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Category Archives: Video
Great Kitchen Tools: Scale
Among the most hopeful signs in cookbook publishing is Artisan's agreeing to lead all recipes in the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook, due out next fall, with metric weights (they will include volume measurements second). It's a baking book after all, and no other culinary craft is more dependent on accuracy of measurement than baking. Another hopeful sign was seeing something similar in The New York Times not too long ago, a recipe for chocolate ganache bars that also lead with grams, not cups or ounces. Scribner published my book Ratio, which which really only works if you have a scale.
So when I was hanging out with Todd and Diane talking about great kitchen tools and stupid kitchen tools, I of course had to address the scale. I have four of them at home, two basic kinds, a scale of measuring ...
Also posted in Tools Tagged Kitchen Tools, scale, something to say, video, white on rice couple 84 Comments
Exploring Taste
Also posted in Article, Farming, Food Culture, Food Politics, food science Tagged economics, food systems, food tech connect, gastronomy, Mitchell Davis, taste, TED, video 1 Comment
Great Kitchen Tools
The best, I mean the very best and most useful kitchen tools, are almost always the simplest. Yes, you've got the kitchen workhorse, the standing mixer, the food processor (I almost never use mine), the hand blender (my favorite small appliance). But really what I love most? Two really sharp knives. A thick flat hard surface that gets really hot. A heavy wood cutting board. And these: Rocks and sticks. Point is: fewer rather than more, simple rather than complex. (One clarification in the video that I failed to make clear at the time. For testing the temperature of frying oil, I use the chopsticks I save from Chinese take out, not really nice ones.) Once again, many thanks to Todd Porter and Diane Cu. I called them saints among us in the last "something to say" video. That was wrong. They're angels. Stay here! If you liked this post on I ...
Also posted in Kitchen Technology, Kitchen Tips, Kitchen Tools, New Media, Rant Tagged kitchen, something to say, tools, video, white on rice couple 84 Comments
Something To Say: Stupid Kitchen Tools
Nothing more to say (on this subject, anyway...). Thanks Todd and Diane for your amazing work and of course Amy Scattergood for her reason. If you liked this post on Stupid Kitchen Tools, check out these other links:
- Todd and Diane's first Had Something To Say video.
- Preview my collection of kitchen tools that include the spanker, bad ass egg spoon, all strain clothes, and more.
- To find other interesting products click over to OpenSky.
- It is an older post, but look at these off the wall kitchen gadgets.
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Paczki Day
Also posted in Article, Bread, Desserts, Ethnic Cuisine, Food Adventure, Food Culture Tagged CBS, Chicago, paczki, Polish, Steve Dolinsky, video Comments closed
