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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 2, 2024 7:25:21 GMT -8
Without a doubt. He's been a inspiration, or at least a source of wholesome entertainment, for millions of folks. He definitely took lemons and made lemonade.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2024 6:53:52 GMT -8
Mr. Kung and Kung Jr., check out this Japanese rice omelet. He does several variations. They all look pretty good, although the "plain" one at the start is the one I'd want to start with before moving on to the shrimp and onion which looks good as well. I'm not sure what's in that blob he puts on the top of some of them. And there does seem to be a red sauce (tomato?) and brown sauce (meat gravy?) he uses on some as well.
Mdm. Flu will likely have to do some weight-training before being able to operate that pan like the chef in the video...as would I. Does she already make an omelet anything like this?
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 4, 2024 8:32:41 GMT -8
We both enjoyed that video. It combines two things which are great to watch. Food, and someone doing something he is good at.
Flu Jr. would prefer the first omelet which had small pieces of chicken in it. I would probably go for the shrimp.
The sauces looked to be, as you said, tomato based and brown meat gravy. But a third one looked something like a Japanese curry sauce. It is very different from Indian curry. The meat covered with cheese is, I think, a mixture of beef and pork. This is something served often in Europe. They are called frikadelle.
I was thinking the same thing. This guy has to be in very good shape to do that for lunch time.
Mdm. Flu's omelets are more western. She will, more often than not, use chopped onion and cheese or another ingredient. Then have sausage on the side.
I do not recall ever seeing any Chinese make such and omelet. If you notice, the chef fries the rice before putting it in the omelet. In a way, this is the reverse of Chinese fried rice. Mdm. Flu makes the fried rice and at the end, pours in some whipped eggs to scramble them in the rice.
I believe those fried balls at the end were a mixture of meat and rice.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2024 9:06:09 GMT -8
Sounds like a perfectly good curse word. Don't teach that one to Kung Jr. He'll never stop saying it.
Thanks for the further info on these omelettes. I see that this chef makes them more or less in the same way that Jacques Pépin does with the swift whisking in order to get a smooth, small-curd omelette. I've tried that before with limited success. I think I need a better pan.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 4, 2024 9:34:16 GMT -8
I was thinking about pans for making omelets since Pepin mentioned it in one of the other videos you posted. Definitely need a very good non-stick pan with rounded edges. Max. 10 inch dia. A couple of things which Pepin stresses are good tools and good technique. They are related.
That video is the first time I ever saw a rice omelet. It is not surprising that it is made in Japan as Japanese food and culture are based around rice even more than Chinese culture is. In the old days, a land's value was often based on the number of koku produced on the land. I first learned that when I read Shogun in the late 1970s.  |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2024 9:52:10 GMT -8
Let's make some candy, Flu Crew. I've never seen anything like this, but there is method to their madness.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 4, 2024 10:25:25 GMT -8
That was wild! There is something very East Asian about that. Perhaps old-time candy makers in the West did such things, but I wonder.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2024 15:44:46 GMT -8
This video is sort of more of the same, so it's not a recommendation, per se. But it does show a couple a new things. And it's a California guy and gal from Logan's Candies making some hand-made ribbon candy. The guy handles the dough (if that's what they call it) and the woman (who you first see near the end) does the hand-ribboning. I believe that's the technical term. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 4, 2024 15:59:35 GMT -8
I really like the Soba video. It got to the point. Well done. Not a lot of fluff. Yeah, the guy is advertising his services. But he seemed like such a humble, straightforward guy who obviously has a lot of skill.
The Noodle Doctor was interesting as well. I've never seen noodles made by shaving a big ball of dough like that straight into the boiling water.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 4, 2024 16:27:48 GMT -8
You noticed the difference between the Japanese and Chinese presentations too. The Japanese are generally an unobtrusive race. They don't make a big to-do about things. After all, the saying, "The nail that stands out gets hammered down" is Japanese.
The Chinese, like Americans, often like hoopla. The Japanese are laconic, the Chinese loquacious.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 10, 2024 10:11:03 GMT -8
Not making candy. But there are similarities.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 10, 2024 12:29:18 GMT -8
I inherited some Murano glass sculptures by a well know Venetian glass artist Lorendano Rosin. They are a pair represented a male and female. The style is something like the piece called "The Thinker" about midway down the page. Mine appear to be slightly taller and they are more of a copper color. I think they are also nicer.
I visited Venice in June of 1971, but do not recall if I visited any glass blowers. I find the work fascinating.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 10, 2024 19:23:28 GMT -8
That's a nice piece of glass.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 13, 2024 10:31:01 GMT -8
Let's not make candy or glass. Let's make some stainless steel!
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 13, 2024 11:27:12 GMT -8
Now you've hit squarely in my old line of business. That is a pretty good synopsis of stainless steel production, although the video he was showing did not always comport with the process he was describing. For example, he was talking about annealing while a video of hot forging was taking place. Still I liked the video.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 14, 2024 7:08:47 GMT -8
It's interesting that you rarely hear the term "chromium steel" anymore. Wiki says stainless steel contains about 10% chromium (as did that video). A site at BorTec says: So there is, or can be, a stainless steal without chromium? I do remember hearing the term, chromium steel, quite often when I was a kid...maybe in advertisements and such. This is not a particularly interesting video on the Crescent wrench. It becomes basically a run-on sentence near the 3/4 point with nothing new to say...as if they are simply padding the length.
But I saw stamped on the wrench, "drop forged," and thus had to know exactly what that is. This site briefly explains a number of manufacturing processes. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 14, 2024 10:00:18 GMT -8
The blacksmith in North Fork was a drop forger. Today, the machinery can be somewhat larger. I have seen some with thousands of tons of pressure. That photo is of a huge press forge, but there are some big drop forgers as well. Very noisy.
I have been around all four types of forging and find it fascinating. The power on display can be awesome.
I don't believe there can be. Nickel has become an important alloying agent for stainless. When I started in the business one standard material was called "18/8" because it had 18% chromium and 8% nickel. As nickel is very expensive some other grades called Duplex have been developed. I am sure Duplex was developed for certain requirements, but I also believe to avoid the use of so much nickel might have been an impetus for its development.
This video is an example of roll forging. I saw dangerous situations like this in Thailand over 40 years ago. Even then it was old fashioned. They are making some type of bar. This is somewhere in South Asia. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 15, 2024 18:26:13 GMT -8
Sinatra, for all ages and tastes. Let this be Kung Jr's introduction to The Chairman of the Board. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 16, 2024 8:24:28 GMT -8
I have always liked that song. It really does lift my spirit. Jr. and I watched it together last night.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 16, 2024 9:21:23 GMT -8
I always thought this song was the bookend to the other. I can't find the Going My Way video clip. But I found this one.
Sinatra does a wonderful version as well. But I think Bing owns this one.
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