JoNorvelleWalker

For lack of more helpful suggestions I added the polysorbate 80 by rinsing the weighing boat in the contents of the pot.

Weighing the polysorbate 80 is not at all the problem. Please reread my question.

When adding a precise amount of polysorbate 80 to a dish how does one do it? My best thought so far is to buy a $2000 scale and weigh it into the cooking vessel directly.

Well, I lied. But next time I will never again steam bake my chicken thigh an hour at 300F, but with the CSO actually set at 450F. Probably.

You could vaquform one! Seriously a better lid would be a big improvement. I love the little bowl, it is so much easier to work with than the big bowl. Last night I even thought about getting a second one but I was saved from temptation because they are out of stock.

Balderdash. That nut butter does not look at all smooth. Has anyone thought to run the resulting nut butter through a grind gauge? If so I'd be amused to learn the result.

I'm embarrassed that I've never gotten around to using my mini bowl until now. I seasoned with the sugar method. There was powdered sugar even inside my chamber vacuum sealer. I was most impressed.

Forty years at least since I've used iodized salt. Probably more like fifty. Both steaks were salted. I didn't say the sous vide steak tasted odd. It just didn't have much flavor.

Yes, there is a reason. Salting early seems to make things taste funny. But remember the steak in question sat a couple days in the refrigerator.

This slaw was Napa. First time I've used Napa cabbage. Very good but I must say for slaw regular European cabbage is easier to work with. When I make European coleslaw I call it ken cut cabbage. And thank you, the potatoes are indeed quite something but I already gave potato credit!

I went with the Basque book, thanks.

The sous vide steak was bagged with a bit of garlic powder and a few drops of liquid smoke. Then salted for an hour while drying after removal from the bag. The grilled steak was seasoned only with salt and then rested for an hour. I cooked and ate the grilled steak first, for what it's worth, speaking as a quondam protein chemist.

Thing is it was not just the aroma. The sous vide steak did not taste like much at all. I really don't understand the difference in results.

Sous vide "chuck filet", Georgian lobio from Tasting Georgia (p 399): Red plum sauce not shown.

To return to my "chuck filet" experiment, recall the package had two twin steaks. The other day I simply grilled one steak ten minutes or so on the Philips: Tonight I cooked one steak sous vide 56C for two hours and a half, then dried and seared in a pan with smoking oil: Both steaks were consumed in their entirety. As my be seen the sous vide seared steak had considerable crust. However this steak dissociated at the muscle boundaries so it was not as pretty. What is most remarkable: the grilled steak filled the whole apartment with the scent of steak. The meat tasted like steak, in a good way I don't oft experience. In contrast the sous vide steak didn't taste like of much of anything.

Must be why Instant Pot sold out to Corelle.

Now I'm thinking that the brand of oil I used and the one I plan to use again, La Tourangelle, is roasted. Are Italian pistachio oils typically unroasted?

I have my spare in the living room just in case.

Last of the bluefish: Not as exciting as fugu.

I started flesh side down. I am amazed how non stick the Philips seems to be: My only complaint is the fish was a little overdone, Easy enough to fix in the future.

We know Jesus was born in the winter because otherwise chocolate melts.

I work in a library. Not sure I can forgive you... https://forums.egullet.org/topic/157787-dinner-2019/?do=findComment&comment=2192921 Right now I'm finishing up the last of my white mai tai and a generous peanut course. Then I'm off to grill the last bit of bluefish before it begins turning on its own. I plan to start skin down (towards the heat) and flip after about five minutes. I'm worried that if I start flesh side down the fillet might stick to the rack. I plan to plate skin side down. To do otherwise seems just wrong. Or I might start flesh side down and see what happens. I can't decide but I am running out of peanuts.

I live in an apartment with no pantry. In this complex the next larger apartments have a dedicated pantry as a separate room. But at least I have a good sized bedroom. If I were buying a house I'd look for a kitchen with a Pacojet. Not that I can complain, my kitchen has a nice view of the mountain. Not sure I'd trade that even for a Pacojet.

The nuts.com sale ended early this morning and I had to order before I saw these replies. I went with roasted. Thanks.

Thank you. Two servings of broccolini, all of the steak as shown here: Alas, there was but one potato.