Unanswered Questions
825 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Octopus on the grill, Aussie style
On my last trip to Australia (Perth), I was invited on a lobster boat (crayfisher they called themselves) .
One of the boxes pulled out of the water had a large (1,5m from arm to arm) octopus in it, ...
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What was Hunanese cuisine like before chili peppers were imported to China?
Today, chilis are strongly associated with Hunanese cuisine, which is regarded as the spiciest Chinese regional cuisine. However, Chinese recipe books didn't start mentioning chilis until the 1790s, ...
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What makes sencha karigane sweeter than sencha?
Why does the addition of stems and veins to the tea increase the sweetness of the brew? Is there a specific chemical in the stems and veins of tea leaves that's responsible for the change in flavor ...
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White texture on natto
I'm making a first time natto in natto/black garlic pot. So I go by the recipe.
First soak beans for 24 h then steam to be softer. Put natto starter
inside a small amount of water and mix it with ...
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Technique to find and eliminate the needle bone in lamb shanks?
In lamb and in cattle, the fibula and ulna bones are vestigial (http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/~swatland/ch2_1.htm, "In beef and lamb carcasses there is a single major bone, the tibia or shank bone...") ...
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Why do my sautee'd onions remove grill marks from my steak?
When I make steak, I sear it on the grill at high heat, then transfer to a pan of already cooking onions, mushrooms, butter to finish on low. Sometimes I've left it a little too long in the pan and ...
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Can we use probiotic medicine for bacillus subtilis culture?
I am from India and we do not get Natto (Japanese dish) starter for making Natto. I found that it contains mostly Bacillus subtilis, so I was wondering: can I mix the Bacillus subtilis strains ...
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How to identify fresh pork liver?
I cook pork liver very often.
Sometimes when grocery shopping, I find pork liver that's kind pale in color and with not much blood. Other times, I find liver that's very red and full of blood.
Is ...
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How do I create slippery and light jelly for drinking?
I created an experiment with 10 different water/gelatin ratios but none provided the required results.
I'd like to create viscosity similar to Jelly Juice pouch bags. However, when the results I'm ...
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What are these dark spots on my walnut kerns? Are they safe to eat?
Sometimes, when I'm eating walnuts, I'll find one with some dark spots on the kern surface, as shown in the photograph below. I normally prefer to err on the side of caution (I think I read somewhere ...
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How does the speed of nigari addition to soy milk affect the resulting tofu?
When making tofu, nigari water (magnesium chloride) is added to soy milk to curdle it.
In my personal experience, adding the nigari very slowly (over the course of tens of minutes) produces soft tofu ...
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Is it possible to make a Dutch baby, or similar, without an oven?
I find myself temporarily without an oven, but am really craving a Dutch baby. Since a Dutch baby is cooked in a very hot oven, clearly I can't make a normal one. But is there any version of one, or ...
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Why would acorn meal still be bitter after cold leaching for a month in the fridge?
I've successfully leached, ground and dried acorns to make flour in the past. Problem: currently have a batch of ground acorn meal which I have been cold leaching in the fridge for at least a month. ...
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Cause of Spoiled idli?
I have prepared idli which was spoiled after steaming.
I followed the following process:
Soaked idli rava (coarsely ground rice) along with whole black gram(without skin).
Grinded with mixie to ...
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How do I clean my gas oven at the very bottom where the burner is?
Last night I was baking a peach cobbler at 400F when my son noticed orange flames coming out of the vent holes at the sides of the bottom panel of the oven. I shut off the oven and eventually the ...
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