minimum of 4 weeks but when I got mine last week, I got lucky as they were part of a batch aged for 6 weeks. I asked if he had any ox tails and he did. I said I might buy one depending on the price. He got one out and it was just shy of $50. I told him that was too rich for me so he gave me the package of 3.8 pounds for $25. I'm a pretty happy camper right now, with my pig cheeks, beef cheeks and ox tails. As we were leaving, whole fresh lamb carcasses were being delivered. He also, he told me, had fresh local rabbits which I passed on. I love that place, but I sure am glad it's not next door.

Bought this today for $1.99. It looks brand new.

@weinoo Are you related to my husband?

@scubadoo97 glad to read you are all right, I have been wondering how you are faring. I was in Dunedin a couple of years ago and it is a very pretty town. I hope there isn't too much damage.

@Anna N thank you. I have made note of the time she cooks them at in case I ever take leave of my senses and buy them again but you have convinced me to do them sous vide. As mentioned, I have them in the freezer until my circulator has been freed up. I'll post my results over on the sous vide thread when I do them.

@Tropicalsenior lots of goid looking ideas there. I never have a problem figuring out what to do with braising ribs. They look amazing, very well marbled. They are swimming away in their water bath and will be for the next 48 hours.

I think I might try this. Thank you. How much pork belly do you cook at one time?

@Okanagancook this is what my pig cheeks look like. They are from the Big Black Pig breed if that makes any difference. As you can see, they are quite lean, at least from what I can see. These have been separated from the jowls which is indeed, very fatty. The pictures below are of the front and back. Total weight is about 13 ounces. I am about to settle in and read the referenced links. Thank you all for your help. I have vacuum packed them and they are in the freezer until I decide how to cook them.

@rotuts when I bought the pig cheeks I also bought 6 week dry aged beef braising ribs. They will get cooked sous vide starting tonight, so sousvide cheeks are not an option this time. Also coming from the butcher this week are beef cheeks. I have never cooked them either but Douglas Baldwin covers that topic. Off topic a bit, he also had ox tails. The butcher, not Mr. Baldwin. Wish I had snapped those up.

Thanks for responding. I'm not looking for a particular flavour profile, so it is not a recipe I am looking for. I am mainly looking for some guidance on how to cook them in the IP. For example, high pressure at 20 minutes followed by a braise for 60? No braise? Low pressure only? I have never in my life cooked these things but i bought some from my butcher on the weekend and am keen to try them. At $27.51 a kilo I don't want to ruin them. The only time i have worked with pork belly is when i used to cure and smoke it for bacon.

If anyone has cooked pig cheeks in the IP, could they please post here how they cooked them? I searched and found mention of braising them but couldn't really find anything specific. I was going to cook them sous vide but directions for that are all over the map so I thought I might try them in the IP.

Wow! That food sounds amazing. You had me googling away looking for recipes for BBQ Bacon Mac and Cheese. Interestingly, Epicurious has one dated November 2015 but it has had zero reviews. I just may have to try it.

I agree with both Chromedome and Darienne. It is extremely annoying to be asked to subscribe to the newsletter/blog/whatever when you are already subscribed to it. It does not endear me to the site.

@rotuts interesting then, that it took the departure of CK for ATK to develop cookbooks for the IP and also for sous vide.

Yes. I got it on-line through your link and we cast it to our TV. @rotuts did you pick up on the sous vide comment?

@rotuts thanks for the link. We just watched it and from our perspective, the jury is still out. That may have been because the recipes they prepared didn't appeal to us, but we'll give it s few more watches. It was also interesting that their first cookbook is already for sale. Ka-Ching!

One thing that is turning me off of some sites is the excessive photography. Do i really need to see what a dish looks like before AND after adding salt to it? Maybe that is just me, but i have stopped subscribing to some websites because of it.

@Shelby those peppers look delicious!

This happens at my Costco with great regularity.

@Anna N Anna, where do you find your thermomix bread recipes?

Peach pie. Not often we get nice ripe peaches around here so when I found some, decided on pie.

So, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Today I got an e-mail from America's Test Kitchen asking if I had sous vide equipment. They are working on a sous vide cookbook and are looking for recipe testers. So that is two books they are working on, this one and one for electric pressure cooker. Busy little beaters, they are.