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Cuisinart Combo Steam/Convection Oven (Part 3)


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@csingley

 

Hmmmm. Not quite sure what you're saying here.  Could you expand a little, please. 

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Sorry Anna.  As a companion to the Cuisinart, I just acquired some commercial grade bamboo steamer baskets... They just fit over a 14" wok, and although the specs were given in traditional Chinese chi, I believe that converts to half a metric shit-ton of steamed product.  Alas no steam bake function.  Off topic I realize; I'll be back on Project Brown Bastard once the jet lag clears.

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Experimenting with a little tart pan I found that fits perfectly in the CSO.

Used the hot water pastry from David Lebovitz's blog, made some almond paste, then a  frangiapane . Had no fresh fruit in the house so dug out a few freeze dried peach slices - I should have rehydrated them I think 

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1 minute ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

Experimenting with a little tart pan I found that fits perfectly in the CSO.

Used the hot water pastry from David Lebovitz's blog, made some almond paste, then a  frangiapane . Had no fresh fruit in the house so dug out a few freeze dried peach slices - I should have rehydrated them I think 

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Well, how neat is that!   It looks as though the individual tart pans come out.  Do they? 

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That looks like a pan I bought a few years ago.  Does it come with a crust-cutter? 

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58 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

Experimenting with a little tart pan I found that fits perfectly in the CSO.

Used the hot water pastry from David Lebovitz's blog, made some almond paste, then a  frangiapane . Had no fresh fruit in the house so dug out a few freeze dried peach slices - I should have rehydrated them I think

 

Thanks for posting.  Straight convection or steam baked?

 

The pan is indeed cute; I've just got little individual tart molds, not fluted, without removable bottoms - for Portuguese egg custard tarts.  On the plus side, can fit 8 of them in the Cuisinart.

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 I just cannot bring myself to click the like button.xD.  Right up until the dehydrated fruit things were looking good.

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Cuisinart back in service.  Scrawny half rack of spareribs, rubbed with fish sauce salt, Japanese 7-spice pepper, and a bunch of seeds (cumin, fennel, sesame, black pepper).

 

Steam baked @ 350degF for 35min, then finished on straight convection 425degF for 15min.

 

Goo results, but could be tenderer.  Next time I'd like to try steam baking @ 300degF or 250degF for closer to 2 hours.tmp_29945-IMG_20160824_1856181861323516.jpg

 

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Do you know if you put a store rotisserie chicken in the CSO after it's been in the fridge for a day - you can make it just as good as when you brought it home?

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Poached a bartlett pear this morning with a bit of port and lemon rind. Used the same hot water tart crust, much thinner this time though (4 tarts last time - 4 tarts and almost a whole tray of tartlets this time), frangiapani, poached pears, then some melted apricot jam. To blind bake I steam baked tarts at 325 for 25 minutes, tartlets for 10 minutes, with frangiapani another 15 minutes for tarts and 10 minutes for tartlets.  

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On August 23, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Smithy said:

That looks like a pan I bought a few years ago.  Does it come with a crust-cutter? 

Nope - just the pan - from a thrift store - but it was in the box.

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1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

Do you know if you put a store rotisserie chicken in the CSO after it's been in the fridge for a day - you can make it just as good as when you brought it home?

 

You mean "no worse than when you brought it home"?

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12 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

You mean "no worse than when you brought it home"?

 

Have you never had a rotisserie chicken from Costco?  The ones I get here at my store are amazingly good, no other can compare.

And, yes, refrigeration  does take its toll.  When served still warm the flavor is infinitely better.  Of course that is not always possible.  Good to know KerryB's trick to reheat.

 

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there are some places have have volume where you can get them right off the spit.

 

these tend to be much better than the ones 'kept under the lights' for who knows how long.

 

also : consider the aroma .

 

oddly, if it smells like Lawry's Seasoned Salt    that's a good svn :

 

http://www.mccormick.com/lawrys/flavors/spice-blends/seasoned-salt

 

if you remember what this is like.

 

I don't think its more complicated than that :   the birds themselves can't matter much :

 

they are the lowest common denominator.

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