/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16169215
Call it whatever you want, I don't care how raw the yolk is, I just want set whites.

>>14754504
All those fancy as fuck bistro breakfast sandwiches and they pretty much were perfected in the egg mcmuffin and the bacon egg and cheese biscuit (not from McD's though because their biscuits, bacon, and scrambled "egg" all suck)

>>14577234
I'll type it out again, but I'm going to try and save this shit this time.

Cut up and toast dried chilis and cumin seed (I do about 3 ancho, 2-3 guajillo, and 2-3 New Mexican), grind to powder

Brown 2-3lb of ground beef or a decent stew meat (~2cm cubes)

Remove meat and saute 1-2 onions of choice, 1 bell pepper, 1 jalapeno in beef fat and fond

Near end, add as much garlic as you want, I use about 5 cloves. Add spludge of tomato paste and anchovy paste ( or a squirt of fish sauce later instead). Add powdered spices and saute about a minute

Deglaze with 12oz of brown ale or other beer of choice, preferably dark. I also do a glug of red wine if it's at hand, but optional

Add 1 box of decent quality chicken stock or broth, (I use Swanson Artisan Roasted Chicken) I tend to not waste good homemade on this, but go nuts. Add 1 28oz can diced tomato ( I use fire roasted)

Mince 1 habanero pepper and add a bit of salt and pepper, also add additional spices if preferred. Good options are smoked paprika, coriander, cocoa powder, granulated onion and garlic, oregano or thyme. I generally add them as I feel as needed during the cooking. Simmer for 1-2 hours for ground beef, 3-4ish for cubed chuck. About 15-30 minutes out I add in another bell pepper and jalapeno and 1 can each black and pinto bean unless you are some queer from TX, then you aren't allowed (if you want to do dried beans the night before, more power to you)

Check for final seasoning and serve with whatever bullshit you want. I generally only mix in sour cream, and maybe top with scallions or chives if I'm feeling spry.

I'm kinda drunk so I might have forgot something. Also ground turkey, you fucking Roo? How dare you.

>>14450359
I grew up in a small town, surrounded by other small towns and this wasn't really true at all. It did seem to be true with Mediterranean places though. So many places had signs like "Italian Greek Family Restaurant". We did have a Chinese place and I've had it when I've gone back to visit, and it's still better than 90% of the Chinese takeout places in my current city.

>>14394329
Yeah. A lot of the stuff is dated now though, but I caught a few episodes of the newer one and he basically just goes back and redoes those episodes, pointing out where he was wrong or why you shouldn't do x thing, and then goes and does an updated version of it which is pretty cool.

Anyone else been pretty let down by Taco Bell lately? It seems like their quality has really gone downhill over the last couple years. And they keep getting rid of good items and adding shitty ones to the menu. No beefy crunch burrito, Smothered burrito got taken off the menu, and a few others that I'm forgetting. And everything they've come out with lately has mostly been garbage. The fries are about the only decent thing.

Didn't see a wiki, looking for your recommedation for a good knife. Looking to spend $50, but if there is a really good set, I could spend 200-300. I mainly only find myslef using a paring and geneal use chef knife for chopping. The heaviset thing I'd see myself using is separating a chicken. I find myself annoyed at my chinesium when cutting up veggies though. I don't mind sharpening, and have whetstones up to 8000, but also don't want to have to sharpen much more than every 6 months or so. I've seen good things about Victronix knives, but looking to see what you guys have to say.

>>5480749
>4 whole points for making a sandwich himself