[Sca-cooks] Weird Kitchen Science: Fascinatingcolor-shiftphemonenon...
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Fri Dec 10 16:57:06 PST 2004
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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brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat
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