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I'm a software engineer and foodie living in San Francisco.


May
14
answered Pulled pork substitute- How do I do it?
May
10
awarded  Yearling
May
10
answered Help freezing chicken breasts
Apr
11
comment What does “buttermilk” mean in an American pancake recipe?
The buttermilk I get says it's 1.5% milk fat and has a slightly sour taste, but not as much as yogurt. Sauermilch was going to be my guess too. There are recipes that use "buttermilk" to help split ricotta, but I can't tell you the pH.
Apr
6
answered How to get a synthetic cork back in a wine bottle?
Mar
30
answered What is a substitute for celery root in a soup?
Mar
25
revised Mystery cookbook
Correct google query syntax
Mar
25
comment Mystery cookbook
Hmm, you're right. Some other search engines use '+' in this manner, and I thought google did too, but looking at archive.org, it seems that + was only ever used to include "stop words" in a search.
Mar
24
answered Mystery cookbook
Mar
17
revised How do I reverse engineer a recipe?
Tweaked "example", my memory was faulty.
Mar
17
answered How do I reverse engineer a recipe?
Mar
15
answered Is free-range veal available in the US?
Mar
8
comment Is it possible to do sous vide cooking in a crock pot?
You don't necessarily have to use the "ballistic" method with the beer cooler. I made a 35min/145F lamb loin in a cooler by topping off the water with boiling water as the temperature dropped. I used a spreadsheet to calculate the amount of boiling water to add, but that might be overkill. I also occasionally agitated the water. The results were nice, but I wouldn't want use that technique for more than an hour or so.
Feb
16
awarded  Yearling
Feb
14
answered Freezing Bouchon Bakery Macarons. Whole cookie or just the halves?
Feb
6
answered Can Brussels sprouts be eaten raw?
Jan
27
comment left lasagne out for 2 hours 45 minutes before refrigerating. Safe to eat?
I usually leave lasagna out an hour or two, just to cool it down enough to put it in the refrigerator without endangering everything else in there. (Lasagna retains heat well.)
Jan
4
comment How can you make a sauce less spicy/hot?
@Aaronut how does adding a solvent, without subsequently removing it, attenuate the spiciness? Does it just facilitate moving the compounds away from the tongue, block the receptors, or is there some other mechanism?
Dec
4
answered Prevent scrambled eggs from sticking to stainless steel
Nov
26
awarded  Commentator