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JoNorvelleWalker

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  1. According to Modernist Cuisine they use real food for all their food photography.
  2. What was the cost, including shipping?
  3. Quite possibly the new machines are more versatile.
  4. I have an old Zojirushi bread machine. I never baked in it, but I used the machine for mixing dough. I had a real problem maintaining dough temperature. For years, literally, I believed this was due to heat of friction. It turns out the wretched machine was powering the heating coil while the dough was mixing -- with no way to turn off the heat! For this reason, as much as I like Zojirushi rice makers, I would never recommend their bread machines.
  5. https://www.copperpans.com/
  6. Others beat me to it, but yes, a real sale. Usually a couple times a year. Unless something changed, Falk sells only from distributers and there are no dealers. In addition, for each product line, a small 18cm saucier is almost always offered at a somewhat reduced price. Think of it as crack -- or perhaps in this case pot. I would dearly love the Fusion Try Me! 18CM saucier for Bearnaise. But I've not assayed Bearnaise since I got sick, and I already have the 18cm saucier from the Classic line. Not to mention I've not cooked on the stovetop since last spring.
  7. Falk does have sales from time to time. I'd be tempted but I am broke and I have at least seven pieces that I can see.
  8. Is a wok close enough to a frying pan? If so I can recommend WANGYUANJI: (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) I've used mine three times and so far it hasn't needed cleaning. The pan is very light.
  9. In my kitchen I've had three. The first did not last long. (Falling off the wall may have had to do with it.) The other two have been working reliably for about a year so far.
  10. I have a couple of automatic hand soap dispensers that work well, but can you actually use Dawn in yours? Dawn is so viscous that it would not work in my dispensers.
  11. Thanks for the suggestions. Not to leave the outcome hanging, I killed off the batter making pancakes. Soothed my pancake itch for some while I fear. One of the Amazon products I'm evaluating is a Caraway square griddle pan. No need to wash after making pancakes. I just wipe it with a paper towel. (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Caraway is the most nonstick griddle I have ever used.
  12. Not yet, but I did have more pancakes.
  13. I have been off eating and cookery for a couple years, but I still buy cookbooks.
  14. Help! Is there a way to repurpose yeast raised pancake batter? I made the following recipe: https://redstaryeast.com/recipes/yeast-pancakes/ The pancakes were good, but now I have a large bowl of batter attempting to break out of the blast chiller and strangle me in my sleep. Thoughts?
  15. Dare you say what project?
  16. CSO toast?
  17. Capacity is about six nutmegs. The shavings are about as fine as one would expect nutmeg to be. For spice grinding I mostly use a mortar or for grinding in quantity I employ my Waring: https://forums.egullet.org/topic/150545-wet-spicecurry-paste-grinders/?do=findComment&comment=2082442 I seldom bring out my melanger but to grind something incredibly fine, a melanger is the way to go.
  18. I have one. I use it for nutmeg. Works well. Minor problem is you can't lift it by the top.
  19. Batch 39: 90g blanched Spanish almonds 90g apricot kernels 350g water 280g sugar 60ml Neisson Esprit 70% ABV as a preservative My method was a slight simplification for this batch. Rather than heating in an hotel pan while stirring, I heated the orgeat in a 1000ml beaker on a new stirring hotplate. Then I homogenized directly in the reagent jar I use for storage.
  20. It's that time of year again... Supermarketitaly.com is having a 10% off sale today and I ordered Filippi Panettone Special Granfrutta. This is the same brand I enjoyed so much last year but a different variation with orange, lemon, apricots, and sour cherries.
  21. JoNorvelleWalker

    Bluefish

    I like bluefish. It reminds me of shad, which most years I can never get. For cooking I grill bluefish. Plenty of oil in the fish. Bluefish may be cheap because it's caught locally.
  22. The cocoa is Dutch process, I did not find it bitter at all. Plus the cocoa gently cut the sweetness of the cake.
  23. If your question is addressed to me, in the past I have made orange buttercream for this cake -- using Tang for the orange flavor! (Though I confess I have not attempted a buttercream of any kind in a quarter of a century.) I also once frosted a three layer rendition of this cake with an Italian meringue. The Italian meringue was memorable, as while transporting my creation to a party the top layer slid off onto a quiche. For a time I investigated methods of heating the KitchenAid mixer bowl in order to simplify making a meringue. I found there was a patent on using metal tubing on the outside of the bowl. I looked into using a laboratory version of an Anova to circulate hot water. Nothing came of it. Then @Kerry Beal enabled me into getting a KitchenAid Precise Heat Mixing Bowl. I haven't tried it but the PHMB might work. Problem is the PHMB bowl is smaller than a standard mixing bowl and would not make much meringue. Perhaps enough for at least one layer. Hmm. Last night I dusted Penzeys' high fat Dutch cocoa over a slice of my cake. Simple and delicious.
  24. There is a method for this given in Rose Levy Beranbaum's Cake Bible. Welcome @nancyotr1.
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