The Hunt for Cheesecake Prime!

MayGodHaveMercy

I've got friends coming over tonight and cooking dinner for me. One of the girls and I wanted to make a cheesecake from scratch. Nothing fancy, just a plain old New York style cheesecake. Here's my problem: If I do a search for "New York Cheesecake recipe," I get about 17.5 Metric Fucktons of results covering everything from Sara Lee Cheesecake to BEST FUKIN CHEEZCAEK IN WURLD. I don't know who to trust, and though most of the recipes are at least similar, they are all different. I was hoping one of you fine Gents/Ladies might have experience with an online recipe that you can link me to, or a recipe of your own.

Thanks in advance.

rfalias

MayGodHaveMercy wrote: »

I've got friends coming over tonight and cooking dinner for me. One of the girls and I wanted to make a cheesecake from scratch. Nothing fancy, just a plain old New York style cheesecake. Here's my problem: If I do a search for "New York Cheesecake recipe," I get about 17.5 Metric Fucktons of results covering everything from Sara Lee Cheesecake to BEST FUKIN CHEEZCAEK IN WURLD. I don't know who to trust, and though most of the recipes are at least similar, they are all different. I was hoping one of you fine Gents/Ladies might have experience with an online recipe that you can link me to, or a recipe of your own.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycxKlc4aYy0

I fully trust alton.

Ruckus

Alton Brown is a Golden God.

MayGodHaveMercy

So far this video is awesome.

rfalias

Make sure to watch part 2.

MayGodHaveMercy

Okay, will do. I'm at work, so I'm kind of watching it in bits and pieces.

rfalias

MayGodHaveMercy wrote: »

Okay, will do. I'm at work, so I'm kind of watching it in bits and pieces.

Haha me too. I watch and pause it when I hear someone coming.

That show has passed many hours at work. I love the scienceyness (That is infact...... not a real word)

EggyToast

Alton does the cream cheese route, but I actually prefer cheesecake the Joy of Cooking way, where you use cottage cheese. It's simpler, fluffier, and less heavy, which I appreciate. You have to blend the cottage cheese, though, to get the lumps out, but that's easy.

I also make cheesecake in a regular pie crust, because both my wife and I prefer it to the crumby crust. It makes it taste more like a pastry, which we both like.

edit to add: my point, ultimately, is that if you make sure your cheesecake batter is smooth, most any cheesecake will taste good. Following Alton's will give you a good cheesecake, I'm sure (if you have a kitchen-aid ;D), but it's not super-hard.

AresProphet

Ruckus wrote: »

Alton Brown is a Golden God.

Pretty much any time I have a cooking question I first check to see if there's a Good Eats on the subject. If nothing else it'll teach you about the subject so you know how to tell a good recipe from a bad one.

MayGodHaveMercy

Yeah, I'd never even seen the show before. Had no idea it existed at all. Hopefully it will prove to be a culinary goldmine in the future.

Anarchia

MayGodHaveMercy wrote: »

Yeah, I'd never even seen the show before. Had no idea it existed at all. Hopefully it will prove to be a culinary goldmine in the future.

It's a culinary and science gold mine. Think about it as Bill Nye teaching food science. Episodes can get a little bit repetitive if you binge-watch them, but otherwise they're hilarious.