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Is garlic peel safe to eat?

I ask NOT about the white outer layers that must be peeled and I do peel. But I lack the time to peel the red peel off cloves. Is it safe to eat? picture sou

Identifying Cast Iron Skillet - with weird pattern

My mother gave me an old skillet she had, and to me, it looked like a normal cast iron. I wanted to 'clean' it the way I normally clean and season my other pans

Using a food mill for vegetable stock

When I make stock, I use a potato masher to try and extract some of the juice from the remaining softened vegetables after siving. Can I use a food mill to do

What to do when one thing on a plate cooks faster than the others?

When I want to get fancy and add fruit juice to a saute pan to braise my meat, the juices from the fruit often caramelize too fast and burn before my meat is re

Sous Vide Large Turkey Breasts

All the turkey sous-vide recipes on the web presume 2 small/medium turkey breasts placed together for a 2.5 to 4 hour cooking time. But I have 2 very large brea

Why does dough and its ingredients need to be cold?

Recipes keep repeating on how the ingredients you add (at least in pie crust dough) should be cold. A quote: If your dough gets too warm, send it back into

Question about roasting green beans and cherry tomatoes

I have a question about something new I want to try for Thanksgiving. Everyone things we're making too many casseroles and asked me to do something different.

How shall I arrange my slowly-eating plan and preserve a box of 5Lb frozen eggs over a long period?

I have a box of 5Lb of frozen eggs with citric acid, where 1 Lb is 9 large eggs Unopened product should be used within 3 days of thrawing. Unused

My dough is cracking (not crumbling) and more water does not help

I am following this Serious Eats pie crust recipe. It's the second time already where I struggle with the dough folding stage. The dough is too crumbly when I

Beef Barley Soup with too much wine

I put too much red wine in and it tastes like tomato and wine. I need more of the rich beef flavor back but it is a little salty, will low salt beef stock fix i

Pre-preparing breakfast scramble -- potatoes

I liked to cut up a bunch of onions and bellpeppers once a week so that when I make eggs in the morning I just need to put a scoop in the pan and add the eggs o

How is south african paprika different from Hungarian paprika?

I am planning to make a spice blend, and the recipe I am using calls for south african paprika. Stores near me only have Hungarian paprika. How different are

Does a Steam Microwave with true Convection cooking use microwaves in the convection oven baking process?

Does the convection oven baking feature still utilize microwaves to do the baking/broiling etc?

Substituting ground red pepper for dried red peppers

I have a recipe that calls for 4 dry red peppers to be bagged during cooking & taken out when finished. Instead of using those, how much ground red pepper s

Can I bake a cake in a toaster oven without temperature control?

I live in a place with no easy access to an oven. If I wanted to bake a cake, could I do this with an appliance like this?

Dark grey residue from newly purchased stainless steel kitchen items?

I have had this happen a few times now. What happens is that I purchase a new kitchen item made of stainless steel. When cleaning it, I find out that there is s

What can you tell about the state of margarine in this cookie?

I want the find out about the structure of the margarine used, shown in the photo below. I baked this cookie from a frozen dough I bought. The frozen dough was

Can I refrigerate homemade puff pastry made ahead of time?

Puff pastry is similar to croissant dough. When I made homemade croissants for the first time, a few weeks ago, they were OK but I could have done better. I hav

How can I keep streusel topping from getting soggy?

I make this Sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving, it has a streusel like topping. Usually I can bake this at the destination, but this year I need to bake at

Substitute baking containers

I have a three-wheat batter bread recipe that calls for baking in four 16 oz cans. What size pan can I substitute?

Can I substitute two percent milk for low fat milk and bourbon in a cake recipe?

I'm making Banana-Nut Pound Cake and the recipe calls for low-fat milk or bourbon. I don't have these two ingredients. Can I substitute 2% milk instead?

Can you eat the head and guts of anchovies?

I read that you shouldn't eat fish guts and other parts because (a) fish guts have the fish stool, maybe poisonous, and (b) fish guts can affect the flavour. I

Expire dates on coconut milk

I just bought a case of coconut milk in cartons and the expire date says 12MR01. Does this mean it expired 4 years ago?

HELP with brining a Turkey and still have regular tasting gravy?

So last year I made a phenomenal brine with kosher salt, pure maple syrup and a few seasonings. I loved the turkey, it was awesome. However the pan drippings th

Is rice vinegar bad for my non-stick rice cooker?

I have a rice cooker with a detachable bowl with non-stick (I presume teflon) coating on the inside. It looks something like this: When cooking sticky ("sush

How long to cook dry brined turkey?

I have a thawed, dry brined 22 lb turkey. Does anyone know how long it'll take to cook it and what temp? Thank you!

Crockpot is cracked

I was cooking a roast and one hour into cooking I tasted the broth and didn't like the flavor so I rinsed the roast really well and noticed that the crock had c

Pumpkin mousse looks grainy and slightly watery

I attempted to make my first mousse last night, and followed this recipe for Pumpkin Mousse: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2077-pumpkin-mousse The only ch

Shortcrust tart stopped working

I have a tart recipe that has a shortcrust base that I have done several times. On the first attempts, everything was okay with the base - the "dough" was crumb

How do I find a commercial kitchen?

Was wondering if you had any go to resources for finding a commercial kitchen that is suitable for producing food for the public (licensed, insured, inspected,