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Post subject: Pitch your wildest, stupidest cooking ideas
Posted: Thu June 11, 2020 10:41 pm
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
This thread is a safe space. A sounding board. A ledge for us to talk you off of. Use it when you want to wonder out loud if something is crazy enough to work.
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Post subject: Re: Pitch your wildest, stupidest cooking ideas
Posted: Thu June 11, 2020 10:42 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
This morning I had to share the oven with my wife. I was doing a bread bake, which requires 20 minutes at 475 in a covered dutch oven and then 30 minutes at 450 with the lid off. She needed to use the oven to roast some veggies for our son.
I thought, briefly, that it would be fun to fire up the charcoal grill after that covered portion of the bake and smoke the loaf at 450 for the last half our. I still might try it one day. Seems like it would make sense. You're still using convection, and I bet the smoky flavor seeping into the uncovered bread crust would be wild.
Also, I wonder if you can achieve a good bowl of steel cut oatmeal using a french press.
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Post subject: Re: Pitch your wildest, stupidest cooking ideas
Posted: Thu June 11, 2020 10:44 pm
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Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47163 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Convection is tricky. First of all, most consumer ovens do a piss poor job of actual convection. It any rate, I would never look to a grill to achieve a similar result, unless you happen to live in a place it is consistently windy or something?
What would be the purpose of a French press oatmeal? You’re not just siphoning the water and tossing the oats, so are you hoping for a unique texture or something?
But now this has got me thinking about whether or not I could approach oatmeal like a risotto sometime…
Post subject: Re: Pitch your wildest, stupidest cooking ideas
Posted: Thu June 11, 2020 10:50 pm
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
tragabigzanda wrote:
What would be the purpose of a French press oatmeal? You’re not just siphoning the water and tossing the oats, so are you hoping for a unique texture or something?
But now this has got me thinking about whether or not I could approach oatmeal like a risotto sometime…
Well, as I waited for the water to simmer off the oats (because it was an abnormally rushed morning today) I got to wondering how I could expedite the process. I had an aha moment thinking that pressing the oats and draining off the water would do the trick. They felt soft enough, but my strainer's holes are too large.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
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Post subject: Re: Pitch your wildest, stupidest cooking ideas
Posted: Thu June 11, 2020 10:50 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
tragabigzanda wrote:
What would be the purpose of a French press oatmeal? You’re not just siphoning the water and tossing the oats, so are you hoping for a unique texture or something?
But now this has got me thinking about whether or not I could approach oatmeal like a risotto sometime…
Well, as I waited for the water to simmer off the oats (because it was an abnormally rushed morning today) I got to wondering how I could expedite the process. I had an aha moment thinking that pressing the oats and draining off the water would do the trick. They felt soft enough, but my strainer's holes are too large.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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