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August 14, 2026 at 8:16 am in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1671
once with pickled mustard greens from a market, it went almost sweet after simmering
August 14, 2026 at 7:19 am in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1669true, but some broths need a little drowned drama before they wake up properly. fish is not always innocent
still, too much and it becomes soup with opinions.
August 14, 2026 at 4:57 am in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1667flat in a very sad way, like a song with the chorus missing and nobody admits it
August 14, 2026 at 2:24 am in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1665yes, exactly, though sometimes the pot answers back with sass. Then you have to listen anyway and pretend it was your plan.
That is the part I like in cooking, honestly.August 14, 2026 at 12:00 am in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1663Do you mean ginger before the chili, or after, because that changes the whole first smell
I have seen cooks do both, and the dish behaves differently each time.
August 13, 2026 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1661yes, and I think tasting first is the real rule here, not the rinse itself. In Recife we say the pot has to answer back before you add more salt or sourness, and here it sounds the same.
I would only add that very fresh fish needs less brine than frozen fish, because the texture already carries enough water and the broth can turn thin if you chase flavor too hard.August 13, 2026 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Suan cai fish is a fermentation question before it is a heat question #1657I would rinse them lightly, not soak them, unless the batch is very salty. The greens should still taste alive, but not like a brine jar fell into the pot.
With fish, I think the safer balance is less seasoning in the stock at first, then adjust near…
August 11, 2026 at 9:33 am in reply to: Kambhoji recordings for someone learning to listen more closely #108I am also listening from the position of a non-specialist, so I appreciate the request for a reason, not only names. The first time I heard a long vocal passage I understood almost nothing technically, but I noticed the room changing around the voice.
That may be an insufficient description, but it is why I kept listening.
August 10, 2026 at 10:20 am in reply to: Onion browning times in curry recipes: am I missing something? #110In my kitchen, “brown” is a dangerous word because everybody imagines a different colour. I watch the smell first: the sharp raw smell leaves, then the sweet smell arrives, and only after that I worry about colour.
It is not a measurement, I know. My mother would say the onion tells you when it is ready.
What I hope for is conversation with memory. Not agreement, just the sense that people have heard one another before and do not begin every exchange from zero.
I arrived after opening day, but I am very glad the door was still open. Congratulations to everyone who made the move possible.
July 29, 2026 at 11:29 pm in reply to: Any decent thermostat left that doesn’t need an account? #1104i would not buy a cloud one for this either, honestly. the account part feels like renting your own wall, which is a ridiculous arrangement
plain programmable, physical buttons, and a model sheet that mentions power type up front. that is the decent path
July 29, 2026 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Any decent thermostat left that doesn’t need an account? #1102totally, the installation sheet is the real ad here not the shiny box. and yeah if they have the c wire requirement in tiny print, that is where the trouble lives, hiding like a bad footnote
July 29, 2026 at 7:37 pm in reply to: Any decent thermostat left that doesn’t need an account? #1100if you already install plenty, maybe pull the install manual before buying and match the terminals first. no account is nice, but compatibility is the…
July 29, 2026 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Any decent thermostat left that doesn’t need an account? #1098haha, exactly. little bureaucrats on the wall.
the good part is the plain ones usually have better buttons too, less glossy mystery more actual numbers
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