"I'm Just Here For More Food"

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Notes taken from Alton Brown so far:

• An oven "fish", whittled down from an old piece of broom handle. The front 'Y' for pushing, the quarter circle cut-out in the bak for pulling.
• Powdered gelatin won't hydrate in hot water & need to sit in 10 times its weight in cold water to "bloom". 
• Parts of the chicken egg: chalaza - keeps the yolk centered in the egg, sign of freshness. 
• The correct way to crack an egg is a blow on a flat surface.
  
• 'Since it is actually designed to support animal life, the egg contains a nearly perfectly balance collection of amino acids. Meat doesn't even come close, but then, meat isn't designed to be a food, it just ends up that way.
  
• To cut butter into flour: use the large holes on a box grater to just grate it into the flour.
  
• Cream of tartar (an acid for flavor) + baking soda (a base) = baking powder  (and that's why its shelf life is only 6 month once opened.)
  
• bitter - a herbal liqueur. Double liqueur in place of extract, and subtract 1 tbp of sugar for 1 tbs of liqueur added.
  
• Food processor for sifting all dry ingredients.
• Cutting a cake into Layers:     1. use a lazy susan    2. bottom layer up    3. re-align after frosting