Good Food, Good Friends and.... actually, no, just [Food Thread]

Blake T

To begin with you start off with tiny bits. Then as you add more oil you can get away with more.

Alton Brown did an entire episode in it so assume there is something by him on YouTube which would be quite comprehensive.

Lost Salient

Julia Child has a seriously idiot-proof recipe for mayonnaise. I highly recommend it.

Syphyre

One of the more amusing searches I've ever been on was trying to find Jalapenos up in Montreal.

Druhim

You can make it using a whisk, but you'll need to keep whisking it steadily to keep the emulsion while you drizzle in the oil. A blender just helps the process go faster and saves you the trouble of manually whisking.

Stale

you will use a whisk to make mayo once

and only once

afterwards you will always find a damn blender or processor because fuck that noise

Stale

can suck a whole bag of dicks

Tef

yeah fuck whisking by hand sucks

Even a $30 hand blitzer is going to make your life so much easier

Bucketman

Hey @stale , with that pork ragu, if I dont have a cast iron dutch oven (though god I want one) could I use a crock pot?

Also I'm excited for fall. My friends and I are have a big cooking day and so far I'm making apple turkey burgers, pumpkin cheesecake, and my dads chili recipe. Anyone else got sweet and savory fall treats?

Skeith

Druhim wrote: »

secret chili ingredient: beefs

why did I read that as teefs at first

Bogey

*giggles* Nice typo!

[To Bucketman]

Stale

@bucketman, yes I suppose.

but get a dutch oven, they really are not that expensive for how versatile they are.

Bucketman

We use to use them all the time in boy scouts to make cobblers. I really want some good, cast iron cookware, but I have other priorities right now

Stale

You can get a 5qt Dutch oven with a lid and a 10" skillet for under 50 bucks.

That will cook 90% of anything you can come up with.

Stale

And it will outlive your children

Tef

heh

dutch oven

Bucketman

Well I'm going to a festivle saturday and theres always a dude making stuff on a forge out of iron and steel. Last year he had some pots and pans. I'll see what he has this year because if you can't trust a shirtless man in a leather apron to melt the planets blood for you overt molten fire, then who can you trust?

Blake T

Don't ever say that again bucket man.

For the love of god.

Bucketman

Bah. If a man on a nerd forum can't nerd out... But seriously, I might buy some iron stuff from him if it's reasonably priced

BYToady

I just astounded my coworker with some chicken. He was asking what spices I used because it tasted so good.

Salt. Pepper.

The magic ingredient was chicken thighs instead of breasts.

George Fornby Grill

mods can we get a poll in here on whether or not chili should be made with beans

Mr Fuzzbutt

Some less-conventional chili con carne ingredients I use:

Dark chocolate (pretty common I suppose but yeah)
Crushed pineapple (uncommon but really good)
Mustard seeds (I made this one up myself and it is amazing)

Bucketman

George Fornby Grill wrote: »

mods can we get a poll in here on whether or not chili should be made with beans

only if its white chicken chili.

tynic

Yes I do, and yes it's true. Mayonnaise is really easy by hand as long as you add the oil at an incredibly slow drizzle, sadly no way of avoiding that. Maybe get someone else to pour while you whisk?

DrZiplock

Bucketman wrote: »

George Fornby Grill wrote: »

mods can we get a poll in here on whether or not chili should be made with beans

only if its white chicken chili.

This is an unclear statement.

Peen

All chili can have beans but no chili must.

Druhim

the beans/no beans argument is stupid
do it how you want, both can be really good
if someone doesn't want to eat some really good chili just because it has some beans in it, they can take their ball and go home and feel smug about their dumb stand

Peen

Druhim wrote: »

the beans/no beans argument is stupid
do it how you want, both can be really good
if someone doesn't want to eat some really good chili just because it has some beans in it, they can take their ball and go home and feel smug about their dumb stand

@Dead Legend fight fight fight

DrZiplock

I will pass up chili if there are beans in it. Not because I'm a snob about it but because I don't like beans.

Usagi

Chili with beans forever

KalTorak

beans in chili are excellent

Lost Salient

I don't care for chili.

Whew, argument over!

Syphyre

I have had good chili both with and without beans.

I have seen a spoonful of peanut butter as an ingredient in chili to smooth the flavor.

Seriously, there are as many ways to make chili as there are people in the world.

AND MY WAY IS THE CORRECT WAY

Stale

Bucketman wrote: »

Well I'm going to a festivle saturday and theres always a dude making stuff on a forge out of iron and steel. Last year he had some pots and pans. I'll see what he has this year because if you can't trust a shirtless man in a leather apron to melt the planets blood for you overt molten fire, then who can you trust?

and his shit will be 5x the cost of Lodge cast iron.

Jesus just buy the normal shit.

Peen

No chili with peanut butter. No.

KalTorak

Stale wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

Well I'm going to a festivle saturday and theres always a dude making stuff on a forge out of iron and steel. Last year he had some pots and pans. I'll see what he has this year because if you can't trust a shirtless man in a leather apron to melt the planets blood for you overt molten fire, then who can you trust?

and his shit will be 5x the cost of Lodge cast iron.

Jesus just buy the normal shit.

Yeah if you have to pay more than the price of a Lodge pan, you'd better be getting a nice enamel on it or something.

jgeis

Syphyre wrote: »

I have had good chili both with and without beans.

I have seen a spoonful of peanut butter as an ingredient in chili to smooth the flavor.

Seriously, there are as many ways to make chili as there are people in the world.

AND MY WAY IS THE CORRECT WAY

My dad has ways dipped peanut butter sandwiches in chili, I always passed it off as a weird thing that just he did. But then I went to a chili house on the Purdue campus that offered them as a side and now I'm wondering if this isn't a great idea.

DrZiplock

Peen wrote: »

No chili with peanut butter. No.

Surely this is something we don't even need to argue, right?

Druhim

Peen wrote: »

No chili with peanut butter. No.

Stale

KalTorak wrote: »

Stale wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

Well I'm going to a festivle saturday and theres always a dude making stuff on a forge out of iron and steel. Last year he had some pots and pans. I'll see what he has this year because if you can't trust a shirtless man in a leather apron to melt the planets blood for you overt molten fire, then who can you trust?

and his shit will be 5x the cost of Lodge cast iron.

Jesus just buy the normal shit.

Yeah if you have to pay more than the price of a Lodge pan, you'd better be getting a nice enamel on it or something.

I mean I have some vintage Griswold and Wagner that are hundreds of dollars a piece from the turn of the century.

doesn't mean I'm going to exclusively use those.

Druhim

DrZiplock wrote: »

Peen wrote: »

No chili with peanut butter. No.

Surely this is something we don't even need to argue, right?

Yeah yeah and peanut butter supposedly doesn't belong on hamburgers and no pineapple on pizza.