Thursday, September 4, 2008

Limehouse Sauna Gay Disease

again in front of the oven ...

Finite le ferie abbiamo riaperto with the usual 9:00 to 18:30 pm. The next few months

facing challenging: we are working for you.

Meanwhile, for those who want to learn to cook GF, I report this .

Monday, June 30, 2008

Missil 10 X 25 Binoculars

time in July 2008

will open in July at 10.00.
close-to-be usually at 18.30.

call us if you want to spend a Saturday before (we could be around for deliveries).

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Where To Buy Rubber Bands For Braces



The excellent psicocafe speaks of a people without numbers this post and fasten with two others ( here and here ) dealing with how the language changes the perception.

In Tarahumara, un linguaggio indigeno del Messico, vengono indicati con un unico termine quelli che per noi sono il "blu" e il "verde". Già nel 1984 Paul Kay aveva dimostrato che coloro che parlavano inglese percepivano il verde e il blu come molto più "distinti" fra loro di quanto facessero coloro che parlavano tarahumara, come se la distinzione linguistica blu/verde rendesse più "vivida" la differenza percettiva

In breve, e tagliando con la motosega, se possiedo parole per differenziare due cose allora riesco a distinguerle.

Mi fa venire in mente l'inizio de "il senso di smilla per la neve", dove si narra di quanti modi diversi hanno gli aborigeni artici per definire la neve secondo consistenza, colore e altro e di come ciò consenta di "leggere la neve".

I risultati degli esperimenti citati da psicocafe sottolineano l'enorme importanza del linguaggio nell'analisi sensoriale: sotto stimolo i sensi offrono una percezione, senza le parole per descriverla l'esperienza è più attenuata, non ci può essere analisi e persino il ricordo diventa più labile.

Viceversa, chi ha le parole per dirlo si gode di più la cena.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Why Are My Ears Ringing For Days (tv)

The words to say a little 'technology

Sigrid -commentando il post poses a question previously composed and complex, for ease of response, I divide into several parts.

gluten-free flour can simply replace the regular flour?

Meanwhile, a premise: the gluten-free flours are a mixture of many ingredients (some have more than 20), theoretically the potential formulas of GF flours are infinite, in practice are many and very different from each other.

So the answer is "it depends" ... gluten free flour from which you want to use and for what thing if you need to thicken a sauce, make cream puffs or prepare fettuccine-and you have the gluten free flour adaptation is likely that we can make (almost) similar, but if you want to prepare (for example) a donut, or bread, the substitution is not trivial (and if you do not have the flour can be adapted completely impossible).

Are there any precautions to be taken?

Yes

Gluten is a wonderful ingredient for those who can use it.

works both raw and after cooking: raw dough viscoelasticity gives, for easy handling and shaping and holds the gas produced by yeasts and after cooking can have (simultaneously) a crispy crust crumb and a soft, lightweight, elastic and helps maintain the moisture of the product. Gluten

you get an elastic but not sticky dough is manipulated in a completely different way (the "folding" it is unthinkable with a mixture GF), rising time can not be that long (the collapse of the dough is in rapidly), the size of individual pieces should be reduced, the addition of ingredients mixed (semi or otherwise) should be calibrated and tested ... in short, is another world.

interacts with other ingredients into the flour the same way 'normal'? "

No, not at all.
In most cases, the gluten-free flours are more sensitive than glutinous and I would say always, more hygroscopic and "fragile".

To explain in a more immediate and fast everything expressed before, I usually do this example ...

The metaphor of the bucket

Think of a bucket, can be made in different materials: plastic, metal, wood. All

have approximately the same shape (a truncated cone with a handle) and do the same job (contain a certain amount of liquid) but are of different materials that require completely different technology for their construction .. . to plastic will probably be made for casting in a mold / counter or by thermoforming, the metal may have the pieces welded together, while the wooden planks will be glued or nailed ...

You can not think of making a plastic bucket with the technology with which he builds a wooden (or, of course, vice versa), then depending on the subject will choose the first production process.

Our goal is to create an object that preserves the functional Features of another whose "material" we are not allowed to use.

Well, this is our situation, we have to do with raw materials-different-things that are normally made with flour glutinous, trying to reach a result "functional" so similar, in most cases, we must use a different technology.