JoNorvelleWalker

Back in the 1990's when I was working in photonics we sold cameras to a university group who were developing a robotic strawberry picker that would harvest strawberries at night.

Not so early morning late work night dinner. Some avocados are good, some avocados are perfect. This warranted the 25 year balsamic. Followed by 51 deg C fillet seared with the smoke detector off. Served with 10 minute wild rice. In my youth I boiled wild rice for forty or fifty minutes. Age brings wisdom. Sometimes life is a bowl of cherries.

Purple cotton candy tonight, redolent of methyl 2 aminobenzoate. Took some while to get the color off my lips. Others had it in their hair. Library work is hazardous. Needless this course informed my evening's palate. I am not a cherry person per se but this afternoon I had sought out cherries at the local Shoprite. $11 for a small bag. I confess I had my fears. No idea what variety? They are red and organic. Best cherries I have tasted. A fine dinner.

Too many models of Lodge! I wondered if anyone had tried the L8DD3 some while back... https://forums.egullet.org/topic/153705-cuisinart-combo-steamconvection-oven-part-3/?do=findComment&comment=2131233 No answer so far that I have seen. Meanwhile I am still thinking about that $237 CSO price on amazon.

Tiny CSO's are not the answer!

Let us know if it fits!

I now have Hach test strips as @rotuts recommended. My Mavea pitcher reduces total hardness considerably. I plan to try double filtration. I just ordered a Brita pitcher of the same type from amazon UK since the only remaining Mavea seller on amazon US is demanding $70 (with free shipping). Price including shipping was $41 from amazon UK. Fortunately amazon US is still selling the replacement filter cartridges. This article helps explain the Mavea/Brita business: http://kitchenboy.net/blog/mavea-exits-north-american-market-frustrating-water-filtration-pitcher-owners/

...or it could go back up to $299.

No, I'd go with the one that's sold and shipped from amazon. Amazon's price is currently $237.01... http://amzn.com/B01JRT2WOG

It is this: http://amzn.com/B00A3KSHUM Good stuff. Apparently it is stocked in the US now and is not shipped from Japan.

Thanks. I am too frugal to pitch it though. I can't believe Katsuobushi loses all that much flavor until it is shaved. I do note that the price on amazon is about half what I paid four years ago.

I admit I have not made dashi in quite some while. I sort of stopped when I ran out of distilled water. The local water where I live is hard. But today thanks to a recommendation from @rotutsI took delivery of some Hach water testing strips from amazon. It turns out my Mavea filtered water measures somewhere around 25-50 ppm. This should be OK for dashi I would think? My katsuobushi was purchased four years and a day ago. I trust katsuobushi doesn't really go bad in geologic time?

300N1 is the current US model I believe. The 300N should work as well. The 300 does not have a drain plug.

Kerry and Anna are delighted because it's not their tax dollars.

My Hach strips arrived today. Out of the tap my water measures about 250 ppm. After the Mavea filter the water measures what looks like between 25 and 50 ppm. Wonder what the ppm would be if the water were filtered twice?

I shall never again, I most fervently hope -- please sit down -- after last night's narrow avoidance of a confrontation with a most sharp knife, only today to stab myself with a fork. A table fork, you know the ones that are not sharp. I dropped the fork. I went to catch it. I caught it. Through the forearm. It's bleeding. It hurts. Perhaps it's time for me to stick to spoons and chopsticks.

But what I'd give for the counter space!

Coincidentally the same day my Social Security payment arrives. Your tax dollars at work.

Steak. Shoprite had porterhouse on sale. I divided two nicely marbled steaks into four boneless portions. Cooked one bag of strip steak sous vide. Finished deep fried in violently hot grapeseed oil. Somehow I dropped the knife I had just sharpened. As we all know a falling knife has no handle. I leapt backwards as a cat, Which at my age that is saying something, Figured that was enough red meat for me. With trembling hands I poured myself a couple more glasses of Rioja.

Point is I don't want to coagulate my eggs any more than absolutely necessary.

For what I spent on the reference thermometer I could have purchased a laboratory anova...and I may yet.

Pasteurizing eggs.

Sorry for the delay but I am finally getting around to making the offset adjustment. Unfortunately the temperature adjustment on the calibration screen seems to affect the bath temperature not at all! Also the adjustment doesn't stick. If I power off and on to get back to the adjustment screen there is no offset shown. Perhaps there is more to it than I know. Maybe I will have to contact anova.

And I haven't used it yet. Can't pass up a good price though.

Thanks, I ordered the Hach strips. In addition to the CSO I want to know hardness for making dashi.