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Here's a pretty comprehensive list of green bean souces: https://www.home-barista.com/home-roasting/green-coffee-sources-2018-list-t52138.html I'd add ebay as well... sometimes good beans turn up there at reasonable prices. Sweet Maria's is definitely a fine source. I pay little to no attention to competition scores, largely because the lot that was judged is often not available... Cup of Excellence generally has an auction for the judged beans, no? Not even a clue what AAA is in the land of green coffee. Also, even with 24 hours of degassing, I think you're going to find there is an upward slope on the deliciousness curve for about 10 days after roasting.

Interesting question... cannot fathom an answer for you, though. No commonalities in busting the meat out of a crustacean and popping the adductor muscle in a shellfish... LN2 might make the hulk-smash method of getting at lobster meat extra shattery... but I have no serious ideas about how it could be used to efficiently get at the stuff under a lobster shell.

Interesting article on the recent history of the things. http://mycitypaper.com/time-wafers-no-man/

Sweetzels are back? I though they had trouble after their factory in Bridgeport burned down back around 02... Somebody resurrected them?

I found myself hungry and by an Arby's recently, so I decided to try their gyro. Meh. Not lamby enough. Will have to stop in if they do the game meat sandwiches again this year, now that I know where there is an Arby's.

I've got some Boyajian lemon and orange oils I got in the late 1990s... Kept them in the fridge and they're going strong... being used one chopstick dip at a time.

At what point are you mixing the chickpeas and garlic and extras into the flour water and yeast dough? Are you rushing the process and putting it all in together? Are you allowing it to rise sufficiently before punching it down and adding extras? You need to explain where in the process the suspects are coming into the picture.

The tarte is still around. I''ve got 3 of the mushroom variety in my freezer, and they were beside a stack of the Alsace variety in the TJ freezer. They must be popular in the TJ's you frequent. What TJ's has stopped selling is the New Mexico Pinion Coffee... That I miss. It was good, and the price was right.

Isn't a slab of dry ice in a cooler with a fan a servicible, if ephemeral freeze dryer? I've seen references to that as a means of getting things like strawberries freeze dried.

Very interesting profile of a not-so-secretive chocolatier. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/dining/chocolate-las-vegas-melissa-coppel.html?hpw&rref=food&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Bargain basement alert: Plantlab for $.99 Bien Cuit: The Art of Bread for $.99 Common thread seems to be publisher is Simon and Schuster... most of the bargain basement deals this month have been theirs. The deals seem to last about a week, sometimes less. Maybe it is a set number of sales. Dunno, but hope the deal remains alive long enough for somebody else to benefit.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/07/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-sous-vide-chicken-breast.html

Ummm... how do you propose to add these liquids to your pouch? Most of us have vacuum sealers that don't seal liquids well. I wonder how many people here have the equipment to try your experiment... chamber vac units ain't inexpensive. And moisture loss is more a function of target temperature than environment... read the Serious Eats SV chicken page.

Picked up a bottle of Vieux Clement Rhum Agricole. First agricole that had none of the funky wrongness I'm not a fan of. Just a nice sipping rhum.

While poking around, I spotted eG's own @Monica Bhide's Modern Spice for $.99

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Next time, throw a handful of grated cheese onto the pan and let it render its fat and start crisping up before you pour the puffy eggs in. You'll get the nice brown crispy crust, but because it is cheese and not egg, it will taste good.

My guess is that they go into a pan of H2O in the CSO @ 300 or whatever... Bain effect in a steamy environment.

Ooooh... thanks for spotting Manresa!

Hmmm... I'm dead center of that east coast "blackout" zone... I wonder at that map's accuracy.

Got an Anova for $70... My Sansaire needs some company.

Fascinating! It does look like the scenery justifies the tourism... but the place is structured for tourists.

The only way this makes sense is if Hamilton has a majority of the shares of the company, and Friedman is a silent partner and persona non grata on the premises.

Just the idea of letting the place, in its current incarnation... with its current setup (e.g. the 3rd floor rape room), continue in business seems like a bad move. But I love Prune's food, so maybe nail the door upstairs shut and keep on cooking good stuff... But rebrand ASAP.

Terrible news. He's going to be irreplaceable.