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    How to Store Olive Oil?

    If you use regularly it’s ok to keep at room temp., away from sunlight, for up to several weeks. Any surplus can be kept in the fridge for up to a several months. It will coagulate, but that’s OK. Just bring it out...

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    City Lighting brunch - awful!

    . The pico was pretty ok, if banal, but the cheddar was a giant, gross, coagulated mess. Apparently they have not figured out how to make cheese melt properly inside an omelette. The potatos on the side were slightly undercooked...

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    Looking for good blood sausage

    The blood used for “blood sausage” is pigs, not cows, so BSE is not a concern. Pigs blood is used due to its coagulation. It coagulates the best compared to all other beasties. Brain matter is tasty as well, and the...

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    Egg coffee, what's this?

    egg whites will bind all the particles and coagulate, after which this coagulated “lid” will float on the surface of the liquid and can be removed. Some chefs just use the egg shell as it also contains albumin that...

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    What does acid do in emulsified sauces?

    according to Harold McGee’s “on Food and Coking,” in addition to acting as a flavoring, acid in an emulsified sauce helps prevent protein coagulation that causes sauces to separate. (the science behind it...

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    Bizarre brownie texture

    Eggs provide the coagulant for your brownies, so I would say that yes, using three eggs instead of the four eggs called for in the recipe might well have an adverse effect on the texture.

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    Got blood?

    I’ve seen pig blood for sale in the meat case at my local Asian grocery. It was coagulated - looked kind of like jello – so I have no idea whether it would work as a thickener. Might be worth a shot, though.

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    Scientific info on egg yolks + lemon juice?

    According to McGee in Food and Cooking, the addition of acid to eggs promotes coagulation (by lowering pH and reducing the repelling negative charges on the protein molecules). He mentions this in the context of cooking, not...

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    Does an egg piercer help?

    . Corriher says the eggs should be 7-10 days old, because older eggs are more alkaline, which makes peeling easier. Therefore, disregard advice to add vinegar to water for hard-cooked aggs. Salt, however, helps because it speeds...

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    homebrew kefir

    and has some definate coagulation but i would like a bit more yogurt-like consistency. any hounds experienced with this?

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    shangri-la brunch how early

    soy bean soup which is flavoured with pickled vegetables and fried dough. Some sea salt has been added so the MgCl coagulated the soy bean broth into little silky silvery pieces that literally slided down out throats. The spicy...

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    Turn your kids on to sushi at Sushiya

    Thanks. A little sake isn’t bad for kids. Seriously though, I meant “nigiri”-hand formed sushi. When you said “nigari” did you mean the coagulent used to make tofu from soy milk which is magnesium...

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    Kefir vs Yogurt

    for 5 to 24 hours. The bacteria consume some or all of the lactose in the milk and produce lactic acid. This acid causes the milk proteins to denature and coagulate which forms the delightful, custard-like, gel that is yogurt....

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    Who's cooking the eggs right?

    . The few times I’ve had them at Aquitaine, they came out perfect—-just barely coagulated. Overcooked eggs, much like overcooked pork, really upset me, and they are all too common at restaurants.

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    what i had for dinner

    in response to what makes ground beef biodynamic, a google search might yeild some results. on another note, your strategy of adding mustard to a burger mix is twofold appropriate. firstly because mustared seed itself acts as a...

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