Blasphemy!

Sometimes I will melt butter on a plate and just face plant a slice of bread in it. There are many ways to butter.

Dear God. Humanity will pay for that which you’ve unleashed here.

I’m skipping the roasts (and family) this year in favor of his & hers sous vide Wellingtons, because they are basically zero effort.

My first attempt puff pastry last weekend came out ok, and it made for some decent cinnamon twists. But I’m going to keep the work to as little as possible and thaw a box of Dufour. 

I agree with you about using cranberry sauce (more, or less) all year long. Now can you somehow merge cranberry sauce with those (totally tasteless) sweet potatoes into something with a bit-O’bite that’s tasty?

nothing because I do it for the attention

My deepest apologies.

He used a fork to poke some holes in the cantaloupe then served it with spoons so we could eat and drink at the same time. He was very careful to halve the cants longitudinally so that we would each have some of the blossom-end sweetness. I believe he served it with Martini Rouge. If you are greedy, cut the cantaloupe…

There’s some evidence that terpenes in unfiltered coffee can have a negative effect on LDL levels. The evidence is mixed, but paper filters will remove the compounds in question if someone was worried about it.

Sigh... if you have to heavily doctor drip coffee* to ‘like’ it, you probably don’t like coffee all that much. Or you’re just looking for the effects.

But, probably the best way (IMHO) to tone down coffee, which I sometimes do if my stomach gets upset) is to brew/pour a cup into 2oz of half and half. It’ll steam up the…

Are you saying…the cake IS A LIE?

I used to think immersion circulators were unitaskers, then I got one and realized they have more than one use. If you want to “speed thaw” a frozen piece of meat, simply fill the vessel with cool water, drop the bagged frozen slab in, and set the Anova to a temperature below the water’s current temp.  

It’s also great for mashed potatoes and other sides for things like Thanksgiving where you’re preparing a ton of stuff. You can make them up a couple of days in advance, then toss them in the hot tub that morning to have them ready for dinner.

Anyone who thought this was something to be scandalized over has no business being around food prep. If you think Panera makes everything they sell there fresh every morning (or any other fast food restaurant for that matter), you are insane. There is a reason the food always tastes the same no matter what location…

I like swapping the water with plain or vanilla greek yogurt.

Scotch  and cider sounds bloody delicious.

I was definitely coming down here to...

Just dive down deeper in gutter mode and think about where people are really going to be placing these pods

I hone mine regularly to keep them nice and sharp*, you can definitely tell the difference in effort required to get through something. More effort = less stability.