Category Archives: Eating

Here we celebrate the best kind of food enjoyment: eating somebody else’s cooking, whether it be in a fine dining establishment or a hole in the wall.

Recipe: Stovetop Clay Pot Rice

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

Stovetop Clay Pot Rice is cooked in a saucepan vs an actual clay pot. We did some experimenting with this excellent Woks of Life recipe so we could enjoy this autumn Hong Kong comfort dish with lots of prized crunchy … Continue reading →

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Taste test: Kettle style potato chips

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

What’s the best kettle-style potato chip? Time for a taste test. According to food scientist Harold McGee, kettle-style potato chips are harder and crunchier than “regular” potato chips because they are cooked longer and at varying temperatures, allowing starches and … Continue reading →

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Too hot to cook?

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

Yep, the summers are getting hotter and our cooking interests wane as the temperature rises. Here are a few easy to prepare and mostly stove-free dishes we find ourselves repeating. Cornell Chicken. This goes on the grill so it’s technically … Continue reading →

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Hacking Stewart’s Hot Dog Meat Sauce

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

Stewart’s Shops festoon the northeast like ripe fruit on a raspberry bush. There are 6 of them in Saratoga Springs  (which is also Stewart’s home base) alone and another 4 on the outskirts. Stewarts (often thought of without the apostrophe or … Continue reading →

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Cornell Grilled Corn

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

You’ve just grilled off a brace of quarters or halves of Cornell Chicken. Now you’re going to do the same with some ears of sweet corn at its summer peak. Soaking the ears first to keep them moist is not … Continue reading →

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Mid-century musings, or ruminating about rumaki.

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

There is nostalgia in America for “mid century” culture evoking a time when suburban moderns congregated in verdant back yards to get seriously drunk, flirt with their neighbors’ spouses, and eat rumaki. Those times are not coming back. Reason one: … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Copycat Durkee’s Famous Sauce

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

Copycat Durkee’s Famous Sauce was the runaway winner in our taste test. It is so close in taste and texture to the original that we really can’t tell the difference. We used distilled (white) vinegar because that’s what is on … Continue reading →

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Taste Test: Durkee’s Famous Sauce Copycat Recipe

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

The dry-brined turkey breast we smoked on Memorial Day required some Durkee’s Famous Sauce to make sandwiches, and our jar was near empty. Amazon does not currently stock the product and their third parties are offering punitive markups. If we … Continue reading →

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Texas Monthly BBQ Guide is at it again.

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

Four years ago, we accused Texas Monthly of jumping the shark when they published their Texas Monthly BBQ Guide and anointed a place serving Laotian sausage as the best in the Lone Star state ahead of Snow’s, Franklin, Kreuz, Mikelthait … Continue reading →

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Wet brining vs dry brining vs rub

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Burnt My Fingers

It’s a bit clammy in upstate NY, but tradition demands that I pull out the Weber Bullet for the first smoke of the summer on Memorial Day. I have a nice brisket I will cook in my usual manner: rubbed … Continue reading →

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