Random Food Questions Thread

[kwilkinson]

For those of you curious, if you completely botch a batch of passionfruit pate de fruit, it will still make a nice glaze for a fruit tart.

 

[itsstillmatt]



Hellz yeah baby! You buy the crabs. I'll buy the key lime pie.
RE: crabs - they're more or less the same aren't they? True, Joe's might get first pick of the bunch, but the others aren't necessarily bad, just less pretty right?

There could be differences in fresh versus frozen, how they are cooked (if you buy them cooked, I think you do) etc. Still, the difference is not going to be as noticeable as with a regular fish. I've had our local crab from Safeway at friends houses and couldn't tell the difference from ones I'd buy at the best places.

 

[shibbel]

Does dead qualify as fresh?

 

[b1os]

Hardly any crabs around here...

 

[edinatlanta]

Lately I haven't got any crabs.

 

[indesertum]

prolly cuz you haven't been laid lately

 

[kwilkinson]



prolly cuz you haven't been laid lately

Ding ding ding!


What kind of seafood can I expect to br in season on the east coast next week?

 

[VonLehndorff]

oysters.fluke

 

[dfagdfsh]

tried your pizza stone plan piobaire and it was a disaster. first off, how do you get the flimsy dough on the peel without collapsing? i managed it and put it on the stone, zapped it for 4 minutes.. and it stuck. what am i doing wrong?

 

[b1os]

I think there is a pizza stone thread. Haven't looked at it yet, but it's got like six pages. Probably some useful advise in there, too.

Actually, two:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/222148/lets-talk-homemade-pizza
http://www.styleforum.net/t/204548/do-you-make-pizza-at-home

 

[Bhowie]

You putting enough flour on everything?

 

[foodguy]

i put the pulled dough on the peel (on top of cornmeal) and then arrange the ingredients on that. getting it onto the stone is a very quick, very emphatic push-pull motion. shouldn't stick as long as you used enough cornmeal. real pizzaiolos can arrange the pizza on a board and then slide the peel under it. alas, i am lacking in that talent.

 

[impolyt_one]

I have mgm-like levels of free time on a daily basis and a livable income already, so I am thinking about taking a job as a commis at a name place here and then seeing where it goes. What do you guys think? Dumb idea? I am willing to peel potatoes all day or do menial tasks if it means learning a little here and there about food. I don't want to go through the expense of going to school, I'd only want to do this if I can get in the door at someplace with a name, as it's not for the money. I saw a few places like Gordon Ramsey and others calling for commis chefs.

 

[b1os]

Not sure whether you would get the job sans "degree" but if you want to do it and get the chance, why not?

 

[dfagdfsh]



I have mgm-like levels of free time on a daily basis and a livable income already, so I am thinking about taking a job as a commis at a name place here and then seeing where it goes. What do you guys think? Dumb idea? I am willing to peel potatoes all day or do menial tasks if it means learning a little here and there about food. I don't want to go through the expense of going to school, I'd only want to do this if I can get in the door at someplace with a name, as it's not for the money. I saw a few places like Gordon Ramsey and others calling for commis chefs.

i don't mean this in a negative/mean way, but would your hearing issues be a problem?