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Grated Cheese Stuffed Cheeseburger

This is such a great way to make hamburgers, the cheese melts then makes the most delicious crust ever I need to make it within the week

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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells

The only saving grace of my family's yearly road trips to California was passing through Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world, and the worst smell I've ever experienced was Lodi, which we never passed through again. Imagine every form of animal byproduct just waiting to pervade your senses for days.

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From A Hamburger Today

Grated Cheese Stuffed Cheeseburger

This is such a great way to make hamburgers, the cheese melts then makes the most delicious crust ever I need to make it within the week

From Serious Eats

Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells

The only saving grace of my family's yearly road trips to California was passing through Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world, and the worst smell I've ever experienced was Lodi, which we never passed through again. Imagine every form of animal byproduct just waiting to pervade your senses for days.

From Serious Eats

In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

Of course taste is all that matters, which is why all of Tom Colicchio's restaurants are in thatched roof huts and all of his food is served entirely unadorned with no time or thought wasted on plating.

From A Hamburger Today

Another Slider Misnomer on 'Chopped'

I have never seen ground beef on sourdough that's silly

From A Hamburger Today

Another Slider Misnomer on 'Chopped'

Meatloaf sandwiches are sliders tacos are sliders chili is sliders gyros are sliders pizza is sliders

From Talk

What's with the tiny hamburgers?

I love sliders. They're perfect thing for any level of inebriation, and even sober they are delicious and juicy and perfect. Mini burgers are not sliders, even if every restaurant calls them sliders. Sliders are steamed, not grilled or charbroiled, over a bed of chopped onions. The bun is on top, and everything gets soaked in grease. A mini burger is invariably overcooked, covered in condiments and toppings that are far too cumbersome for something that size, and put in an overly chewy and dry bun (brioche is second only to the kaiser roll in inappropriateness for a hamburger). I die a little every time I order a slider and get a mini burger.

From Serious Eats

Consumers Say No to High Fructose Corn Syrup

HFCS snubbing is the most obnoxious form of faux sophistication. You're still drinking soda, and it's still bad for you, and it's still not at all natural, but if you concentrate enough, maybe you can convince yourself it tastes slightly different!

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Water Works: How To Make Seltzer at Home

There is not a single person in the United States that buys bottled water for the health benefits.

From Serious Eats

Eggsperimental Ice Cream

Isn't bacon and egg ice cream one of Heston Blumenthal's most famous dishes?

From Serious Eats

Water Works: How To Make Seltzer at Home

Soda-Club and SodaStream are the obvious and best in my opinion choices for home soda making solutions www.makeyoursoda.com is a site I recommend to learn more about soda making and get a discount on your purchase as well

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Water Works: How To Make Seltzer at Home

actually unless it makes you feel really really good, putting the bottles in the recycling bin is the worse of the two options because recycling them wastes a bunch of money, energy, and time.


http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungerrecycling.html

From Slice

First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

Thanks, PB. I haven't been able to find much of any info on the oven online. Wolf is a pretty well-regarded restaurant equipment company - I'm going to try to give them a call and see what they can tell me. Haven't decided yet whether I want to get 'er shiny and new looking or let her experience show.

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First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

Adam, great and thorough write-up....not to mention some damned good looking pizza!

Can't find any on-line specs on that Wolf Pizza Grande to get max temp info. I love how you can see where someone apparently srubbed that oven door with a steel-wool type brillow pad and just said the heck with it about half way through.

Man, that thing really is a friggen battle axe of an oven.....I think it's awesome!

Good luck and all the best Keith.....looks like a winner :)

From Slice

First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

I havent been to SF since the 80s, and honestly I didnt like it, but I coulda ate that slice through my screen it looked so good. That crust mmmmmmmm!!! I didnt leave my heart in SF, but my stomach is headed that way. Nice work!

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First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

I used to live 2 buildings away from this intersection! Why did I move?!

From Slice

First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

Oh, no. Now I've got hype to live up to. Seriously, though, thank you for all the kind words. Now Emilia has something to say:


Pap pap Papi. Emilia. Emi. Pizza.


OK then. Time to get her to school.

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First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

Hmm, that's new. They want me to sign up for a Yahoo account to be able to look at Flickr stuff? Pass...

From Slice

First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

@ratbuddy: It was a bit chilly in SF while I was there (particularly at night), but not that bad. I think you're just seeing something on the wall behind me. It's still hard to make out what's going on at full size, but I assure you, it's not a scarf.

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First Look: Some Great Pizza at Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California

Ahh frackle, wish ya hadn't made me scroll back to look. Adam, are you wearing a scarf???

From Serious Eats

Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells

Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.

From Serious Eats

Does Molecular Gastronomy Make You Nervous?

the tasting menu at WD-50 blew my mind away. it opened a whole new world of textures and flavor combinations for me. i will agree not everything worked, but the ones they did pull off were spectacular. yes, a lot of it will end up being a stupid fab/trend, but i am excited about the new ground that is being explored here.

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In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

Come on @wunami, you know what I meant. The natural chemical make up of a fruit such as an orange, grown from the earth, is completely different than the manufactured "natural flavoring" in an "orange drink". Same goes for Diet Coke, yo!

From Serious Eats

Dinner with 'Top Chef' Marcel Vigneron

i think marcel should have won too, what a joke that ilan won, a joke i say, a joke!

From A Hamburger Today

Grated Cheese Stuffed Cheeseburger

I do the same thing, only with blue cheese. Yummee!!

From Serious Eats

In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

a lot of great chefs drink diet coke, and very regularly

Eric Ripert says 4x a day http://magazine.wsj.com/gatherer/the-nose/eric-ripert/

Grant Achatz was up to 10x a day at one point http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_max?currentPage=all

I personally try to keep it to less than 1x a day, but I don't have to work all day/night in a kitchen....caffeine better than cocaine? Bourdain's restaurant sucks...

From Serious Eats

Consumers Say No to High Fructose Corn Syrup

I am living proof tha high fructose corn syrup is detrimental to your health. I found out from a visit to a naturopathic holistic doctor that I have a systemic candida infection brough on by too much sugar such as high fructose corn syrup. I ate the regular SAD diet (Standard American Diet) Everything in a regular supermarket has added sugar or HFCS. Juice drinks, yogurt, ketchup, relish, salt, cereals, bread, muffin mixes, deli meats. In fact there is probably a very small percentage of foods in a regular grocery store that does not have some type of added sugar in it. So anyway I have developed 26 food allergies due to the candida. I'm most allergic to (surprise) SUGAR and wheat. So I have been on a no sugar wheat diet for almost 6 months and am finally getting better. I have to shop at Whole Foods becuase it is the only supermarket that does not have extra sugar and HFCS put into everything. I also found out I am now hypoglycemic from too much sugar. For the last ten years before I knew what was causing my illnesses I had, rashes, brain fog, irritability, painful digestive disturbances, muscle and joint pain. Then I developed severe depression, yeast infections, shingles, severe anemia, and rotator cuff problems (shoulder) due to a compromised immune system. I go to physical therapy three times a week which is extremely painful. I am getting better but I believe all my symptoms were due to my excessive sugar intake and getting candida from it. Regular doctors do not even recognize candida. They kept just shoving antindepressants down my throat and told me to ignore the rash I had under my breast for 8 years. I am weaning my self off of antidepressants now that I am getting rid of my candida infection. I am on many natural supplements that help. I owe my life to my holistic doctor and to books that I have read about nutrition and health and the SAD diet. I have written conagra about this and they sent me a public relations message saying how wonderful HFCS was and that all the bad press they get about it is untrue yada yada yada. He also sent me information on diabetes. I do not have diabetes so why did he send me the link? I wrote the guy back and asked how he could in good conscience work at his job. It is so immoral to spread lies when people's health is so compromised by what they put into our foods.

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In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

I never really understood describing things as having a chemical taste. Everything is made of chemicals. So you'll be tasting the chemicals in everything. In fact that's what taste is: your brain recognizing chemicals.

So you don't like things that taste like chemicals? Good luck with that whole..uh..not eating thing...

From Serious Eats

In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

"Or that Tom make his one syrup and then mix it with carbonated water if he wants soda?"

Hilarious.

From Serious Eats

In Videos: 'Tom Colicchio on Taste' Diet Coke Commercial

i don't see the big deal. what if he genuinely likes diet coke? haha. david chang loves popeyes. what if he did a commercial for them? would everybody cry and whine because popeyes probably uses subpar, full of chemicals, and maltreated chickens? the responses usually are "oh, i love popeyes too!" b/c it's perceived to be okay. seriously though, you can't have his philosophy and like diet coke at the same time? i know that makes sense to the detractors, but that's horrible logic. it's not impossible that somebody even tom colicchio enjoys an artificially sweetened soda from time to time. seriously, we might just collectively explode if one day it came out that eric ripert likes to pop open a sprite on hot days.

From Serious Eats

Water Works: How To Make Seltzer at Home

I also drink a huge amount of soda. I looked at the sodamaker but it was really expensive. I thought there has got to be a cheaper way. Finally I found plans to make a home made system that is WAY cheaper than the sodamaker -- I can make seltzer for less than 2 cents a liter! Here is where I found the plans to build your own soda and seltzer system in about 10 minutes for less than $100 bucks.

www.makesodaandseltzer.com

It's serving me well and I am making some delicious sodas! And I don't end up using all that plastic, or even worse, shipping all that water!

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