Discussions Guide - Not Stores and Not Merchandise; Sharing Ideas and Opinions

[DonRocks]

I've never been sure which index to find things in, so I've divided them into three, mutually exclusive indexes:

1. Stores - Places where you buy things - stores, mail order, online ordering, etc.

2. Items - The things that you buy inside of Stores, what do do with them, how to cook them, etc.

3. Thoughts - Any other Shopping and Cooking discussion not fitting into Stores or Items (this is where you are now - see the post below for the current index).

Restated:

1. Where you buy things

2. Things that you buy

3. Everything else

These indexes were started by mktye and continued by leleboo - both of these members are responsible for helping to keep the community going, and should always be in your hearts and minds.

[DonRocks]

(This is a work in progress, started on 12/25/15 - it will take a few months years decades to get things sorted out.)

Discussion

What Are You Eating... For Breakfast (The Early-Morning, Polyphonic Food Blog) // From your Food Care Package from Home // Comfort Dishes, Guilty Pleasures, and Old Favorites // That Is Compulsive // That Requires Confession to a Priest // For Dessert, Right Now! //For Dinner (The Polyphonic Food Blog) // To Use Fall's Bounty // When It's Hot Out // When Stranded on a Desert Island, // Cooking For Your Kids // For Lunch (The Mid-Day, Polyphonic Food Blog) // At the Movies // Never (What Won't You Try?) // What? Parmesan Rinds? // At your Dinner Parties // When You Are Sick //  Instead of Having Sex //  When It's A Snow Day // That is Strange // To Use Summer's Bounty // That is Leftover from Thanksgiving

Active Cooking: What Are You Baking?, What Are You Simmering?,Where Did You Learn to Cook?, How Does a Newbie Start Cooking?, To Whom Do You Owe Your Greatest Culinary Debt? // dr.com Cookbook Cooking Club // Why Do You Enjoy Cooking?, Cool Stuff You Make, Things You Make that You Hate but Others Love, Things You Won't Cook Because They Make the House Smell Awful, Things You Love to Cook Because They Make the House Smell Wonderful, Holiday Dishes You Wish Would Go Away, Recipe Dealbreakers, Kitch and Classics, Umami-est Thing You Make, My Smoked Turducken, Most Intimidating Person You've Cooked For, Foods our Great-Grandparents Would Recognize, Improvisational Cooking, Utensil Mise-en-place?, Losing Your Appetite, Cooking with PMS, Cooking Under the Influence,

Debate/Opinion/Definitions: American Kurobuta Pork, Anchovies in a Caesar Salad?, Artisinal Cheese, Asian Snack Food Smackdown, Best Common Breakfast Cereals, Best Fat for Frying, Best (?) Frozen Pizza, Bruschetta // Calotte // Cheese for Mac and Cheese, Cheese for Omelettes // Chicken: Boneless or Boned, Butchered or Cleaved? // Chicken: Does Price Reflect Quality? // Chow Fun, Cooked vs. Uncooked Country Ham // Cooking Well vs. Ability to Enjoy Restaurants // Couscous, Craisins vs. Cranberries, Difference in Taste between Kosher, Halal and Organic Meats, Dim Sum, Dry-Aged Beef, Dry-Brining a Turkey?, Durum vs. Semolina // Halloween // Good Microwave Popcorn?, How Much Should a Host Cater to Guests' Dietary Restrictions?, Farm-Raised Game, Favorite Food Gifts, Favorite Cheese-Of-The-Month Clubs, Favorite Cheeses, Favorite Part of the Fish?, Favorite Varieties of Fruits and Veggies, Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes, Favorite Winter Holiday Dishes, Foods That Are Not The Same Anymore, Fried Calamari: with or without lemon?, Fruit or Vegetable?, Guldens vs. Grey Poupon, Hellman's vs. Miracle Whip, Ketchup, Lance Products Smackdown, Locally Produced Aquaculture, Mayo on Fries?, Meatloaf vs. Country Terrine, Mexican vs. Persian vs. Key Limes, Microwaves: Good for Cooking?, Montreal Seasoning // Foods that Should Not Be Paired// Neapolitan Pizza, Origin of The Reuben, Oysters, Pie Better than Cake?, Preferred Whole-Grain Pasta, Pronouncing Gyro, Reusing Cinnamon, Roulade, Galantine, and Balantine: Which is Which? // Shrimp (Tail-On) // Softshell Crab Season, Squid: How Chewy?, Steak Sauce?, Steaks from Costco, Supper Clubs, Sustainable Agriculture, Tater Tots: Awesome or Vile? // Tempering // Texas Toast, The Customer Is Always Right? // Things You Just Don't Like // Tipping in Retail Outlets in Restaurants, (T)Rump Steaks, Turning a Pastime into a Profession, Tuscan Bread, Ultimate Grocery Store? // Welsh Rarebit // What's with All the Foam?, Wrapping Fish and Chips, Zha Jiang Noodles

Worth It?: Angus Angst, Cooking with Acorns, Cooking Chef Stand Mixer + Induction Cooker, Flavor Sprays, Fresh vs. Canned/Bottled, Make or Buy?, Presentation, Specialty Ingredients

Food Safety: Best By Dates, Eating Vegetable Leaves and Stems, The Clean Cabinet Project, Debating the Risk of Food Poisoning, Ground Beef, How to Reheat Food Correctly?, Huitlacoche, Keeping Sake for Cooking, Kitchen Mishaps, Moldy Bread, Moldy Cheese, Preserving Unpasteurized Apple Cider, Safe? Grilling, Too Long in the Freezer, Spinach, Tasting Sensitivities vs. Fishy Fish, Undercooked Baked Goods?, Water, Water Filtration Options, Weird Beef, When the Fridge is Dead, When Vinegar Goes South, Yogurt at Room Temp

General: Worst Food Injuries, Losing Weight, Abundance, Kids in the Kitchen, The One Thing You Want To Eat in a Restaurant, School Lunches, Obtaining Items Not Readily Available to Home Cooks, Grocery Budgets, Grocery Store Pricing Strategies, Bans and Tax on Plastic Grocery Bags, Lack of Local, Independent Food Specialty Stores, How to Be a Locavore, Wretched Excess in the Pantry, What Did You Run Out Of? Wasting Food, Spending $50, The Great Pumpkin Shortage of '09, What to Do with Snow, Entering Food Contests, Regional Delicacies, Smith Island Cake, Speculoos (ice cream, cookies, etc), Alden's Ice Cream, Japanese Rice Candies, Keeping (and Cooking) Kosher, Group Endeavor to Make Sausage/Charcuterie, Carbon Monoxide to Color Meat, Caffeine in Coffee, Keeping Pests Away, Organic? The Bugs Say So!, Weapons-Grade Foods, "Super Yuca", Vietnamese Prepared Foods, Passive-Aggressive Appetizers, Kozy Shack Puddings, Copper Pot Company Jams Xin Xim, Fruit Off a Nondescript Truck, Cheese Prices, Chicken Wing Prices, Online Bargains, Bad Recipes, Making Your Own Cookbook, Gardening for Beginners, Badly Translated Recipes

Equipment: Equipment 911 -- Post your "What do I buy?" questions here!

Affordable Cookware for Second Kitchen, Big Green Egg, Challenge: Pick Anything From Calphalon, Chest Freezers, Choosing Among Appliance Styles, Cleaning Iron Skillets, Convection Ovens, Cookware for Glass/Ceramic-topped stoves, Dishwasher-Safe Nonstick Cookware, Dishwashers, Food Mills, Gas Ranges, Geeky Kitchen Tools, Glass Teapots, Grills (Charcoal), Grills (Gas), Renting a Grill, Humidity Controlled Refrigerator Crispers, IKEA Kitchen Cabinets, Kitchen Carts // Kitchen Countertops // Kitchen Remodeling, Knives, Knife Sharpening, Le Creuset and Other Enameled Cast Iron Pots, Minimal Essential Cookware, Ovens, Pot Racks, Reconditioning Cast Iron, Replacing Serveware, Roasting Pans, Sauté Pan: Essential?, Seasoning Cast Iron, Side-Swipe Mixer Blade, Storing Baking Pans in the Oven, Vitamix, Wine Racks

Specialty: Bean Pots, Boiled Crab Serving Plate, Chef's Shoes, Chopsticks, Coffee Grinders, Coffee "Idiot Kit", Coffee Makers, Containers for Storing Ice Cream, Digital Probe Thermometers, Deep Fryers, Filtered Carbonated Water Systems, Fondue Fuel, High-Volume Coffee Makers (Industrial and Otherwise), Homemade Cold Smoker, Ice Cream Machines, Keeping Track of your Recipes, Key Lime Juicer, Mandolines, Mouli Graters, Raclette Grills, Reheating on a George Foreman Grill Reynold's Handi-Vac Rice Cookers, Pizza Stones // Potatom Plants // Portable Induction Burners, Pressure Cookers, Propane Tanks and Refills, Small Bundt or Kugelhopf Mold, Stick Blenders, Stovetop Smokers, Tagine, Toaster Ovens, Tortilla Presses, Unitaskers, Woks

Cuisines: Cultural Differences in Food, Apicius and Roman Cuisine, Regional Italian Cooking, Indian Cuisine, Best Japanese Foods

Travel: Cookbook as a Traveling Companion, Cooking Vacations, Field Trip Ideas

Misc.: Homemade Pet Food, National Cake Show

Requests For Help and Ideas

Cooking Help: Cacio e Pepe // Doubling Roast Chicken Recipe // Fig Chutney // Keeping Frites for a Crowd Warm, Keeping Waffles Crisp, Grinding Spices Finely, Pouring Two Soups into One Bowl, Keller's Roast Rack of Pork, Half and Half Curdling, Underdone Cake, Defrosting Puff Pastry, Types of Cheese for Searing, Green Soup, Prepping Cookies in Advance, Chuck Roast (dry roasting?), Broken Forcemeat, Heating Spiral-Sliced Ham, Hard Cider from Scratch? // Reheating Pizza // How Not to Ruin Quiche, Flour Substitutions in Cakes, Parmagiano-Reggiano Rinds // Szechuan Boiled Fish // Tenderizing Already-Cooked Meat, Freezing Fried Rice, Fixing Too-Bitter Soups

Menus: Dinner This Week?, Feeding Babies and Toddlers, Non-Refrigerated Lunch Options, Side Dishes, An Italian Menu, Mushroom Side Dishes for Picnic, Side Dishes Away From Home, Food That will Travel 2+ Hours, Cooking for 10 in Cozumel, Mexico, Thanksgiving for Two, Dinner Party Ideas, Cold Office Breakfasts, St. Patrick's Day Menu, Mardi Gras Menu, Bridal Shower/Cocktail Party Menu, Debate-Watching Cocktail Party, Brunch for 60 with Only an Hour to Prep, Food for New Parents, Family Dinners, An All-Day Open House, Food Kids Will Like, High School Sports Concession Stand

Special Occasion Cooking: Bridal Shower (15-20 People) // To Ring in the New Year, Chinese New Year, Light Valentines Dinner, Passover, Easter, Memorial Day Cookout, Fourth of July // Thanksgiving // Latkes, Christmas Meal, Dessert at Christmas, Winter Holidays all-inclusive, Holiday Baking, Homemade Holiday Gifts, Food for Baby

Specialty Diets: Gluten-Free Living, Gluten-Free Thanksgiving, Clear Liquid Diet, Low Iodine Diet, Heart Healthy

Misc.: Home-Based Food Business?, Alternatives to Cough Drops, Identifying Mystery Fruit, Cleaning Pots and Pans, Sterilizing Sponges, Caulk Gun as Pastry Bag

Cooking Classes & Tastings

DR.com: Cooking Club // Pasta Making & Tomato Sauce Tasting chez mdt, Make your own Mozzarella by cjsadler, Pasta Making Party chez porcupine, Cookbook Reading & Tasting Club

General: Cooking Classes in CT // Ethnic Recipes with Backstories // Tapas Cooking Classes, Smithsonian Resident Associate Classes, Personalized Cooking Lessons, Knife Skills Classes, Sur La Table Classes, CulinAerie Cooking Classes, Class Recommendations?

Restaurant Specific: 2941, Citronelle, Charlie Palmer Steak, Maestro, Isabella's, Roberto Donna

Fun & Games

Fun with Meat, Flour Fight, Cooking with Monkey, Culinary Crosswords, Crackpot Culinary Concepts, The Big Egg, What Kind of Cheese Are You?, I Want One of Those! (aka The Cooking Gadget Thread), How I Bake Bread, Sourcing Hydrogen, Burger King Body Spray