[Sca-cooks] Weird Kitchen Science: Fascinatingcolor-shiftphemonenon...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Martin G. Diehl:
>Phlip wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>  > Anahita
>>  > who has made many a Thai curry paste, but never 2
>>  > gallons worth, never frozen one, and never had one
>>  > turn aquamarine blue.
>>
>>  Well, he wasn't kidding. Anyone who wants to see the
>>  pictures, they're now up at:
>>
>>  http://www.netlabs.net/~osan/Photos/Food/Brown_Paste.jpg
>>  http://www.netlabs.net/~osan/Photos/Food/Green_Paste.jpg
>>  http://www.netlabs.net/~osan/Photos/Food/Green_On_Brown.jpg
>
>>  Saint Phlip,
>
>WOW! ... That last one looks like an 'escape in progress'. 
>
>Similar to this [overconfident] windoze shutdown screen

The green-on-brown was just the iron pan of browned paste wherein I 
had plopped a dollop of the green stuff in order to show the contrast 
between the two.  As the stuff in the pan cooked down, I eventually 
got to the point where I could combine the reasonably-well-browned 
stuff with the contents of the crockpot, and left it overnight. In 
the morning it was pretty nicely caramelized.

I took the photos mostly because the effect was so astonishing I 
thought people wouldn't believe it...

Adamantius
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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat 
brioche."
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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