Category: Cooking

  • Rocket Stove

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    Maybe you’ve stored 100 pounds of wheat kernels, 75 pounds of beans, barrels of water and you’re all set for whatever municipal unreliability may bring. One question: How will you cook the food you’ve stored? In Food Storage and Refried Beans, back in April 2009,  I determined that to cook 100 pounds of beans would…

  • The Light of My Breakfast

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    Cool thing in my bowl a few weeks ago. A Cheerio with a halo. Like a skinny O, the halo goes all the way around the top of the more saintly O.

  • Thistle and The Bear on Bread

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    Thistle and The Bear podcast about bread.

  • Very Bad Food

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    Thistle and The Bear discuss share their worst culinary creations in history. Music courtesy of Keytronic licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Spoken word licensed under Creative Commons Non-commercial Attribution 3.0

  • Hot-Smoked Salmon

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    This afternoon I made hot-smoked salmon in my father’s MasterBilt smoker. The Web did not provide me with good resources on smoking salmon in a MasterBilt. Or rather, it provided many different and vague recipes. My result was excellent but not perfect. This article details exactly what I did and exactly what I plan to…

  • Barbecued Ribs and Smoke Metrology

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    I made smoked ribs yesterday and tested out a new measurement system based on an Arduino, data logger shield, and a Sharp GP2Y1010 dust measurement unit. I didn’t have a long enough cable to get the smoke measurement unit inside the smoker, so I put it in my own contained pod above the smoker. By…

  • Better Bread from the Bread Machine

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    We have a Cuisinart convection bread machine (CBK-200) that was a given to us for Christmas one year. It is an attractive and well-featured machine, but I haven’t had much loaf success with it. We have had bread machines in the past. The Cuisinart tries to produce a loaf which is horizontal, like a loaf…

  • Sourdough Chowder Bowls

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    In San Francisco, on the wharf, you can buy a hollowed-out loaf of sourdough bread, filled with New England style clam chowder. You can buy it from street vendors, or sit down in a restaurant and eat it. Sourdough and San Francisco go together. I love the bowl, chewy, flavorful, damp from the chowder. I…