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  Anyone Tried "Sous Vide" Cooking?

  by Simon in

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  i like a nice steak but cooking one can be a little intimidating and the results hit and miss especially when it comes to getting the right temperature so getting it wrong can be an expensive mistake.

  can anyone do that "finger and thumb together to check the doneness" thing?

  i can't .... so i came across this cooking technique called "sous vide" which cooks food (in a sealed vacuum bag) in a warm water bath, even steak.

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  Short ribs! I forgot to mention beef short ribs! These come off of the chuck usually, but sometimes you can get the ribs that are left when a boneless prime rib is made. Either one benefits from the "low 'n slow" cooking method favored by most BBQ experts, but a sous-vide will give you super tender meat. If you want smoke flavor, add some Liquid Smoke (I like Wright's), which ideally is just smoke and water. If you want to go gastro-pub, marinate the meat in kalbi spices or kalbi sauce for a taste of the Korean specialty.

  Think of those cuts that are generally tough to get tender, and try them turkey drumsticks spring to mind. Again, liquid smoke can be your "underwater BBQ."

  Whatever you choose, remember that the step after sous-vide is "SEAR"! This can be done in a HOT skillet or under a HOT broiler. It only adds a couple of minutes to the process but it greatly improves the appearance of the food.
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  Anyone Tried "Sous Vide" Cooking?

  by Simon in

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  2. family

  i like a nice steak but cooking one can be a little intimidating and the results hit and miss especially when it comes to getting the right temperature so getting it wrong can be an expensive mistake.

  can anyone do that "finger and thumb together to check the doneness" thing?

  i can't .... so i came across this cooking technique called "sous vide" which cooks food (in a sealed vacuum bag) in a warm water bath, even steak.

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  I like grilled meats as much as the next guy, but when I hear people saying "{the thing I use} is the BEST!"

  ...what I hear is "I have ONE tool; my shiny drywall hammer. Nothing is better than my drywall hammer for driving screws!"
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  Anyone Tried "Sous Vide" Cooking?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. family

  i like a nice steak but cooking one can be a little intimidating and the results hit and miss especially when it comes to getting the right temperature so getting it wrong can be an expensive mistake.

  can anyone do that "finger and thumb together to check the doneness" thing?

  i can't .... so i came across this cooking technique called "sous vide" which cooks food (in a sealed vacuum bag) in a warm water bath, even steak.

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  I haven't done any sous-vide coking myself, but I am familiar with it. Think of it as a slow-cooker (with a dildo) but with PRECISE control over the cooking temperature; something that most slow-cookers are notoriously bad at.

  By the way, if you want a slow cooker with much better temperature control than that thing on your kitchen counter, use you OVEN at the lower setting you usually ignore! Ovens are generally pretty good at temperature control!

  The big beauty is - as Simon said, that with sous-vide you CANNOT overcook your food (if you set the temperature properly). NOTE: Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures are NOT the same! For example, 100°F is body temperature, and 100° C is boiling water. But you knew that.

  Digressing... I have a GE induction stove, and after it was delivered (!) I learned that the next model up from mine has a thermal probe for the induction cooktop, which essentially turns the cooktop into an induction sous-vide! Grrr! If I had known, I would have ordered THAT instead of the one I bought... Grrr!

  OK, back to sous-vide... Try sous-vide with game meats - venison, goat, mutton, moose & squirrel ("Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"). Try it with brisket or corned beef, chuck stew beef, or make a batch of Chinese Red-Cooked Beef Shank if you are willing to boldly go...

  I have heard that sous-vide eggs are out-of-this-world.
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  Who Do You Think Will Be The Nominees For President In The Next US Election?

  by minimus in

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  i think trump will be the nominee for the republicans and the democrats... i have no clue.

  i hope bernie sanders runs again and wonder if hillary would dare go for a rematch..

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  Here in Seattle, (not far from the terrestrial HQ of UADNA, btw), some knucklehead erected a statue of Lenin obtained after the fall of the USSR.

  
  

  I predict that before 2020 a group of pagan DEMONcrats will utter occult incantations as they attempt to animate that Lenin avatar and, if they are successful, that Lenin Golem will run for president on the Amerikan Demoncrat Progressive Communist ticket.

  The candidate will lose in a SPECTACULAR way, and the Amerikan Demoncrat Progressive Media ex-spurts will be stunned by the failure.

  So let it be written; so let it be done!
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  What was the EXACT exJW website you first visited and why EXACTLY did you visit it?

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i had two episodes of visiting exjw websites:one time around 2007 when i just googled "jehovah´s witnesses" and dared to look at those sites.

  i was scared and i promised myself i would never come back to them.

  however, that one didn´t really count.the moment that woke me up was this:i got to know that whitney heichel was a jw and murdered by another jw, because i overheard that conversation in a kingdom hall.i looked up the news and in one of the news comments, there was one where an exjw was complaining that they were hijacking her funeral and they were really trying to downplay the fact that her murderer was a jw... and then it said "visit jwfacts.com"... which i did.and the rest... is history.what exactly got you onto an apostate website when you woke up?

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  Am I under oath, Senator? Do you have any way of verifying that the things I am about to say are true and accurate?

  Yes Senator, I a prepared to offer my testimony...

  Almost as soon as Al Gore got finished building the interweb I was there with a flashlight ("torch" to my friends in the UK) in one hand and a 3 gigawatt fully-automatic digital machete in the other. You don't remember Netscape, Sonny, but it was the pussycat's purr back then. Enter Neuromancer!

  "Sleep with one eye open,

  Gripping your pillow tight..."

  Those were some MAGNIFICENT days, back then, although I admit I need the perspective offered by distant time to even begin to grasp the wonderfulness of it all! I knew (in an appropriate digital way) many of the Ancient Worthies whose names we now speak in reverential awe.

  (To be continued, perhaps)
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  Nike Logo meets JW.org

  by Not_Culty in

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  2018/19 new light

  by Ray Frankz in

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  hi guys, long time without paying a visit to this site.

  today i returned to check a 'gossip' that is running around in brazilian exjw forums.. they are stating that is almost certain they will make a big change in their doctrine maybe this year yet in the annual meeting.

  they say people in warwick were commenting on this.

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  Ignore the rumors spread by know-nothings; 2034 is the new 1975, and we have been saying this for years!

  If religious nabob doctrines could be COPYRIGHTED, the appointed year of 2034 would be! Go ahead, search this site - unless you are lazy and expect barbecued chickens to fly into your mouth - and you will be stunned at our prescience!

  STUNNED I tell ya!

  
  

  By the way: SOMETHING is closer than the INSIDE OF YOUR EYELID, and I'm not talking about Nibiru or the inside of your eyelid! Have faith! Be strong! Don't question! Stop thinking!
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  J.W.Sisters are not recognized as part of the 144000 Anointed class by the Governing Body of Jehovah`s Witnesses and never have been.

  by smiddy3 in

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  rev.14: 1-6 describes the 144000 as males who do not defile themselves with women and are classed as virgins.?.

  how does the governing body of j.w.`s explain that a man having a sexual relationship with a woman defiles a man?.

  isn`t this or shouldn`t this be an affront to women who are jehovah`s witnesses ?

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  The Anointed class CAN'T be women, because they are supposed to comprise Christ's BRIDE, and Jesus liked guys!

  Furthermore, we are told in Galatians, "For all you who have been baptized to Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ; there is no such thing as Jew or Greek, there is no such thing as slave or free, there is no such thing as male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."

  INCONTROVERTIBLE!
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  (How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

  the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

  the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

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  Carla asked, ""...we're not going to even look at the PRC's "- what are PRC's?"

  I have no idea, but they're pronounced "pricks," and are a popular subject among the Bethel Boys...
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  Sisters handling mic's

  by I Faded Twice in

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  i saw a topic on another forum where a sister was supposedly carrying the mics.

  i was curious if this was even possible?

  is it new light or just a lie?.

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  I think it is incontrovertible that this is evidence of blatant phallus envy!

  Form a judicial committee, STAT!

  Especially if her microphone is longer or thicker than mine!!!