JoNorvelleWalker

I am flat stony broke at the moment but will probably purchase Chang's Pastry Love in the morning. One question: Chang says "buttermilk is always fat-free". Why would anyone in their right mind buy fat free buttermilk? It is disgusting. I make a point of keeping buttermilk in the refrigerator -- but only full-fat buttermilk.

Dinner was APO bread and APO chicken, coleslaw and tomatoes. Aji amarillo, the Peruvian pepper, perhaps my favorite Capsicum, even if things in Peru are not so hot at the moment. My dear Bolivian friend assures me peppers are pronounced the same in her country, unlike less civilized states such as Mexico.

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A serious idea if @rotuts had an APO. Our library lends hotspots, all charges paid by the library. Perhaps libraries do this in Massachusetts? Get the hotspot; let it sit for a few days, because, you know, fomites; load the APO app on the iPod and update the oven firmware; delete the app; return the hotspot to the library.

Kicking myself. And now there is a coupon for an additional $1.00 off.

WiFi is optional for the oven but as far as I know WiFi is necessary to use the app. Personally I think WiFi is much better than Bluetooth for appliances even if you are Danish. And almost everything with the APO can be controlled manually from the front panel.

On the Apple app store I read that the Anova Precision Oven app works with iPod touch. I also learned today that Apple's new generation of Macs natively run iPhone and iPad apps. You have no excuse. Edit: and who said the racks were flimsy? The racks are suitably sturdy in my opinion, even if they will not support an overengineered block of stainless steel. It's the anova pan that's flimsy.

Twenty years ago my toaster failed. I consulted my younger son for help. (He at least has a degree in engineering.) Sadly he misinterpreted my query. One of our all time favorite computer games is Wasteland. In Wasteland toaster repair is a highly valued skill. But I was asking about real life. Computer games can be brutally realistic. Eventually I was able to get my toaster mechanism unstuck. @TdeV you might want to forget about eating and try computer games instead.

Amazon's price went down to $14.99 for the hardcover so I ordered. I hope I don't kick myself as I did after buying Simple. I hear at least that Flavor has pretty pictures.

The precise heat mixing bowl on the KitchenAid actually made eatable polenta. But it was too dry and not the greatest. The problem is the PHMB took an hour to come to temperature, even with adding half the water boiling. The polenta was also too salty, but it's hard to blame that on KitchenAid. Anyone else familiar with Italian polenta makers like the one @Franci showed?

1295g -- another near miche. Height is 4.5 inches. I'm still playing with my scoring. Baking was in the APO on a baking steel, 245C full steam for 20 minutes, 245C no steam for 10 minutes. Modernist Bread times and temperature.

I also whipped my cream in the iSi. The valve stuck open. It was entertaining if nothing else.

I did indeed whip my egg whites in the Ankarsrum plastic bowl. It does an exceptional job. (If anyone is wondering the yolks went in the KitchenAid.)

I will never again mix up my canisters of flour.

The joke is on me tonight. I anovaed up three bags of spare ribs. The blast chiller has my apple sour cream souffle and an iSi canister for whipped cream. There is room in the chiller for the spare ribs but I don't have a clean hotel pan to put them in. I'd rather not put the ribs on top of the souffle. I am too lazy to wash an hotel pan by hand, so one is on order from amazon. Every well appointed kitchen should have at least two blast chillers.

@Franci, any further thoughts on these machines? Stirring at the stove is becoming more and more difficult for me. Amazon has one that (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) works with induction but the minimum quantity is listed as 1kg. The Italian amazon site offers a smaller size as well. Tonight I plan to try polenta in my precise heat mixing bowl, but I am not sure it will end well.

Shouldn't that be Chocolate Doctor Strange?

As best I can remember dinner was APO chicken, mashed potatoes, and frozen peas. Liter of methode rotuts. Which might have been alright except for the Mississippi punch. Mississippi punch. What better beverage for hope and reconciliation? I was going to say something. Anyhow eventually my arms and hands cramped and that effectively ended dinner and left me typing with two fingers. My apple sour cream souffle is in the blast chiller. Tomorrow is another day. At least until my hands uncramp. If I can hold a toothbrush, maybe I will brush my teeth. Edit: spelling. Maybe I should just have let it be.

Haven't had babies in a while.

Who is scared of wheat?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure steel cut oats were not a thing in Philadelphia of the '40's and '50's. I do remember demanding pie for breakfast. My mother replied "I am from New England." "Actually they do eat pie for breakfast in New England." "But this is not New England."

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/159512-chocdoc-gambles-on-vegas/?do=findComment&comment=2215135 I blame Kerry but if you're interested there is a whole thread... https://forums.egullet.org/topic/153479-blast-chillers/ If you have enough kids with kidneys, should not be a problem.

So sorry, we can understand how the experience has warped your life. Once during a blizzard I made it to Grand Union (this was before the days of Shoprite). The milk shelves were empty and bare but there was a hand wrought sign: "Milk $5, plus your first born child." I turned sadly to my younger son: "I brought the wrong one."

When it comes to oat porridge I flock groats with my Ankarsrum and prepare the porridge with salt and water. Not as fond of steel cut oats, though I occasionally have steel cut as an alternative.

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