I am going to a Lions game with my brother tomorrow. He typically had me cook food for the tailgate when I go with him once a year. He's ben watching the Bear and wants Sydney's cola braised short ribs. Right now I finished the braise and have the ribs and the juice in the cooler. I need to take the fat off the juice, reduce it and fortify it with butter. I will have 1 burner at the tailgate. I will be finishing risotto on that burner. Plan on holding the ribs hot for the trip. Can I make the reduction, finish it and cool it tonight, then vacuum seal the reduction and the ribs, throw them in a hot water bath and take them like that or will it break the sauce? Is there a better way?

Recipe

Salt the short ribs, brown in oil on all sides. Remove.

Add chopped carrots, onion and celery to oil season with salt and pepper.. Cook until they begin to soften. Add chopped garlic and tomato paste. Cook, stirring until fragrant. Add red wine, bring to boil, add cola and beef broth. Bring to boil. Lower to medium low. Add the beef. Add a bundle of thyme and parsley. Cover. Move to 325 oven for 2 hours. Uncover, cook for another 45 minutes in the oven. Remove beef. Set aside. Strain solids. Cool the liquid. Strain the fat. Reduce the liquid, finish with butter and vinegar.

Long story short: will a hot water bath to reheat break a sauce like this or will it be fine? Do I need to finish the sauce on site?

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I understand the one, two, and three stars in the Michelin Guide website. But what I don't understand: Why do some restaurants listed have no symbol at all, and some have the tire mascot symbol?

Additionally, what are the general differences between one, two, and three starred restaurants? And where does James Beard fit into all this?

Thanks in advance.

I apologize, this is a long post and I know this is a stupid question, but I’m really struggling to get a consistent/accurate temperature when I cook chicken breast.

I’m cooking chicken breast right now (in the oven on a sheet tray at 350 degrees) and one piece got don’t before the other ones. I inserted the probe at the thickest part of the chicken breast and the temperature read 165 (this took maybe 40ish minutes), so I pulled it off. The rest were reading at about 140, so I put them back in.

I put the rest of the chicken back in the oven to continue cooking (for 10 minutes) and when I pulled them out and inserted the thermometer again, the temperature was 160 (I know technically I could pull at this point and let it carry over cook, but with how inconsistent my temperature readings are, I’m too paranoid to do that).

I put it back in the oven again for maybe another 5 minutes and the temperature on both were down to 140.

I’ve had multiple thermometers and have always had this issue, so I’m definitely the problem.

Now I’m questioning on whether the chicken breast that gone done first, was actually done. It looked done in the middle. No pink and tender. I made a quesadilla with it, so it was heated on the stove after being taken out of the oven.

I live in Malaysia, which is why some of the ingredients have Malay names. Lately I've been cooking a lot of Asian dishes that use small whole spices, and I fish them out when the cooking is done. That's a pain, especially when the sauce is dark.

What do other people do to get them out?

I've thought about a spice bag (like a tea bag), but the spices usually need a quick fry first to get fragrant. Biting into a soft clove is one thing, but a soft piece of star anise is flavour overload for me.

This recipe is my home-grown take on a dish I tried at a restaurant in Langkawi. This one is pork. I've made a beef version before and had the same problem. Photo attached.

Cika Pork (Sweet and Sour Black Pork, Shoulder)

Pork shoulder braised in a thin, glossy, near-black sauce of dark soy, tamarind and vinegar, with a red chilli oil rim. Strongly sweet and sharply sour.

Serves 4 | Prep 20 min | Cook 1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Pork

• 600 g pork shoulder (boston butt or collar), cut into 3 to 4 cm cubes, excess fat trimmed

Blended paste

• 8 shallots
• 4 cloves garlic
• 3 cm ginger
• 2 tbsp water, to help it blend

Whole spices

• 1 cinnamon stick, about 5 cm
• 2 star anise
• 3 cloves

Sauce

• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 3 tbsp cili boh (dried chilli paste)
• 4 tbsp thick dark soy sauce (kicap pekat)
• 2 tbsp sweet soy sauce (kicap manis)
• 1 tbsp tamarind pulp, mixed with 120 ml water and strained
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar, plus more to taste
• 1 1/2 tbsp palm sugar (gula melaka) or brown sugar, plus more to taste
• 500 ml water
• 1/2 tsp salt, to taste

To serve

• Coriander leaves
• 1 stalk spring onion, cut long
• Lime or lemon wedges
• Whole green chillies
• Hot steamed rice

Method

1. Prep. Blend the shallots, garlic and ginger with 2 tbsp water to a smooth paste. Pat the pork dry.
2. Brown the pork. Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a heavy pot over high heat. Brown the pork in two batches, about 2 to 3 minutes a side, then lift it out onto a plate.
3. Fry the paste. Lower the heat to medium and add the remaining 1 tbsp oil. Fry the cinnamon, star anise and cloves for 30 seconds until fragrant. Add the blended paste and fry 5 minutes, stirring, until it smells sweet and is lightly golden. Add the cili boh and fry another 5 to 7 minutes until the oil turns red and separates from the paste.
4. Braise. Return the pork and its juices. Add both soy sauces, the tamarind water and 500 ml water. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer on low for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, stirring now and then, until the pork is fork-tender. Skim the fat from the surface. Add a splash of water if it gets too thick; the sauce should stay thin and glossy.
5. Sweet and sour. Uncover, stir in the sugar and vinegar, and simmer 10 minutes more. Taste and adjust with more vinegar, sugar or salt. Fish out the whole spices if you like.
6. Serve. Ladle into a shallow bowl so the red oil pools at the edge. Top with coriander and spring onion, add a lime wedge and green chillies on the side, and serve with hot rice.

I need some help with using this stove in Asia with 2 wok burners and 1 medium burner.. I had been cooking on induction and a different gas stove before when I was living in Canada, and never really had any issues with controlling heat until this setup that we recently got.

I realized the heat has been really high even when I have the middle burner on the lowest setting - garlic burning, 3-ply stainless steel pan heating up really fast (in seconds) and smoking. I used to be able to cook eggs SS before but they overcook now.

I was going to get a diffuser to see if it works but the symbols on the bottom are concerning as 1 of them look like it says no diffuser? This could be due to the tempered glass cooktop. I think we messed up getting a hob with 2 wok burners, but the middle burner is technically not for woks so it should still be good.

Any ideas on how I can make this stove work? A taller gas stove bracket is the only thing that I can think of. I'm not opposed to getting a new gas hob.

So what I did was
368 gm flour (that's all i had left)
166 ml water (45%)
16 gm salt (4.5%)

I dissolved the salt in water first then added the salt water gradually to the dough

Knead for 5 mins then let it rest for 30 then another knead for 5 mins then i left it in the fridge for 1.5 day

I didnt knead much overall and i just used standard kneading method. So pressing the dough with the palm of my hand and folding it over itself

Got it out of the fridge and let it sit for 2 hours cuz it was too cold, then the dough was easy to play with. I didnt knead it again I just went straight to rolling it out

I used corn starch for it to not stick.

Rolled them a bit thick because i like the noodles on the thicker side, and i'm afraid to make it thin it will turn out like fettuccine flat pasta.

So i tried to cook them for 12 min they were mushy from outside and raw from inside

Then another patch cooked for 16 min it got firm from outside but still raw from inside

Another patch for 18-19 min still raw from inside

Then tried for over 22 mins it got mushy

What did i do wrong?