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Cooking GAF: OT

I made this bad boy earlier this week. Not shown is the pepperoni also baked into the bottom of the crust.
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Nice have always wondered how rectangle/Detroit pizza works: do you just roll it out to fit a cookie sheet or is there more to it?
 

Rival

Gold Member
Nice have always wondered how rectangle/Detroit pizza works: do you just roll it out to fit a cookie sheet or is there more to it?
I just made the dough a little heavier than I normally do and cooked it in a non stack cake pan. It was my first try. Next time I think I’ll use more grease in the pan and add more olive oil to the dough. It wasn’t greasy enough for what I was going for but it was still really good. If anyone has any tips I’d love to hear them.
 
I just made the dough a little heavier than I normally do and cooked it in a non stack cake pan. It was my first try. Next time I think I’ll use more grease in the pan and add more olive oil to the dough. It wasn’t greasy enough for what I was going for but it was still really good. If anyone has any tips I’d love to hear them.
Strength! I have no idea what I’m doing but the magical YouTube Italian Pizza Yolo man a few pages back said to buy one so I did.
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nush

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I had a glut of gifted oranges from Chinese new year. Once I made juice from them I looked at if there was anything I could do with the peels. There was! Cut into small slices, boil a cup of sugar and a cup of water and throw it all in a slow cooker for 5 hours on low. I added in the remaining pulp from the juicer and some Cinnamon sticks for good measure. My home smells amazing right now.

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Let's talk BBQ ladies and gentle-ladies.

No matter what kind of smoker you get, it will pay for itself after a month of regular use compared to ordering BBQ at any restaurant. I started with a cheap sidebox smoker, then used an electric smoker, now I use propane.
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Side box smokers require far too much babysitting IMO, and the electric smoker I cut my teeth on was great until it broke. The propane smoker heats up in the blink of an eye, but it requires babysitting every 10 minutes or so. I use pelletized sawdust for my smoke making; it's cheap as hell, smokes at lower temps, and is easy to measure. Now, onto a recipe.

Cheap-ass pork ribs that are better than any restaurant.

Start the night before you're going to cook. After you take the ribs out of the vac pack remove the membrane on the guts side of the ribs. It will not render down, and it's a faux pas to leave it on, more importantly it will prevent the rub from penetrating that side of the meat.

Now take a bottle of plain yellow mustard and rub a thin layer over all the meat, that's right yellow mustard. Mustard is just vinegar, ground mustard seed, and tumeric, flavors that will work with any rub (including sweet) and the vinegar will penetrate the meat, take the flavors of the rub with it, and tenderize the meat overnight. I promise you that you won't taste the mustard in the finished product, this is what virtually every pitmaster does with their meat. Probably the only meat I wouldn't recommend doing this to is fish. After the mustard cover the ribs in dry rub, and be as liberal with it as AOC with unfettered access to the US Treasury. Cover the ribs with cellophane or aluminum foil, and let them chill in the fridge overnight.

On cook day take the ribs out of the fridge 2 hours before you intend to put them on so they can come up to room temp. Keep your smoker between 200 and 250 the whole time. Put the ribs on naked for 2 hours, then take them out and wrap them in aluminum foil. This will do 2 things, it will take them off the smoke (so you taste meat, instead of just smoke) and it will make the ribs super tender. Now this is incredibly important, take a fork and make a shit-ton of holes in the bottom of the foil. This will let the rendered fat drain out instead of making the ribs greasy. Greasy ribs are like breakfast sausage, I can only have 2 before my stomach starts to revolt. Cook for 2 more hours.

Once those two hours are up get a high heat source going, either a charcoal grill (my favorite), a gas grill, a grill plate, a broiler, a flamethrower(not joking, I use a propane flamethrower to sear when I sous vide), etc. Paint the ribs with your choice of BBQ sauce and blast them for a minute and a half on each side. This will drive out remaining grease, firm up the meat, and caramelize the sugars in the BBQ sauce.

It took about a year of trial and error for me to figure this recipe out, these ribs will make you a hero.
 
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nush

Member
Any tips on improving flavor? Or for gravy?

Yorkshire pudding is just salt and black pepper, I'm sure it would be good with chopped onion or garlic added. It's a plain base so it would take well to other flavorings that bake well. Gravy I make from whatever drippings come of the meat I'm roasting at the time, mix in a little flour, salt pepper and some water from the vegetables I've boiled to add more flavour.
 
Misses and I had a lazy-ish Sunday dinner for the family. Homemade burgers with beef mince, carrot, capsicum, cumin, ground chilli, parsley, panko, egg and then topped off with bacon, cheese, lettuce, raw onion, habanero mayo and sesame seed buns. We banged out some homemade onion rings too, they were pretty darn good for a whipped up meal.

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I'm going to have to take a shot at this one, looked easy enough in the video.
It’s easy but I have no idea how he controlled the presentation so well unless the point is for it to be basically like steamed noodles with very little liquid. My noodles and meat keep sinking into the soup.
 

Raven117

Member
Let's talk BBQ ladies and gentle-ladies.

No matter what kind of smoker you get, it will pay for itself after a month of regular use compared to ordering BBQ at any restaurant. I started with a cheap sidebox smoker, then used an electric smoker, now I use propane.
latest.jpg

Side box smokers require far too much babysitting IMO, and the electric smoker I cut my teeth on was great until it broke. The propane smoker heats up in the blink of an eye, but it requires babysitting every 10 minutes or so. I use pelletized sawdust for my smoke making; it's cheap as hell, smokes at lower temps, and is easy to measure. Now, onto a recipe.

Cheap-ass pork ribs that are better than any restaurant.

Start the night before you're going to cook. After you take the ribs out of the vac pack remove the membrane on the guts side of the ribs. It will not render down, and it's a faux pas to leave it on, more importantly it will prevent the rub from penetrating that side of the meat.

Now take a bottle of plain yellow mustard and rub a thin layer over all the meat, that's right yellow mustard. Mustard is just vinegar, ground mustard seed, and tumeric, flavors that will work with any rub (including sweet) and the vinegar will penetrate the meat, take the flavors of the rub with it, and tenderize the meat overnight. I promise you that you won't taste the mustard in the finished product, this is what virtually every pitmaster does with their meat. Probably the only meat I wouldn't recommend doing this to is fish. After the mustard cover the ribs in dry rub, and be as liberal with it as AOC with unfettered access to the US Treasury. Cover the ribs with cellophane or aluminum foil, and let them chill in the fridge overnight.

On cook day take the ribs out of the fridge 2 hours before you intend to put them on so they can come up to room temp. Keep your smoker between 200 and 250 the whole time. Put the ribs on naked for 2 hours, then take them out and wrap them in aluminum foil. This will do 2 things, it will take them off the smoke (so you taste meat, instead of just smoke) and it will make the ribs super tender. Now this is incredibly important, take a fork and make a shit-ton of holes in the bottom of the foil. This will let the rendered fat drain out instead of making the ribs greasy. Greasy ribs are like breakfast sausage, I can only have 2 before my stomach starts to revolt. Cook for 2 more hours.

Once those two hours are up get a high heat source going, either a charcoal grill (my favorite), a gas grill, a grill plate, a broiler, a flamethrower(not joking, I use a propane flamethrower to sear when I sous vide), etc. Paint the ribs with your choice of BBQ sauce and blast them for a minute and a half on each side. This will drive out remaining grease, firm up the meat, and caramelize the sugars in the BBQ sauce.

It took about a year of trial and error for me to figure this recipe out, these ribs will make you a hero.
Lost me at propane dude. I guess for pork its fine . . .
 
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English Sunday roast dinner. Lemon and rosemary roast chicken, roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding, bread sauce and chicken gravy. (No packets, no imports, Chinese locally available ingredients only).
Huh I’ve only ever made Yorkshire with standing rib roast during the holidays with beef fat: will have to try with chicken and pork drippings.
 

nush

Member
I'm definitely adding this to my cooking repertoire. How do you store the fat, specifically?

Also would like to kno the storage situation. I have stored stock but not fat!?!?!?!?
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Drain the fat into a rice bowl and when it cools put it in the fridge. It keeps for a long time but cover it with cling film if its likley to be near foods with a strong smell. Last year I rendered some lard from pig fat that I have in a sealed jar, I've not needed to use it yet and it's still good.
 

nush

Member
I got lucky today the extra ingreedients I needed to try and make Budae Jjigae were all on discount at the supermarket. Post Chinese new year they sell off all the overstocks cheap. big pot of Kimichii 30% off. Nice.
 
I got lucky today the extra ingreedients I needed to try and make Budae Jjigae were all on discount at the supermarket. Post Chinese new year they sell off all the overstocks cheap. big pot of Kimichii 30% off. Nice.
Misses loves Kimchi, for me I'm happy to take it or leave it. That said, took her to a Korean restaurant in the before times and had Kimchi pancakes for the first time that were amazing.
Beef short ribs I made the other week. Pretty proud of them. Server with rustic mashed potatoes and sauteed baby Bella mushrooms
Yummo!
 

nush

Member
Misses loves Kimchi, for me I'm happy to take it or leave it. That said, took her to a Korean restaurant in the before times and had Kimchi pancakes for the first time that were amazing.

I only use it as an ingredient, I would not sit down and eat a bowl of it. The only time I did was as the in flight meal on Korean Air.
 

West Texas CEO

GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Kimchi does have a timeline for flavor, it has to sit for a couple days to get happy, but over time the flavor goes sour. Some folks do not mind it, but I do. I dig the fishy spice flavor, but when it's sour I don't eat as much. Meh.
 

nush

Member
GeorgioCostanzaX GeorgioCostanzaX It really isn't easy to get right, why the fuck does it say to use that many dried mushrooms? I tried the hotplate instead of the stove as it was the only wide base pan I had, that did solve the soup too muck / too little issue you were having but it was no good for browning the meat it just scorched it even when I had already pre-sprayed some oil. I think this is one recipe you need to customize for yourself, those dried mushroom are out for me I'll use fresh ones next time. That soup base is absolutely amazing though!

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GeorgioCostanzaX GeorgioCostanzaX It really isn't easy to get right, why the fuck does it say to use that many dried mushrooms? I tried the hotplate instead of the stove as it was the only wide base pan I had, that did solve the soup too muck / too little issue you were having but it was no good for browning the meat it just scorched it even when I had already pre-sprayed some oil. I think this is one recipe you need to customize for yourself, those dried mushroom are out for me I'll use fresh ones next time. That soup base is absolutely amazing though!

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I feel vindicated lol! Good call on the shallower pan I’ll try that next time. I also feel like a whole can of spam is way too much and those dried mushrooms are maybe only good for the mushroom stock? Agreed on the base I feel like I can use that for regular old noodles with maybe some pork ribs or brisket now it’s delicious.
 
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futurama78

Banned
Ah the artisan cooks in my life. Me hungy. I need dindin a few hours early. Only had snacks. I need to get my dead grandma’s recipes. I want some turkey. She put dr pepper on it. Maybe coke.
 

West Texas CEO

GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Oklahoma onion patty melt sliders on toasted potato bread. I still haven’t found the bread element of my dreams. I might try brioche rolls next time to test them out.

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Inspiration came from this video:

 
Easy milk chocolate recipe:

3 cups cocoa butter (melted)
1/2 cup raw cacao (substitute if you only have dutch-processed)
1/2 cup dutch processed cocoa (the normal stuff)
1/2 cup of milk powder (whole milk powder, if possible)
1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt

Tools
Immersion blender
Large mason jar
Pot of water
Various molds to pout the chocolate into

1. Place cocoa butter into jar and begin melting by placing inside the pot of hot water and heating it to Medium. This is a ghetto "double boiler" and handles large quantities of chocolate far better than a little two-piece boiler set or the good ol' "bowl set on top of a steaming pot" method.

Once the cocoa butter is melted, you can turn the heat down a bit.

2. Mix ALL dry ingredients together in a separate bowl while the cocoa butter melts. Make note that you can use 1 total cup of normal cocoa if you do not have the raw cacao on hand (gives the end result a different flavor, and you can play with those ratios as long as the end result is 1 cup of cocoa/cacao powders.

3. Gently scoop all dry ingredients into the jar without mixing (yet).

4. Put the long neck of the immersion blender into the jar, then begin blending with the blades at the bottom of the jar. This will pull the powder into the melted fat and will emulsify it properly (same tool can be used for hollandaise sauce, fwiw)

5. Blend with the jar on Low to Medium heat (you be the judge) so that the chocolate is fully blended and fully liquified.

6. Add vanilla.

7. Blend again to incorporate the vanilla.

8. Remove jar from pot of hot water, dry off the bottom, and hold it with an oven glove or whatever. Pour the jar into your various molds, then let cool on the countertop or you can cool in the freezer/fridge instead.

9 (bonus) if you need to work with the molten chocolate over the course of a recipe, you can return the jar to the warm water to keep it liquid. the jar itself, however, will keep it warm enough for quite a while.

10 (recipe tweaker bonus) The result is very liquid/runny. If you want to add another1/2 cup of powedered sugar to sweeten it up, you could. If you wanna replace the milk powder with more cacao/cocoa for Dark chocolate, do so. If you wanna add peppermint oil for mint chocolate, do so. This chocolate tastes great by itself, but it is also a "base" for several other chocolate variants that my wife and I make.
 
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West Texas CEO

GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Awesome chocolate recipe.

I prefer hot fudge, myself. Nice and thick and gooey, and heated up enough to make the ice cream just a little melt-y! Any brand works for me...never met a real hot fudge I didn't like! With real whipped cream!
 

nush

Member
Easy milk chocolate recipe:

3 cups cocoa butter (melted)
1/2 cup raw cacao (substitute if you only have dutch-processed)
1/2 cup dutch processed cocoa (the normal stuff)
1/2 cup of milk powder (whole milk powder, if possible)
1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt

Tools
Immersion blender
Large mason jar
Pot of water
Various molds to pout the chocolate into

1. Place cocoa butter into jar and begin melting by placing inside the pot of hot water and heating it to Medium. This is a ghetto "double boiler" and handles large quantities of chocolate far better than a little two-piece boiler set or the good ol' "bowl set on top of a steaming pot" method.

Once the cocoa butter is melted, you can turn the heat down a bit.

2. Mix ALL dry ingredients together in a separate bowl while the cocoa butter melts. Make note that you can use 1 total cup of normal cocoa if you do not have the raw cacao on hand (gives the end result a different flavor, and you can play with those ratios as long as the end result is 1 cup of cocoa/cacao powders.

3. Gently scoop all dry ingredients into the jar without mixing (yet).

4. Put the long neck of the immersion blender into the jar, then begin blending with the blades at the bottom of the jar. This will pull the powder into the melted fat and will emulsify it properly (same tool can be used for hollandaise sauce, fwiw)

5. Blend with the jar on Low to Medium heat (you be the judge) so that the chocolate is fully blended and fully liquified.

6. Add vanilla.

7. Blend again to incorporate the vanilla.

8. Remove jar from pot of hot water, dry off the bottom, and hold it with an oven glove or whatever. Pour the jar into your various molds, then let cool on the countertop or you can cool in the freezer/fridge instead.

9 (bonus) if you need to work with the molten chocolate over the course of a recipe, you can return the jar to the warm water to keep it liquid. the jar itself, however, will keep it warm enough for quite a while.

10 (recipe tweaker bonus) The result is very liquid/runny. If you want to add another1/2 cup of powedered sugar to sweeten it up, you could. If you wanna replace the milk powder with more cacao/cocoa for Dark chocolate, do so. If you wanna add peppermint oil for mint chocolate, do so. This chocolate tastes great by itself, but it is also a "base" for several other chocolate variants that my wife and I make.

Great instructions. (y)
 
Misses prepped and I wok'd up to finish some pork san choy bow the other night. Usual oyster, shaoxing, sesame, peanut, soy, garlic, ginger, white sugar, light/dark soy, cornflour and lashings of onion, carrot, capsicum, mushrooms, water chestnuts, spring onion, chopped peanuts plus chilli topped with plum sauce. Pretty quick and easy clean up for a tasty and somewhat healthy meal for the family. Kids love it.

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Misses prepped and I wok'd up to finish some pork san choy bow the other night. Usual oyster, shaoxing, sesame, peanut, soy, garlic, ginger, white sugar, light/dark soy, cornflour and lashings of onion, carrot, capsicum, mushrooms, water chestnuts, spring onion, chopped peanuts plus chilli topped with plum sauce. Pretty quick and easy clean up for a tasty and somewhat healthy meal for the family. Kids love it.

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Whoa I need to try to make these. In most cases eff PF Chang’s but their lettuce warp mushu pork Asian fusion monstrosity is delicious and this looks similar.
 
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