Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Adam Ragusea" channel.

Nice overview of the Michelin guides. In Europe, where the guides are respected, they are also sources of controversy. Big fights over the appropriateness of some ratings; a couple of French chefs have committed suicide after being demoted from 3 to 2 stars. I'm now in Asia where the controversy is even bigger. Many Asians take food very seriously, and the Michelin guides are often perceived as not really understanding Asian food, leading to wildly undeserved stars in some cases. There are also accusations of corruption in ratings. Nevertheless, I will regularly consult the Guide as a, erh, guide, but not the final judge.
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It was nice of Adam to include a Google Earth image of a Chinese kaolin mine, but Kaolin is not related to the village shown in the video: Zaolin. Rather, it is named after another village in Jiangxi Province called Gao Ling. Google Maps here: https://goo.gl/maps/6tSKG1aEveWMEHQ78
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I've only had truffle on a couple of occasions and I was not hugely impressed, though they were not bad. My favorite mushrooms/fungi are still chanterelles, porcini and morels. China (where I'm currently located) has some good, wild mushroom species such as Termite Mushroom (collybia albuminosa) which is delicious dried and reconstituted.
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Living in Shanghai, I've had to deal with flour weevils for years. They mostly prefer whole wheat, less so white flour, probably because they prefer the protein to just starch. They also love pasta. They only come out/breed in the summer half of the year, so if I go away on vacation, all my flour, pasta and even certain spices go in the freezer for protection. They don't like the cold.
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@joshuanelson4559 That stinks! I hope you get better.
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"Dwarves are actual humans". Except for Dwarf Hamster, Dwarf Mongoose, Dwarf Crocodile, Dwarf Cayman, Dwarf Elephant, Dwarf Hippopotamus, and possibly many others species.
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The surface on all those cooked items looked quite pale. Couldn't they blast it with super-heated air for a minute or so? Perhaps that is beyond the device's capabilities.
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Despite having lived in China for over 25 years, I have never managed to develop a taste for red bean or mung bean desserts. To me, they still just taste like beans with sugar added. Beans (of any kind) have a sandy mouthfeel that I don't want in my dessert.
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@jeil5676 "systemicatic....both". Hey, you invented a whole new word.
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@IdNoPurpose But it's so delicious!!
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@IdNoPurpose Haha, deep fried butter. I hadn't heard of that before.
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Granite? It looks like white marble to me.
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A-nice, in English pronunciation sounds like A***. Anethole sounds like anus-hole. Coincidence? I think not! Even so, as a Dane, I join my fellow Danes (and Finns, Swedes, and Dutch) in expressing unbounded love for the flavor of liqorice! Sweet, salty, even almost ammonium-like, we love it!
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Pigeon is delicious, though the domesticated pigeon is not as tasty as the wilder species. Be careful not to overcook your pigeon as it easily gets dry. Alternatively, cut off the breasts while raw, make a sauce of the carcass and sear the breasts. Wings and drumsticks have very little meat on them; hardly worth the trouble.
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If American butter is unfermented and European butter is fermented, does that mean that American buttermilk is not sour? After all, traditionally at least, buttermilk is the leftover 'liquid' from producing butter, and so if the cream has not been fermented before turning it into butter, the buttermilk would not be sour.
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@adog3129 Most foreigners use VPN
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@adog3129 Most of them don't work well. In addition, you're not supposed to download them and domestic app stores are banned from carrying them. Google Play Store is blocked, so that creates a problem: You need the Play Store to download your VPN, but you can't get on the Play Store without a VPN. That requires creative thinking.... In reality, a large number of educated Chinese people, especially those who have some foreign experience, all use VPNs.
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Looking like a lens? An inverted lens? The burger comes out elliptical? May I suggest using the words concave and convex. Concave=thinner in the middle. Convex=fatter in the middle.
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@herrensaar1989 "the trend of putting cholotate and licorice together. Please just kill it yesterday" I concur. It's a culinary Frankensteinian monster! (fellow Dane).
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I'm also a thigh man for chicken, but not when it comes to women.
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"Chrissy Teigen Pan". I had to look that up. Turns out there is a whole line of cookware. Cookware endorsed by a Hollywood celebrity. Actually, I don't know if she is a Hollywood celebrity, but I've seen photos of her at premieres and product launches, standing together with other celebrities.
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19:30 "Insomnia is a common symptom of being too lean or in too steep of a caloric deficit". That is interesting. I also used to cycle a lot, especially bicycle touring around Asia. I was often in a caloric deficit because some areas just didn't have anywhere to eat or I couldn't find enough to eat. I always lost a scary amount of weight on those 2-3 month tours. And yet, I slept like a baby every single night. In fact, it was during those days of touring that I fell asleep the fastest, and I usually felt great as soon as I awoke by the sound of my phone alarm. However, I always made sure to not go to sleep hungry, for example by eating relatively late. I am naturally skinny, or was until I turned 45.
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What is a fair price? Coffee beans are an agricultural product, just like wheat or soy beans. Prices are decided by the market. Of course, if the growers can find a way around the middle men, they can get a larger share of the profits. Co-ops might be a solution: Many growers go together and set up their own distribution company. This is what farmers in Europe did in the 19th century. They set up their own dairies, their own slaughter houses, their own transportation companies. This is much too expensive for one farmer to do, but when you join hands, the impossible becomes possible.
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M-kay, cool...
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What happens at 8:12 ?
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Pretty interesting. I'm going to try this.
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Re. Buttermilk and hogs: Where I'm from in Denmark, it is still common for dairies to return the whey from cheese production to farms as fodder for dairy cows or hogs. It is highly nutritious, and the animals love it! Buttermilk (the real stuff from butter production) is sold to us humans.
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Technical question: You toast the whole spices before grinding to a powder. Later you fry them in oil. That seems unnecessary to me. If you're gonna fry anyway, there's no reason to first toast. I need to ask an Indian chef, but I don't know any.
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50% butter to potato ratio is NOT insane. It's called French mashed potatoes. Common in restaurants all over France.
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Is it a Millennial thing that young adults cannot cook? Maybe it's part of the whole over-protective, helicopter parenting thing.
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I'm just at the beginning of the video and I'm going to predict that the alcohol level has reduced a lot, simply due to evaporation. Alcohol is more volatile than water and will evaporate over time, unless it is contained in a completely sealed container made of glass or metal. No lid will be 100% tight.
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Very interesting. I'm 55 and I have never bought a loaf of toast bread in a supermarket or a bakery. No, I am not from a poor country, but those supermarket breads look too soft, semi stale, and I find them devoid of flavor. I've bought many other breads in supermarkets, especially whole grain, dark rye bread, which is common in the Nordics.
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I love fungal infections.
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The Chinese word used to describe 'sheep flavour' is now, in Mandarin, spelled Sao, pronounced almost identical to the English word sow (mama pig). Sometimes called 'yang sao wei' (lit. sheep sao flavour)。
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