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The Food Lab: How To Make Awesome Tandoori-Style Grilled Chicken At Home

"the thick yogurt-based marinade helps to prevent the meat from drying out."

How?

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Perfect Thin and Crispy French Fries

Wow -- I made these tonight (after starting yesterday so they could spend the night in the freezer). They were incredible. Can't recommend the recipe highly enough.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

You can get fried herring burgers in Stockholm in Sweden, though they're not all that common. They've also evolved a bunch of strange things to do with hotdogs; you can get two boiled frankfurters in a flatbread wrap with mashed potato and shrimps in mayo (tunnbrödsrulle). Langos, a (I think) Hungarian speciality is common too. It's a bread dough that is deep-fried and topped with your choice of sugar and cinnamon, or lumpfish roe, creme fraiche and diced red onion.

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Fennel Question

My favourite lunch spot sometimes does a salad of raw, thinly sliced fennel with orange segments. The combination is fantastic.

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The Food Lab: How To Make Awesome Tandoori-Style Grilled Chicken At Home

"the thick yogurt-based marinade helps to prevent the meat from drying out."

How?

From Recipes

Perfect Thin and Crispy French Fries

Wow -- I made these tonight (after starting yesterday so they could spend the night in the freezer). They were incredible. Can't recommend the recipe highly enough.

From Serious Eats

World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

You can get fried herring burgers in Stockholm in Sweden, though they're not all that common. They've also evolved a bunch of strange things to do with hotdogs; you can get two boiled frankfurters in a flatbread wrap with mashed potato and shrimps in mayo (tunnbrödsrulle). Langos, a (I think) Hungarian speciality is common too. It's a bread dough that is deep-fried and topped with your choice of sugar and cinnamon, or lumpfish roe, creme fraiche and diced red onion.

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Fennel Question

My favourite lunch spot sometimes does a salad of raw, thinly sliced fennel with orange segments. The combination is fantastic.

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Serious Cheese: Are You Serving Cheese Wrong?

The issue of the nose of the cheese proved to be my most embarrassing moment on my first trip to France on a school exchange when I was 14. At home, my best friend's Dad is French and he had drilled into in all my friends and I that one must not cut the nose off the cheese. And because there was always a hunk of brie or most often reblochon knocking around at his house, we were well versed in this practice.

So when lunch was finished around the family table in that apartment in Lyon, a piece of Roquefort was produced and I was kindly asked to serve myself first. Don't cut off the nose, whatever you do, I told myself. But disastrously the piece of Roquefort wasn't the same shape or position as the reblochon I was used to -- it lay on its side. In a moment of panic, not wanting to appear to hesitate, and trying to figure out how to cut the damn thing, I summarily sliced off nothing but the precious inner core of the cheese and as soon as I had done it, realised what had happened.

I looked up and saw my exchange's surly older brother giving me the filthiest look a Frenchman has ever given me. I shot my eyes back down, for all the world trying to play ignorant, and perceived the Maman kicking her son under the table.

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What are your strange, secret and personal cooking tips?

My personal cooking tip is: experiment. Don't trust anything you read explicitly; the only way to really discover if something works, or not, in your kitchen, with your tools, your ingredients, your cooker, your skills, your knives, is to do it yourself; no cookbook can be perfectly tailored to your combo of conditions.

For example: when making bearnaise sauce, if the pan's too hot for your hand, it's too hot for the sauce, right? Not for me. And you should add the butter piece by piece, right? Not for me. I just got annoyed with my sauce taking forever to thicken so I kept the temperature up and chucked in all the butter at once. And it worked. Might not for you but you won't know until you try.

Then a while later I decided to leave out the tablespoon of water I add before the butter. Just to see what would happen; because otherwise, who knows? (Turned out it was way too thick and I added again at the end and it was fine). What about spring onions instead of regular white onion? (Too vegetal).

Empiricism, for me, is the only way in the kitchen.

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

About: A hungry student.

Favorite foods: Roast leg of lamb, striploin, foie gras, Epoisses, Bourgogne.

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