Questions tagged [food-processing]
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How do they extract kernels from sunflower seeds in mass production?
Every time I seed a gunny sack of sunflower seed kernels in a supermarket, I wonder how they are extracted from their seeds. It is very difficult to extract even one of them by hand without smashing ...
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Why don't they sell frozen tomatoes like other frozen vegetables and fruits?
Why aren't frozen tomatoes available like frozen broccoli, peas, peaches, or strawberries? Why are tomatoes only canned or fresh?
Example: http://www.peapod.com/search_results.jhtml?searchText=frozen+...
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Easier way to shell out sunflower seeds
I like the taste of sunflower seeds, however I really dislike the process of shelling them. The bags say "Eat. Spit. Be happy." But I have found that shelling it in one's mouth is not only messy, it ...
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Is there a machine for thick shredded carrots for home use (not grated)?
You can get shredded carrots at a salad bar, and I buy bags of pre-shredded carrots at the supermarket. I want to make these at home with a machine but haven't found one. When you use a food processor,...
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What does "wedge" mean, as in "wedge" a head of Cabbage?
In a recipe on Corned Beef and Cabbage, the instructions read "wedge" the head of cabbage before putting it in the slow cooker.
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In industrially produced soup, how does each can contain equal parts of all ingredients?
In the soup that you get at the store, how come you never get cans of just broth?
You'd think that if the soup were made in a large vat, the first few cans would have very little broth and the last ...
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Why did my lids seal?
This has never happened to me before! Last night I made Refrigerator Pickles using cucumbers and an ordinary vinegar, water, sugar brine. My intention was to make a couple jars for co-workers who ...
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Can you make a French Buttercream in a food processor? (Experiment Results)
Unless I get a credible and resounding NO! very soon, I'm going to give it a shot. I've recently started using my food processor for more and more whipped egg (not whipped egg white) applications, and ...
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Are all the processing steps of tofu harmless?
Tofu is considered as a processed food. After watching a couple videos on YouTube. I am only concerned about two points specifically:
Is heating the soaked and crushed beans so that they become a ...
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How is basil prepared for pesto most efficiently?
I'm typing this with a case of "pesto-finger" - the stubborn stains that take a few days to fully wash off my thumb and fingertips from hours of picking basil leaves (mostly after harvesting all the ...
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What makes the 'Cat poo' coffee (Kopi Luwak) flavour worth drinking?
I'm actually on the hunt for this coffee in Melbourne, being it's such a coffee-oriented city:
Where can I buy a cup of 'cat poo' coffee (Kopi Luwak) in Melbourne?, but while discussing it in the ...
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Are garbage cans food safe, or made of food grade plastic?
At Mann Lake you can buy two kinds of honey extractors:
Stainless steel
Plastic
The first is more expensive than the second, and the second is waaay more expensive than the third option:
Plastic ...
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RPM for milk frothing?
So I had one of those American capitalist/consumer moments where I would have liked to have a milk frother handy. But I just can't bring myself to buy such a frivolous single-use additional material ...
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Can a masticating juicer make good hummus?
Many masticating juicers are sold with the claim that they can also make nut butters. Seeing that chickpeas are easier to crush than roasted nuts, I wondered if they can also be used for hummus or ...
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Mushy homemade dill pickle chips
We made about 13 gallons of homemade dill pickles last summer. These are made with vinegar, not the fermented type. Water bathed for 15 minutes in quart jars.
We kept the whole cucumbers on ice over ...
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Is white rice bleached before being processed?
My dad is being especially paranoid of this. He claims to have read a paper years ago that said that the standard in rice processing was bleaching the rice to produce "whiter" rice.
I've been ...
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How to achieve in my homed-made mayo the same strong 'egg flavor' as in store-bought mayo?
I have been experimenting with home-made mayonnaise recently. My favourite mayonnaise brands like Hellmann's and Hienz have three distinct taste 'points' that I have tried to achieve:
Tangy
Salty
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Why meat gets tough after soaking it in vinegar solution for more than 24 hours?
Vinegar is a marinade and i have tried marinating meat before too but if meat is soaked in vinegar solution for more than 24 hours then it gets tougher.Why?
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Which foods are most likely contaminated by dairy due to processing methods used?
I am Vegan but also highly allergic to milk and wondered if anyone is familiar, or has come across any knowledge about which foods and food groups are typically processed in a factory which also ...
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How much foreign substance can I add to processed cheese?
Recently, I decided to make myself a soup with a new kind of cheese nockerln. For the nockerln, I wanted to make nut-mushroom cheese.
I used roughly equal amounts of emmentaler, portobellos (pureed) ...
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How Can I Make Flour More White When Under Process In Flour Mill
My father is a flour miller. He wants to know how he can make wheat, or flour more specifically, whiter during the milling process. Is there anything that can be done before in preparation or after ...
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Should I rinse the flax seeds after soaking them when making flax milk?
I started making my own non-dairy milk.
Having looked at multiple recipes, I saw that some call for soaking the flax seeds before processing them to make milk.
My questions regarding making flax ...
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Bread and butter pickles without mustard seed?
I'm making bread and butter pickles and I ran out of mustard seed. What can I use instead? Or do I just skip it?
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Technical name for a manual food processor
I am looking to buy a food processor to do very small batches of fruit and vegetables.
Very basic, very cheap....and i am looking for something manual(not electricity).
Is there a manual version ...
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Processing corn into hominy
I recently bought corn from a local co-op (blue flour corn), with the aim of turning it into masa. I nixtamalized the corn with an alkaline bath that I made from slaked lime. I used 1/4 cup of slaked ...
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Why use gloves when handling food?
I watched this video yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LerF1zgRDE . (Its a video that the manufacturer shows how they make candy and in this case its also seen they work the candy with naked ...
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How do I finely process/puree a large amount of chillies?
I have a large quantity of chillies that I would like to make a hot sauce out of. But firstly I would like to create a really fine puree out of these chillies, is anyone aware of the appropriate ...
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What's the difference between carob powder, flour, and kibbled carob?
The whole carob pod, the pulp and the seeds are all edible, but which parts are used for the different core products? Does carob powder contain the entire pod, or just the seeds? Is kibbled carob the ...
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How to crack a bucket of walnuts quickly without compromising the taste?
I read that you can accelerate the process of cracking walnuts by freezing them — the shells either crack all by themselves or are otherwise so brittle that they can be opened with one hand. However, ...
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Reprocessing Salsa
I was using a new canner for the first time and while processing salsa I could not get the 10 pound control to jiggle. I processed for approximately an hour and the canner was under pressure during ...
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Should boiled legumes cool before processing?
When processing dips, such as hummus or refried beans, is it better to let the boiled chickpeas/beans cool down before processing them in a food processor or is it okay to process them while still hot?...
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Is industrially produced cream made with a gelatine sieve?
I've bought an ice cream bucket with, who would've guessed, cream - as one of its' ingredients. Now of course I've done some research and found out, that cream is usually produced with a centrifuge ...
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Process fresh salmon into Sushi / Sashimi salmon?
I am a Sushi and Sashimi lover, especially salmon flesh. I recently bought some fresh salmon from Taobao. It's not frozen and has been kept around 4°C for 24h (during delivery). The product page said ...
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Making spice pastes with a food processor
I've had call to make spice pastes by using a food processor. Rather than using the full-sized bowl, which is way too big, my food processor has a milling attachment designed for coffee beans. However,...
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Name for turning ingredients to powder / mush, and then molding back into their original shape
Is there a name for the technique of turning an ingredient into a homogeneous mass, and then molding it back into its original shape, or the shape of a less-processed form of that ingredient? Examples:...
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How to get sour cream & onion potato chips flavor?
I've noticed that when eating common 'sour cream & onions' potato chips, there is a distinctive, cheesy-like flavour that distinguishes the chips.
What gives it this flavor? Is it simply MSG, or ...
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Ammonia in food
Are there processed foods (traditionally processed or in a modern factory) where we, or the manufacturer, deliberately add ammonia into it, so that we ingest the ammonia with the food?
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Coagulants for Tofu or else
I'm new when it comes to vegan cooking and until recently began experimenting and researching with regards to the commonly used or appropiate coagulants whether acid or salt based to best make my own ...
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Carrots turning dark at heads, and on skin after chopping?
Please see attached photos. We are a small food processing plant, and recently it came to my attention some of the carrots we have been purchasing have been having a problem where the heads are ...
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Wasabi (peas) brussel sprouts?
I was wondering how successfully the formula of wasabi peas can be applied to other green vegetables?
I'm familiar with them as a snack in some pubs in England, the peas become hard and crunchy, and '...
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How do you soften coconut meat?
So for example. Almond Joy and Mounds bars have coconut that isn't hard like fresh coconut meat, and shredded coconut meat has more of a sawdust like texture (I know that's a poor comparison, but it's ...
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How is Channa Dal processed from Chickpea? Does it have any difference?
I made hummus from dried chickpea and I removed the skin manually after boiling it. It was a tedious process.
Thats when I thought of Channa Dal or split chickpea. I want to try with that to make ...
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How should I prepare my Hens and Chicks to eat?
I heard a Hens and Chicks was edible. how do I prepare them?
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Blender vs food processor vs juicer
When should a blender be used instead of a food processor or instead of a juicer? I'm planning on investing in one of them. I would use if for making smoothies and beverages. I've got a Magic Bullet ...
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In what ways can solid egg yolk from a boiled egg be processed/preserved?
There is a lot of wastage of egg yolks in my college canteen breakfasts. Almost everyone who takes boiled eggs on his plates eats the whites and throws away the yolk.
I live in a country with the ...
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Canned (shelf stable) pickled eggs that don't require refrigeration?
Terminology: when I refer to "canned eggs", I'm referring to pickled/marinated eggs that have been processed, and can be stored at room temperature long term (i.e. shelf stable). When I refer to just "...
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Alternatives to borax for minced protein recipes (fish balls, kebabs, etc.)?
Borax (sodium salt of boric acid) is used in some recipes as a texturizing agent.
From Wikipedia:
borax imparts a firm, rubbery texture to food.
It does this by binding polymers in the food:
Borax ...
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Canning jars seal then go bad
I have canned a lot in the past with with aa jar here and there. But the last year I have lost so much food to crowning of lids after they have sealed. I again lost 22 quarts of beautiful red beets. ...
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What exactly is essence?
The most popular is the Brand's Essence of Chicken, but there are also other products that are "essence", like "essence of fish" and even "essence of beef". There are also other terms that seem to ...
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Mixing a banana with homemade sunflower butter turned into a horrible, leathery substance. Why?
I often make sunflower butter in my food processor by pureeing raw sunflower seeds. Today I decided (after the seeds became creamy) to blend a banana into the mixture. The result was horrible:
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