Posts by ChefRay

As MaryB has stated, acetone=flammable. That's why the thorough rinse and complete dry is needed. Also, I'm about as dangerous as a whiffle ball. I just feel the need to know everything about anything that might find its way into my...

Replace the pork with salted lamb bacon(I'm not Jewish so correct me if lamb isn't kosher.) and a little duck fat. It's not the same, but duck fat is better than pork fat, although only by a little, anyway and the lamb belly, when cut...

You beat me to it. Defrost in cold running water and into the pan it goes.

It's 1.7(ish) mg/kg body weight to cause severe symptoms or death. I like to know everything about every product in my house and kitchen, in case you were wondering how I know so much about rat poison.

The good news, most rat poison is Warfarin. That's a blood thinner and it's effects, in high doses, cause severe pneumonia, and then death, from capillary leakage of the lungs. The reason that that's good news is Warfarin is a...

That's why they make the perfect edge test.

I must bring up m friend the futures broker. He graduated from college and took all of his license exams for the US SEC thinking that he should be making six figures within a year. He tells me he lived, more or less, on minimum wage...

So true. Sort of the family CDC.

That's close enough for sauce making.

I'm glad this discussion came up. Marinara is a touchy subject in the Italian/American culinary world. If you want to use Oregano and Parsley, use them. If you want, to use onion powder rather than sweated whole onions, do it. Just...