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What are your favourite spices to use? (lazysoci.al)
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[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Bebir (Aleppo pepper) - it's a very mild red smoked chili that has incredible earthiness, and only a soupçon of warmth. I put this in everything, even dishes that are supposed to taste bright

Espresso - I make lazy pot espresso and save the dregs. I put the coffee in so many dishes. Sometimes where the base ingredients are too acidic or sweet. But I will also add it in gravy, sauces, stews, braise my meat with it. A couple tablespoons in a pot of spicy soup. It's so versatile and deep

Cane sugars - raw, turbinado, or demerara - minimally processed where the molasses remains in the crystals. I know sugar has a bad reputation in our insane twisted diet lifestyle, but it's fine for a cooking, and it's amazing to caramelize things when frying or to take the edge off acidity. You need the tiniest amount. I will also pulverize it in a mortar and pestle... A teaspoon sprinkled on kettle corn is ludicrously delicious

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Does cooking with espresso mean all your food is caffeinated? Or does it cook out eventually like alcohol?

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's a good question.

I don't know if the molecule is destroyed or transformed.

But I use so little that it wouldn't affect anybody anyways... I don't even think a child who is naive to the molecule would feel a thing

Edit... My curiosity got the best of me, I wasn't able to Google the answer directly, but I found articles asking if reheating coffee destroys the molecule. Apparently an organic chemist got involved and stated that the molecules pretty stable, it will only break down around 350 F. So that would mean most of my food probably has the full effect of whatever caffeine was there.

I accidentally poisoned a love interest when I made her lasagna with espresso in the sauce. Turned out she was allergic to coffee, not caffeine. I didn't know... but whoops a daisy lol

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