• bstix@feddit.dk
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    6 days ago

    Who needs the leftover quarter bag of shredded cheese anyway.

    I do the same with anything that comes in a can. I’m not going to use a tenth of a tomato paste tomorrow. It goes in today.

    Good recipes take that into account.

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    6 days ago

    The best thing that ever happened to me was finishing off some caramelized pork slabs in the cast iron pan…

    I put some aged white cheddar, turn the heat off, and put the top of the pan on just to do a quick cheese softening… Well of course I forgot about it and left the room

    30 minutes later I came back when my stomach was rumbling, lifted the pan lid and realized that the cheese had melted off the pork and onto the pan. There was just the perfect amount of latent heat, by complete fluke, to perfectly caramelize the aged cheddar into a crispy, greasy disc at the bottom of the cast iron pan.

    I have tried to recreate that by frying cheese, and I have never been able to capture that moment of pure tastebud joy and bliss.

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      Accidents are often the best ways to discover cooking techniques. I remember hearing about a story of a medieval cook who feel asleep cooking his lord’s meat over an open fire. At first he thought his lord would have him whipped or beheaded… but actually enjoyed the roast so much he gave him his own farm!

      That was from a documentary in the 90s I believe.

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    7 days ago

    As someone that had to stop themselves from eating an entire tub of jalapeno pimento cheese with cheddar cheese Doritos earlier today, I can confirm.

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    5 days ago

    I’ve done it once, added so much cheese that the only flavor left was cheese and it solidified back into a cuttable block when it cooled down. It was disgusting

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    7 days ago

    Be careful. Maybe im not a good “chef” (is making frozen pizzas a chef?), but too much cheese can mean the base/ingredients underneeth doeant get heated, so its melted cheese on top of a cold pizza.