Recent content by opqdan

It's really funny to see programming and cooking hobbies go hand in hand. I can't think of any engineer that I know that loves to cook that hasn't at some point said "hey, I could build a pretty good cookbook applications". It's something about our need for order and logic. I hate having my...

Retaurant deep fryers tend to be much larger and much more powerfull that the home deep fryer. If I am cooking with 2 quarts of oil and drop in a bunch of frozen wings, I'm in trouble. But if I am cooking in 5 gallons of hot oil there will be less oof an effect. Plus, the commercial fryer is...

If the wings are directly from the fridge, let them sit on the counter for a half hour before deep frying them. Also, follow the suggestions others have had and make sure that you do them in small batches. The worst thing you can do when deep frying is to overload it. The oil temperature will...

This is actually something that I am working on right now (well, not right now... I'm currently slacking off at work :tongue:). Not being able to find a good recipe management software application that met all of my needs, and especially one that was open source, I decided to start working on...

I prefer to grind my own beans directly before I brew, so pod machines are out for me. My father recently bought a Krups espresso machine that can brew from specially made pods, or via normal grounds. The pods are expensive (compared to plain grounds, or whole bean), and they don't produce the...