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Coffee-based Cocktails: Recommendations

My favorite cup of coffee:
Good, filtered water boiled in a saucepan. Grind up What's Brewing? Organic Bleu de Brazil beans and toss em in at 200F. Stir after 2 minutes or so, then strain into a cup, add unrefined organic cane sugar, fresh heavy cream, and Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Best. Coffee. Ever.

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Equipment: The New Shape of Paring Knives

I like how the Wusthof is mystery steel around 56-58 RC and the Shun is VG10(a protected, single source high-end steel, heat treated and produced from one maker in Japan), and yet this article says they function exactly the same way. Not a chance.

It is overpriced for a manufactured, looks-oriented, overbranded parer, but to say it is functionally the same as a $7 Wusthof is laughable.

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New USDA Report Says You Can Eat Right for $2.50 a Day

I used to shop at a Save-a-lot(i think it was called), like a secondhand food store. I could eat for a lot less than $2.50 a day, and I did. Being poor makes you crafty and not picky.

However, I feed children baby-sized portions only meeting minimal government standards by the scores every day at work. Can you eat on $2.50 for one day? Yes!

Every day? Not a chance. This is nonsense.

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Coffee-based Cocktails: Recommendations

My favorite cup of coffee:
Good, filtered water boiled in a saucepan. Grind up What's Brewing? Organic Bleu de Brazil beans and toss em in at 200F. Stir after 2 minutes or so, then strain into a cup, add unrefined organic cane sugar, fresh heavy cream, and Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Best. Coffee. Ever.

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Equipment: The New Shape of Paring Knives

I like how the Wusthof is mystery steel around 56-58 RC and the Shun is VG10(a protected, single source high-end steel, heat treated and produced from one maker in Japan), and yet this article says they function exactly the same way. Not a chance.

It is overpriced for a manufactured, looks-oriented, overbranded parer, but to say it is functionally the same as a $7 Wusthof is laughable.

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New USDA Report Says You Can Eat Right for $2.50 a Day

I used to shop at a Save-a-lot(i think it was called), like a secondhand food store. I could eat for a lot less than $2.50 a day, and I did. Being poor makes you crafty and not picky.

However, I feed children baby-sized portions only meeting minimal government standards by the scores every day at work. Can you eat on $2.50 for one day? Yes!

Every day? Not a chance. This is nonsense.

From Slice

The Pieman's Craft: How to Make Heart-Shaped Pizza

That was a really long ad for a 40 second clip, depicting something pretty obvious. I though there would be some trick to make it amazing or something.

From Talk

Boiled Water Recipe

You can also boil water in the microwave.

But I prefer to put mine in a vacuum, all the boiling, none of the heat--it really helps it retain it's flavor.

From Talk

Risotto - How do you cook your risotto?

When I make Risotto, I stir it uncovered. Not CONSTANTLY, but it helps the grains heat evenly(evaporative cooling on top, and conduction on the bottom), and helps to evaporate off the stock, concentrating the flavors. I do not like soupy risotto, I like it to be dense and creamy, not runny on the plate, but where it just relaxes into an even pile.

Cooking it with a lid would help it heat evenly, but certainly does not allow for the broth/wine mixture to concentrate. Also, stirring can help rub the grains together and abrade some starch off.

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Does This Food-By-State Map Look Accurate?

Not even close. Hawaii should be spam, I live in Texas and it's definitely chili, and my coworker from Arkansas had never heard of Jelly Pie. Mississippi Mud pie? Florida just gets a fruit? California is grapes?

Someone else should make one, this one is getting too much attention.

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Have you ever been so disappointed by a meal that you cried?

I cried when I was a kid because I really didn't want to eat at a restaurant we were going to. I can certainly relate though. When a good spot falls into bad hands its like the sun not rising for a day.

From A Hamburger Today

In Fort Worth, Kincaid's Lets Us Down While Fearing's Picks Us Back Up

Had the same experience you did at Kincaids. Most DFW locals don't know food, and not being from here, I have found that the novelty of a MASSIVE hunk of overcooked beef tickles the local fancy. It was beef on beef and some bread to get stuck in the teeth.

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Beloved Texas-Based Chain Whataburger Makes a Fine Fast Food Burger

If you didn't get a Whataburger from a location in Corpus Christi, you didn't get one. The location across from their corporate headquarters is always PHENOMENAL, and service is top-notch. Also if you get one evening hours in a "bad" neighborhood, it's called a Barrio Burger--those tatted up homeboys don't know the words "portion control". It gets generous.

The above case for Whataburger's service, straws, ketchup, etc are all dead-on. I can't eat any other fast food burger.

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Big Ass Burger at the Twisted Root Burger Company in Dallas

I went there same month, for the first time. Your review is glowing, and my experience was TERRIBLE. The burger was ok at best, and the root beer tasted like cheap bubble gum.

Maybe I'll give it another try, but I thought this place was a huge bust.

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Poll: Should Food Trucks and Carts Get a Letter Grade Like Restaurants?

As a cook, I will say that they definitely SHOULD be held up to the same standards as brick and mortar restaurants to promote a fair competitive environment. Yes, labor and equipment saved by never having to fully clean up at the end of a day can save your business.

That said, a LOT of health code rules need to go. Its different depending on where you are, but not requiring a hygiene class, giving out answers on food safety tests(I've seen plenty of people with Food Handlers Permits who don't speak a word of English and don't know not to pick up food off the floor and put it back on the plate), requiring filthy gloves instead of clean hands, not allowing open windows, and other stupid standards need to be overhauled all around.

From Drinks

Serious Beer: The Best Pumpkin Ales

Have to keep an eye out for Elysian's Dark o the moon! Sounds like heaven in a glass!

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Knife Skills: How to Cut Eggplants

Stabilize that cutting board! Sheesh! And sharpen that knife, mister! You can mail it back to Global and they will do it for you. Scarin the pants off me over here, your fingers so close to that thing.

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Condiment Confessions

Fresh, well made mayonnaise has its place. But the stuff in a jar is GREASE. The final word on all condiments are these two rules:
1. There is a cheap kind and a carefully crafted kind, both have their uses.
2. They should only compliment and NEVER NEVER NEVER overpower. Yes you can drown anything in Ranch and "like it". But you shouldn't.

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350 Million Barrels: Why Food Waste Matters

I don't produce a lot of waste at home, but having a family sure does. When I was single, I cooked and lived and everything at home in a small apartment with 2 other guys and we took the TRASH out(one office trash bag) every 2 weeks.

At work, I always despise food waste! I have turned onion tinged strawberries into jam, and leftovers into soup, etc on a weekly basis.

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The Science of Ice in Sodas

Lambowner, the fountain can cut off when the cup is full, I'm guessing by some kind of backsplash sensor like a fuel pump. Taco Bell machines have paddles so you just put the drink under the spigot and it fills it.

I want to see an analysis of dilution, carbonation, and final temperature. Styrofoam cups have a 2 thin lines in them, a lower one for ice, and a top fill line. In my experience, these are actually ideal guides.

From Talk

I could eat ______ every day and not get sick of it.

Lol so many people say sushi! I do get tired of the rice.

I worked at a freebirds and ate there at least once a day every day and never got sick of it! Think about what's in those things: meat, unleavened bread, rice, beans, roots, berries, salts, acids, everything! If space aliens made human kibble, it'd be freebirds.

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Befriending Chefs/Restaurant Staff

Get em some beers, or whatever they fancy. It really is a welcome addition at work.

From Serious Eats

Do You Have a Favorite Cheapish Olive Oil?

Carapelli does it for me, but I have to say it is a bit on the fruity side which can run into some things.

I would love to see this post! Though I really am rooting it is something that I can buy at a store that doesn't make it's profits by strangling small businesses, causing civil wars, and encouraging white collar mafia behavior.

Also, "EVOO" is really annoying. I don't say "BHABM" for my Blue Honda Accord Base Model, I usually just call it a Honda or an Accord, or whatever is RELEVANT to the conversation. Is it vital that Rachel Ray uses EXTRA VIRGIN in this recipe? No? Then just say Olive Oil. Or Oil. Or whatever is actually helpful. That's all, I have to tend to my BHBEWAB(brown-haired, brown eyed wife and baby).

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Video: Chocorotica

Cocolate covered:
Macademia clusters
Coffee beans
Peanut butter malt balls
Goji berries

Thanks to this video and a trip to Sprouts, I am now eating the above.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

Bread with seasonal vegetables and cheese into a patiently made panini. You can pair it with pretty much anything in your fridge.

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