Raw Ingredient and Mise en Place Appreciation thread.

[kwilkinson]

Torchon

 

[itsstillmatt]

You are wasting money by buying milk instead of water?

 

[mgm9128]

Is that true? All the recipes I've looked at call for soaking in milk. I still have a lobe in my freezer I wanna make a torchon with.

 

[itsstillmatt]



Is that true? All the recipes I've looked at call for soaking in milk. I still have a lobe in my freezer I wanna make a torchon with.

Nathan Mhyrvold says no difference. All the French recipes I've ever seen say water with a little salt, but Thomas Keller...

 

[mgm9128]



Nathan Mhyrvold says no difference. All the French recipes I've ever seen say water with a little salt, but Thomas Keller...

Good to know.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Milk won't hurt, it is just not anything specific to milk which leeches blood and color, which is the reason you soak.

 

[mgm9128]

 

[sygyzy]

Great great color on that duck. Cooked perfectly. Sorry if it's obvious but can you tell me what you were doing/making in the pictures preceding the duck?

 

[mgm9128]



Great great color on that duck. Cooked perfectly. Sorry if it's obvious but can you tell me what you were doing/making in the pictures preceding the duck?

Thanks a lot. The preceding pics were of glazing/deglazing in the process of making what Michel Bras calls a "short" jus.

 

[mgm9128]

 

[ehkay]



I did not know that black bass swim like flounders?

 

[mgm9128]



I did not know that black bass swim like flounders?

They don't, asshole. I had it stored like that only temporarily. I usually store my fish in the position they swim, but this was over 4 pounds and I hadn't a container large enough to keep him in.

 

[sygyzy]

Why did you wrap him in a crepe before packing him in salt?

 

[mgm9128]

I believe it helped to prevent from too much salt getting into the flesh. And also the herbs gave a beautiful aroma when you cut it open.

 

[itsstillmatt]



Why did you wrap him in a crepe before packing him in salt?

It is along the lines of a traditional coloubiac, non?