Best of both worlds is to sear in a high smoke point oil like avocado or canola and then butter baste at the end until the butter is nicely browned. Add some whole aromatics on the steak (garlic, rosemary, thyme etc.) during the butter baste for some nice flavour too.
Do you have a kettle? Either electric or stovetop. There are plenty of just add hot boiling water foods our there for when you are too tired to really cook. Ramen, oatmeal, freeze dried soups. I’m not much of a cook, but I love my kettle.
I love making easy upgraded Ramen especially for lunch. Dry noodles, various Asian style sauces with whatever vegetable I have on hand? Pour some boiling water over it and you got a great lunch or dinner.
I’ve never seen tomat soup look like that, canned or not. It looks super diluted and very weird in colour. It looks more like a weirdly dark strawberry lemonade or something.
Yes, I’ve had that happen multiple times. This happens when you’re technically not frying your eggs because of not enough fat. Sure, it won’t stick even without, but it will also come out like this.
Seems like the fat keeps the egg from burning and will also influence the underside. What you got there is a disk of nearly-burned protein.
The softer the material, the easier it is to sharpen (and dull). There’s some sweet spot there but I imagine it’s much of a preference (and depends on the type of knife), considering knives have been from so many different alloys and differing hardening
Indeed there is a sweet spot. I would rather trade sharpness and more careful maintenance for corrosion resistance. Others would not. I had a housemate that tossed knives in the sink and left them there for days, their Victorinox only showed light rust. You couldn’t really cut anything with them but that didn’t seem to be the point.
I also had a partner who loved Victorinox parers and serrated parers, they could do anything with them and rarely used anything else. Your mileage may vary of course, and I bitched everytime I sharpened them, which was weekly.
Cheaper stainless often has less Chromium and Nickel. Those add to cost, increase corrosion resistance, but make the steel harder to sharpen.
I steel my knives before every use, when they take small flakes off my thumbnail I consider them ready to use for cooking, then I hone them on whatever pants I am wearing. I have issues undoubtedly, but I really like my knives sharp.
Absolutely praising them, cheap knives are great. I love my custom made Japanese knives, the craftsmanship is incredible, perfectly fitted to how I want to cut. But what I usually reach for is a cheap piece of junk.
I never really understood knives, especially kitchen knives. I work with them often… but the quality differences never quite made sense. I get the high carbon = easier to sharpen, etc. But isn’t that one of the lowest qualities of steel? Meaning you can stamp that shit out on the cheap and it’s really about how any given chef manages, sharpens and hones his/her blade?
IDK. Seems like another person stealing my turd, shellacking it, and selling it back to me at an extreme premium…
A hard steel will hold an edge longer, but will be harder to sharpen and is more brittle.
A softer steel will need to be resharpened more often, but is easier to sharpen and less brittle.
For like 99% of the population, a dollar store knife will hold an edge long enough and will be easy to sharpen.
I’m too lazy to link because i’m on mobile, but outdoors555 on YouTube recently made a video where he sharpens a dollar store knife and hack away on a piece of 2x4 and the knife stays sharp throughout the ordeal.
So yeah, overall, it’s how you maintain and sharpen your knife that will make a lot of difference.
A honing steel is only helpful if your knife isn’t properly sharpened because it realigns the burr. Just take an extra minute to remove the burr properly and your knife will stay sharp for a while.
Agree with merging. We could use tags in post titles (e.g. [Recipe], [BBQ], [Ask], etc) so we can easily pick out those that interest us, and also allow us to see if a particular subtopic is gaining more popularity.
I looks good, but you lost me at the burnt garlic. Otherwise a nice gravy.
If I can offer another delicious pan sauce idea for you, my wife begs me for this one all the time. I season (salt, pepper, and garlic powder) and cook my Chops first in a bit of oil. Once it reaches 140F internal (it will rise 5 degrees while resting. Don’t overcook your pork), remove the chops and use a quarter cup of white wine (I use moscato) to deglaze the pan. Let it simmer reduce for a few minutes until it thickens enough to drag your spatula across the pan and it doesn’t immediately back fill. Add a tab of butter, a splash of cream, and a some freshly grated parmesan off the wedge (don’t use the canned stuff. It will be gritty). Stir it until the cheese just melts, then remove from the heat so the sauce doesn’t break. Now smother and enjoy. Optionally, if you want to lighten it it up a bit, a squeeze of lemon goes nice too.
You don’t have to blacken the garlic if you don’t want. I found blacken garlic is a little sweeter, and adds a little crunch to the meal kinda like roasting garlic cloves on the grill.
Thank you for the sauce recipe, if I ever have the money to be able to buy the wine I will try it. Fixed budgets suck and food stamps don’t cover any alcohol, or even cooking sherry.
That’s fair. Just for context though, I don’t use expensive wine for it. I buy those 4 packs of little bottles of white wine just for cooking. Shutter Home brand, like $7 for the 4 at Walmart ($1.75 each). The size is convenient as each one is good for a single recipe (about 1/3 cup each I think) and the also the other 3 don’t go bad in a hurry because they aren’t opened from the one use. I’ve had them on hand ready to go for months using one bottle at a time before. You could do it even cheaper with a full sized bottle under 5 dollars at Walmart if you were going to make more servings of the sauce all at once or within a few days, but obviously, once opened, the clock’s ticking on your bottle before it goes off.
Jamie Oliver does terrible things to a LOT of recipes. Remember when he tried to “enhance” a Tandoori chicken recipe and called it literally “Empire Chicken”?
That has its own benefits, for sure. I have been known to use a press or even a toaster oven as well.
However, grilled cheese for me is similar to cooking an egg. It’s the purest form of cooking and it’s an art form that is easy to screw up.
The butter to bread ratio needs to be perfect and the bread needs a perfect toast in a pan. In rare cases I’ll use some good cheeses, but American cheese is the only one that truly works. Butter the pan, not the bread. Keep the sammich moving at all times while it cooks. Timing is paramount for the toast.
If that makes the grilled cheese any better, I really don’t know. There is, in measurable quantities, more love added to it, so by default, it’s better.
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