Category: Food
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Zojirushi BB-PAC20
Virtuoso Zojirushi started production of BB-PAC20 Virtuoso bread machine before 2016. The following reviews describe and illustrate this machine: Zojirushi, by 2019, was marketing the BB-PDC20 Virtuoso Plus. I found a refurbished Virtuoso BB-PAC20 in an online store in early 2020. [Update. I later found the Bread Machine Diva site, which has material on Zojirushi’s…
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Bread Machine Recipe Tables
Bread Machine Recipes Note I began to chart bread machine recipes when I realized that each manufacturer designs its programs for its machines. “Standard” recipes (e.g. Bread Lovers Bread Machine Cookbook) fail in some devices. I experimented with putting recipe information in tables in the TablePress plugin and storing and publishing the table on this…
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Instant Pot – Rice
Cooking Rice Any vessel that can hold rice and water can cook rice. A rice cooker applicance, a pot on a stove top, or a pressure cooker all cook rice. For steamed long grain white rice, including Basmati, I often use a normal pot on the stove. I use the Instant Pot for brown rice.…
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Instant Pot
The principals of Double Insight developed the Instant Pot pressure multi-cooker in 2008-9. It was on the market by 2012, and took off in 2015-6 with social media and presence in Amazon Market Place. “Instant Pot” is not a trade mark like Vacuum Cleaner or Bandaid. Instant Pot launched a sous-vide heater in 2018, and…
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Electric Pressure Cookers
Endless This post was published in August 2019 but has been updated as I have given more thought to it or had interesting experiences. It is easier for me to edit the post than to write new posts. Devices A pressure cooker reaches cooking temperatures above the boiling point of water (212 F. or 100…
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Slow Cookers
I used a slow cooker for many years, and invested time and effort in learning that method of cooking. Slow cookers braise food in liquid at low heat. Most slow cookers made from the 1950s to the early 21st century used ceramic crocks heated by a single electric heating element- low powered and poorly insulated.…
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Pots and Pans
The hypothesis of Catching Fire is that cooking food was a learned cultural practice that affected the physiological evolution of human beings. It used “external” energy to make eating and digesting food take less time and liberated people to get on with life. Ceramic cooking vessels were the dominant technology in societies in which people…
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Dry Hard
Legumes Botany In the botanical classification system, dry beans are legumes, Fabaceae s.l. (or Leguminosae), a “family” of plants as defined by the APG System (III), which includes 730 genera of plants. Most dry beans are classified as being in one of these genera: Plants have moved or been moved from the original regions where…
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Bread Machine Artisan Bread?
Reasons a bread machine cannot be used, in the baking programs, to bake artisan bread: Gluten. The autolyze (a rest after mixing before kneading) and other rests during kneading allows gluten to form in a less structured way that produces the more open crumb of French bread and artisan loaves. Fermentation. Artisan loaves involve pre-ferments,…
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Steamed Rice
Steamed rice is rice cooked in water. Cooked rice can used in a dish, as an accompaniment to other dishes, fried or processed further, or added to other dishes e.g. Nasi Goreng is preparation of fried cooked white rice. All rice delivers carbohydrates, a source of glucose, an essential nutrient. White rice has been milled…