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Cauliflower Sandwich
Posted in Article, Recipes, Sandwiches, Vegetables Also tagged asparagus, cauliflower, diane cu, sandwiches, todd porter Leave a comment
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 ...
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 ...
Posted in Kitchen Technology, Kitchen Tips, Kitchen Tools, New Media, Rant, Video Also tagged kitchen, something to say, tools, video 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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Awareness In the Kitchen
This is the last of the whiteonricecouple's video we did at the end of the BlogHer conference in San Francisco last fall. They were off the cuff experimental food and cooking editorials, and this one came on the tail of my linking Richard Wrangham's contention that it was the cooking of food that gave us the calories we needed to make the leap from hominid to human and what it might have to say about our current state, having largely given up cooking in America for the past 60 years (that's video here). This video has nothing to do with food, but it does have something to do with awareness, and that has everything to do with the kitchen. Of all the knowledge I've absorbed from Thomas Keller, perhaps the most important one of all is the importance of being aware. Awareness means ...
Posted in Rant, Technique, Video Also tagged awareness, awareness in the kitchen, being human, diane cu, thomas keller, todd porter, video rant, zuni cafe Comments closed
