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Grex > Cooking > #180: Gas vs. electric: The great stove debate | |
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tod
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response 50 of 60:
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Aug 17 21:17 UTC 2006 |
re #49
We've got the same issues so I have a sideburner on my gas grill outside.
Roasting peppers or eggplant on electric elements is almost absurd (and
stinky!)
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keesan
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response 51 of 60:
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Aug 18 13:09 UTC 2006 |
Pepper skins actually char much better on electric burners (the flat not the
coil type) so you can peel them off.
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tod
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response 52 of 60:
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Aug 18 17:10 UTC 2006 |
They char best on my gas grill.
(If you want to peel peppers or tomatos, put em in boiling water for 60
seconds and then place em in cool running water while you peel em.)
I peel roma tomatoes for some of my best pizza sauze..
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mynxcat
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response 53 of 60:
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Aug 18 19:21 UTC 2006 |
Why would you want to peel a pepper?
I've taken to roasting eggplant in the oven. Not quite the same, but it will
have to do. As for papaddams, it's a good thing I don't like the stuff, but
when I had a microwave, it would go in there. Which is a shame, because it
doesn't have the same smokey flavour as a fire-roasted one.
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keesan
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response 54 of 60:
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Aug 18 20:17 UTC 2006 |
You peel the peppers after cooking them to make them less tough to eat when
you eat lots of them (or pickle or freeze them or grind them up into aivar).
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mynxcat
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response 55 of 60:
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Aug 18 20:29 UTC 2006 |
Hmmm - never ate them that way. Always had the skins on my peppers.
What's aivar?
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tod
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response 56 of 60:
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Aug 19 02:52 UTC 2006 |
I peel the peppers for my kids cuz the skins remove themselves from roasted
peppers pretty easily and are annoying like popcorn kernel.
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keesan
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response 57 of 60:
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Aug 19 15:39 UTC 2006 |
aivar is ground up peppers mixed with garlic and olive oil and spread on
bread. You can also add ground-up eggplant and tomatoes and salt. The
peppers need to be sweet red ones (usually the flat type, they are easier to
roast and deseed and peel). You can eat them just as salad with garlic and
olive oil too. In Macedonia in Sept everyone is out roasting them in large
flat round metal pans over an open fire, then they deseed, peel, and pickle
in jars in vinegar for the winter. You can buy them in jars at our local
dollar store, and aivar from Mediterranean stores (Yugoslav or Turkish or
Hungarian - sometimes hot).
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tod
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response 58 of 60:
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Aug 20 04:09 UTC 2006 |
Eggplant spread is a regular side in my house.
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mynxcat
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response 59 of 60:
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Aug 21 15:37 UTC 2006 |
Eggplant spread = babaghanoush? Anyone have a recipe - sounds delicious.
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tod
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response 60 of 60:
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Aug 21 16:57 UTC 2006 |
Not babaganoush.
I'll get a recipe for ya.
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