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inspired by a meal I had at Acorn in Bath, UK ( knows of what I speak!) where they served Pea and Parsnip sorbet, I tried making some veggie sorbet. I blended 5-6 red peppers and then mixed them in the Melanger until very very smooth and then froze in the ice cream maker
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my brain gives out after 50 or so hours of thinking about code — so that leaves 72 more hours of waking time to fiddle with stuff like this! Cooking tools are nice cause they do cool stuff w/o much work. Got a sous vide recently as well and it's super easy.
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planning on it! When I was researching the machine, I learned that they're actually made in India. There's a US company that imports them and upgrades them a bit for chocolate making (the machine needs to run for *days* instead of 30-40 mins)
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The chocolates I brought to refactor camp 2018 in Austin were actually made with an unmodified dosa grinder. Worked fine running for like 18 hours. It’s the only thing we’ve used it for in the last 5 years. I now make my dosa batter in a regular blendtec blender.
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oh interesting — I was showing this to my mother-in-law as she often makes dosas and was saying they're always grainy no matter how long she blends it — does fermentation help break it down too?
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The trick is to soak the parboiled rice and urad dal separately and grind separately before mixing for fermentation. A weak/cheap blender won’t work. You need a fairly powerful one like the blendtec or a grinder. And yes, fermentation is necessary and finishes it somehow.
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