Gravy's Cooking Thread

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Another trick to keep your alfredo sauce from breaking is to put some cream cheese in there. Not authentic italian, but it makes it easier and it tastes delicious.

Also, cream lasts for fucking ever. Ignore the expiration date. Cream will last like 2 months in the fridge.
 
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The Master_sl said:
In the last five years I've had some cream go bad on me once. I took a two week vacation and forgot about it. Maybe that is an issue for some people, but even indulging in homemade whipped cream once a week will use it up before it goes bad.
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Next you'll be telling me that you don't need to refrigerate butter and that you can leave it out 24/7. It isn't vaccines that are hurting our children, it's the rancid unrefrigerated butter we force them to eat.

And you guys actually dice stuff by hand? I thought everyone used one of these contraptions. They're great labor savers and the kids love using them.

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I dice stuff by hand.

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I think I've shared too much. I don't really dice stuff by hand.
 
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Erronius_sl said:
Next you'll be telling me that you don't need to refrigerate butter and that you can leave it out 24/7. It isn't vaccines that are hurting our children, it's the rancid unrefrigerated butter we force them to eat.

And you guys actually dice stuff by hand? I thought everyone used one of these contraptions. They're great labor savers and the kids love using them.
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Butter keepers....? They use a water seal to prevent oxidation and contamination. Having spreadable butter on demand is awesome.

I dice stuff by hand. I'd be curious to see if that was actually a time saver, but not willing to invest in it.
 
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Dice by hand means less contraptionsvand a good essential kitchen skill being used. Key to dicing is a sharp knife, othetwise you might slip if you knife cant slice paper, sharpen it.

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Anyone else get pissed off when people put salt on their food prior to tasting it? Try it first ffs.
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I took my parents to some hipster place for brunch after my wife's graduation a couple years ago and my dad asked for salt and pepper (before he tasted his food) and the place didn't even have salt/pepper shakers to give him. They brought out little piles of it on a small plate. The waiter had this really confused look on his face when my dad asked.
 
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some ppl grow up with a salt heavy environment, my wife did. i remember eating her moms food it was super salty but in a good tasty way. but damn. her grandma cooks the same way.
 
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My dad used to DROWN everything in salt. Because he put so much on everything, my mom then didn't season anything when she cooked so as a result dad still ate way too much salt, but the rest of us just had to eat bland food. Once I was eating at Wendy's with Dad and realized that we had each other's burgers. I told him and he was like "uh oh, I already salted this one". I thought how bad can it be and just ate it but it was pretty fucking horrible. I think it is kind of like guys that put tons of Tabasco on everything. You get used to that and then decide that all of your food is going to taste like that from this point forward, but you miss out on every other flavor because all you taste is salt.
 
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Yeah, that dude knows what he's doing!

I wonder how much that knife costs. Some of those Japanese knives are ridiculous.
 
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You'd be surprised, you can get plenty of single bevel yanagibas (that knife type) online nowadays. Really good ones will cost you $400-600, and they can easily go into the multiple thousand dollar range. They're really fun to cut with, that's for sure.

I have a 270mm Gesshin Hide from this site:http://www.japaneseknifeimports.com/. The craftmanship is pretty staggering, completely made by hand. It's a complete rabbit hole if you enjoy knives and cooking, I thought my Wusthofs & Shuns were sharp until I got into some of the hand made Japanese carbon knives.
 
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Eyashusa_sl said:
Especially a Wendy's burger.
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I dunno, McDonalds always seemed way saltier to me. I don't know about Wendys, but when I worked at McDonalds you seasoned the meat on the grill while it cooked; you kept an industrial salt/pepper shaker right there and gave them a generous dusting. McDonalds is the only place I've ever had a sodium hangover from the next day after eating there.
 
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