The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Good morning.

No-shave November came to a close. This is exactly 30 days of growth. Beards ‘til Christmas? I think I might let it go for awhile.

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Canuck rassler alert!

Eh ...

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. The sun is hitting the front porch and hummers have hit the feeder and off with their day. Gary is on his second cup of coffee in a holiday mug . Gary is planning to try his hand at making homemade mayonnaise and yogurt. The sous vide for the yogurt and later tonight he's gonna sous vide some steaks.

 

[JonA_CT]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. The sun is hitting the front porch and hummers have hit the feeder and off with their day. Gary is on his second cup of coffee in a holiday mug . Gary is planning to try his hand at making homemade mayonnaise and yogurt. The sous vide for the yogurt and later tonight he's gonna sous vide some steaks.

Are you going to pasteurize the eggs with your SV for the mayo?

 

[Gary A.]

Wow, Gary hadn't thought of that and the recipe didn't call for pasteurization. Good point ... Gary shall look into that both for the mayo in particular and on SV techniques.

 

[Gary A.]

Easy enough ... 135F for 75 minutes. The answer is yes!

 

[JonA_CT]

The Definitive Guide to Eggs

My toxicologist friend suggested to me that cleaned eggs from the supermarket have like a 1 in 2,000,000 chance for carrying salmonella. But...for something like mayo, which I may not use all at one time, I'd consider it.

The Food Lab has a pretty decent section on making mayo. I haven't tried all of the suggestions, though, because I was having problems finding the right olive oil to use. Mine kept coming out way too olive-oil forward.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I can't get past the meat in the sous vide Gary, I mean, boiling steak? lol more or less, I'd want it cooked in a pan or grilled or something. Maybe it's more appealing than it sounds. I'll have to watch Top Chef when it starts up, somebody usually does a sous vide.

MOvember was supposed to be about MOustaches... yours Jon seems to have run amuk on your face! lol

 

[Gary A.]

One performs a quick searing for meat at the end of the cooking. Similar to the reverse sear Gary uses when he slow smokes meat. With the smoker one gets within ten degrees of so of the final cooking temp ... then slip the meat on a grill for the final temp rise and searing. For the sinus vide it is recommended a very hot pan (cast iron) then toss the meat in the pan for about 30 seconds per side for the final sear.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary will check out the Food Lab.

 

[jcdeboever]

OMG, making mayo....sigh

 

[davidharmier60]

We make do with Dukes Mayo.

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[JonA_CT]

OMG, making mayo....sigh

Hey...you know you’ll eat well at Uncle Gary’s summer camp.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

Our toaster broke the other day after 17 years of almost daily use. Started looking at toasters then that turned into toaster ovens... I returned the first one I bought online because it was too small - the dimensions on the site were wrong. Then I ventured down the rabbit hole of product reviews and Q&A's and sale prices and model numbers and shipping costs and needs vs. want. I saw the convection oven/toaster oven combos. Bake, convection bake, broil, convection broil, rotisserie, air fry! Does it make toast? Small enough for the counter-top but wait, it has to fit a 13x9 pan right? What about muffin tins? And my casserole dishes? Exterior dimensions? Interior dimensions? Dimensions that are different from one site to the next. Number of racks? Temp controls? Timers? Interior light? Good reviews, bad reviews, obviously fake reviews, video reviews, qvc reviews, reviews with photos, reviews criticizing other reviews! And the pricing - oy! Sale prices with shipping charges, higher sale prices with free shipping, clearance prices, coupon codes, promo codes, friends and family discounts, out of stock, on backorder, in stock but overpriced, 4 easy payments, 12 months no interest, use your Amex points...

In the end I bought one that also is an air fryer since I've been looking at air fryers lately so this one does it all - toast, bake, convection oven, air fryer, broil. Exhausted and I never left my desk! We'll see if we like it when it gets here. I'm the Queen of returning things.

 

[Gary A.]

OMG, making mayo....sigh

Gary will send you some.

 

[davidharmier60]

Tonight we will have leftovers of the VERY GOOD chicken noodle soup my Sister made yesterday. She went to Houston with a squeamish friend to a doctor. Whom they hadn't seen yet at 3pm....

No Mayo required.

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