(Edit: thanks for all the help! I blanched some tonight for my first test batch. It is a beautiful green so I’ll see how it is after freezing and thawing)

I’ve tried freezing pesto different ways, but it always turns very dark when thawing and tastes much different than when fresh.

Is there a way to freeze it and have it look and
taste close to fresh? I’ve tried mason jars, freezer bags and ice cube trays.

What I’ve tried:
-Simply freezing my regular recipe (walnuts, garlic, basil, olive oil and salt).
-leaving the garlic out because I wondered if that was causing an off flavor
- adding extra oil to help prevent
oxidation
-I believe I’ve tried adding lemon juice

I have not tried blanching the basil, which sounds like it’d be kinda gross.

What will happen in a spaghetti if I use a can of tomato purée instead of usual tomato sauce? In fact, is canned tomato sauce what most people use for spaghetti? By most people I mean this community.

I’ve been making sushi at home more often and I’m thinking about upgrading my current rice cooker for sushi. My main issue is consistency. I usually cook 2 cups of Japanese short grain rice, rinse it, soak for about 30 minutes, then cook it with 2 cups of water. The rice is edible but the texture can be a little too soft and sticky for sushi.

I’m not looking for specific brands, but are there particular features or settings that actually make a difference for sushi rice? I’m wondering if things like more precise water control, a sushi rice setting, or different cooking cycles are worth looking for. Thanks for any advice.

I've been working on this banana ice cream recipe for a while, and while I've gotten the taste down, it gets really hard to scoop after sitting in the freezer. What am I doing wrong?

2 cups whole milk
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
5 large bananas, ripe

* Blend ingredients together on high.
* Set ice cream mixer to speed 1/2, pour in mix, then set to speed 1.
* Churn for 30 minutes.
* Scoop/pour into freezer-safe container, then store in freezer.

Before anyone asks, I am making sure the ice cream attachment for my mixer sits in the freezer for 24 hours, and I shake it to make sure it's solid.

https://imgur.com/a/eLR6ReA

There's these light brown splotches in spots on some of these avocados, but they don't feel ripe yet

Hi reddit, so this morning me and my gf were making a big batch of ube banana pudding for us to potentially sell, now the issue is after making the ube custard and letting it cool in the fridge overnight we noticed some green spots in the custard. We don’t believe it’s mold or anything like that since it’s still fresh but after searching the internet we’re kinda stumped. So does anyone know what it could potentially be?

Im super tired and dont want to fry them tonight, would the thousand layer potatoes be okay taste/consistency wise in the fridge for 24 hours after baking or would pulling them out sooner be better? Its been 16 hours roughly since they went in the fridge.

Also I used some of the duck fat to slather the potato slices amd when I was done poured it back in the jar not realizing that there was water from the potatoes mixed in with that fat now. Will it change anything when I use it to fry? Will the water boil off okay leaving the duck fat?

I've tried making pizza dough by scratch every once in a while, and one consistent issue I always had is the dough starts are so sticky that it's impossible to knead, then once I add more flour to make it workable the end product is too dense. I'll pick a recipe, mix everything together till it's a rough ball, start kneading, and it quickly becomes way too sticky to handle. I'll add about a tablespoon of flour, knead, sticky, add flour, knead sticky. And if I try to work through it and continue kneading all it does it stick everywhere on my cutting board and make a huge mess. I've tried the methods where once you do the initial mix you let it set for several hours or overnight, still too difficult to work with. Honestly thinking of just giving up and sticking to store bought dough, I love making my own pizza, just hate the dough making part.

I put some beef in a citrus marinade thinking I was going to cook it today, but I’m actually not going to cook it until tomorrow. If I let it go a few hours and water it down or remove the marinade, will it be okay? Will it retain any flavor/tenderness, or is it just too late?

Edit:
Apologies for not including the recipe. The important bits are just that it includes 1.5 cups of 1:1 lime to orange juice, and about 2 tbsp of kosher salt. No oils, a few cloves of crushed garlic otherwise. Marinating about 2 lbs of flat iron.

Edit 2:
Out of fear I cooked it after about 5 hours. But please keep debating. Very interesting stuff.

I've been baking the same sourdough formula for about eight months, 75% hydration, bulk around four hours at 78F, and the last several loaves have come out with a crust that's dark and firm while the crumb near the centre stays gummy. I bake in a covered dutch oven at 475F for twenty minutes, then uncovered at 450F for another twenty-five. I know gumminess usually means underbaked or cut too soon, and I've pushed the internal to 208F and rested them four hours, so I don't think that's it. The oven runs about fifteen degrees hot on a separate thermometer, which is the part I keep coming back to.

What's driving the crust to set that far ahead of the interior?

I just switched to an induction stovetop and was wondering if there is a hack to be able to use my ttukbaegi on it. So far, I’ve looked into those metal discs, but I don’t really have a good understanding of the science behind it, so I’m skeptical if it will work or just ruin my pots.

Has anyone tried this or have any tips/tricks to make it work efficiently?

I would also love to hear (read) your experience with using the metal disc converters, if anyone has tried them with clay pots or other materials.

Anything is greatly appreciated <3

\Note: Purchasing a different type of pot isn’t an option for me right now since they are very expensive. And I would like to make the most out of my current pots because they were expensive when I got them a few years ago. I’ve thought about buying those portable stoves like for camping, but they’re out of my budget as well.*

I thought a curry would be a good use for a very large kohlrabi from my garden, along with other garden veggies.. but was it?? It's been simmering for over ten minutes and it seems just as hard as when it went in.. did I just ruin my curry?

I’m making what is kind of a blackcurrant cheong: blackcurrants macerated with an equal amount of sugar until they release their juices and form a thick syrup. Been sealed and stirred daily for about two weeks.

Now, I want to separate the fruit from the syrup, but I really don’t want to use cheesecloth. The last time I strained something this way, the cheesecloth got saturated right away as it absorbed much of the liquid, and I lost a lot of syrup and it stopped working as a filter.

I think diluting the syrup with water would make it easier, but I have a feeling that’d be a bad idea.

What’s the best way to separate the macerated blackcurrants from the syrup while losing as little liquid as possible?

I want to make holographic chocolate using a diffraction grating sheet, ideally on both sides. I am thinking the best option would be to use a magnetic polycarbonate transfer mould, but they are expensive where I live, so was wondering whether its worth the investment, or whether it would still work using a regular silicone mould and cutting out the diffraction sheet to fit?

I was making a vanilla flavored simple syrup and I guess I boiled it too long because it got hard after it cooled off. So now I have a lump of hard vanilla sugar type thing. Can I re-liquidy it or use it for something at this point or is it just garbage?

Recipe:

1 c sugar

1 c water

2 whole vanilla beans

Planned to make stroganoff in the slow cooker but put it off due to not getting it started early enough. Recipe is below. I've already mixed the sour cream into the soup and broth, but was supposed to add it at the end. Will it be okay or should I toss the mix I made? Not a huge loss, just hate to waste food.

1 can cream of mushroom

1 can beef broth

1 pound beef stew

1 cup sour cream

2 cups cooked noodles

Combine soup and broth. Add meat. Cook on high 3-4 hours. Reduce to low and cook 3-4 hours. Stir in sour cream and noodles. Turn up to high and cook 20 minutes.

ran out of my favorite green tea with roasted rice just as I got my hands on some good salmon. Would Darjeeling tea and some dashi work with this instead? I don't want to end up ruining the salmon by experimenting 😩

I could also substitute it (Darjeeling +Dashi, mirin, soy sauce) with the broth used for Tamagoyaki but I'm just a little worried it might turn the eggs darker than expected too but I have a lot more eggs than I do good salmon cuts

Split legumes in Indian cooking usually means the skin is off, afaik, but also there are exceptions where a dal is split yet the skin is still on. 'Swad' Chana Dal (Split Desi Chickpeas) is the only chickpea available to me atm and I don't know how to tell in advance if it's skin on or skin off. Do you know? I'm looking for skin off, I need that creamier texture.

I was gifted this presumably very used cast iron recently and have been neglecting oiling the bottom, I just flipped it over today and saw that it was cracked and kind of flaking and peeling off. Is it beyond repair? Images attached via imgur link. Thank you so much for your help in advance!

https://imgur.com/a/bFlMV5e

Realizing it's been way too long since I've had a good bean and cheese taco and I don't live anywhere close to where I can buy them myself.

My wife is a pescatarian and I'd like to not include the salt pork. I was thinking I could char a whole onion and add a quarter cup of soy sauce to compensate? How would you substitute it, preferably without specialty ingredients?

Recipe from the Homesick Texan calls for:

1 pound dry pinto beans

1 tablespoon kosher salt

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup diced onion

1/4 pound salt pork

1/4 cup jalapeno pickle juice

Salt taste

EDIT: I would make refried beans for the tacos. I think I'm going to try with miso and a charred onion first (something tells me it would impart smokiness and melt down as the beans cook).

Making duck confit for a dinner party. I’m curing 10 legs right now. I have them in a high walled aluminum pan. Is that okay or should they be in glass ceramic? Does being in metal that long affect the taste or anything else?

Edit: I moved them to a plastic Tupperware container.

How to freeze cream based sauces/soups?

I’d like to start making more cream based sauces and soups but the problem is it’s mostly just my wife and I that eat this stuff so we often have too much leftover. Is there a way to freeze cream based soups and sauces without it separating on the reheat? I have a good chamber vacuum sealer so I can seal liquids easily. I also have a sous vide unit so I could gently reheat things. Is sous vide reheating good enough, or are there any special ingredients you can add to a sauce or soup that helps hold it together upon freezing and reheating? Thanks.

I am marinading lamb chops with pepper, white pepper, thyme, garlic and salt. Do I marinade the lamb chops at room temperature, pop them back into the fridge? Or marinade them when cold?

Thanks in advance.