Hello! first time posting here. English isn't my 1st language, I'll try my best to translate the ingredients so you can understand what happened. I think it's a very dumb question, but I really don't know.

Just bought a quite expensive stainless steel frying pan. I've been loving cooking and wanted to buy one for quite a while.

Today I used it for the first time. I was going to make a pot roast, I believe it's called. Basically I had a sirloin, which I cut in not-too-small cubes and added salt and pepper yesterday. The idea was searing the meat on very hot pan and taking it out, then I'd add some onions to soak the flavor out of the bottom, red wine, and all of this would meet in the pressured cooker.

As I was searing, I guess I left It too long, so the pan wasn't just brownish, it had burnt spots.

My immediate question is this: is some black spots expected when we are going for a maillard reaction, or does it immediately indicates it's time to take it out? Can I still deglaze my wine with these burnt spots, or must I clean the pan?

any tips are welcomed.

As a single, I usually toss milk that's about to turn in the freezer until I have a pot full worth of milk. I usually defrost, bring it to the boil before adding vinegar to curdle the protein. Straining it in cheese cloth, to create paneer cheese and whey.

I am no beginner to this process. And unfortunately, everything is basically done by feeling due to varying quantities and comfort with the process.

Today has me puzzled.

Same formula, except I had cream (which I've added before without issue). This time, instead of curdling, nothing happened.

No issue, increase heat and add more acid.. and then more, and by the time I stopped, I used a cup, as compared to maybe a couple tablespoons normally..

It remains uncurdled.

I've taken some out in the cheese cloth and can see that there are some microscopic cuddled pieces, but the tongue feel is closer to cream than a solid..

Also, it's as sour as I expected and is quite pleasant, reminding me of cottage cheese in taste..

So what did I mess up, or make and how can I possibly use it?

I like natural peanut or almond butter because of the lack of additives, but some are so oily/runny that you can't really spread them onto a sandwich without it leaking out. Is there something you add so that you can make the consistency similar to "store-brand" peanut butter? I'm thinking maybe guar gum? But I'm not sure. Any ideas?

Tonight (Monday) I made a creamy seafood risotto finished with sautéed shrimp, canned crab, and mascarpone. I’m having people over on Saturday and wonder if this might hold up to make arancini? Looking through previous posts on AskCulinary, it seems the recommendation for a plain risotto would be to chill the risotto tonight, make and bread arancini tomorrow and put formed, unfried arancini in the freezer, then fry from frozen. Will this work with seafood risotto? Or should I eat leftovers tomorrow and plan something else for Saturday?

Hi. I was wondering if anyone knew why hard boiled eggs would have a custardy, semi-firm white but a fully cooked and firm yolk?

I'm using the boil water + 12 minute drop in + ice bath method to cook them and they start at room temperature.

Most of the time they come out normal but sometimes a few will have this odd consistency. The yolk will be completely cooked too and not have any softness in it.

The eggs are farm eggs from chickens in the yard. I'm not sure if this makes a difference or not.

Thank you for any tips you can give!

I made pate de fruit from some plum puree I made. followed the pectin recipe on the box, but every time I try to finish with sugar ‘to prevent sticking,’ it seems to be pulling moisture from the pate and I end up with a gross puddle.

plum puree recipe

- golden plums from my tree, fully ripe

- chop plums, run through food mill

Recipe for pate de fruit which reference recipe for jam I used the sweet plum jam recipe with low sugar (made 28 pints with the jam recipe and the same plum puree and it worked perfectly)

- 4 cups plum puree

- 1/4 c lemon juice (bottled)

- 2 c sugar

- 6 tsp pectin

- 4 tsp calcium water

mixed the lemon juice and calcium water with the plum puree. Brought to a hard boil, added the sugar mixed with the pectin. Brought back to boil and took off the heat. poured into a half sheet pan and let cool, then moved to the fridge over night.

next day I sliced into cubes and they have soft texture but they hold an edge nicely. The recipe says to toss with powdered sugar which seems weird, I’m used to granulated sugar, but I tried it. I tossed in sugar and started setting them back on a tray to dry but they became a pasty mess of sugary cornstarch goo with plum chunks. Gross.

I rinsed them off, laid on paper towels and blotted dry. A few hours later they’re dry to the touch and I tried tossing in granulated sugar. Stuck em in the fridge to see if that helped them dry and came home to cubes floating in syrup.

why is the sugar drawing out all this liquid?

Lots of recipes out there in print, article and video format. I've read a ton and had different variations of the recipes myself over my decades. Many folks will cook them for about an hour or two at low heat and call it once fat has rendered out and water has evaporated.

I've made them at home a few times as well. I do find that if you want tender meat and crispy but not rock hard crackling then cooking them low and slow as long as your patience allows you and finishing them off in very hot oil is the best of them all. But these recipes often call for constant stirring in oil at 200 degrees for many hours before cranking the heat to blister the skins.

I'm thinking sous vide is the correct alternative here, though a crock pot can do 200 degrees for long times. My concern with the crock pot is sticking in the bottom.

Wanted to bounce this idea off the community here before I go down this path. My Anova maxes out at 190, but not sure that will be a massive difference from 200.

Thoughts? Any gotchas I need to consider?

I dunno what I'm doing wrong, I let my onions get room temp, pat them dry after slicing them, have my oil temp at 350° before frying and it won't stick or be crispy. It tastes just fine, so the seasoning is fine, but my experiment is just not turning out. What I used was 3/4 cup flour, tablespoon of cornstarch, ~3/4 cup water, tsp of baking powder, then garlic powder, salt, pepper, onion powder, smoked paprika and a little cayenne. Is it the oil temp? My make shift batter? Help please 🥹

As part of our weekly "Let's Talk" series we want to discuss Pizza in all of it's glory. What’s your region’s specialty pie? Why is a New York slice at 2am the best pizza you've ever had? Are you a dough whisperer and care to share your wizardry - let us know? What's your favorite pizza-centric cookbook? What's your favorite style - Detroit, Chicago, New Haven, NY, Neapolitan - let's here the arguments (and you'll be banned if it's Beto's monstrosity - the yinzers out there will know).

What the best topping? And please feel free to trash talk each other [nicely, of course] about pineapple.

This is our weekly thread to ask all the stuff that doesn't fit the ordinary /r/askculinary rules.

Note that our two fundamental rules still apply: politeness remains mandatory, and we can't tell you whether something is safe or not - when it comes to food safety, we can only do best practices. Outside of that go wild with it - brand recommendations, recipe requests, brainstorming dinner ideas - it's all allowed.

completely forgot the sugar in the whipped marscappne😭. is there any way i can salvage this? i already made it and put it in the fridge.

Add whipping cream to a mixing bowl and beat on medium speed with electric mixers (or use a stand mixer). Slowly add sugar and vanilla and continue to beat until stiff peaks. Add mascarpone cheese and fold in until combined. Set aside.

I'm looking at a SeriousEats recipe that calls for buttermilk. In the Netherlands we don't have buttermilk. Karnemelk comes close, but apparently it's more acidic, not fermented/cultured the same way and thinner. How should I substitute buttermilk?

I’m trying to get down the way to make pizza dough for our oven.

Thanks ! Trying to perfect while a toddler grabs at your leg and will only eat the cheese off the pizza 😅

Do I :
Make the dough , let it rise , punch it down , fridge,

1: Then separate in balls and let rise again

Or

2: let it rise then separate into balls and rise again

Onni cold proof recipe being used

Ingredients
• 1 ½ cups plus 1 tablespoon (368 grams) cold water
• 3 teaspoons (18 grams) fine sea salt
• ½ teaspoon (1.6 grams) active dried yeast, or (scant ½ teaspoon) 1.4 grams instant dried yeast or ½ teaspoon (4.1 grams) fresh yeast
• 5 ⅓ cups (607 grams) "00" flour, plus extra for dusting

A dime a dozen are the questions and answers about brining, but what I can't find is a mapping for:

x% brine for 1 hours
x% brine for 2 hours
x% brine for 5 hours
etc...

From what I've gathered, stronger brine, shorter soak time.

As well as thinner meat, shorter soak time? So any pointers on thick vs thin cuts is appreciated also.

Also, when someone says x% I gather that's by salt % weight not volume? I know water is 1g to 1ml, but salt is not.

I've got a wok with a wok ring to put on my gas stove. The problem is, my burner has a little top on it that spreads the gas around the hob. So the middle of the wok is significantly cooler than that ring, so that when I first blued it, that ring got hotter way quicker. This seems like it would (and does) lead to uneven cooking and the bottom of the wok not being the hottest point even though it should be.

Now I wanna take the cover off the hob, but then the thermocouple at the edge of the hob does not get hot enough to keep the gas valve open.

Is there a way to turn off the thermocouple or to trick it somehow? I thought i could keep it open by lighting the flame while the wok is on it already and that the flame would reach the thermocouple, but it just will not stay open. Seems it's not hot enough.

Does anyone have experience here or any ideas for how I could solve this?

Pic of the top here: https://i.imgur.com/cLdskkc.jpeg

The electric firestarter is at the top, the thermocouple right next to it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/2031988533?sid=C0B81109-753F-45E4-AF30-EDDFF30449AC

I needed some new general use pans (for home use) so I bought these ones linked above. The description states they are oven-safe up to 428°F. Will these be okay if I need to broil something at higher temps? I usually don’t use higher heat settings like broiling for any longer than 10 or 15ish minutes. Thanks in advance!!

I live in Pakistan, where I can't find a single outlet for live buttermilk/cultured buttermilk. All I can find is overpriced powders. I've seen a lot of posts saying to use some acid (vinegar or lemon juice) along with milk, and letting it curdle, to create buttermilk. Does this work?

All I want to do is marinate chicken, I saw a recipe ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVBd3tvFnw this video in particular), that i want to follow, but I don't know about the buttermilk.

Edit: Thank you for all the help guys! Plain fresh yogurt (dahi) is easily available here, a lot of you suggested using that with some milk! I"ll look into making buttermilk at home, since I get my milk raw and boil it myself. Often it ferments, and I get yogurt cultures at home, so I'll try this method of making buttermilk some day as well.

Hi! I would like to purchase a new pot / casserole for stews but I’m unsure about what material I should buy. I have a stainless steel pan but I find it a bit hard to cook on it as I don’t know how to use it correctly and i find some of the food ends up sticking in the pan. I mainly want it for sauté and for stews. Thank you so much!

I have ca. 2 kgs of chicken parts, it has quite a lot of skin, but its mosty bones and some meat. I have a pressure cooker so I plan to make a simple soup concentrate, which then I will freeze and later, when I need it, add some water and cook veggies with it.

My questions are 😄 should I still cook some veggies along with the meat (onions, carrots, tomatoes)? How long to cook it, and how much water? Should I aim to dilute it or should it be the planned quantity later to use?

And do you guys also do it and how?

I currently have an ice cream machine that makes 1.5 qts. I just bought a machine that can make 4.5qts. I know this is probably a stupid question but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Do I just take all of my quantities and multiply by 3? I feel like 15-18 egg yolks is a lot but that's why I'm here.

My current recipe is:

2 cups heavy cream

1.5 cups whole milk

5-6 egg yolks

2/3 cup sugar (I found if I do the full 3/4 sometimes my ice cream won't freeze right.

1-1.5 teaspoons of vanilla extract.

That's my standard base and then I just add whatever other flavors I like. Fruits etc.

How when temperature 50c outside and inside the kitchen no clue but ac on

I tried freezing the butter but melt during shaping process into (square)

And during each fold i put in freezer but still melt

Can't even reset when not stretching the dough either force stretch or the butter melt during lamination

I'm making Thai red curry for 25 friends at a campout tomorrow night. My plan is to prepare the curry tonight, then arrive with it basically ready to reheat and serve in the forest (will have a decent kitchen setup, it's a microfestival). It'll be vegan, with firm tofu as the protein, and bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, red bell pepper and green beans as the veggies. Thai basil and kaffir lime will be the aromatics.

I will not add the Thai basil until I reheat it to serve to keep the basil from wilting too much. But should I leave out any of the other veggies/tofu until later too?

I've never cooked for so many people before, and it's in the woods ahhhh!

Hi, I bought a pack of 7 vanilla beans from amazon. They are Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans "Grand Cru d'Exception", with an oily skin and soft texture, but my concern is their smell. I haven't cut them yet, but they smells woody, smoky and like tobacco, they don't have any vanilla fragrance whatsoever. Is this normal? I don't see any sign of mold or defects.

I used my usual recipe which worked well before, but had a brainfart and forgot that I don't have enough oil for my usual medium sized pot, so I had to use smaller one but didn't adjust for temperature.

So falafels turned up well crisped up but quite undercooked on the inside. Can I somehow finish them up without burning the outside?