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New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
Hmm..I can tell there's no one from marketing commenting here yet - the appt is meant as a viral advertisment, not a functional piece of software, and since it's being picked up up by Seriouseats and other food blogs, I would say they have succeeded.
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
omg! never keep your peanut butter in the cupboard! ack!
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
Waffle fries = Fail fries...
Why put that much effort into a great burger only to zip open a frozen bag from Sysco ?
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Caliornia Rolls
Sorry, but the technique on those rolls look is terrible! - were they rolled by a thumbless monkey ?
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
Hmm..I can tell there's no one from marketing commenting here yet - the appt is meant as a viral advertisment, not a functional piece of software, and since it's being picked up up by Seriouseats and other food blogs, I would say they have succeeded.
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
omg! never keep your peanut butter in the cupboard! ack!
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
Waffle fries = Fail fries...
Why put that much effort into a great burger only to zip open a frozen bag from Sysco ?
Lunchbox Laboratory's Dork Burger Is Drippin'-Down-Your-Chin Good
Failburger with topped with sadness bacon
My (Sort Of) First Taste of White Castle's Burgers
you misssed the best item on their menu by not trying the chicken sandwichs. Whole muscle - I usually get 5-6 with cheese and bacon added - yumyumy
Judah Friedlander Hates St. Louis-style Pizza
It's a rare ay that I condone any form of Pizza style bashing, I love them all, but in this rare case I have to agree with the views of Judah Friedlander, St Louis should stick to arch construction. I thought I had a bad pie my first time there, but after seeing those plasticized rounds of processed cheese food on my pie everywhere i went, I was done.
Reactions to the 'GQ' Top 25 Pizza List
And what about Domino's, Pizza Hut and Papa Murphy's? Not even a mention to the 3 best pizza's in the US ?!
Kidding of course.
I read about half of the GQ article and then realized the author was completely ignorant to the subject he was trying write about.
Behind the Scenes Look at Smith and Wollensky's Prime Rib
"the point of dry aging is to allow a controlled mold to form on the outside of the beef"
"the room is bathed in an eerie blue light. It's actually an ultraviolet light meant to stymie the growth of mold on the beef."
Soooo.....I'm confused.
Behind the Scenes Look at Smith and Wollensky's Prime Rib
"I hate prime rib" yet I'm going to go to a restaurant, order it, then find a blog about prime rib and how it's made....THEN write about how I didnt like. get a life.
Fancy Restaurants Should Implement an Early 'Baby Seating'
We've been taking our 2 kids to upscale to fine dining restaurants regularly since since they were just a few months old. Now at ages 4 and three they have better dining manners than most adults I know. And honestly, when we go out, how happy I make our waitstaff is not my primary concern! But then again unless tragedy strikes, We always tip 20-25%.
That being said, an entire restaurant of kids would not work - you need to take the route Ikea has and have an seperate yet onsite 90 min max childcare playroom staffed with licensed professionals, a kids menu and Disney movies !
Dear AHT: 'Behold the Nexus'
moronic fad - that needs to pass.... soon
Papa John's Heart-Shaped(?) Pizza
Nothing says love more than 15% less food for the same inflated price!
How to Make Cheese at Home
"homeboy's checkbook is in the picture... no bueno."
Way too low res to get the acc or routing # though..
Why French Fries Smell So Good
"Greater than the sums of its parts" has never been more true....
Legendary NYC Vegetable Peeler Salesman Joe Ades, 75
Poor choice of words there 'tacorific'...
In Videos: Cadbury Eyebrows Dance Commercial
Adam, yes it's done digitally
Banh Chung for Lunar New Year
"She put her faith in the postal system and New England's frigid weather, optimistic that the banh chung would keep."
a couple of Frozen Gell Packs > Faith
A Thai Pizza Has Bacon and Cheese Stuffed in the Crust
Argggh!! Kill it with Fire!!
Fake Brands Mall Set to Open in China
Ohh.. I hope they have a CRAPPLEBEES !! (oh wait.. that's their real name round here)
Keanu Reeves to Star in Chef Movie
It cant be worse than Catherine Zeta Jones - watching her pretenting to cook made my eye bleed. That being said, I've yet to see a realistic portrayal of a 'real' fine dining kitchen in a fictional movie.. anyone?
Photo of the Day: Composite C.R.U.S.T. Scan of Undisclosed Pizzeria's Wares
Gross! It's totally burnt! ick!!
Cindy Adams Rants About Eating Out
Cindy gets my vote for the person in most need of valium - jeebus - r e l a x .......
Man Cooks 6-Foot-Long Pizza in His Barbecue Smoker
I stopped reading at:
"I used garlic powder"
Tombstone Pizza Vending Machine
Now, what would be cool if someone made an AMAZING pizza that came out of a vending machine. Combo proof box, 825F oven, San Marzano tom's, Caputo OO and so on...
Can you imagine the publicity that would garner ?
Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger
New York Times had Donut Pudding printed a few weeks ago. Made it twice and pased it around to friends. Made more raspberry jelly for the second batch and doubled the # of donuts for a really large pan. If you decide to make some kind of donut thing, don't use Dunkin Donuts. They don't have enough jelly in them unless you are driving and eating a donut with the other hand. You can order big ones from the Stop & Shop. Frozen dough, sure but they hold a lot of jelly and when you add cream, eggs and sugar. Yum.
Caliornia Rolls
Don't mind Chefhorn's rudeness, norecipes! Your rolls look great. :-)
In Videos: Cadbury Eyebrows Dance Commercial
Take a look at this New Funny Cadbury Eyebrow ad.
Just click on the link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rliSb9l6E
Funny worth a look
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
how goofy, yet amusing.
lighten up, guys.
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
...Robyn's last line, I mean.
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
HA! I nearly spit my soup out reading that last line.
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
There's a "policy of not blogging anything someone else has already blogged about"?
The blogosphere would be pretty small if every post had to be a scoop...
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
And that is exactly why Serious Eats should rethink it's policy of not blogging anything someone else has already blogged about it. Maybe it could cut down on posts such as this -- here's a thing! It was over here! What do you think? And here I am writing what I think. Ugh. Aneurysm.
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
@ chefhorn....ding ding ding we have a winner or maybe is should be wiener considering the topic...oh and I'm from marketing and we are all shameless bastards that will figure out any and every way to promote or tie-in our products using whatever means necessary.
New iPhone Application Lets You Virtually Grill Bratwurst
What is the point of that?!?
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
Too funny! I'm thinking of being a dork and printing this picture out to bring to the honey guy at my farmers market today.
I think keeping pb in the cupboard is okay as long as you always use a clean utensil to serve it - no cross contamination with other stuff.
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
OMG that's the creepiest thing I've ever seen. It's like Chucky but a honeybear. A Chuckybear.
(crap. I've been known to keep PB in the cupboard for upwards of a year...am I going to die? From peanut butter, I mean.)
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
Scary!
Oh, you're supposed to refrigerate pb? :O I think we've kept Goober (peanut butter with grape jelly) in the cupboard and ate through it over a span of a month. Wait, do you refrigerate Nutella? I don't...
The sad face of the rotating honey bear that we had in our microwave made me laugh the other day. My husband mimics what happened so well.
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
that's some funny hunny.
as for keeping peanut butter in your cupboard?
i think you can...after 3 months from opening you ought to stick it in the fridge so it won't go rancid, but whose peanut butter lasts that long anyway?
Photo of the Day: The Honey Bear Stare Down
baha! totally reminds me of The Evil Monkey!
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
happyscrappy,
Thanks for your reply. I saw Kuma's on TV over the weekend and some of the toppings did look good. Next trip to Chicago I will try for a visit. However, PaulyWalnuts' comment might send me to Hot Doug's first...I have been hearing about it for ages, so want to give it a try.
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
Kuma's has really gone downhill. It's not just the wait, or even the replacement of the delicious hand cut fries with frozen waffle fries, even the burgers have deteriorated in quality. They lost one of their chefs (the guy who did the Fu Machu burger, hence it no longer being on the menu). Things haven't been the same since. The last two times I've gone in there the burger was over cooked (I order medium rare and there wasn't a hint of pinkness), and so over salted that I literally felt ill by the time I was done eating it.
Damn shame this happened to a place that just two years ago I would have sworn up and down was the best burger in Chicago, and one of the best in the country.
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
I moved away from Chicago in January and wish that Kuma's would open a location here in California. I'm partial to the Kuma's burger as well as the Led Zepplin. Mmmm.
@Bhdancegirl - Hot Doug's and Smoque are the other places I miss from Chicago! Yummy.
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
The pretzel roll *makes* the burger. It's fantastic.
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
I haven't been to Kuma's yet but I've read a lot about it. Will have to try.
Have you been to Charlie Beinlich's in Northbrook though? They make a great and highly sought after burger...
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
@Lvn4life: I understand your concern about pretzel rolls and ordinarily I'm not a huge fan. But at Kuma's, I think the extra heft provided by a pretzel roll is necessary to handle the burger and toppings.
@Chefhorn: The homemade chips are better than the waffle fries, but, and this could be simply because of the bliss the burger provides, the waffle fries are surprisingly good - crisp outside, soft middle. I'd be surprised if they're using a crappy brand of frozen fries
@happyscrappy: Agreed 100%. The patty itself is very good, but if there's a plain burger anywhere worth the kind of wait normally required at Kuma's.
@jjchampion: That's surprising you've gotten overcooked burgers consistenly and mine have always been done correctly. Maybe they've mastered cooking rare burgers but have trouble with other temperatures. How are you ordering your burgers?
Kuma's Corner: A Chicago Burger Even Upton Sinclair Would Love
Quoting from the original post:
"There are places where so much is made of the toppings that the actual burger is an afterthought. That is not the case at Kuma’s at all; my rare burger was cooked perfectly."
That is surprising because I've been to Kuma's several times and have always received an over-cooked burger. It seems to me like the burgers are, if not an afterthought, then victims of the inconsistencies of grilling combined with an overwhelmingly hectic kitchen pace.
That being said, I do love that High On Fire.
My favorite thing about Kuma's is that despite all of the national press and attention they've received (and continue to receive) and after becoming a "burger destination" attracting all sorts of visitors who would ordinarily never set foot into a metal bar, they have not changed one bit to cater to the new clientele. Kuma's is still very much a metal bar, with sleazy artwork on the walls and blasting the angry hate music.
One bit of advice regarding the wait times: Because of the configuration of their dining room and tables, the larger your party, the longer you will wait. A party of two is ideal. A party of four is manageable. But they only have two tables (inside) that can accommodate a party of six, and you'll wait forever to get one of those. It gets a little better in the summer when the back patio is open, but while that increases the number of tables, the grill is as tiny as ever so the wait for your food will likely be even longer.
Lunchbox Laboratory's Dork Burger Is Drippin'-Down-Your-Chin Good
Pointy, I believe you're being sarcastic, but just in case you aren't, I'll answer your question. Surely you can find something you might like here -- even if it's only from what you might dream up on the "build your own" board. Also, in my visits I've not once been stuck in traffic (other than maybe for a few minutes at the Ballard bridge waiting for a boat to go through.) Lastly, I just ask that they don't move to Belltown :)
Stushi, as is the case with almost all great establishments, they can get very busy. I try to go when I imagine not a lot of people are there. It also depends on if they've just been written up. (Like the recent Seattle Times piece, the article here, the Food Network praise, and what may be pending on epicurious.com) Basically LL survives on word of mouth. Even if that mouth is full and all the person can do is moan their approval :)
Lunchbox Laboratory's Dork Burger Is Drippin'-Down-Your-Chin Good
Sounds good, and since I just live over in Greenwood, it's not a long trip to check it out. Can you actually get into the place, or is it crazy busy like Red Mill Burgers.
My (Sort Of) First Taste of White Castle's Burgers
i adore white castle cheeseburgers. period.
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Sorry, but the technique on those rolls look is terrible! - were they rolled by a thumbless monkey ?