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Barbecue (alt.food.barbecue) Discuss barbecue and grilling--southern style "low and slow" smoking of ribs, shoulders and briskets, as well as direct heat grilling of everything from burgers to salmon to vegetables. |
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yum yum and more yummmm...adding bread crumbs was sucha good idea!
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i was specifically interested if it were different from regular in the oven
meatloaf, and the answer is no, but thanks i might give this a try in the nuker, Lee -- Have a wonderful day "Brick" wrote in message ster.com... On 2-Nov-2009, "Stormmmee" wrote: now there's a recipe i would love to see, Lee -- Have a great day Gee, I've never considered a recipe for meatloaf. It just is. Gather together some; Ground beef Ground pork Onion (Can't cook anything without onion) Bell Pepper Egg(s) Bread crumbs Garlic (Can't cook anything without garlic either) Catsup S & P Mix two parts of ground beef with one part of ground pork. Add an egg for every 1.5 pounds of meat. Use a half cup each of chopped onion and pepper for each pound of meat. Mix in enough catsup to give some color to the mix. Finally mix in enough bread crumbs to firm up the mix. It's not critical, but you don't want to leave it too soupy. Season to taste. Herbs are beneficial if you have them. I like a few red pepper flakes in mine, but not enough to add heat. Bake uncovered on high until the loaf begins to pull away from the edges of the pan. If you use a regular oven, bake at 325F to 350F. You don't have to use a bundt pan to cook meatloaf, but it does help to distribute the heat more evenly for a decent texture all the way through. You can use a loaf pan if you like or even just mould the meat into a loaf and cook it that way. Anybody wants to help me out, feel free to jump in here. -- Brick (Youth is wasted on young people) |
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![]() On 2-Nov-2009, "Stormmee" wrote: i was specifically interested if it were different from regular in the oven meatloaf, and the answer is no, but thanks i might give this a try in the nuker, Lee We got to talking about microwave meatloaf and I might have given the impression that there is no difference between microwave meatloaf and oven baked meatloaf. IMNSHO microwave meatloaf is quite good and I usually make it that way. But I would be the last person on earth to say that it is the same as oven baked meatloaf. Microwave is more of a steam environment then an indirect heat environment such as an oven. The microwave essentially lacks the carmellizing effect that the oven produces on the surface of food. Thus there is significant difference in the taste and texture of the final product. That doesn't signify 'Bad', but it does signify 'Different'. -- Brick said that. |
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![]() On 2-Nov-2009, "Nonny" wrote: "Brick" wrote in message ster.com... On 2-Nov-2009, "Stormmmee" wrote: now there's a recipe i would love to see, Lee -- Have a great day Gee, I've never considered a recipe for meatloaf. It just is. Gather together some; Ground beef Ground pork Onion (Can't cook anything without onion) Bell Pepper Egg(s) Bread crumbs Garlic (Can't cook anything without garlic either) Catsup S & P Mix two parts of ground beef with one part of ground pork. Add an egg for every 1.5 pounds of meat. Use a half cup each of chopped onion and pepper for each pound of meat. Mix in enough catsup to give some color to the mix. Finally mix in enough bread crumbs to firm up the mix. It's not critical, but you don't want to leave it too soupy. Season to taste. Herbs are beneficial if you have them. I like a few red pepper flakes in mine, but not enough to add heat. Bake uncovered on high until the loaf begins to pull away from the edges of the pan. If you use a regular oven, bake at 325F to 350F. You don't have to use a bundt pan to cook meatloaf, but it does help to distribute the heat more evenly for a decent texture all the way through. You can use a loaf pan if you like or even just mould the meat into a loaf and cook it that way. Anybody wants to help me out, feel free to jump in here. I'm not chiming in with anything from experience, but my Mom used to add in about 1/3 ground veal, saying that the veal would puff up and make the meatloaf lighter. I once heard that the guys who make hot dogs that are supposed to puff up and split the skin use veal for that reason as well. I'd be interested in anybody's thoughts on that. -- Nonny Meatloaf is generally made as an economy entre' and as such precludes the use of veal at my house. Veal in any form is too pricey around here for me to include it in meatloaf. -- Brick (Youth is wasted on young people) |
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![]() On 2-Nov-2009, "Nunya Bidnits" wrote: Brick said: On 31-Oct-2009, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote: "Nunya Bidnits" wrote in message When you deep fry yams, do you double cook them like french fries, a partial cook till they are limp, pull and rest, then finish in hotter oil? Not necessary for premade frozen fries, of course, those have already been partially cooked, but I wondered if the technique works for sweet potato fries too. MartyB Yes but! The double fry technique is used to get rid of the excess moisture in the potatoes that drags the oil temperature down. By prefrying you get rid of much of the water leaving a potato that is ready to be fried in hot oil. When re-introduced to the fryer the temperature doesn't drop radically, thus allowing your food to fry properly. Sweet potatoes don't contain nearly so much water to begin with, so the benefit is less apparent. I'll still double fry, but use shorter timing for sweet potatoes. You of course are encouraged to do as you please. (YMMV) That being the case I'll probably just try single frying them using the tempura/panko coating I referred to earlier. Yams are on sale this week for 50 cents a pound so if the spearmint goes all Frankenstein, at least it won't cost much. I'll report back on the results. MartyB in KC You'll do okay Marty. You know what to look for and have some idea why potatoes act the way they do. A small trial batch will likely tell you everything you need to know to get what you want with the rest. **I just did a batch of store bought frozen fries tonight. They had a lot of ice crystals on them, so I gave them a short prefry to get rid of the water before finallizing them at 375F. They were good as usual. Just knowing about the little variables is a big help. -- Brick (Youth is wasted on young people) |
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i wasn't clear either, i meant different in a big way in the recipe...
everything in the nuker is different to me but usually not worse just different, Lee -- Have a great day "Brick" wrote in message ter.com... On 2-Nov-2009, "Stormmee" wrote: i was specifically interested if it were different from regular in the oven meatloaf, and the answer is no, but thanks i might give this a try in the nuker, Lee We got to talking about microwave meatloaf and I might have given the impression that there is no difference between microwave meatloaf and oven baked meatloaf. IMNSHO microwave meatloaf is quite good and I usually make it that way. But I would be the last person on earth to say that it is the same as oven baked meatloaf. Microwave is more of a steam environment then an indirect heat environment such as an oven. The microwave essentially lacks the carmellizing effect that the oven produces on the surface of food. Thus there is significant difference in the taste and texture of the final product. That doesn't signify 'Bad', but it does signify 'Different'. -- Brick said that. |
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![]() On 3-Nov-2009, "Nunya Bidnits" wrote: Brick said: **I just did a batch of store bought frozen fries tonight. They had a lot of ice crystals on them, so I gave them a short prefry to get rid of the water before finallizing them at 375F. They were good as usual. Just knowing about the little variables is a big help. That raises a good point. If you don't use an entire package of storebought frozen fries then unless you vac bag them, the remainder will always take on a lot of extra ice crystals in the fridge. They never seem to fry as well after that but I always attributed it to freezer burn. I think you hit on the real reason they don't fry up so well. I wish I could get my fryer to do a full 375F. (Waring Pro) The temp control maxes at 375 but testing it with a thermopen shows it really can't hold temps higher than 360-365. However most of my cooking is at lower temps so I didn't bother to take it back and complain. MartyB in KC Pretend that you didn't read this. I took my Krupps deep fryer apart and readjusted the themostat. It has a little bitty adjustment screw that was sealed with a dab of plastic. I fiddled with it until I get it to holding pretty well about 375F. I mostly only run it that high for potatoes, but they really like that higher heat. I used a big Taylor bulb type thermometer as my reference. It works pretty good now. -- Brick (Youth is wasted on young people) |
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