Useless Cooking Tip #2: Fast Soaking Beans
Feb 16, 2010 cooking, groceries
Two years ago, in a night of cooking and drinking, a YouTube video was born
…
Thanks to the power of iMovie, it now has a sequel of vastly superior production quality
…
Tags: Beans, Rancho Gordo, ridiculous drunken cooking tips, Useless Cooking Tips
Strawberries + Beer = YouTube
Jun 3, 2008 cooking
Q: What happens when you get home from work early and you begin drinking and eating strawberries as the start to your weekend?
A: You start making incredibly lame videos that offer little value and make your wife think you’re stranger than even she had initially believed.
The Forschner isn’t necessary but a serrated paring knife is more useful than you’d ever imagine because it mimics sharpness far longer than actually having a wicked sharp knife (which is obviously better). I really like Forschner knives though because they are insanely cheap meaning they’re almost disposable. Plus, they are relatively soft knives which means they are easy to sharpen so that you can learn how on the disposable knife before moving on to the coveted Misono UX-10.
As an aside I wasn’t going to post this because it makes me look like an idiot, but hey, it’s like bonding with the readership no?
Read the rest of this entry »
From the mountains of Panama and Ethiopia, to the urban-jungles of Portland and Chicago, journalist Michaele Weissman takes us behind the scenes for a look at the world of third-wave specialty coffee. How did we get to Starbucks, and where we go from here?