Topper's Grilling Advice!

[Topper]

'shrooms - screaming hot dry pan, add the 'shrooms, toss with salt, lots of salt for 'shrooms. This lets the 'shrooms shed their water and concentrate their flavour. When they start to brown, turn down the heat and add oil.

"shrooms were weird at school, we were taught never to wash them, only brush them off, because they'll absorb water. They we're taught to dehydrate them in a hot pan for flavour............Some asshole pointed out to an instructor one day that if we're going to dehydrate them in a hot pan, what does it matter if they absorb a bit more water......

Thanks, Top. About the absorption, I seem to recall some chef weighing some mushrooms, washing them, then weighing them again to see how much water was really absorbed. The answer was that it was negligible, at least for your standard (button, crimini) mushroom, anyway. I suspect oyster and chanterelles could be much worse.

.......and then you cook them at high heat to dehydrate them. I don't understand why washing is supposedly bad. Though chanterelles and similar are likely to delicate to take much handling.

[SKYO]

when I win the lottery Friday ($60M) I am hiring you as my personal chief.

Thanks for the all recipes and advice, may try the hot wings this weekend and wash it down with some beer.

Skyo is already his personal chief.

If it wasn't for us Scots, Skyo wouldn't even be eating bannock.

Well played, ever try the famous indian taco's?



So awesome.

[5thhorseman]

Hey Tops, any recommendation for a whetstone? I did some window shopping and it looks like it'll cost me around $60-80 for a two-sided stone plus another $40 for a truing stone. I was hoping for something a bit more cheap and cheerful but found the whetsone in my garage that I use for my chisels isn't gonna cut it.

[Topper]

I don't have a truing stone.

I have something like A and rarely use the 4000.

http://www.leevalley.com/en/Wood/page.a ... 67177&ap=1

[5thhorseman]

I understand you use the truing stone when your whetstone inevitably develops a concave surface over time. How do you avoid that?

[Chef Boi RD]

If everyone in the world became vegans we would see an end to global warming. Agricultural farming of animals for human food consumption is a leading cause of global warming. Grilling would then cease to exist therefore making this thread irrelevant

[Cornuck]

If everyone in the world became vegans we would see an end to global warming. Agricultural farming of animals for human food consumption is a leading cause of global warming. Grilling would then cease to exist therefore making this thread irrelevant

LOL - so you like to see the world turn vegan - not to end the suffering of animals... or to help the planet... but just to see this thread die?

You know, Topper probably grills vegetables, too... right?

[Cousin Strawberry]

Cows are vegans and they contribute significantly to the problem....and their shit fertilizes all those veggies.

I think that by eating more meat I'm working hard to help the planet. Steaks for climate change
http://www.ibtimes.com/cow-farts-have-l ... ge-1487502

Btw the real problem is and always has been overpopulation. If we really care about the planet we need find a way to get rid of a significant number of all these fucking people, either through population control, genocide, whatever.

Recycling, greenhouse gas reduction....blah blah blah. Delete the people and save the planet. Until this becomes the focus we're fucked. The planet will recover but the human race will eventually eat and shit its way into extinction

[5thhorseman]

Is life worth living without bacon and sausages?

[Puck]

or steak for that matter? And cheese. A vegan diet would be like house arrest.

Mind you, I can't really afford meat anymore since Shaw bought Wind.

[Strangelove]

Btw the real problem is and always has been overpopulation. If we really care about the planet we need find a way to get rid of a significant number of all these fucking people, either through population control, genocide, whatever.

Are you talking about grilling... people??

[Topper]

Btw the real problem is and always has been overpopulation. If we really care about the planet we need find a way to get rid of a significant number of all these fucking people, either through population control, genocide, whatever.

Are you talking about grilling... people??

A Modest Proposal

[Chef Boi RD]

Btw the real problem is and always has been overpopulation. If we really care about the planet we need find a way to get rid of a significant number of all these fucking people, either through population control, genocide, whatever.

Are you talking about grilling... people??

A Modest Proposal

You got any good recipes for that?

[Topper]

According to my great great.....great grandfather, "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy Child well Nursed is at a year Old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food, whether Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boyled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a Fricasie, or Ragoust"

[Rumsfeld]

Topps I'm trying out those wings this weekend, minus the mirin. I'll let you know.