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Looks like you took one for the team, SJMitch! One idea - can you put a rack (inverted) directly on the oven floor? Probably not. Also, if you're heating with steam, you should remove the crumb tray from the bottom of the oven. My guess is if Cuisi wanted you to put 2 racks in there, you'd be able to.

Are the tomatoes still hanging in? Because I'm out of town till next Tuesday, and try to head to market Wednesday.

Those are the ones, dcarch! Oooooh! Me. Me. Me - that's why I started this thread. I think food should be visually pleasing, texturally pleasing, smell good, and taste good. Actually, it was more like 30 years ago; Alfred Portale at Gotham Bar and Grill in NYC.

Something like this...

If stuff is getting really stuck and really charred and really messed, my guess is the seasoning on what it's getting stuck and charred onto isn't exactly right.

Not that I need anything else to complain about, but has anyone else had enough of the asymmetrical plating style so popular these days? I'm not just talking asymmetrical, but where the food is all on one side of the plate, practically falling off the edge. Is it really that much nicer to look at?

Yep - about $3 - $5 in any decent Chinatown.

Another solution looking for a problem.

Decided to try wings bought at the green market...seasoned with Olde Bay, salt and pepper and nothing else. 400°F - Steam/Bake - set for 45 minutes, chicken wings put in at 40 minutes, rotated at 20 minutes. These were great (though the iPhone picture sucks).

1.5 egg French cheese omelet.

Farmer's market was nice to me...Quick Greek salad with sauteed scallops. There was corn on the cob, too.

There is really only one. Auntie Fee...

Hot frying pan.

That's my explanation too - it was just too early for me to write it! Also, if the oven is at temp, most of the time the gas is off.

I'd leave it on.

I'm just guessing here, rotuts - 20% off, right?

Yes - but my regularly used board, which I treat often with oil and beeswax, seems sealed to me - at least, liquids bead up on the surface, and it doesn't absorb odors. However, and this is a big difference, when I cut up fish or chicken, I used a plastic cutting board which goes into the dishwasher!

I would make sure to reoil thats board before using it again. If a board is properly oiled and sealed, it shouldn't pick up any smells in the first place.

This - and preheating everything that is used in the process.

Here you go: There's this thing called google.

Your first statement made it seem like you were roasting and then using the beans immediately. The second one tells me your haven't been doing that - my guess is the beans you're buying have been gassed out. The better question is to ask your roaster/seller when the beans you are buying were roasted - and then not to buy beans that you won't be able to use up within say, a week to 10 days. Every place I buy beans from has the roast date on the bag - for example, see my post above. What do you mean by the term "Soft Brew?" That's a new one to me. What type of grinder are you using? Where do you live and how is the quality of your tap water? I use Brita filtered tap water here in NYC and it's fine. And if I were you, I'd start real simple - why not buy a $12 Melitta pour over set up and brew some coffee that way...it's great for starters.

LOL. That is indeed a vanilla bean. Why it's there I still can't figure out? I think I was trying to figure out what to do with a stash of older beans that had turned a little hard.

I just picked these 2 coffees up in DC - Qualia Coffee is an excellent, single proprietor shop - he has a nice setup... And then in-between cups of coffee, as I was washing my Hario Ceramic dripper, I did this... Sometimes, I think I single-handedly keep these guys in business.

I think the lack of, or not using salt, causes many cooking experiments to fail.

It's nice that that's the best coffee you've ever had. But there are plenty of other methods to brew great coffee. And plenty of other great beans to be had. And I take issue with this statement: Since roasted coffee should be gassed out for a day or two, in m opinion.