David Chang

wow, cooked everything on the first cook, including skate wings..

happy holidays steak frites for xmas breakfast

@tekobo you guys did a great job. i love osso buco. my arm is getting tired looking at those hand sawn cuts.

made some spanish casina (similar to old breed rubia gallega) rib eye yakitori's tonight. after handling and skewering the beef, my hands still smell like raw beef. it's pungent but sweet and has some beautiful streaky marbling.. this is unlike any farmed beef you can buy in the shop. it tastes like a wild cow. almost feral..

@tekobo thats a great deal on the veal. there's a youtube channel called the bearded butchers. i would have to study them to take on this job. i'd cheat and borrow a bandsaw. but nobody is going to lend me a woodshop bandsaw to cut meat...

ive never burned wood in this , but heres what it looks like with different size pieces

i put in a casina "old cow" rib eye today in the new unit. crossing my fingers it won't be a catastrophic failure like last time when umai bagging 3 cuts (all spoiled due to fridge shutdown)

my options were take the loss for the fridge purchased used. repair the fridge at almost the same price as i bought it. or trade in the fridge for a new one at a discount, which if you add the cost spent on the used one, came to be a little less than buying a new one to begin with.

old dry ager blew a condenser. meet black edition dry ager. purchased using a trade in program by giving them my busted one. i’m on my second unit and haven’t dry aged a damn thing …😝

made it a day early, it was pretty good, not the glass skin i was looking for but crispy. some patches of the skin did not brown and keeping it roasting longer may have burned it so it got pulled.. i basically sat in front of the oven for 3 hours tending to fire and rotating the roasting pan😓

i've never heard of this machine. thanks for the introduction.

starting the preparations... i cut off the feets (can't eat them and will burn anyway) washed it in beer, rinse and dry. split the bottom of the mouth and split the spine so it opens up flat. sprinkled a bit of salt in the cavity and back in the fridge to dry. roasting it thursday night. further video research, i think i will just do a gentle prick of the skin on the second half of the cook skin side up.

bored saturday afternoon bake

that looks a lot better than mine. i made this on the anova apo. i took it too far and didn't get that skin i want..

so from observation of videos on youtube, the spanish way, as opposed to philippino lechon, or any other way i've seen, is roasted skin side down with aromatics in the cavity. the piglet is lifted on a rack in a casserole dish so not to braise the skin, but water added inside the bottom of the casserole dish. half way through, its flipped and finished skin side up. i've seen some pricking of the skin, but not so much that its completely perforated. and the skin is painted with lard. the wfo is running on embers (so no live flame), and its cooked with no door on, so the temp is not so blazing hot. i tried the phillipino way on a small leg, and it didn't turn out the way i liked, so i'm gonna try the spanish way this time. i think if the heat is too much, i can use one of my spare floor bricks as a heat shield but we will see what happens.. ever since ate at el sorbrino, i've always wanted to get that glass skin, but it constantly eludes me..

@tekobo next week, i'm planing to do a little segovian cochinillo, probably a third of the size of what you made. but roasted the ALFA with wood embers. kind of like how they make it in El Sobrino de Botín, but it's hard to find any solid recipes, but we will try anyway..aiming for glass skin that can cut with a dinner plate. http://www.signaturetastes.com/recipes/botin-suckling-pig this is the only method i found, and it's still kind of just winging it..

morning pizza in the effeuno. 90 second cook. 450C/840F 7835cd333f594852804900d79cffce14.mov

hi franck, you can cook them on hangers but it's harder to baste them like this.

i'm still wearing shorts outside! 🌴

hey tony, this is not cocochar, but some sort of extruded bamboo charcoal i buy from china. this is the only charcoal available to me with no flavour profile. everything else we have here is lump charcoal from indonesia, which is quite nice on meats, but not for breads.

my wife has a ladies night out and i'm left alone with my bincho grill. made some skewers of: iberian secreto (a very, very fatty part of the pork armpit) yellow croaker (fish) japanese eggplant cuttlefish balls corn i think if anyone here is on the fence about getting one of these, or any konro grill, just go for it. i stood on my balcony over an hour grilling and eating and it felt like i ate $200 worth of skewers for a few bucks. you don't need expensive cuts of meat. you do need to prep them properly. you really want to make your own tare and reuse it as long as possible IMG_0456.mov . and this is not the kind of cooking to walk away from. but man this is so good...

pizza and chestnuts used the rotisserie and drum to roast the chestnuts but the meat stuck to the shells. anyone know why? pizza was ok but too fuel intensive to run on the kk.

this reminds me to try to make biltong. i've only made jerky in a excalibur dehydrator but never on the kk.

hello dj drip pan: yes, because nothing you can buy outside of kk will be in the shape of your 32. rotisserie: yes rotisserie motor: i bought mine on amazon uk rotisserie cradle: i have it, but haven't really used it. smoke generator?: yes, but note its lots of tubes and cables, but you can cold smoke salmon, cheese, etc.. basket reducer: yes, but i modded mine to burn the back half of the basket of my 19. i have seen other 32 owners do the same. pizza stone: i have one just because it's not that much $, but i rarely bake on my kk. teak grate tools: i have them but i never use them. ss top side tables: yes, because the ss will protect the teak from burning if placing hot items on top. kk charocoals/woods: i have never used. i find pizzas are best cooked on dedicated pizza ovens. i personally use the fireboard 2 pro and bbq guru pit viper fan. people generally use fb or thermoworks. but learn to use top/bottom vents manually. you should to get the outdoor cover for it. even if you have shelter over the kk, you want to keep moisture out. and if no shelter, spray waterproof coating on the fabric. maybe a cabinet to store your charcoal/woods, kk grates and tools, but thats really up to you. if not, a tool box or tool bag to hold all the accessories, spare parts, repair tools, rot. motors, cold smoker accs. ask dennis about production times.

hi bunji, i made this on an electric effeuno oven. the ice cubes (a small amount) during the mixing process is to reduce the heat generated by the mixer. in this case, the thermomix is basically a blender, and the friction produced needs to be reduced to avoid mixing a hot dough. if your mixer doesn't get hot, you can just use water.