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    Cooking term: sucs?

    Has anyone heard of this term? I came upon it at Rouxbe.com where, BTW, they have some interesting and free cooking instruction videos. Apparently, it is the caramelized bits, from sauteed or pan fried food, that I have always called fond. A quick google turned nothing up, so I was curious if...
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    Hey GB! Dry brine experience.

    GB, I tried the dry brine method you described and had a great result. I used a 2" thick sirloin, liberally salted with Kosher salt, and let it sit in a plastic freezer bag for a day and a half. I intended to grill it, but t-storms precluded that option. Instead, I did it in the kitchen...
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    Recipe tag

    I may have posted about this before, but I think it would be useful to have the ability to tag a post as an actual recipe. Case in point--I have a bunch of ocean perch and was looking for ideas. A search sent me to all kinds of threads--games, tangentially related threads that turned out...
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    Cats saved my life!

    I'm not going to be too melodramatic about this, but my Mom's cat and, in different way, one of my own, saved my life last night. I was doing a pot roast, actually half of one because I was cooking for just me, and I felt it was cooking too quickly. I turned down the temp on my 1920s gas oven...
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    Reverse sear?

    So, I started out with a frozen rib steak. I had previously tried the reverse sear method with good results, and might have done so with this one, but I hadn't decided yet--with the oven pan and rack there is a bit more cleanup. Anyway, I put the steak to thaw in a pot of water and added some...
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    Anyone used a Weber rotisserie?

    Anyone have any experience with the Weber 2290 22-1/2-Inch Charcoal Kettle Rotisserie? Link I can see lots of possibilities for this. I have used my Weber kettle a lot, but this seems like it would expand my grilling repertoire quite a bit. What do you think?
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    Happy Birthday, Reanie525i!

    Happy Birthday, Reanie! I hope this is the greatest yet of many better to come!
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    Cocaine--the soda

    In our area this "cocaine" soda is being sold in roller rinks and other places children and youths frequent: Cocaine energy drink information, all about the Cocaine Drink I am outraged. My gf told me about her 12 year old daughter coming home, having sampled this; she was wired until 4 AM...
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    Ajwan seed

    We have a new Indian market in town (hurray!) that has an amazing array of familiar and unfamiliar foods. I have cooked and enjoyed Indian foods, but have had problems getting the necesary ingredients. I have now hauled out some neglected cookbooks and am like a pig in ****. Today I went in...
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    Anyone else use a salt pig?

    Several years ago I was buying knives at PCD.com when I saw this "salt pig" and added it to my order. It was a whim, but it has become one of the few things I allow on my counter 24/7. It allows me always to have salt for a pinch or a dollop, doesn't accumulate debris, and doesn't have a lid I...
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    Karma and private messages

    Is it possible to give karma from the private message screens? I am just starting to understand this karma thing, and it seems that a pm might be one of the most likely places to want to give someone karma, but the link seems to be missing when I view a pm. Am I missing something?
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    An old quote to respond to...

    I just bought a copy of The Art of French Cooking (the big 1960's translation by Joseph Faulkner, not the paperback supermarket one). There's a lot to digest, but I wanted to throw out this quote to see what you all might have to say: “Like everything...
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    Time-Life Foods of the World

    I just purchased a (I think) complete set of the Time-Life Foods of the World cookbooks from the semi-SO's mother. I already have have yards of bookshelf devoted to cook books, but I could not pass them up. She was going to put them on ebay for $25 ... . They include a wirebound set that, I...
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    Coloured eggs, not Easter

    A neighbour of mine has given me a dozen free-range chicken eggs from her own chickens; they are extraordinarily vari-coloured. The shells are red, pink, blue(ish), green, and brown/tan. I think that these eggs can be used as any other egg. What can I expect, colour-wise, from whatever I cook...
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    Greetings from another newbie!

    Hi, all! I found DC while looking for equipment reviews and got hooked reading all the other threads. I live in NW New Jersey and work for myself in both the automotive and the computer fields. I have some formal training as a cook, and spent some time in a small, upscale restaurant's kitchen...
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