The food thread

[jackinnj]

Anyone build there own clay brick outdoors pizza oven?

Just went to a friends pool party, and he had recently purchased a outdoors stainless steel oven ($2000). That's a lot of pie. Anyways, the pizzas that came out of the oven were awesome. It got to about 700c, and they came out within minutes. He must have made a dozen 10" pies.

I was looking on Instructables.com, and they have lots of diy ovens starting at around $200. I'd be tempted to put one together.

700c is almost 1300F! I worked in a die casting plant while I was in college, and that's about the temperature of aluminum when it flows.

You can get a Weber up to 600F without much difficulty.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

I worked in a die casting plant while I was in college

Kudos

 

[lduarte1973]

Portugal: Europe's best-kept foodie secret - CNN.com

 

[Cal Weldon]

4L Carrot juice
8L Tomato juice
4L V-3 juice (tomato, carrot and red bell pepper)

 

[Cal Weldon]

Uh-oh, Honey came home with another 20lbs. of cherries. I know it's hard to resist at $1/lbs. but...

Good thing I love her to death.

At least it's not shoes.

 

[jackinnj]

Sunday NYTimes Travel Section features Parma's food and restaurants.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/21/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-parma-italy.html

 

[jacco vermeulen]

AARGH

F.I.S.H. Parma

 

[scott wurcer]

AARGH

F.I.S.H. Parma

Are the sandwiches raw for the photo op or is that the way they are served?

EDIT - sorry it took a while to download the whole thing, I wouldn't think that bread the best foil for sashimi Italian style.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

According to the article Mr Walton posted, half the menu is au naturel.
(crummy interior though, imo)

I had campanelle before the weekend, very interesting pasta species.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Apple, walnut and honey pie, with crème fraiche from France.

One corner* a day will even turn a 3 decade heroin addict into a fatster.

(*what kind of I... thought of calling it a slice, I wonder)

 

[billshurv]

I now have an order for onion chutney from Memsahib. Any favourite recipes out there?

 

[DPH]

Anyone build there own clay brick outdoors pizza oven?

Just went to a friends pool party, and he had recently purchased a outdoors stainless steel oven ($2000). That's a lot of pie. Anyways, the pizzas that came out of the oven were awesome. It got to about 700c, and they came out within minutes. He must have made a dozen 10" pies.

I was looking on Instructables.com, and they have lots of diy ovens starting at around $200. I'd be tempted to put one together.

I'm 1/2 Sicilian, so have fond memories of brick ovens nestled into hillside vineyards when visiting my Nonno e Nonna. As has been mentioned you're probably looking in the 700-800 F range, not C.

My parent's neighbor spent too much money on theirs and it doesn't get much above 500 F, which is a travesty. Pretty, and can still make some good pizzas, but make sure whatever you do, that it can hit those higher temps. For me, I plan on doing a Weber kettle conversion sometime in the near-er-ish future.

 

[SY]

Uh-oh, Honey came home with another 20lbs. of cherries. I know it's hard to resist at $1/lbs. but...

I pity your bathroom fixtures.

 

[vinylkid58]

I pity your bathroom fixtures.

Just wait 'til he digs into the Kimchi.

jeff

 

[hitsware]

For ubiquitous gas ranges :

Set ' oven ' " broil "
Set temp to max

Caveat :
I've ruined my stove using this method
to heat my house ...... ( open oven door )

 

[Cal Weldon]

Disable lock feature
Set oven to Clean
= Instant pizza oven

 

[jacco vermeulen]

onion chutney

Not sure I can interest you in a fusion chutney*, caramalized onion with bilimbi** and plenty chili pepper

* Us Indonesia indoctrinated still favour fried shrimp paste as standard ingredient, and the term sambal instead.
** Speaking of mental, this afternoon I'm mailing a 5lb box of bilimbi chili sauce to the Caribbean, to have some there when I arrive in 3 weeks from now. Travelling by trolley saves lots of time on the checkin/out at the airports, but the thought of top/bottom swallowing several knotted condoms to take along some chili sauce is far from tempting. (on the other hand, if some cocai9 dog sniffed my pucker, I'd undoubtedly hit the international front pages)

 

[chrisb]

I pity your bathroom fixtures.

Just wait 'til he digs into the Kimchi.

jeff

I'm sure domestic chores are evenly shared casa Weldon, but empathy as well to the launderer of dainty underlayments - not tidy whities for long

 

[billshurv]

Fusion is good. I have a nice crop of chillis growing

 

[merlin2069er]

I went camping at Elora Gorge. My GF bbq a Picanha. Very tender and tasty, it could of used some more salt. lol.