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Is the NYC Penang still in business and producing good food? Philly's is still going, though I've not been in a decade. And the Penang folks also had Nyonya in NYC too, no? Still there? Looking Penang Philly up also told me that it has a competitor around the block as well... and South Philly's Indonesian place, Hardena, seems to be still going as well... Need to go on a trip down there and try them out after reading KennethT's travel blog... edit for spelling

For citrus flavors, add a few drops of citrus oil to 50ml of vodka and shake that up. Add a drop or two to water and you get a lot of citrus flavor. Works well with grapefruit, orange, lemon and lime. Tried with bergamot and it was way too much. If I ever come across yuzu oil I'd try that... Same principle as the recommendations to drop a strip of citrus peel in the glass... but without the need to have the citrus fruit in the house or deal with the rest of it when just a strip of peel was what you wanted. Lots of cold pressed culinary type citrus oils around...

Welcome back!

Add some smokey scotch like laphroaig or lagavulin?

I'm a huge fan of mine for reheating leftover fried stuff... come home with a half eaten order of fries or onion rings, pop it in the air fryer in reheat mode and they're almost as good as new the next day...

I think that if you react that stuff with baking soda you'll get the molecule you need after all the fizzing subsides. Sodium citrate is a precipitate of sodium bicarbonate and citric acid...

Does this mean that they've gotten UV LEDs that work as sterilizers going? Or is there a fluorescent tube in the machine that is going to have a limited viable lifespan?

Thanks for the pointer to SoPo Seafood... popped in there after grabbing some stuff at Harbor Fish and grabbed a representative sample of the daily oysters and a spicy shrimp roll... excellent experience!

Bubbles last longer when it stays cold. A bottle of fizzy wine lasts at least 2 days when kept in the fridge before opening, and kept in the fridge after pouring what you want to consume. If keeping it longer than overnight and desirous of keeping the bubbles bubbly, you're going to need to decant it into a not-glass bottle and apply CO2 pressure to it, while keeping it as cold as you can. Perhaps the Methode Rotuts device... or one of the other zillion non-standardized technologies that let you inject gaseous CO2 into a liquid... OR, if you _really_ want to put it away for a while and come back to it fizzy, you could employ the yeast left in the beer to recarb it... dose a little sugar in there and seal it up (keeping it warm enough for the yeast to function, then cooling it down before opening it...)

What state are you in? California all but outlaws noncompetes... Some states love them and enforce them vigorously. Where you are will determine what that clause means... but it tells you what your new bosses would _like_ to be the case. If I wanted the job but not the restriction I'd cross out that line, initial and date by it, sign the paper and send it back. If you're still hired, the problem is solved.

Is there a way to manually set the oven to do stuff, or do you need to have bought an ingredient kit with a code to scan to make it do anything? If so, I wonder whether there is a community devoted to reverse engineering the codes so you can tell it specific stuff to do...

Given that linguistic perspective, I'd say Chang is in even worse shape... the doctrine of foreign equivalents would make his Chili Crunch choice a literal copy of the generic descriptive. That's bad for building trademark rights.

Hmmm... the original Lao Gan Ma product is "chili crisp", and Chang is laying claim to "Chili Crunch? He's got the dough to make a go at it... but I'd not bet he's winner if somebody with equal dough fights back. How deep are LGM's pockets?

low salt crackers?

It's shad season!

Gotta game the scales somehow...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cocoa-more-expensive-copper-tops-111128755.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMORxbxZNIV6ozg5ZrXEjiad5nxCakIjWHACy7PcdIv-zYhO2CXXHAO2aeB7nBQvBxwqqCXX9vh-h95XPvptMsduhcUrh_vIWqmdMR9N4cRy5ivJMSz8zgCcTwd5H3DMzOuV-t5Q9tMgNlOWsdmpTtnEWTZd5tPJHzf7s0Qtm4az People noticing chocolate prices going up haven't seen anything yet...

For pull-apart, you want the collagen connective tissue to decompose into gelatin, which is not as good a glue. As I recall, 140F is where collagen starts to fall apart, so 140+ and a good long time should get you there... Read more here: https://www.chefsteps.com/forum/posts/collagen-conversion-what-is-the-threshold-temperature-3

Looks like they're discontinuing the whole product line... That red banner at the top of the page is more dire than just web store closing.

More shears incoming... thanks for the pointer. Now the Misen and the Cutco will have a new friend...

Didn't the NEC change in the past few years to require 220V sockets and outlaw hard wiring appliances? That bit of news came across my radar, I think...

Looking spiffy!

It cost me about $275US... Some promotional discount off of the overstated list price. Seems to be the going price at the moment.

So I got one of these gadgets just before Christmas: https://www.dreo.com/chefmaker-combi-fryer. It is a pretty spiffy gadget. It has got the powerful air circulation of an air fryer, interior and probe thermometers, and a steam injector that can do combi oven tricks. I've been putting it through its paces and am quite impressed with what it can do. Crispy skin on chicken thighs that are cooked just right at the bone? Check. Good browning on the outside of a medium rare lamb roast? Check. Air fried frozen stuff? Check. I was drawn to it because it is so much smaller than an APO, and it is less likely to get killed by my well water like my CSO was... Worth looking into if you're in the market for a new toy.

Spicy hot works, and I'm sure I've heard it before, though not sure whether in the UK or US. "Chilli* hot" would be the alternative that comes to mind as a runner up, as it tags both the source and sensation. And, as an aside, yes, cinnamon can be spicy hot. There is a whole genre of candy that appears this time of year to celebrate that fact- cinnamon hearts. *or whatever your preferred spelling is to refer to products of the capsicum plant... chili, chile, chilli, etc...