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

Did someone say ice cream?

Do you have a link for the strips?

I'm reading The Essential James Beard. Remember Madam Tetrazzini? I honor her memory as often as I can. Beard calls for green bell peppers. Irma Rombauer does not.

I use Mavea filtered water in my CSO. I believe @rotuts also uses filtered water. If cost is not an issue go with distilled water.

Typical, unfortunately. Be patient if you can. Not long ago I purchased a Paderno colander from amazon for $73.58. Immediately afterward the price increased and is currently $154.84.

Why not steam bake? Disclaimer: steam bake is what I use for bacon...and for almost everything.

And here I was expecting something else.

I learn something new every day!

Dough hooks for a hand mixer??

I am a renter and the oven door had to fall off twice before I got a new range.

After some reflection I went with both. Thanks, @Toliver even though you are a pernicious influence.

I'm safe.

I'm still trying to figure out the proper mixing for French lean bread. My KitchenAid is a KSM8990WH. The planetary revolutions are easy enough to measure. On the lowest three speeds they are 40.54, 50.00, and 96.77 RPM. Calculating the hook RPM was a little more difficult. My method was to attach a twist tie to the beater and paint the twist tie with red nail polish. Even so I could not get a perfectly reproducible result, but I measured a planetary to hook ratio of 2.6 to 2.7. Using a ratio of 2.7 gives hook RPM's of 109, 135, and 261. For a stand mixer the MB French lean recipe calls for 10 minutes on "low" (1090 revolutions) and 2 minutes on medium (270 revolutions). This is more revolutions than the 1000 revolutions Hamelman calls for in his book Bread. While @gfweb was off consulting the book of Daniel, I was pondering Ezekiel myself.

Years ago I was traveling with my then boss who wanted to stop at his cousin's restaurant for breakfast. I ordered pancakes with "real maple syrup". Of course what came was imitation maple syrup. The meals were comped, I can't complain.

Sadly eGullet missed observance of Scurvy Awareness Day... https://sciencelens.co.nz/2013/05/02/international-scurvy-awareness-day/

High overrun??

My bottle (bottle #136) of TRUE arrived! Enjoying some in a zombie at the moment. Granted a zombie may not be the best vehicle for comparing grenadines. But in my zombie recipe TRUE works acceptably. Perhaps less so in a Balaclava special #1 but I have yet to test. Unsure about my friend Jack Rose. Probably more than OK in a French 75. Can't think of any other grenadine beverages I favor. Shirley, sorry, please forgive me. What else I can say? TRUE is a thinner syrup than @feste's Small Hand grenadine. This may help explain the difference in the cost. Both brands contain pomegranate and cane sugar. In addition TRUE adds orange blossom water, citric acid and clove. @feste does not believe in preservatives. Small Hand grenadine is organic, TRUE grenadine is not. But TRUE numbers her bottles! My shipment of Small Hand arrives today...

I believe there are three models that have been released in the US: 300, 300N, and 300N1. The 300N added a drain plug and a dedicated steam clean function. No idea what is really different between the 300N and 300N1. The Canadian version also works in the US.

@FlashJack I can confirm I baked a boule in that pan last night...no idea about the lid.

My mother made baked Alaska! She died when I was 10.

It seems I was outsmarted. Last night I saw a blueberry beginning to turn color. The only one on three bushes close to being ripe. Tonight it wasn't there.

Dagwood Bumstead comes to mind.

Saves cleaning...

But they are on sale! Not to clutter paulraphael's thread, it would be kind of you to note your "home use" ideas over on the home-made ice cream thread: https://forums.egullet.org/topic/152508-home-made-ice-cream-2015–/