Posts by ChrisLehrer

Quote: Originally Posted by Koukouvagia  I've never made eggs en cocotte, I may want to try this today for lunch.  No water bath is needed?  And assuming that it will take about 15 minutes to cook the egg yet...

  Quote: Originally Posted by IndyGal  I intended to buy his book about the cooking of his home growing up.  He made a beautiful fulffy egg casserole on Sara Mounton's old show.  I looked devine.  he...

Bad Trends:   Schools and similar institutions doing "our family cookbook" through one of these automatic cookbook website things. Why is that bad? Because (1) the parents are pressured into paying through the nose for the...

Okay, I'll bite.   Figure out a way to make an easy-clean flattop electric range surface that will not heat a slightly warped pan unevenly. Good luck!

I use a 300mm yanagiba for slicing meats that don't have a crust. I use a 195mm yanagiba for slicing meats that do. I use a 210mm deba for fabricating large fish, cutting very hard vegetables, shearing bone, and mincing. I use a...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Mabel Ang  Santoku means three (3) virtues, the santoku is utilized in aisan cooking, primarily for fish, meat and vegetables.  The price is dependant on the range/quality of...

Akilae,   You won't find stainless in Aritsugu, though they have stainless cladded. The prices were always high, but with the collapse of the exchange rate they are presumably beyond belief now.   If you want a...

Should I even bother mentioning that a lot of high-end chefs in Japan consider anything frozen -- with the noteworthy and much-discussed exception of tuna -- not to be "raw"? Thus if you're serving sashimi, you couldn't serve anything...

If you're not required to present the roasted turkey as a grandiose display -- or if you have a reasonably deft hand with a knife -- you can go a long way toward solving your problem by cutting the knee in advance. Lay the bird on its...

+15! (Although you could almost put this under the "amaze your friends" area -- "um, I thought we didn't have anything in the house, so where did all this come from?" "Ta-da!")   Quote: Originally Posted by...