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Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

I will spud.

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Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

I often like the little desiccated nibbly slices that dry on top. :shobon:

Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

Mashed potato cakes are awesome with some paprika-based essence-grade seasoning mixed in or some leftover chicken rub with brown sugar/paprika base as used on so many beer can chickens. :yum:

Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

I am a total fuckwit and thought the deadline was tomorrow.

Totally plan to pommes soufflé, tonight :shobon:

Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

Made lazy pommes soufflé. I used fresh potatoes when older but not too old spuds puff best. And tried to only use one pan of oil which made for under-puffed pommes de terre. But they were still delicious things:



Peeled a few spuds, sliced somewhere between 1/4"-1/2", sloshed in cold water to rinse, drained and patted dry between kitchen towels, fried 15 at a time at 325 degrees (a couple or so inches of oil) for six minutes while agitating to evenly cook.

Pépin would have a second pot of oil at 375 degrees. And he would drain the par-fried slices for a few seconds before dropping them in the finishing oil and fry until puffed and golden, agitating here, as well.

But I opted to par-fry all slices and leave to drain while the oil upper to 375 in the original pot. Then finished them. I think they had too much time to steam/cool/settle before the second fry and it contributed to the under-puffing. When Pépin reports a ~20% failure rate at best when practiced, I don't feel like it was a failure. Especially as you still get a yummy French fry/homefry hybrid at worst.

Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

Anything worth doing?

Butch Cassidy fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Nov 3, 2014

Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

Buggery

Butch Cassidy fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Nov 3, 2014

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Butch Cassidy
Jul 28, 2010

This is my favorite avatar.

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