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    acetate sheet for capping chocolates?

    in Pastry & Baking

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    On 12/1/2023 at 10:58 AM, curls said:

    Does anyone have a video link of using an acetate sheet to cap a liquid filling? The links listed above are no longer available.
     

    I would like to try this technique soon to cap some brandied cherry cordials. The last few times that I made the cherry cordials I lost too much of my batch to leaks. Hoping this technique solves the issue.

     

    Just in case someone else needs this or I need to view it again, I found a video of Luis Amado capping chocolates using an acetate sheet covered with chocolate. I tried this out and it worked quite well. I even made less of a mess than I thought I would!

    https://youtube.com/shorts/WdfBJ69kPk8?si=aHH_6LMOUhUV8fHY

     

     

    acetate sheet for capping chocolates?

    in Pastry & Baking

    Posted

    Does anyone have a video link of using an acetate sheet to cap a liquid filling? The links listed above are no longer available.
     

    I would like to try this technique soon to cap some brandied cherry cordials. The last few times that I made the cherry cordials I lost too much of my batch to leaks. Hoping this technique solves the issue.

    Kitchen Remodeling

    in Kitchen Consumer

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    12 hours ago, bokeg said:

    We're going to be doing a complete kitchen remodel. The plan is to gut the room and completely redo it. How difficult is it to live in the house while something like this is happening? Since both work and school are remote, should we just go rent a beach house for a week or something?

    It is doable. It will be much more pleasant if you can live somewhere else while your kitchen is being remodeled.

    Stone base in grinder/melanger polished smooth, time to replace?

    in Pastry & Baking

    Posted · Edited by curls
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    FYI there is a stainless steel version of the micro batch bowl & stones even though I don't currently see it on their website. There are a few pictures of it in the 2023 eGullet Chocolate Workshop report. 

    https://forums.egullet.org/topic/165289-report-egullet-chocolate-and-confectionary-workshop-2023/?do=findComment&comment=2388574

     

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    Stone base in grinder/melanger polished smooth, time to replace?

    in Pastry & Baking

    Posted · Edited by curls (log)

    That shouldn't be happening. How much product are you grinding? I'm guessing you are running it with too little product. Try running a larger batch and see if that resolves your issue. We have tried many of those melangers at the eGullet workshop and they do a great job.

     

    Also, I think that the micro batch kit bowl and stones would work on your grinder model. If they do, you could work with small amounts and not have splattering issues.

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    Remembering Anna N

    in Member News

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    As Kerry has said, "none of us get out of this alive" but I was hoping to see Anna back posting on eGullet. I have enjoyed so many of Anna's posts and it was wonderful to meet her when she was helping Kerry with the eGullet Chocolate Workshops. Thank you Kerry for the links, I plan to go down those rabbit holes to enjoy and remember all the stories that the two of you have shared with us. 

     

    My condolences to Anna's family and friends. She was an amazing woman and the world will not be the same without her.

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    Baltimore, Fells Point, mid-October

    in D.C. & DelMarVa: Dining

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    Charelston and Petit Louis Bistro are both Cindy Wolf restaurants. There are a few more restaurants in her restaurant group https://foremanwolf.com/properties/.  I haven't has a chance to go but know that her restaurants always get great reviews.

     

    I would recommend Bo Brooks for crabs - a wonderful crab house in the Inner Harbor but they closed earlier this year. Harbor Place in the Inner Harbor is not what it once was -- in fact, the mall is a ghost town now, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ground-lease-move-is-step-to-revitalize-harborplace/vi-AA1a4ndA?ocid=socialshare

     

    If you like trains, the B & O Railroad Museum is a must see. https://www.borail.org/

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    Cuisinart Combo Steam/Convection Oven (Part 3)

    in Kitchen Consumer

    Posted

    30 minutes ago, KennethT said:

    I wonder if it has just blown a fuse? TBH, I don't know if the machine has a fuse, but I'd assume it would.  If so, the next question would be why it blew teh fuse in the first place....

    Yes, I'm hoping it is something easy to fix. Will see if my husband can take it apart and find the problem.  In the meantime I'll do some internet searching.

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    Cuisinart Combo Steam/Convection Oven (Part 3)

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    5 minutes ago, Shelby said:

    I've not had that happen but Amazon does still sell them

    Thank you Shelby. I did check Amazon and was happy to see that they are still available. If my CSO is really dead, I need to decide if I replace it with another CSO or get another brand of steam oven or combi oven. Definitely more available now than when the CSO first came out. I don’t like the software issues that I keep hearing about for the Anova precision oven — costs so much more too.

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    Cuisinart Combo Steam/Convection Oven (Part 3)

    in Kitchen Consumer

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    My CSO died today at the start of baking bread. The bread is fine, moved to the oven which was preheated sine I move my bread after it has steamed so the top of the loaf doesn’t burn.

     

    The oven lights and clock don’t come on, it doesn’t produce heat or steam. 😞  The electrical outlet is working. Has anyone else had this problem? I’m hoping that my CSO can be fixed. Sadly, I did not purchase a spare CSO.

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    Fruit

    in Cooking

    Posted

    14 hours ago, BeeZee said:

    @curls, I've been getting red cherries at $2.99/lb or sometimes even $2.49/lb here in NJ, but they have been disappointing. I don't shop regularly at Wegmans, but they probably have better suppliers than ShopRite, I'll take a look. Red Cherries at WF were $3.99/lb (IIRC) yesterday. I'm stuck in the mental barrier of "last year I bought them $1.99/lb on sale"...😉

    edit to add, next week’s sale flyer shows $1.99/lb!

    @BeeZee I understand not wanting to buy them for so much more than previous seasons.  I have that issue with zucchini.  Some years I grow zucchini but when I don't,  I am unwilling to spend more than 79 cents a pound for it (and I haven't seen it for that price in years). Not enough squash growers in the neighborhood because no one is dropping of bags of squash & zucchini in my car or on my porch.  🙂

    Fruit

    in Cooking

    Posted

    Interesting, cherries are on sale in Northern Virginia. I’ve been getting nice ones from Wegmans and Whole Foods for 3 per pound.

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