Archive for the Cooking Category
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The Shocking Truth About Food Inventory Every Restaurant Owner Should Know
Anyone who has ever been in the restaurant business can tell you that food is a strange and wonderful commodity with which to work. It is the chameleon of the inventory world. Instead of changing its color, it changes it value. That is not to say tha
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The Key to a Successful Restaurant Lies in Its Wait Staff
Your wait staff is the most important part of your restaurants sales. A great wait staff knows what to do and can produce, squeezing every cent possible from your hungry customers. There are several very important things that your servers must know i
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Should You Buy a Gas Or Charcoal Smoker?
It was about five or six years ago now that I first got really into smoking and I have to say that that was primarily down to my purchase of a Big Green Egg. Not something that's readily supplied in the UK but after a few attempts at searching I mana
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Water Smokers – the Argument For and Against
For some reason, most of the research I do into the origins of cooking always leads me back to China. Don't get me wrong, Chinese food is great but why always China? Or is it to do with the fact that most of my research is into the barbecue smoker?
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How to Make Pastrami
The Slavic Jews created Pastrami and is related (if not developed from) a product called pastrama which is a highly seasoned, smoked pork that's very traditional and famous in the European country of Romania. Pastrami is not made from pork but beef
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What Components Make a Good Charcoal Grill?
I've had a number of charcoal grills in my time and even made may own on a couple of occasions but I've still to find the perfect charcoal grill, in other words something that caters for all needs. Charcoal is a challenge in itself, for many it's si
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What Features Make a Good Charcoal Grill
It was my father who bought the family their first charcoal grill way back in 1974. I remember it well, we bought it whilst camping in France and we'd taken some advice from one of our French neighbors on the camp ground. Looking back I have fond mem
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The Basics of Smoking Meat
I've been smoking meat for many years and researched the process. Some advice I have found to be invaluable but other information has been of little used or plain wrong. Here's we'll discuss meat and how to prepare it for smoking. The process of smo
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The Basics of Smoking Fish
I've been researching the process of both hot and cold smoking for many years and during that time I've learned a lot, much of it from information freely available over the internet. In contrast however I've also read a lot of rubbish that has led me
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Is Crock Pot Pulled Pork Any Good?
After leaving university I got a job in the South many miles away from my home town so I had to set up my new home. It took me a while to find the place that I wanted but once settled I started about doing it up and making it mine. My parents were e
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