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Category Archives: Something Else
Results of our Thanksgiving Dinner Candy Corn taste test
You have doubtless been on pins and needles wondering about the results of our Brach’s Thanksgiving Candy Corn taste test. To recap, a few weeks ago we invited readers to send in a stamped self-addressed envelope and receive the six … Continue reading
Our five most popular non-recipe posts of 2019
September is the anniversary of this blog, which means it’s time once again to peek at our stats and report the most popular posts of the past year. Let’s start with the five most popular non-recipe posts of 2019: The … Continue reading
Check out our new Print Friendly button!
We have been experimenting behind the scenes with a couple of modest tweaks at Burnt My Fingers. We fiddled with a couple of recipe generators which, because we try to keep things simple, are not worth the trouble. (If you … Continue reading
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Our top five non-recipe posts, 2017 edition
In recognition of the sixth anniversary of Burnt My Fingers, here are the top five non-recipe posts that scored the most hits in the past 12 months: What’s the best flour for baking bread? This post far outputs any other … Continue reading
How Spark Social solves the food truck problem
I’ve eaten at a lot of food trucks. Individual roach coaches, of course, but also renowned food truck gardens in Austin, at San Francisco’s Off the Grid and Sundays in the Presidio, and various food truck rodeos in New York’s … Continue reading
Amazon’s Prime Sweets Button
What if you could press a button and, two days later, a box of delicious ribs and brisket showed up at your door? And each box was from one of America’s finest pitmasters? Would that be something you could get … Continue reading
The tyranny of leftovers
Tired of turkey? Sick of stuffing? I’m writing this on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and, if you’re still struggling with leftovers, I hereby give you permission to a/pick the remaining meat off the carcass and freeze in a zip-loc bag; b/make a … Continue reading
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A tour of Saratoga mineral springs
My baker friend Tom turned me on to the Cooking Issues podcast of Dave Arnold, who is an artisanal cocktail maker in Brooklyn among many other skills. Arnold recently visited our fair city to sample and make cocktails from the ubiquitous … Continue reading
Five most popular non-recipe posts on Burnt My Fingers
We have a few big shifts in these guys as we celebrate our fifth anniversary. What’s the best flour for baking bread? Yes, that’s a good question and we answer it along with an explanation. The sauce that made Mr. … Continue reading
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Is it okay to eat in the car?
If you are a regular Burnt My Fingers reader, you’ve surely asked yourself this question at one time or another: Is it okay to eat in the car? Of course, we’re not talking about a handful of chips or nuts, but that bahn … Continue reading