Cooking Gear
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over the stove? i know i seem to be making a lot of "The South" comments but we love cooking down here. lots of folk in our circle have nice commercial vent hoods
Wolf, Viking, etc. yes, it's overkill, but man it looks cool. -
@gjacobse interesting. I just know that when my smoker is going outside, when I open the door the smoke wafts in and goes upstairs.... the master bathroom often smells of lovely pecan and maple smoke. The updraft from the kitchen to the upper level is crazy in my house (it's a split level).
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@Nic um, no. well not any that we've had. they have a pipe out the top of the roof.
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@gjacobse ok, now I remember seeing the "dust" for those things online... they come in little resealable tubs, yes?
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@hubtechagain said:
over the stove? i know i seem to be making a lot of "The South" comments but we love cooking down here. lots of folk in our circle have nice commercial vent hoods
Wolf, Viking, etc. yes, it's overkill, but man it looks cool.LOL... yea,.. nothing like that in this house. the range I wanted was over $8,000... that was just the range. no stove or vent. We have just a normal simple 4 element stove with microwave overhead with filter. And the filter doesn't filter down to that micron level.
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@gjacobse said:
Get yourself one of these.. small.. can be used indoors and out.
![0_1448471988904_51xYt-uXFEL[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S7SVILO.jpg)
I regularly smoke cheese, you'll want to use cold smoke, not direct or hot smoke. Smoked salmon, pork and chicken.
What are you using for your source of smoke though?
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@gjacobse I'm just happy I have a gas stove in the house we bought. That plus a gas fireplace makes me very happy.
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yes. the previous owners of this house replaced their gas unit with an electric flat top....stupid. when a few stars line up we will be replacing this unit with gas.
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@hubtechagain said:
yes. the previous owners of this house replaced their gas unit with an electric flat top....stupid. when a few stars line up we will be replacing this unit with gas.
why...why in the hell would they do that???
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@hubtechagain said:
yes. the previous owners of this house replaced their gas unit with an electric flat top....stupid. when a few stars line up we will be replacing this unit with gas.
If it makes you feel any better, my chef neighbor has an electric flat top... he hates it, but there it is. There is replacement planned for 2016, but in the meantime he just drools over my 6 burner gas / convection oven combo.... but my vent hood just blows the hot air at my forehead.
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When we bought our house it had an electric oven.
We replaced it a few years ago with a gas one. A co-worker came over and did all of the iron-work pluming for us.
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A good food processor is an indispensable kitchen tool. Get the biggest (most powerful) one you can afford, and get some of the accessories (slicing blade, etc). Mine has many, many miles on it.
Find a restaurant supply store and invest in some good half and quarter sheet pans. Get the aluminum kind, with rolled edges. They will be cheaper at the commercial place than they will be at a regular home type kitchen supply store. Get the steel wire cooling racks that fit into each pan as well, maybe 2 racks for every 4-5 pans. These will make your life much easier.
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I use my Lodge cast iron skillet almost every day as well as an enamel covered cast iron dutch oven. Love them!
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Cast iron skillet, a big one because it's a good forearm workout
Small non-stick frying pan of the cheapest variety for eggs, and only eggs. Replaced every year or two without guilt.
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@MattSpeller said:
Cast iron skillet, a big one because it's a good forearm workout
Small non-stick frying pan of the cheapest variety for eggs, and only eggs. Replaced every year or two without guilt.
^^^^ This times a bazillion.... it's like @MattSpeller looked into my kitchen and reported his observations....
Be sure to pour the bacon grease from aforementioned cast iron skillet into aforementioned nonstick pan for the proper frying of eggs.... "it's the only way to be sure"....
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@DustinB3403 said:
@gjacobse said:
Get yourself one of these.. small.. can be used indoors and out.
![0_1448471988904_51xYt-uXFEL[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S7SVILOm.jpg)
What are you using for your source of smoke though?
The 'kit' comes with containers of sawdust - Alder, Apple, Hickory; and you can get more.
It's built like a double boiler, only you don't use water. just drop a spoon full of the dust in the bottom pan, put in the drip pan, then the rack.
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I should mention, if you want a cast iron pan go to a 2nd hand / salvation army store. Buy the one that has the most shiny inky midnight black slick looking surface you can find. Grandma put some effort into getting it nice and that takes years.
