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Category: Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Perfect Hasselback potatoes—using chopsticks

by Chef Zuz on April 18, 2022 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Chef Sin was making Hasselback potatoes using a technique I’d never seen before. I grabbed my phone and started shooting. It’s Cuisine Stupide’s first instructional video.  

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What is this 25-year-old pizza stone telling you?

by Chef Zuz on June 9, 2019June 11, 2019 in General, Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

We bought our ceramic baking stone in the early 1990s—and it looks like it. If those stains could talk, here is what they’d say about pizza: The rise is worth… [Continue Reading]

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Yes, we reviewed a can opener

by Chef Zuz on April 2, 2016August 31, 2018 in General, Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Chef Zuz wrote the following review for Cool Tools, Kevin Kelly’s smart, crowd-sourced gadget recommendation site (it’s also a massive and wonderful book that can trace its lineage back to the… [Continue Reading]

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Let’s get small

by Chef Zuz on February 11, 2015August 31, 2018 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Ten months ago, the two of us, Chef Sin and Chef Zuz, decided to move from the third-largest city in the Northwest to a small town in Oregon. Doing so… [Continue Reading]

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Great, so now you tell me

by Chef Zuz on December 24, 2014August 31, 2018 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Remove all juices with baster before removing from oven. Never lift by sides. Always support the bottom. As Chef Sin notes, it’s not helpful to put the important safety information… [Continue Reading]

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Rule of Thumb via Rhyming Couplet

by admin on November 17, 2012 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

“Vinaigrette? Remember, hon: The ratio is three-to-one.” — Chef Sin  

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A Unitasker You Can Love

by Chef Zuz on November 4, 2012August 31, 2018 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

[Photo: Olive Oil Shop] I don’t know how good Alton Brown is as a chef, but he’s definitely the world’s best kitchen docent. Nobody seems better able to guide us… [Continue Reading]

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Knifework, Lesson 1

by admin on October 6, 2012October 6, 2012 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

“Wearing gloves while chopping a jalapeno doesn’t help if you squirt the juice into your eye.” — Chef Sin

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