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First Aired - 09/07/2010 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues Dave and Nastassia take a caller's query on making chocolate at home, and delve into the world of "chocolate alchemy" with a crash course on the melanger--the heavy machinery of the chocolate world. Dave also addresses at-home carbonation techniques, including a double-shot technique for the heavy bubble purists. Finally Dave drops science with a quick shaken vs stirred breakdown that would make James Bond blush. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
Photo: Chocolate melanger
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Cooking Issues Introduction: All About Chocolate (17:18)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, The Barterhouse, Bouza, Tannat, health benefits of red wine, Heritage Radio Network, Nastassia Lopez, cardiovascular benefits to drinking alcohol, low sugar meringues, high intensity sweetener mixed with a bulking agent, what's a good recipe for kale?, farmers market, Dave doesn't like it raw, it's good when overcooked, kale with pine nuts and raisins, advice for making chocolate at home?, www.chocolatealchemy.com, cocoa butter, chocolate melanger, grind until the particle size is right, grind with the lid off for a little while, small batch chocolates, Mast Brothers chocolate, selecting beans, the final product of chocolate is very finicky, it's well worth investigation and study,Limoncello & Meat Velveting Techniques (14:17)
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email questions, limoncello, lemon peel or zest in alcohol, if you add sugar when its hot it will get cloudy, the reason liquor turns cloudy is that there are soluble oils in alcohol but when diluted those oils are no longer soluble, sugar syrup, General Tso's chicken, velveting technique for cooking meat, velveting is a procedure where you marinate small chunks of meat in egg white and corn starch, produces a tender result, egg white coating, alkaline, bicarbonate solutions, tenderazation, alkaline browns faster, baking soda and ground meat, browns faster, this subject hasn't been adequately studied,Frozen Slushies, More On Drink Dilution & Cocktail Carbonation (19:06)
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there will be no live show next week!, Dave will be teaching sous vide cooking, email question:, making frozen slushies with a soda siphon, mohitos, super freezing, shaken drinks are more diluted than you think, shaken and stirred drinks are different, stirred drinks are less diluted than shaken drinks, shaken drinks are airated more, dilute your drink first then put it in the shaker, Audrey Saunders, mixology, liquor, alcohol, mixed drinks, cocktails, caller question about carbonating cocktails, air is the enemy of carbonation, Dave likes to carbonate gin drinks, you should fine tune the amount of Co2 put into a drink, one tank of Co2 will do 200-400 gallons of drink, Co2 is more soluable in alcohol than water, you need to add more Co2 than you should in water,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/05/2010 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues Dave calls in from Berlin to join Nastassia in-studio. Together they take your calls, take a look at the past week's emails, and discuss making and storing simple syrup, fashioning ice lenses (by hand) to start fires, why your brain needs salt, and cast-iron stick reduction. Finally Dave described some all-too-recent misadventures at the airport in Dusseldorf. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a culinary mainstay in NYC for over 55 years.
Photo: Dave's possible location for this week's episode of Cooking Issues
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Cooking Issues Introduction: LIVE FROM BERLIN! (14:58)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, Nastassia Lopez, Heritage Radio Network, email question, why are the two most important beverages in Germany - beer and apple juice - use so often in cocktails?, apple juice is usually diluted, dilute your drinks before hand, freeze apple juice into ice cubes, apple juice and whiskey, acid sugar balance, beer cocktails, old school hot beer cocktails, ale and brandy, flamed using a red hot poker, ignites the drink, burned flavors, caller question, sweet grass vodka, brown apple juice doesn't taste like fresh apples because of oxidation, Reeses peanut butter cups are oxidized, characteristic taste,Beer Mousse, Safety and Sous Vide, Cast Iron & Simple Syrup (15:50)
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beer mousse, gelatin will effect the beer, it will work, Sam Mason, WD-50, egg white meringue, caller question: velvety meat, sous vide cooking and searing, dealing with parasites, monkfish with worms, safety and sous vide, sushi grade fish has been frozen to kill parasites, salt cod, food sticking to cast iron, nothing it bulletproof non stick, Heavy Metal: the Science of Cast Iron Cooking, correct ratio for simple syrup, shelf life of syrup, there is no correct recipe, 1:1 simple syrup will mold over time if left at room temperature,Salt, Clear Ice & What Not to Bring to the Airport (15:49)
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protein in flours, Harold McGee, salt sensativitiy, salt is 100% necessary to your survival as a human being, there is no life for humans without sodium, salt appetite, Tuscan bread, older generations had much more salt than we did, preserved meats were more heavily salted years ago, we have refrigeration now, clear ice, you can warm it up enough that it can start a fire, crystal ice, difficult to make at home, don't bring a boxcutter or a chemistry set to the airport!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/04/2010 04:30PM
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This week on Flash Talks Cash Andrew and Flash discuss the recent midterm elections through the mirror of major campaign finance reform changes made last year. These changes opened the door for huge corporate and usually anonymous contributions to be made to political organizations like "Crossroads for America", which are then funneled into partisan groups. This essentially means people with money can offer huge unbridled amounts of cash to nominees and cull favors from them in the future. Where does this leave the average voting joe? This episode was sponsored by Edwards of Surry VA.
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Flash Talks Cash Introduction: This Election Cost us How Much?? (16:31)
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Flash Talks Cash, JoAnn 'Flash' Fleming, Andrew Newman, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, there was a lot of money spend this year on the election, why?, Supreme Court case, campaign finance regulations, The Citizens Union Case, anybody can donate now, Karl Rove, there is no correlation between spending and the amount of votes you receive, the only people who can run for office are rich people or well connected people, the system is not working, caller question, Tea Party candidates, change in the landscape of party affilations,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
