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Am I a bruthish cave man?
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:31 pm
I've always considered myself a fairly meticulous cook but today I got a small mag titled Cook's Illustrated in the mail ...about 20 pages. Some suggestions:
1. Organize your spice cabinet by alphabet left to right.
2. When grating cheese do it in a large zip lock bag that contains your hand, the grater and the cheese so it catches all the fly away bits.
3. To prevent unsightly oil stains around your olive oil bottle wrap a cotton tennis wrist band around it. Wash the wrist band as needed.
4. Clean your mushrooms with your toothbrush and then throw your toothbrush in the dish washer before brushing your teeth with it.
5. Instead of chopping chile peppers with a knife or food processor, just put them in a hand held garlic press.
Any of you folks do any of this?
1. Organize your spice cabinet by alphabet left to right.
2. When grating cheese do it in a large zip lock bag that contains your hand, the grater and the cheese so it catches all the fly away bits.
3. To prevent unsightly oil stains around your olive oil bottle wrap a cotton tennis wrist band around it. Wash the wrist band as needed.
4. Clean your mushrooms with your toothbrush and then throw your toothbrush in the dish washer before brushing your teeth with it.
5. Instead of chopping chile peppers with a knife or food processor, just put them in a hand held garlic press.
Any of you folks do any of this?
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Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:37 pm to Zach
The Cooks Illustrated staff lives in a bubble, with a very strange man running the show.
I don't want to be like him.
I don't want to be like him.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:39 pm to Zach
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Am I a bruthish cave man?
Do you consider habachi a culinary delicacy?
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:46 pm to Zach
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1. Organize your spice cabinet by alphabet left to right.
I have done this for the past 30 years. A few months ago my husband decided to organize the spices by bottle size. When I questioned why he did that he explained he thought he was helping me out an he NEVER noticed that the spices were in alphabetical order.
The man cooks as often as I do and he never noticed that in 30 years!!!
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:49 pm to Zach
I loathe Cook's Illustrated. As if there could be one single "best" way to roast a chicken, or any of the other countless things they love to codify. It's seriously weak on ethnic foods.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 3:54 pm to Zach
My wife used to get CI. The recipes/prep can be so time consuming it's not worth the effort. From a man's perspective, that is what restaurants are for.
That list of 5:
That list of 5:
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:15 pm to Zach
I didn't know you were a meticulous cook, Zach.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:18 pm to Zach
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1. Organize your spice cabinet by alphabet left to right.
Done this, and many other sensible things, for years. Then I got married and found the basil next to the thyme and realized I was in for a long fight.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:19 pm to Zach
I really dig Cooks Illustrated. I think their recipes are pretty damn good. And they do have some good suggestions. (Although some of the ones you listed are kind of dumb)
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:55 pm to Zach
I am at least partly like those guys. We have a spice rack. However, it is not in any order I can figure out. Keeping it mixed gives me great joy in my heart when I finally find that bottle of Dried Mustard I stuck in it five years ago.
The wife did label the AP and Self Rising flour storage jars. We keep them in otherwise identical jars that once had SAMs chocolate dipped almond biscotti. Hated it when our SAMs stopped selling those tasty Coffee dipping pieces of concrete.
The wife did label the AP and Self Rising flour storage jars. We keep them in otherwise identical jars that once had SAMs chocolate dipped almond biscotti. Hated it when our SAMs stopped selling those tasty Coffee dipping pieces of concrete.
This post was edited on 5/6/13 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 5/6/13 at 4:56 pm to Zach
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Any of you folks do any of this?
quote:
1. Organize your spice cabinet by alphabet left to right.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:45 pm to Zach
The back cover is about the best part of that publication. I frame them for the kitchen walls.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:49 pm to Zach
My dog would be pissed if I didn't drop some cheese while grating.
I must be brutish. I make a hell of a mess sometimes in the kitchen.
I must be brutish. I make a hell of a mess sometimes in the kitchen.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 8:01 pm to Zach
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2. When grating cheese do it in a large zip lock bag that contains your hand, the grater and the cheese so it catches all the fly away bits.
I wonder how you get your hand, the grater and some of the cheese out of the bag without losing a few fly away bits?
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