What did you eat last night for dinner?

[mgm9128]



Not surprisingly, they also say to cook sous vide at 185. Also, they are not gray.

OK, but then why are yours?

 

[Manton]

Dude, you lost this exchange. Let it go.

 

[Piobaire]

We have a nice little harvest of some beefsteak tomatos and I plan to pick some basil and make pesto tonight. Will stop and get fresh moz and do up a couple plates for our dinner tonight. For some reason I can't decide on white or red wine. Thoughts?

 

[mgm9128]



Dude, you lost this exchange. Let it go.

Lost? I'm simply wondering why his artichokes turned grey. No one has yet to answer this.

 

[ama]



We have a nice little harvest of some beefsteak tomatos and I plan to pick some basil and make pesto tonight. Will stop and get fresh moz and do up a couple plates for our dinner tonight. For some reason I can't decide on white or red wine. Thoughts?

I like white with pesto, cuts the richness.

 

[Manton]

You wonder why even your defenders (of which I am often one) consider you to be douchy.

It is not gray. It's not a vibrant green either, but that's what cooked choke looks like. I work with artichokes every Saturday at the restaurant. I turn a ton of them (and Matt is right, yours looks sloppy). You have to first get rid of all the leaves, then whittle away the green and yellow from the solid, and scoop out the "fur." It should at this point be almost white. If you are not going to cook it immediately, then you take a lemon half and rub it on the surface. The citric acid will prevent it from turning brown.

Beyond that, we cook them a variety of ways--but never sous vide--depending on how they will be used and at what temp they will be served. They always come out a dull green just like Matt's. Always.

So, you don't know what you are talking about. You think you have scored some devastating point against the best cook on this board which I understand must feel very emotionally satisfying, the problem is, you haven't.

 

[edinatlanta]



Lost? I'm simply wondering why his artichokes turned grey. No one has yet to answer this.

Here's your answer: They aren't grey.

Will you move on now?

 

[mgm9128]

That's not a dull green. That's grey.

Here are some pictures of artichokes, straight from TFL:

If you want to cook your artichokes sous-vide, that's fine. Just find a way for them to not look insipid once they're done. I was merely making the suggestion that cooking them without liquid for 10 minutes would help prevent them from turning that color. But, of course, who am I to suggest anything that might possibly disturb the established hierarchy of an online cooking thread.

 

[edinatlanta]



That's not a dull green. That's grey.

Here are some pictures of artichokes, straight from TFL:
mg]http://i.imgur.com/CtHCm.jpg[/img]
mg]http://i.imgur.com/aMelyl.jpg[/img]
mg]http://i.imgur.com/HRolDl.jpg[/img]

If you want to cook your artichokes sous-vide, that's fine. Just find a way for them to not look insipid once they're done. I was merely making the suggestion that cooking them without liquid for 10 minutes would help prevent them from turning that color. But, of course, who am I to suggest anything that might possibly disturb the established hierarchy of an online cooking thread.

Those actually have a similar color to iam's, without photoshop and perfect lighting. Interesting... PLEASE MOVE THE **** ON.

 

[Manton]

OK, so matt, keller, pepin, soltner, Sailhac on one side, and on the other side we have ... m&m.

OK.

 

[Manton]



Those actually have a similar color to iam's, without photoshop and perfect lighting. Interesting... PLEASE MOVE THE **** ON.

Actually, the ones in the middle pic look really anemic and the ones in the top pic look like they could have used the lemon.

 

[indesertum]



Lost? I'm simply wondering why his artichokes turned grey. No one has yet to answer this.

-_- i am so tempted to curse here, but i already answered. they're not grey. they're purple.

bad lighting makes it look they're grey.

 

[edinatlanta]

so while we are debating the merits of good food... i had some hors d'oeuvres that weren't too bad. A crab cake that was a little soggy but I love crab cakes so much I can eat them all day everyday and a grilled chicken breast thing that was HUGE but a touch too much salt and pepper. Anyway, was pleasantly surprised to have a decent enough meal of hors d'oeuvres.

 

[mgm9128]



-_- i am so tempted to curse here, but i already answered. they're not grey. they're purple.

bad lighting makes it look they're grey.

The outer leaves are purple, not the inner choke.

 

[kwilkinson]

Actually, that middle pic mgm posted looks exactly like Matt's color.