Food

But jel. :)
Edit. wtf is Uni?
corn?
cantor?
cycle?

Uni is sea urchin. It's regarded as a delicacy in some countries.*

*Knowledge courtesy of Masterchef, never eaten it myself.

I cannot so someone go and tell me how it was...
http://owlondon.com/taco-wars-18th-may/

I haz TacoWars tickets!!!!

cry seriously, i want pics...

They'll be pics ;)

Just finished this salted caramel chocolate birthday cake for hatmissus' birthday party tomorrow.

It's basically a cake shaped lump of butter, sugar and cream. 1000kcal 57g fat a slice*, serves 12.

*plus whatever the champagne truffles on top are

Looking forward to that if I make it out of the house!

^^ That sounds awesome. Salted caramel ftw.

http://imgur.com/gallery/EkvjZ

sort of want to try.

Interesting.

I'm having a burger-off with some friends. Obv, I want to win.
Everything is going to be from scratch, apart from the bun/brioche, which I might try and bake, but will most likely buy. I want your tips.

Plan is:
to incorp marrow in the patty.
Home made ketchup and mayo.
Gem lettuce
White onion, raw, rings
Raw slice of tomato - what are the best eating tomatos, beefsteak??
What cheese?!
Anything else?
Unfort, the audience is generic tasters, so should appeal to the masses, to win.

What cut of meat will you be grinding? That will have the greatest impact.

That will have the greatest impact.

Don't forget salting technique, as discussed up thread
:-)

^^ yup

The Princess in Shoreditch has foise gras smeared on their patty, bet that is an easy win if it goes will with the rest of the toppings

Interesting.

I'm having a burger-off with some friends. Obv, I want to win.
Everything is going to be from scratch, apart from the bun/brioche, which I might try and bake, but will most likely buy. I want your tips.

Plan is:
to incorp marrow in the patty.
Home made ketchup and mayo.
Gem lettuce
White onion, raw, rings
Raw slice of tomato - what are the best eating tomatos, beefsteak??
What cheese?!
Anything else?
Unfort, the audience is generic tasters, so should appeal to the masses, to win.

bacon? and why white onion, if i was going to eat onion raw, it would be red, tastes way better! i would definitely go for a beef tomato.

Still researching, but prelim decision is sirloin and chuck.
Going with hand chopped method as I gave my grinder away!
What you reckon?

The onion debate is a good one. I have wrestled with it. I agree, I love the red onion.
I decided white due to the mass appeal factor. I might have to workshop it, blind taste tests.

Bacon, yeah, I think I will bacon it up. Smoked, streaky delicious bacon...

Wait!!!!!!!!!!

Dill pickle.

Oh god, yeah, pickle. It's def in! :)

foie gras - interesting, but I prefer a mayo, gonna attempt a shake shack sauce...
duck on beef is a bit meh.

I've got a fancy can of foie gras sitting on my desk. Suggestions?

Spread on hot crusty toast and devour, with a lightly chilled glass of Muscat Beaumes de Venise. Chortle haughtily.

If it were me, here are some things I'd do.

Crisp up bacon, crumble with some black truffle and add to the top of the bun instead of sesame seeds.
Watch Heston Blumenthals programme on burgers
Deep fry shallot rings.
Salt/wash and dehydrate some vine tomatos, blitz and add to/spread on fresh tomato of your choice
Using a closh when frying the patty seems to be a fairly well regarded trick

Interesting.

I'm having a burger-off with some friends. Obv, I want to win.
Everything is going to be from scratch, apart from the bun/brioche, which I might try and bake, but will most likely buy. I want your tips.

Plan is:
to incorp marrow in the patty.
Home made ketchup and mayo.
Gem lettuce
White onion, raw, rings
Raw slice of tomato - what are the best eating tomatos, beefsteak??
What cheese?!
Anything else?
Unfort, the audience is generic tasters, so should appeal to the masses, to win.

Use a heavy skillet, add a little clarified butter and then season it like mad with S&P before placing the patty down. Keep the pan relatively dry and keep basting the meat with clarified butter. I also add a little fish sauce to my burger to raise the umamamamamamamamamami levels.

If you really want to get bonkers, make your own b beer-cheese slices - as per http://www.starchefs.com/events/studio/techniques/umami-cheese-ketchup-burger/html/index.shtml

Excellent. Dinner tonight sorted.

My friend got it for me as a present and has been sitting on my work desk since Christmas.

nice nice.
closh is a given when it comes to melting cheese on to a patty!
tomatos - gonna let my ketchup do the talking, but i do use vine tomatoes.