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Copper saute pan metal lining is melting?

So, I tried using a copper (I bought 2nd hand recently) pan to brown some beef. The lining is melting and bubbling. Am I not supposed to use it for this? Or h

What is fine semolina? (For baghrir recipe)

Background: I would like to cook baghrir. There are many recipes, all very similar: put fine semolina, warm water, yeast, sugar, salt in a blender and blend it

Make crispy brussel sprouts

I need help! I go out to restaurants and I can order absolutely succulent, crispy, crunchy, melt in your mouth brussel sprouts and I am completely incapable of

Should I use self-rising flour or all purpose flour for two ingredient pizza dough?

I'm planning to make a simple pizza using the two ingredient pizza dough method. I've been doing some reading on it and I see two variants of this: (1) from Ki

Is the appetizer of a three-course meal always a salad?

A dictionary says A three-course meal in a local restaurant will not cost more than $10. The three-course meal includes an appetizer, entrée, and d

How do i improve my hot and spicy chicken breast recipes so that the heat isn't an after taste?

This was my recipe from last week: Chicken Breast Marinade (this is after cutting them up into small pieces): Yogurt Sriracha Lemon Juice Black P

ozone and its impact on cold fermentation

Baking is my new hobby and I am experimenting a lot. There is an interesting observation and a guess, I'd like to hear some opinions from more experienced baker

How to best zest a citrus fruit that was already halved and squeezed?

Zesting a citrus fruit is pretty straightforward with the fruit intact, but sometimes it happens to me that I absent-mindedly halve and squeeze the fruit and th

Partially defrosted chicken in cold water, then defrosted the rest of the way in the fridge

I thought I wanted to cook chicken last night, so I put the frozen chicken breasts (in original packaging) in a bowl of cold water to defrost. After about 30 mi

Kitchen Aid KSMC50S stand mixer attachments and dough hook

I inherited a Kitchen Aid KSMC50S stand mixer from my mother. It was purchased new around 1998 or so. My model has a sticker right above the accessory port tha

I had ripe bananas so I peeled them, put them in Rubbermaid cont and in the fridge. Are they still ok to use? [duplicate]

They are darkish in color but not black. Still ok for bread?

How can I make cakes in 20Ltr ONIDA Black Diamond conventional microwave oven? [duplicate]

I am using 20Ltr ONIDA Black Diamond conventional microwave oven. I couldn't bake cakes in this oven at 180 degree temperature. Please send me

Using old vanilla beans

I have vanilla beans that have been in my jar of vanilla for about a year. I've now used up that vanilla. Are the beans still good to add to some other vanilla

non-grain options in sourdough starter

Is there any reason not to try adding dried fruit to a sourdough starter? The reason I'm imagining is that different sorts of yeast live on dried fruit vs on gr

How can I bake this "filled pretzel"?

(This is a follow-up of this question.) I'm trying to bake a "frozen, stuffed pretzel". (Why? See previous question.) My first attempt (350°F for 35 minute

Can I laminate pasta dough with meat?

I've seen a number of sites talk about laminating pasta dough with herbs and it looks lovely. But I haven't seen anything about doing this with meat. I assume y

Use of traditional copper sauteuse pans

I have been given a set of very thick and heavy tinned copper sauteuse pans, 5 in all, ranging from large down to small. I have no idea what they are used for.

Why is my freshly ground coffee watery?

In order to get a more gourmet coffee drinking experience I have recently been getting whole beans and freshly grinding them before brewing coffee using an auto

What is my Paella Pan made of?

I bought a paella pan at a flea market. I have no idea what metal(s) it's made of. It cooks like a nonstick but doesn't have a commercial nonstick coating. I cl

What is "dumpling soit"?

I am watching a Gordon Ramsey youtube video, he is cooking dumplings. At approximately the 6:04 mark of the video Gordon mentions "Next the dumpling essentail,

Melted plastic wrap in oven at high temp

Tonight I preheated my oven, forgetting that I had some dough proofing inside. The dough was sitting in a glassware bowl covered with glad cling wrap and the ov

why does my sourdough bread have lumps of flour

I've made sourdough bread numerous times, however, I sometimes find hard parts in the center of the loaf. Whenever I cut into a baked bread (after rest) - ther

Can you eat red tomatoes' seeds that turned black?

I bought bright red tomatoes from a supermarket that looked fresh, ripe, edible on the outside. I descry no evidence of Blossom End Rot; the tomatoes isn't blem

When making cheese (e.g. Halloumi) from non-homogenized milk, are the dangers in non-homogenized milk neutralised? [closed]

I was looking at ways to make Halloumi at home and found this video. The recipe calls for non-homogenized milk (another name for raw milk, I t

KitchenAid beater stuck on new machine [duplicate]

I’ve used my machine twice. I went to try to put a different attachment on it and the pin won’t move.

red velvet cake - cake flour?

I am looking to bake a red velvet cake, but I’ve seen different recipes, some use all purpose flour and some use cake flour. There are some diy cake flour

Premixed ingredients for yogurt

I failed to read the recipe before I started to make my first batch of yogurt. I poured the whole milk and mixed in the premade yogurt. Can I still boil till

Substitute for demerara sugar in cookie recipe

I have a recipe for oatmeal cookies that uses demerara sugar. While I do have some demerara sugar, the quantity remaining is approximately 1/3 of what is needed

Flour types and their effects in levain

The first time I made a levain, I used all-purpose white flour. This took over a week-two weeks to become active. I recently started a levain using whole wheat

Can I use unpasteurized store bought miso to make more miso?

I have some leftover chickpeas and red beans that I was thinking of making into a miso paste, but I don't have any koji and don't want to go searching multiple