Posts by scott123

Well, Suzanne, it depends on what you classify as a preservative ;) Citric Acid, although commonly used for flavoring, is also a known preservative. Although I don't know for certain, the orange oil and the grapefruit extract are...

Potato trick debunked

Bottled naranja agria is very acidic, probably very similar in acid content to bottled lemon juice. Also, goya products are usually loaded with preservatives. With the acid content/preservatives involved, I'd wager to say that it will...

I won't go near pork loin. Even if you cook it to the 'perfect' temp, it's almost always too lean to have any flavor/succulence. There are workarounds that might work (larding, wrapping in fat and/or bacon), but I'd rather just save...

I make a LOT of chicken wings and find myself spending quite a bit of time separating the wing from the drummette with kitchen shears. I initially thought that I could figure out some anatomical insight that would allow me to make quick...

Tikka masalas, kormas and bhujia are all Punjabi cuisine. Punjabi food is peasant food, farmer food. The problem with cookbooks is that they tend to be written by intelligensia. These educated authors tend to approach the food with...

Well, I haven't actually made it yet, but for me, the less alcohol and more vanilla flavoring the better. I was thinking of cramming as many beans as I could into a bottle of grain alcohol. I am definitely going to do it, though. ...

It's definitely a book worth having, but... I was a little disppointed with it. I thought the index was lacking, it didn't read terribly well and it didn't go into topics with as much depth as I had hoped for. A book this large should...

Pure isomalt will not caramelize. It lacks the reducing sugar to do so. Decomalt caramelizes due to the presence of modified malt sugar. Pure sugar alcohols (isomalt, maltitol, sorbitol, erythritol, xylitol, HSH, polyglycitol syrup,...

1. Don't use a cracked stone. A cracked baking stone is a structurally weakened stone. There's a pretty good chance it won't crack any further, but at the same time, it might. You don't want to end up with a shard of stone in your...