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This Week's Tasty 10

Posted by Adam Kuban, June 7, 2009 at 9:00 AM

According to our handy site-metering utility, the top 10 most delicious items across the Serious Eats family of sites this week were ...

1. Who Makes the Best Vanilla Ice Cream?
"With summer pie season around the corner, it's important to have the right vanilla ice cream for proper scoopage on top. We conducted a blind tasting with six readily available nationwide brands: Häagen-Dazs, Ben and Jerry's, Blue Bunny, Breyers, Horizon, and Edy's (aka Dreyer's in the western states). They were judged on a scale of 1 to 5, according to texture, flavor richness, and overall vanilla-ness. The results, in descending order...."

2. Needed: A Meal That Would Win a Man's Heart!
"I have recently decided i am ready to start dating. I figure i need to be equipped with a heart-winning meal that i can bust out at any given occasion!..." [from Talk]

3. Served: Night from Hell
"I broke a plate. A guy from school I have a big crush on showed up with a date. I have never been so happy to head home. Right now, I’m off to work. I’m hoping very hard for a smoother night."

4. The Organic Milk Business Has Gone Bad: Are You Buying Less Organic Milk?
"Why are organic dairy farmers struggling so badly? Rising organic feed prices, falling milk prices, decreasing demand for organic milk, and too much organic milk in the marketplace"

5. Favorite Frozen Entrées?
"I'm sure some of you will thumb your noses at the thought of eating frozen entrees, but let's get real, most of us don't have enough time to cook every night and resort to the occasional frozen entree from time to time. What are your favorite varieties? I really like Stouffer's Mac and Cheese and Marie Callendar's lasagna." [from Talk]

6. Quote of the Morning: 'Why Add Water to Eggs?'
"I could never understand why people add water to their eggs. I generally add 2% milk or higher percentage milkfat, or even sour cream. But the water makes no sense to me. I had watered-down eggs in the Navy and to me they were tasteless. Can anyone explain why this is done, besides 'That's how the French do it'?" —LunaPierCook

7. Visiting Supermarkets When Traveling: Doesn't Everyone?
"Anyway, I always visit supermarkets when I travel anywhere - in fact, it's one of my "musts" when traveling, whether to another town in my own state to another country. I even have my "local" supermarkets in places I visit often - Montreal (the IGA in Westmount); London (the Sainsbury's on Gloucester Road). I can't be alone in this, can I?" [from Talk]

8. Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 69: Eating With Devils and Angels
"I think I'm going to get myself a locket with a photo of Julia Child."

9. Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives
"I am generally opposed to cheese knives. I tend to follow Alton Brown's golden rule: never own a kitchen gadget that has only one use. So what kinds of knives do work well with cheese?"

10. Summer BBQ: How to Deal with Something Tactfully
"Was invited to a summer bbq this coming weekend. Asked if I could bring anything, hostess said no. Then she sent an email to me this morning not only asking me to bring a dessert, but to make something very particular. I could see a request for something particular if it is something I am known for (ie 'Mary, please bring your delicious cheesecake!') but the hostess has asked me to bring something I have never made before that is of a specific ethnic origin that I am unfamiliar with (not hostess ethnicity but theme she is going with for the bbq). I think this is rude. Should I just suck it up and make the dish? What would you do?" [from Talk]

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