• Rob1992@lemmy.world
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    I’ve done it once, added so much cheese that the only flavor left was cheese and it solidified back into a cuttable block when it cooled down. It was disgusting

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    I do the same with garlic. Usually two or three times of what the recipe says.

    There is not a single reason in the world not to do so.

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      I’ve almost managed it with garlic, but that was an “I wonder what’ll happen if I use 3 bulbs instead of 3 cloves” kinda moment

      It was still phenomenal, it just had some remarkable… Staying power

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      I realized how much I love adding garlic to soups, so I figured I might aswell try making a soup almost entirely from garlics. It was amazing.

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          I knew a girl that made Gazpacho from a hand written recipe that a French exchange student had left us.

          The recipe, amongst other ingredients, said ‘2 Garlic’.

          We took that to mean two heads of garlic, instead of two cloves.

          That was some spicy ass soup. We sweated our way through it because it was painfully delicious.

          No matter how much I showered or brushed my teeth, I radiated garlic for the next couple days and had to explain myself at my barista job.

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            I did this before with a pizza recipe. Absolutely delicious.

            The problem was I had a PT class the next day which was normally outdoors and individual until the group runs but was indoors and partner based that day because it was raining.

            My gym partner said he understood, but I know he still resents me. I know.

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          3 days ago

          While I’m pretty good at normal talk in english, I don’t know the names for half of the foods and ingredients lol, so it would be better for both of us if you’d just googled for some recipes and see which one you like

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    Who needs the leftover quarter bag of shredded cheese anyway.

    I do the same with anything that comes in a can. I’m not going to use a tenth of a tomato paste tomorrow. It goes in today.

    Good recipes take that into account.

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    The best thing that ever happened to me was finishing off some caramelized pork slabs in the cast iron pan…

    I put some aged white cheddar, turn the heat off, and put the top of the pan on just to do a quick cheese softening… Well of course I forgot about it and left the room

    30 minutes later I came back when my stomach was rumbling, lifted the pan lid and realized that the cheese had melted off the pork and onto the pan. There was just the perfect amount of latent heat, by complete fluke, to perfectly caramelize the aged cheddar into a crispy, greasy disc at the bottom of the cast iron pan.

    I have tried to recreate that by frying cheese, and I have never been able to capture that moment of pure tastebud joy and bliss.

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      Accidents are often the best ways to discover cooking techniques. I remember hearing about a story of a medieval cook who feel asleep cooking his lord’s meat over an open fire. At first he thought his lord would have him whipped or beheaded… but actually enjoyed the roast so much he gave him his own farm!

      That was from a documentary in the 90s I believe.

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    I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think there is such a thing as too much cheese. My partner and I have regular disagreements about how much should be put on a pizza when we’re making one at home.

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      I don’t mind cheese, but I have never understood the obsession with piles of cheese.

      Cheese pizza has never made sense to me. Margarita is already plenty of cheese to topping ratio.

      Just enough cheese to hold it together. That’s it, that’s the right amount of cheese (my opinion, of course)

      I recently came across the question whether cheese or sauce is more fundamental to pizza.

      The sauce. It’s 100% the sauce.

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        Sounds like we’re in complete agreement.

        What really gets me is when someone crosses the line from “enough to hold it together” all the way through “cohesive item you can take bites from” then dives headlong into “everything sloughs off as the cheese stays connected and drags every other topping with it”, then acts like nothing is wrong and it’s a good thing.

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      Adding too much cheese can keep the the middle of the pizza from cooking properly, just like too much sauce or too many large chunks of vegetables with high water content. It takes a LOT of cheese to reach that point, but it is very possible when combined with the large chunks of vegetables.

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        It could be the cheese basically sealing in moisture from the sauce. Usually the cheese itself isn’t too wet, just oily, but if it completely covers a wet sauce and prevents that moisture from escaping, I think that would do it.

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          That could be a factor as well. Keeping the moisture in would keep the crust from drying on top of the increase thermal mass of the cheese itself.