You probably should stop relying on the internet to help you form your opinions.

I teach food safety (among other things, but food safety is seen as my course) in a college culinary program. Freaking everything gets washed after each use, from the can opener to the cast irons.Stuff like the oven, the seam between the oven and the counter, the hood, behind the fridge, etc gets cleaned on a…

Do yourself a favor and drain the ricotta overnight in a cheesecloth/strainer rig with a weight on top. It’ll keep things from getting too wet.

Can’t say enough about sous vide. The turkey gets done the day before and reheated in the bath and I have a second unit going reheating whatever needs to get reheated. Stock is already done the day before from the broken down carcass and is vented and packaged in those deli containers you get when you order cold…

Turkey pho is my go to for the carcass

Stop giving me the shittiest table in the place because I have my (11 year old) daughter with me. She’s more well mannered and kind than 99% of your adult patrons.

Now is a great time to make stock. Turkey stock is made the same way as chix, will up your stuffing game, make your gravy the nectar of the gods and if you do it right, turns to turkey jello when chilled.

I toss the apples with their spices and sugar for an hour or so before baking. It draws a lot of liquid out of the apples that can be reduced to a syrup and added back to the filling before baking.

Yay! Thanks, Mr. Antifaz!

Remember Cooks Illustrated doing a test CVS Brand (yes, the drugstore) coming out on top.

Does it really matter if the beer is good and you enjoy it?

I drilled some holes about 2 inches below the top rim of a Weber charcoal starter and set a wok on top of that. Get the starter going as normal, put it your grill and set the wok on top of that. It gets rocket hot in no time. Bonus - you’re not heating up your house.

No, but we’re the ones it’s OK to call out.

“then pan fry them in a bit of butter for a few minutes on each side.”

I go to Mass everyday and my daily Mass crew consists of me (a white retired cop), two black ladies, a young girl from Liberia, a black guy, two Asian ladies, a Filipina, an Indian couple, an older Italian couple and a white homeless dude that we try and look after. The priests are a young black guy who is the pastor,…

My rule of thumb has always been that if I’m invited but can’t make the wedding, that I send a gift from the registry and if I can make it, to fork over an envelope with a cash gift that covers our plates and then some, so usually $300 bucks. It seems really trashy to not give a gift.

A cheap assed Norpro bench scraper that I’d be dead in the water without. I actually bought 5 of them so I’ll never have to live without one.

I was an NYPD first responder who has no idea what to tell his 11 year old daughter because she’s starting to ask questions.

Awesome with duck, btw

Same. I have a portable induction burner that I drag outside if I want to cook fish.