I’m thinking that there are probably clear pots one could use for this, so as to not get showered with hot oil.
Category Archives: Food
Don't Forget the Gin
Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime
“So basically you add dirt and salt, to make the water cleaner?” I asked him.
“Right,” said Pierce laughing, “It’s not exactly intuitive.”
Perhaps not so intuitive to the average person, but it’s a process that may be more familiar to makers of wine, where bentonite is commonly used to clarify wine of impurities.
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Schwab and medical student Alexander Harding discovered that adding a half a Persian lime to a two-liter bottle of water reduced the disinfection time in the sun from six hours to a half an hour. That’s just about the same amount of time it takes to boil water, and much more energy efficient.
You Had Me at "Waffle-Iron Brownies"
Common Appliances, Uncommon Uses
Imagine our delight at seeing a soufflé rise up in the slow cooker, a frozen mixed drink take shape in the ice cream maker. Our late-night snack cravings found succor with a waffle iron. And if you don’t have these appliances, or don’t understand why anyone would veer from the standard, there are conventional instructions for most of the recipes too.
Not sure I agree with the criterion that it has to be faster than the conventional way; if it’s better or somehow more convenient but takes longer (e.g. a novel use for a crock-pot), then I would have included it.
Portable Hot Fudge
Chocolate Candle Pours Hot Syrup Over Chocolate Cake
I’d totally burn that at both ends, if you know what I mean.
Don't Use Duct Tape for This; it Tastes Terrible
The Food Lab: My Favorite Cooking Hacks
I already covered their beer-cooler sous-vide hack. For the wok hack,
When filled part way with coals and allowed to ignite, the well-ventilated chimney channels all of that heat energy upwards.
True for the convection, which is the most important heat transfer going on. (But the radiation is still pedantically being emitted out the other sides.) And the ice-cream-without-an-ice-cream-maker sounds intriguing. I’ve had liquid nitrogen ice cream, which is a truly geeky hack that achieves the same goal of quick freezing so you get small crystals.
via @rjallain (via @seriouseats)
Tasty Math
Pancake Venn Diagram from Stephen Wildish
Not just that — all logical combinations of eggs, flour and milk.
Where You Can't Toss One Down
Space station used for Ardbeg distillery experiments
Experiments using malt from the Ardbeg distillery on Islay are being carried out on the International Space Station to see how it matures without gravity.
Compounds of unmatured malt were sent to the station in an unmanned cargo spacecraft in October last year, along with particles of charred oak.
Scientists want to understand how they interact at close to zero gravity.
You Came Here in That Thing?
You’re more delicious than I thought: A chocolate-filled chocolate Millennium Falcon. Mmmm. Special modifications. She’ll make point five past lightspeed into my mouth.
Not Necessary on Hoth
The Most Common Cooking Mistakes
The Most Common Cooking Mistakes
If you want real, true, sweet, creamy caramelized onions to top your burger or pizza, cook them over medium-low to low heat for a long time, maybe up to an hour. If you crank the heat and try to speed up the process, you’ll get a different product―onions that may be crisp-tender and nicely browned but lacking that characteristic translucence and meltingly tender quality you want.