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I live in an areas where I cannot find dried beef and hence no SOS. I just made my first dried beef. I believe it came out a little more dry that I expected. It was salty but washing the dried beef in water before making the SOS did the trick. I will keep experimenting. (The alternative...

Leaving an item whole reduces the area exposed. I believe the flavor is best preserved this way. However, before I had a slicer I would buy sliced lunchmeat and freeze a portion of it. I almost used it up within the first week. Once in a while I would forget and allow the lunchmeat to remain...

Before I retired I would buy lunchmeat at my local deli for the week. I would eep some out and freeze some for later in the week. I mainly bought different varieties of ham for this. I have since bought a Chef's Choice meat slicer and now buy small whole hams and use roast beef, chicken, and...

I am the OP. After two months or so I got around to testing my freezer galumpkis. Very disappointed to say the least. The taste was off a bit and the texture of the cabbage was deteriorated. After all the work to make galumpkis IMO freezing is not an alternative. I tried three ways of...

For better behaving dough after you mix your dough refrigerate it overnight. Take it out about 2-3 hours before you make your pizza. IMO, the dough has a better taste doing this.

While watching a PBS cooking show with MaryAnn Espisito she used a gas grill for pizza. I had been moaning for years that my home oven just doesn't get hot enough and never thought of using the grill. I put a pizza stone in my gas grill and made one of the best pizza I have ever had. No more...

PrincessFiona60, Thanks for the link. I did not see the place on their website where one could order their products. However, I did send them an email requesting purchase information. I will post the answer when I get it. Katie H, I did find it online at a site called something like...

I am trying to find a quality dried beef to use for chipped beef, (SOS). I know there is a bottle of compressed chemical waste they are calling dried beef. I am looking for the kind that is sold in the refrigerated section or sliced at the deli counter. From the web I can see that Shoprite...

Sauerkraut may give some people gas but that is usually an indication that there are other problems. Sauerkraut is one of the best cures for digestive ailments as long as it is not heated. Once heated the beneficial enzymes in sauerkraut are killed off thus reducing much of the health...

Update: as part of my experiment I froze some of the original ground beef as a hamburger patty. This past week end I cooked it on the grill with nothing added. The flavor was off and that proved to me that this unsavory flavor imparted by freezing is limited to industrial beef no matter if it...

Update on refrigerated galumpkis. I reheated these galumplkis over a few days and found no difference in flavor. Actually I thought the flavor may have improved somewhat. This may show that the butcher was correct in his theory about previously frozen ground beef. For the final phase I froze...

I spoke with a butcher about this and he told me he thinks the problem is using previously frozen ground beef. He told me lots of food stores buy their ground beef frozen and allow it to thaw leading people think that it is fresh. I bought some fresh ground beef and made a batch of...

It looks like I will have a bumper crop of cabbage this years. Of course I will be making sauerkraut and using it for ham or cornbeef and cabbage fresh. I will also be making galumpkis. Every time I cook a dish that has ground beef in it and then freeze it I find there is an odd taste...

I have found several uses for my dehydrator and for the most part I am happy with it. However, I tried dehydrating celery and while it dehydrated well the flavor is not very good when rehydrated. Secondly I dehydrated some homemade chili that was a pretty good batch. Upon rehydrating it I...

DD at one time had the best coffee and the one place you could expect consistency no matter which DD you happen to be at. Today it is hit or miss with DD. I have been to some DDs where I threw the coffee away or asked for my money back because it was burned or seriously diluted. DD at one...