JoNorvelleWalker

I feel that if you've paid for a commercial mixer you shouldn't have to baby it. At speed 2 the hook does nothing. Even my almost 35 year old KitchenAid has never had a gear problem. (I think we've had this conversation before.)

Yes. I even returned one mixer because the bowl could not be adjusted properly.

Just out of interest, did you update the firmware?

Lidia Bastianich's tonno in salasa mimosa. A salt, acid, bitter garlic bomb which is not necessarily a bad thing. The rarest rawest tuna that has passed my lips.

That's why there's a little caution label there.

https://www.mcmaster.com/9745K79-9745K19/

Here is the baking steel in the APO. And here is the just baked 881.3 g boule before removal. Note how lost it looks.

Sliced.

Most recent bread prior to APO. First loaf from the APO. Not quite a kilogram. After a week still good.

I looked on line and one site suggested Pink Lady or Granny Smith. I am fond of both but Pink Lady sounded interesting. Shoprite had a Pink Lady sign. The Pink Lady bin was empty.

On my Polyscience I use a 3 second seal.

When using the rear element fan speed is locked on high. I would try using the bottom element, no fan, no steam.

Rereading Modernist bread tonight, they suggest doubling the 1 kg recipe if using an 8 quart KitchenAid (as I was) in order to get the spiral hook to grab. Now that I have an Ankarsrum it is rather a moot point.

Liked for the burgers and mushrooms.

Two years, eleven months. Save the receipt.

I'm thinking to dehydrate some apples in the APO. What varieties are best for dehydration?

I put a hold on Flavor some while ago but there are still five people ahead of me. Not sure how many copies we are getting.

APO 8 hour short ribs. Apotheosis of beef. My only wish is that eventually (though not too soon) I may give such pleasure to the mountain lion or the worm. Won't share my chocolate ice cream though.

Not sure it will help, however I order Le Creuset pieces from amazon sites in Europe that are not available to me domestically.

Herrick's French Soups book was only $1.99 so I bought that too.

Tried more settings, still no flickering. Sorry, I can't reproduce it. Meanwhile I am cooking short ribs. I rubbed with Penzeys Ozark seasoning and a few drops of liquid smoke. Pre-seared at 250C, top and rear elements, no steam, 4 minutes. Nice sear. This thing gets hot. When it cools down I'll do 73C* for some hours. Depends when I get hungry. *163.4F suggested by anova.

I am using distilled water in my APO. In the CSO I used filtered water that measured as low as 2 mg/L of hardness: https://forums.egullet.org/topic/136349-do-brita-type-filters-work/?do=findComment&comment=2162319 With the filtered water I had little trouble with scaling but in two different CSO's I had flora and/or fauna in the tank (algae and unknown white flocculant matter, but not both at the same time) that gummed up the works. As to flickering: that was one of my initial observations. Oddly now that I am looking for it I cannot reproduce the flickering. Possibly the flickering happens only in some modes. Possibly the flickering went away with the firmware update.

You can't turn the oven off if you're wearing silicone gloves. I don't think they thought this through. I suppose you could always pull the plug.

I'd agree if it weren't for the cauliflower. Does anyone else find it odd that APO recipes are disappearing? First I noticed was the toast. Then the rolled oats. Could it be that someone is testing and some of the recipes don't work? I, for one, found the bean recipe a dud.

None of the deals I saw appealed. However I purchased a USA Pan bread/meatloaf pan (now that I have an APO) to use my $10 Whole Foods Prime Day credit. In looking at my invoice it does not appear the credit was applied. Not a happy camper.