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#27 Jul 24 2008 at 9:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
Nexa,

My brother used to cook at a 4 star restaurant. I can't begin to tell you how much i've picked up from watching him.


You've got the added benefit of being able to take advantage of your garden to use fresh ingredients, which is also really nice.

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#28 Jul 24 2008 at 9:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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I hate cooking, not sure why, but I can't stand being in the kitchen.
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#29 Jul 24 2008 at 9:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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Mistress Darqflame wrote:
I hate cooking, not sure why, but I can't stand being in the kitchen.


I like baking quite a bit, and cooking certain things, but I hate cooking meat. I'm so paranoid about food poisoning that I end up overcooking all of it, haha.

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#31 Jul 24 2008 at 9:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
Nexa,

From everything my brothers told me I generally stay away from restaurants unless it's special occasion.

Oh and I my corn just got blown over. I've been able to string most of the blown over corn back up, we'll see how it does now.


When is it normally harvested? Are you nearly to the end or does it still have a while?

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#32 Jul 24 2008 at 9:42 AM Rating: Decent
Nexa wrote:
When is it normally harvested? Are you nearly to the end or does it still have a while?

Nexa


As a native Iowan, "Knee high by the 4 of July" is a common saying. Which means torwards the end of August. Or something.
#33 Jul 24 2008 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Youshutup wrote:
Stoned Cooking lesson 1:

a. Go to the kitchen. No, the kitchen.
b. Get the ice cream. It's probably yours. I mean, no one else has been eating it lately.
c. Peel two bananas. Break them up by hand. Put in a bowl with the ice cream.
d. Inhale some gas from that can of spray cream. It's been sitting there for ages.
e. Add hot chocolate powder.
f. eat.


FTFY

#35 Jul 24 2008 at 10:20 AM Rating: Decent
Nexa wrote:
Mistress Darqflame wrote:
I hate cooking, not sure why, but I can't stand being in the kitchen.


I like baking quite a bit, and cooking certain things, but I hate cooking meat. I'm so paranoid about food poisoning that I end up overcooking all of it, haha.

Nexa


I use one of these.

Just look up the temperature at which it should be done, probe the meat (somewhere near the center of the thickest part), cook by your preferred method and wait for the thing to ding. At which time you have good evidence if someone gets food poisoning, it wasn't from that.

Thick things like a whole chicken or a pot roast turn out great. However, you have to realize they keep cooking after you remove them from the oven, in that the center gets hotter as heat is transferred from the outer (hotter) layers. You can easily get 10+ degrees (Farenheit) of so called carryover cooking after you remove it from the oven (more for huge things). Thus if you're aiming for, say 165 F interior temp, remove at 150 or 155 and leave the probe in as the meat sits on the counter and you'll see.
#36 Jul 24 2008 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
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It's actually really difficult to get food poisoning from meat that is cooked then eaten imediately, it's far more likely that you will get it from food that is cooked and then stored for later comsumption.

Certainly red meats like Beef and Lamb can be served pink with little or no chance of food poisoning.

if you are really scared then try stir fry's they cook meat rapidly and i can't see how you can possibly overcook stir fried meat.
#37 Jul 24 2008 at 11:08 AM Rating: Good
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Mistress Darqflame wrote:
I hate cooking, not sure why, but I can't stand being in the kitchen.


You and me both. The only time I really ever cook is when there's something particular that I want that I can't get in a box at the store or at a restaurant.
#38 Jul 24 2008 at 11:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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You're always linking the Daily Mail Kaolian.. why do you hate immigrants? :(



Scotsman.com only runs stories about sheep and haggis. Get them to run some stories about killer robots then we'll talk.
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#39 Jul 24 2008 at 11:57 AM Rating: Good
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yossarian wrote:
probe the meat (somewhere near the center of the thickest part), and wait for the thing to ding.


I love it when my hormones are in overdrive.
#41 Jul 24 2008 at 12:28 PM Rating: Good
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This article explains why I am constantly fighting off hawt wimmins.
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#42 Jul 24 2008 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Scotsman.com only runs stories about sheep and haggis
Well to be fair that is a scotsmans answer to sex and drugs Kao, learn to love the differences. Smiley: wink2
#43 Jul 24 2008 at 12:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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Nobby wrote:
This article explains why I am constantly fighting off hawt wimmins.


Nnnnnnnooooo, it explains why they're there. It doesn't really explain why you fight them off.


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#44 Jul 24 2008 at 12:35 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Nobby wrote:
This article explains why I am constantly fighting off hawt wimmins.


Nnnnnnnooooo, it explains why they're there. It doesn't really explain why you fight them off.
Fair point.
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#45 Jul 24 2008 at 12:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Kaolian wrote:
Scotsman.com only runs stories about local and international politics. Get them to run some stories about dirty untermenschen polluting OUR GLORIOUS NATION! EIN FOLK! EIN..
then we'll talk.


Well.. ok.
#46 Jul 24 2008 at 1:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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yossarian wrote:
Nexa wrote:
Mistress Darqflame wrote:
I hate cooking, not sure why, but I can't stand being in the kitchen.


I like baking quite a bit, and cooking certain things, but I hate cooking meat. I'm so paranoid about food poisoning that I end up overcooking all of it, haha.

Nexa


I use one of these.

Just look up the temperature at which it should be done, probe the meat (somewhere near the center of the thickest part), cook by your preferred method and wait for the thing to ding. At which time you have good evidence if someone gets food poisoning, it wasn't from that.

Thick things like a whole chicken or a pot roast turn out great. However, you have to realize they keep cooking after you remove them from the oven, in that the center gets hotter as heat is transferred from the outer (hotter) layers. You can easily get 10+ degrees (Farenheit) of so called carryover cooking after you remove it from the oven (more for huge things). Thus if you're aiming for, say 165 F interior temp, remove at 150 or 155 and leave the probe in as the meat sits on the counter and you'll see.


Yeah, I use a meat thermometer for chicken and whatnot, but they're not real handy for fish fillets and people seem put off by my inability to cook a steak or hamburger to less than well done.

Nexa
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#47 Jul 25 2008 at 9:42 AM Rating: Good
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Nexa, when I cook fish, pork chops or chicken parts I use fork tests.

With pork and chicken you want the fork to go in smoothly without resistance and the juices to run clear. I admit that having my mother teach me how to cook at young age I have a lot of practice with testing for doneness.

fish wasn't something I cook as a kid and so I'm still getting a feel for how to test it. I still use fork to see if the fish is flaky in the thickest part and looks cook all the way through. With experience I hope to learn how to tell if it's done by pressing a fork against the fish. I been using flake test to gage how it should feel, when I press a fork against it.

I like my beef rare, but now end up cooking it medium for safetySmiley: mad While coming home on I95, we stopped at Maryland House and I wanted to get a Roy Rogers Roast Beef sandwich. As a Teen I loved their sandwiches and crave them when I was pregnant with my 2nd daughter, but then lived in CA and they are a only found in the mid-Atlantic area. I was so disappointed to find the roast beef was over cooked and dry,Smiley: glare but then they were trying to make and serve a long line of hungry travelers. The horseradish sauce was rather on the mild side tooSmiley: glare


As small child we would eat under the Murals at Maryland House in the restaurant, on our way to NY. Of course that was back when family's expected to sit at a table comfortably and be served real food on plates with a bread plate above the forks on ones left. Mom drill us all in how to set the table properly.Smiley: glare

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#48 Jul 25 2008 at 9:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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haha, oh I know *how* to cook it...I'm not pretending that it's not my own hang-up. It's a phobia.

Nexa
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