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    Temporary cooking situation - appliance?

    I maybe temporarily working for a company that I will need to stay at a hotel. I am alright with that fact... but it may not have a cooking oven/refrigerator/cooking appliances in my room where I am going to have to stay. ( am not alright with this unless I have a means to get portable...
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    food/product inventory?

    I am wondering what the best way to keep track of your product / food inventory... I have always had trouble keeping track of if the food was no good any more, or if the food item is to low and needs to order more of a certain item. Is there any easy way apart from hiring a person to keep...
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    Rate of new meals/desserts?

    I am wondering what is the rate of new meals and desserts per year? What I mean is I am trying to get an estimate on how fast new meals and desserts are being created... i.e the growth rate of creative cooking sort of speak??? I guess one would have to define what meals qualify as a genuine...
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    Crossiants vs pie dough?

    I have made a few pie from scratch and I am wondering if there is any additional ingredients that differentiate the to. Or is a croissant basically a folded pie crust coated with maybe some butter , and desert glazes like sugar , chocolate ...etc And if the ingredients are the same then is...
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    Freezing foods?

    Question 1 I have read thru this article Freezing and Food Safety It seems from this I am under the impression foods can be frozen indefinitely and still editable provided once you unthaw them you cook them right way so the dormant bacterial ,...etc don't reactivate and you kill the bad...
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    ISO information on Best By/Use By dates on foods

    I am curious about best by or use by. I know I have used stuff like a month over the best by date and I never got sick. For use by I try to stick close to the exact date maybe a few days over. Is there any exact or close to exact date that the best by date should never be used over. Or...
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    ISO - Help with Dry Beans

    Question 1 I am curious why one needs to soak dry beans first other then the fact that it takes about 15 min to 30 min less time to cook if you soak. Is there some hazard if you don't soak them first. If there is not a major deal then I don't see why one would take the additional time to do...
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    ISO recommendations for house cleaning products?

    I am wondering what the best disinfectant / sanitization cleaner's are? Bleach , pine sol , Lysol , ... Category:Cleaning products - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the professional janitors or house cleaning professional's what do you uses for cleaning a kitchen and bath room in a home...
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    Sanitation?

    I am concerned about what does and doesn't have to be cleaned and why? Items 1) Pizza stone 2) pasta machine 3) dishes 4) cast iron pans Why must I clean standard dishes / cups ,...etc But not cast iron , pasta machines , pizza stones. What makes cast iron pans not get bacterial such as...
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    Pudding and stuffing?

    I am trying to make/fined a homemade recipe that doesn't use any fat to make pudding. I know the jell O pudding pre-mix boxes somehow do it with adding just skim milk. And on the jell O pudding packages I see they really are only using cornstarch + coloring + flavoring ...etc I have tried 2...
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    ISO help/advice w/split pea soup

    I have just followed the directions for cooking split peas. They said around 30 to 45 minutes. In about 6-8 cups of water for every 2 cups of split peas. (I used 6 cups for 2 cups split peas) What I got is more like pea soup which is ok but is that the consistence it should always yield or is...
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    Comments re: leavening agents?

    Ok we have the 3 main leavning agents to chose from baking powder, baking soda , or yeast. I have made a pizza both with yeast and without it using baking powder. I have read an article on the pro's and con's of using baking powder over yeast. Though I have to say I don't see anything better...
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    Cooking locations?

    Where are the best/most talented chefs located? Also where are the best restrauntants located in the word i.e the areas where the top places to eat are. Would it be a NYC / the melting pots places of the world or is there other places that I would be missing? Where they make the hardest...
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    How to make apple juice, cider, vinegar?

    I am wondering about how one can make homemade apple products Mainly I know I can juice apple to make apple juice + other ingrediants optional like sugar ,...etc I am alittle confused about the difference between apple cider , apple juice, and hard apple cider , apple cider vinegar...
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    Wine and beer?

    For wine if I had cranberries , grapes , strawberrry ,...etc juices would all I have to do is add a packet of active yeast to make wine or alcoholed fruit drinks? And If so how long after adding the yeast to the fruit juice will it take. And should it be refrigerated ? For beer it seems like...
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    ISO - Soup Help

    I never really got into making whole made soups. So now I am going to start I am wondering I know I can make my own broth from scratch from the chicken/beef I have but I was wondering if I wanted to try more exotic broths like a craniberry or mango or carrot broth. Is it as simple as boiling...
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    Help with opening a restaurant questions

    I am curious once somebody has bought/rent a space for a restraunt How much would it cost approx. and who would I get in contact with for putting up the signs like say the stores like a Walmart that have the Walmart sign on the building or a sign near by the street to advertise and let the...
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    exotic foods ?

    Another thing I am curious about is exotic foods. The grocery stores around me have tons of different foods but I am kind of curious about where you can get the exotic foods that you see professional top chiefs and the TV show chopped has. Going to alot of different websites and looking at...
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    Defining factors of how long desserts last

    First would flour go bad quicker if you pre-mixed it with leavning agents like baking soda , baking powder ,...etc ( could I do this with out getting the pre-mix ones with all the additional unnatural ingredinats ) What I was thinking is that since baking soda or powder lasts on its own for a...
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