JoNorvelleWalker

Another APO duck leg. You know what they look like. So good. Served with beans. More beans. For posterity, tonight's settings were fourth shelf, 250C, rear and top elements, 40 percent steam. Cooking time 14 minutes. Lots of lovely duck fat. I preferred the moderate steam to last time's no steam, as good as last time's roast duck was.

Since the PHMB is induction heated I doubt removing the bowl will help the chocolate cool faster.

I have not the slightest idea what this is but it sounds good.

My advice is not to stir with the mixer at all. Just use the PHMB standalone.

If that is correct, I like Kikkoman Marudaizu.

I don't see it?

I am not familiar with the product (nor could I find an exact match to the name on amazon US), however one possibly similar soy sauce I have is Yamaroku Shoyu B0036TFXY0.

Blast chillers are nice in the living room.

Thanks. Local 130 is not all that far from here and apparently they deliver. No mention of shad on their site that I could find. Might be worth a phone call.

Reprise of @Katie Meadow’s faux spinach souffle. Much more to my taste. Served with grilled lamb. No leftovers.

@Franci the tuna is beautiful. May I ask how you cook your tuna, and how much you cook it? When I grill tuna it is usually more rare than I enjoy, or else unappetizing and dried out. Sometimes both.

Well, yes, but sometimes circumstances dictate lighting that's behind you. The picture is 1800 grams of chocolate sitting in something that's an egg mold, sitting in something that is a large roasting pan.

And the method is?

Anova is selling their Precision Oven in Australia. The APO is a steam oven that will accommodate a typical baguette pan. Sort of a CSO on steroids.

While answering a chocolate question earlier this afternoon I revisited this image: It illustrates one of the shortcomings of iPad food photography.

Yes, took three days to set up, but is fast and works great. My desktop, however, is Windows. And I am not using the Sony software. Nonetheless I'm pretty sure you could do the same with Apple. What I did was install the Windows FTP server. The FTP server is a component of Windows but is not installed by default. I set up a user account for the camera and created a directory for the camera to upload pictures to. On the camera I entered the IP address of the server (in other words the IP address of my desktop), the user name, and password. (The camera was already set up on the WiFi network.) Now to up load pictures I press the display button on the camera, then the Fn button (which in display mode is the image upload button). The camera takes a moment to connect to WiFi, then I select my images to transfer. When the ones I want are selected I press the menu button to begin the transfer. When the transfer is complete the camera asks if I want to up load more images. If not, the process is finished and the pictures are in the directory I specified. Edit: I forgot to mention, I also set up an FTP server on my iPad. That works too. The camera supports connections to three different FTP servers. Sony has promised new firmware to increase the FTP server count to nine. Now if I could only up load pictures to my Roomba...

Most of my Precise Heat Mixing Bowl observations are in this thread: https://forums.egullet.org/topic/156096-chocolate-making-things-i-learned-in-my-early-months/?do=findComment&comment=2192337 Note I had no trouble tempering a 1800g batch for the egg. Two things I ought to mention: I never used the chocolate tempering function of the PHMB, and for chocolate work I never used the PHMB on the mixer -- stirring was by hand.

How long is a bahn mi roll? For bread I used a 10x10x0.5 inch baking steel in my CSO.

I shall never again drop my wineglass and break it. From a distance of about six inches.

The width of the CSO is too narrow for baking a baguette. I could bake a reasonable approximation of a baguette in the APO but in practice I use a special Korean water filled baguette pan in my big oven. I would think you could manage an acceptable bahn mi roll in the CSO with the right pan.

Last night's dinner thread picture I linked above is from the Sony Camera. Overriding the the 1/30 second exposure setting is not an issue. In this case the camera seems to know what's best. If I wanted to change the exposure time I could. Sony advertises 5.5 stops of hardware shake reduction, so 1/30 is the equivalent of better than 1/1000 of a second with no compensation. The three dining room halogen bulbs are in a chandelier that gives a pleasant mix of diffused light and reflected light from the white walls and ceiling. One of the issues with my iPad food photography was iPad shadows on the subject. Another was excessive noise in shadow areas. So far the Sony setup solves both problems.

Update: after the above pictured over extended boom collapsed I returned to shooting hand held. Someday, someday I may again have a proper tripod. I lost a tripod* in 2006 when the camera company I worked for went out of business. Before that I lost another tripod at another job. Life is hard on tripods. By default the Sony chooses to expose my food for 1/30 second, however I can't see any camera shake in the result. Possibly due to good rum but more likely due to fancy image stabilization hardware. Since last posting I swapped out my dining room 40 watt halogen bulbs for 100 watt halogen bulbs. For a total of 300 watts. Very pleasing light. And the bulbs are on a dimmer, so pseudo candlelight is still possible. Halogen bulbs dimmed are particularly beautiful in my opinion. My current dinner photography setup is a Leica 50mm lens head, mounted on a Leica close focusing adapter (DIN A6). Unfortunately there is no focus adjustment for this. DIN A6 is what you see and DIN A6 is what you get. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/161954-dinner-2021/?do=findComment&comment=2293536 Thankfully with DIN A6 the focus distance and field of view is about perfect for how I like to portray my dinners. Tonight I found the polarizing filter and lens hood for my Summicron, Good times are ahead. *as well as a cardigan and a pair of shoes.

Last night: Lamb with roast root vegetables.

By coincidence I had just checked. They do offer instacart. Not sure how that would work. I wish amazon/Whole Foods had shad. My guess is they probably do if you went in the store, but it is not offered on line.

I don't do Uber or Lyft. It used to be because I don't have a cellphone. Now, thanks to someone's kindness, I actually have an older cellphone. But currently it is only partially set up, and I don't know if it will really operate as a phone. Speaking of phones, I just called the fishmonger I mentioned. They don't have shad in stock, and they do not deliver. Walk in or curbside only.