by Ed Hyp | Nov 1, 2012 | Equipment, Food, New Techniques, Technology
The Polyscience Smoking Gun has a pretty funny origin story. This is off the cuff, so don’t complain if some of it isn’t true. Hand held keyboard vacuums were popular in the 90s. People in their basements smoking jazz cigarettes like playing on the computer. They eventually realized that it was too much work to manually smoke the hot weed. Someone eventually noticed that if they reverse the direction of the fan in their keyboard vacuum and add a bowl, then blammo, auto-smoker. As modernist cuisine says, “inspired by a different type of smoking.” Ha. Anyway, I wanted something to play with and I like my polyscience circulator, so I got one.
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by Ed Hyp | Oct 29, 2012 | Equipment, Technology
We were in New York City last week visiting friends. We ate at a bunch of places, saw a bunch of people, met my cooking hero Dave Arnold, and had my car towed. I also spent some time on bowery looking for a meat slicer.
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by Ed Hyp | Oct 28, 2012 | Entrée, Food
Walking through the Strip District past Strip District Meats I noticed Ostrich Steaks for sale on their sign. We were pretty intrigued. We’ve never eaten ostrich before and I think that’s enough reason to try something. So we bought two.
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by Ed Hyp | Oct 20, 2012 | Food, New Techniques
Why can’t I buy lamb belly? Why do I feel too weird I tell my halal butcher that I want to make lamb bacon, so I need it? He sold me lamb ribs, which I thought might be a good time to try out some of the transglutaminase which I just bought. That’s meat glue if you’re not into big words. So I deboned the ribs, sprinkled on some TG RM and put them into the refrigerator overnight wrapped in plastic wrap and under some weights (Oh scratch off lotto tickets please buy me a minipack mvs35xp). I took it out of the plastic wrap and rubbed it in a standard curing salt rub with some curry powder, spices, etc added. Refrigerated it for 5 or six days in a cambro. I got out my bradley smoker to smoke it and found out that my heating element had died over the winter. Rats. Double rats. Shit, even.
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by Ed Hyp | Jul 5, 2012 | Breakfast, Tiny Food
Every Sunday morning my Dad made us breakfast. Bacon and eggs was his thing. He loves toast too. Then he had a heart attack. So, I scaled down his cholesterol fest to something that cardiologists would approve of. Thanks for the inspiration Dad!
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by Ed Hyp | Jun 30, 2012 | Breakfast, Tiny Food, Uncategorized
I call these Eggs in a basket. Other people call it : Eggs in toast, Eggs with a hole in it, Eggs in a hole, Toad in a hole, Frog in a hole, Egyptian Eye, Hobo. I’m not sure if it’s some regional thing, but I hate those people.
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