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Brian Geiger

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    The Deal with Bread Dough

    Different types of doughs require different techniques, and sometime familiarity with one dough's method takes you down the wrong path with another type of dough.

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    Cream of the Crop

    What is Culinary Cream, and is there a good substitute for adding to hot or acidic liquids?

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    How Eggs Provide Lift

    Adding an egg to a cake mixture will tend to cause the cake to rise more. What is it about eggs that provide lift, even without making a foam?

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    Salt: Pasta and Water

    We salt our pasta water because our pasta is unsalted, but why is our pasta unsalted?

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    It’s Only Mostly Cooked

    The techniques of blanching and parboiling seem awfully similar. Are they the same?

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    Saucy Lumps, and How to Avoid Them

    Lumps in a sauce are the sign of a cook who isn't your grandmother, and is therefore an inferior cook. Learn to avoid the lumps, and be ready for a…

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    The Why of the Wooden Spoon

    Recipes sometimes specify using a wooden spoon. What's wrong with plastic?

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    Slow Cooking Secrets

    Too often the results of a night of slow cooking are a grey, gooey mess. If you're making oatmeal, that's not so bad, but for most things, it's icky. Here…

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    A New Method for Panna Cotta

    A reader runs across a new method for making panna cotta, but it seems vaguely familiar in a different context.

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    Ginger ale, ginger beer

    What's the difference between ginger ale and ginger beer, and is there really such a thing as a "ginger beer plant"?

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