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Cool, thanks Before I posted, I was considering upgrading to the stainless scrapers, and their website shop shows that part comes with the rolling stones (🎶). So I'd just need the drum, and that is it. I'll reach out to them with what I have going on and report back what I learn.

Premier Chocolate grinder, model "wonder", purchased 2016, I make 5-10lbs chocolate a year with occasional praline nut butters. I tighten the nut until it stops, isn't that how it works? I don't pregrind my cacao beans, drop nibs in after winnow. I usually preheat everything in my oven at "warm" setting for 10-15 minutes to evaporate moisture from the stones, and warm up the nibs.

Hi: The stone base in my wet grinder/melanger has become smooth where the wheels track. It's quite polished, slippery to the touch. Time to replace, or fine to continue using as is?

There was a recipe on TFL that provided a sourdough flavor by adding acetic and lacid acids. I wish I kept the bookmark, it was a super easy, bread-machine compatible recipe. I did find this one looking for it, though I'm not sure that was it, been a long time and the date of that recipe is 2021 (I remember reading in 2016 or 2017). I'm also not sure how the vinegar would actually work, I have tried it in my pie dough and some dairy-free brownie recipies and never taste any acetic acid. I'd also be worried about the flour becoming overly extensible. That said, the dude on that forum has had success so might be worth a shot. I've got lactic acid powder and plenty of vinegar at home so maybe I'll give this a go and report back. You can also consider making sourdough bread using yeast-water from something like raisins. It takes a little bit of prep work, and you'll get the more lactic-acid sourness (e.g. yogurt) and probably no acetic-acid flavors.

Not original poster, but I really like this, thank you! I was further curious and put the asian looking text into google translate: "Chinese kitchen knife". 😁

An entire stick of butter that is going to be good! I will give a something like this a try, I've made ravioli and tortellini before, and have always wanted to try the butternut/kabocha squash varieties! Regarding ice cream, that vanilla chai seems very unique. I was just gifted the salt-n-straw ice cream recipe book a couple weeks ago, which has a pumpkin and spiced goat cheese ice cream, also sounds interesting. Maybe I'll try both. Mmmm.

Missed opportunity to use a can last night in my chicken paprikas dinner, drat! Would've been a variation of the curry. Oh, well. Anyway, just used a second can: 2 down, 10 to go. Mini muffins with fresh milled oat and wheat flour, ginger, molasses, and maple syrup. They are only slightly sweet so they can be versatile and accompany both savory and sweet dishes. Bit chewier than I'd like, probably mixed them too much, but still pretty tasty. Next I will attempt to make noodles/dumplings/gnocci/halusky, hopefully next week.

Exactly. And that's what I need to figure out before I start asking for ingredients help.

Thanks for the continued discussion. The comments about filling up the pantry needlessly are poignant, since I don't really have much of a pantry (this home's kitchen was designed as a vacation home, and due for a remodel). I've continued thinking about the idea, and I think to help with direction, my underlying goal is to expand and explore "asian" cooking that's more than ginger, garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sesame oil - which it is not! Kind of like exploring beyond mirepoix, butter, and wine for french food; or salsa, tortillas, and tacos; or garlic, oo, 00, oregano, san marzanos, and pasta for Italian. Hopefully this concept makes sense. Which means I need to get out, read recipes, explore restaurants (I know there are some traditional ones hidden away in parts of Irvine and Tustin, then up in Alhambra area), and hang my hat with some of my friends This will then help me understand and explore flavors better. Good good, I am once again motivated and excited 😁 @liuzhou I'll get a picture of the cheap, salty wine that has a little salt with an extra pinch of salt today

Thanks, BD, that makes sense and I should've thought of that! Duh. I feel silly for starting this topic, so maybe moderator can just delete it. There was inspiration earlier earlier, now I just want to douse my ground turkey spaghetti in ketchup. 😁

Thanks for the help I guess?

Yes, Shaoxing wine, I'll fix my first post, sorry about that The stores here carry two lee kum key oyster sauces, one has the product name "premium oyster sauce" so I picked that up long ago since it had better ingredients than their regular one. I'm not purporting it to be premium. Megachef is the only one with clean ingredients I could find. I'm in southern california.

Hi: For those of you in the US/Canada, would you be able to recommend a few "good" and "premium" brands for Asian condiments? Ideally with minimal preservatives where possible. Normally I like to buy a bunch of products I'm interested in and do my own taste tests then find the best tasting vs best compromise of ingredients vs price, but this is way out of my arena. Things like dark and light soy sauce, sesame oil, goguchan, kombu, bonito, fermented beans, pickles, miso, rice wine, etc? I visited both mitsuwa marketplace and 99 ranch recently and was completely overwhelmed. Here's what I have: - San-J organic tamari - eden organic sesame oil - red boat fish sauce - megachef and lee-kum-kee premium oyster sauces - ajin moto msg - takara senryo mirin (only mirin I found with no "fake" ingredients) - Baoning Handcrafted Black Vinegar - currently out of sake, I typically get the $15 one in the pretty frosted blue bottle I found some shaoxing wine, I can't transcribe the brand here (can send photo later), it doesn't taste anything like the sherry recommended on the web, instead simply very salty sake that has salt in it with more salt and an extra pinch or two of salt for good measure. What am I missing? I was inspired by watching the pantry videos by influencers on youtube, but some are out of the country with products not necessarily available here, and if I can find the brands they like and use, it seems they are full of "junk" ingredients and plastered in california prop 65 warnings hahahaha.* I'm okay with buying these if there are no alternatives. I'm also totally open to the "what you have is good enough for most dishes" if that's the case Thanks for your time! *please let's not turn this into a prop 65 or it's okay to eat junk ingredients debate and/or lecture of what it is for or how stupid/great it is, I'm simply trying to figure out premium foreign ingredients

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I've been playing with it for a couple years and there is a "too much" taste I'd describe it as a physically very sharp salt. It almost makes me want to say "ouch", but it doesn't actually hurt. Don't know how else to verbalize it, but it is unpleasant. The flavored version in goya's Saizon seasoning packet is one of the tastiest ways to ease into msg (my gateway for msg anyway) There is a correlation amongst my friends with various dietary challenges, especially those who have problems with nightshades: they don't fare well with MSG (panic attacks, sobbing, etc). Nightshades seem to be high in glutamates naturally, and symptoms are similar, so there could be a connection 🤷‍♂️

@heidih Great timing, I made a big pot of caribbean chicken curry for the week, dumped in a can of the puree instead of coconut milk. It is delicious! One down, 11 to go. I like the idea of trying to make some cookies, and the ravioli filling sounds doable as well. Dumpling noodles sound good.. actually, that gives me an idea, a different take on gnocchi or strapački/halušky! Ooooo I'll try that next. I have a brand new halšukar that needs some testing, just need to find some good brindza or alternates. Mmmm. Thanks for all the inputs, this has been helpful

PS: I did a search on the great goog, and most instructions are how to make the purees, and then nothing was really inspiring 🤷‍♂️ Just looking for some creative ideas. Maybe ice cream?? I have the ninja creami. Hmmm.

I have a dozen canned purees of three varieties: pumpkin, sweet potato, and butternut squash. Besides pie, soup, dog biscuits, and compost, how else can I use these up? Why do I have a dozen cans? Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies 🙈🙉🙊

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Cool! I'm going to try finding some here, shouldn't be too tough in so cal. FWIW, I like to mix up carrot greens with cilantro and parsley when doing various herb things like falafel, rice, pesto, chimichurri, etc. I know the practice is not authentic and probably odd to some, but those leaves are all similar and I like what they do with each other. I'm really curious now to try culantro and see if it would continue the flavor path or clash.

Do you eat the roots like with cilantro/coriander? I was curious about their taxonomy and their relation. According to wikipedia: Culantro: Eryngium foetidum Cilantro: Coriandrum sativum Looks like they are both in the same family, Apiaceae, which also includes carrots, celery, and parsley

@no10 Hi, sorry for the delayed response, I wasn't notified of one. Yes, those croissants were made with the roller. I didn't use it very much, and my croissant skills at the time were very beginner (and still are, I haven't made any since 2020). It was a bit awkward, the board would be kind of floppy, and sometimes the dough stuck to the roller if it got too warm. With practice and a few customizations to the unit, some seasoning, I think it would end up working quite well. I'm 95% sure konbi used the shimpo roller, and their story about the little japanese shop custom making them was a bit of a dramatization. You are correct, they never shared the name directly, but I think I recall stumbling on it somewhere (either in a video, a comment, or an article), and that's ultimately how I discovered the shimpo roller. It looks identical to the one I had, other than color. Shimpo rollers used to be orange. Here's a video where you get a quick glimpse of the roller: https://youtu.be/9AkoVwvWoqM?t=150 There were many videos back then where you could see more of the roller, not sure if they exist any longer, since I think Konbi is shutting down now if they haven't closed doors already. You can buy the roller new through local pottery companies, or through a specific online japanese-goods store (I forget the specific one I found it at, but I ultimately purchased it through a pottery company in the midwest US that had the best deal). All the pottery supply shops drop-ship the product from an importer in the US, they do not stock the roller. Just google search for shimpo mini slab roller and you can find something FWIW, all this is now from memory, it's been 3 years. I do recall that it wasn't clear if at any point shimpo made their rollers in japan or it had always been china (mine was made in china).

If you don't need it motorized, look at clay rollers. They are a little tricky to use, but with practice, can produce excellent results. I purchased the shimpo and used it for a bit before selling it since it was taking up space and I lost interest in laminated doughs. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/162869-sold-shimpo-nidec-mini-slab-roller-400-we-split-shipping/

You could buy a few of these and have them on the range all at once! https://www.appalachiancastiron.com/ I really wish one could find belgain style waffle makers in cast iron without non-stick coatings. It's on my project list to try casting my own someday, something similar to the ones by that defunct french iron company (the name slips my mind, they come up once in a while on etsy and fleabay but pricing has become stupid expensive). For now.. pancakes on the griddle.. so boring

Great, thanks for the clarification! Your original post states it was a "much cheaper" version and wouldn't charge, so to me that reads like it never worked and I've no idea what "much cheaper" is. The big-5 unit linked to by kstone2016 is 20usd, vs the theragun which is over 160usd for me as of this post.