Grathr's messing about in the kitchen thread

Grathr · **on:** December 30, 2015, 10:56:07 AM

Every now and then I start some silly kitchen projects. I seldom follow recipies, so the results vary

Ill post them, and the results here.

The current projects:
Making my own fresh bacon (not smoked) and baking bread on a ceramic plate.

Lets start with the bacon.
Here we eat pork belly at christmas, as a result of this the prices on pork belly are low to attract customers. So I bought 2,2 kg of fresh belly without ribs, cut it into pieces and put them in a pan with salt.

I left them in the winter garden with aluminum foil over for 14 hours.
Then i washed the salt of most of them, dried of the water of with paper. Then I put them on a rist in the pan to cure outside. I put two of them in another pan with salt to salt them for another 12 hours

More pics to come as the process continues.

Grathr · **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2015, 11:10:45 AM

Baking bread on a ceramic plate:
I found a ceramic "stone oven" plate in a shop for a few bucks, and decided to try it out. (Crow inspired me in the crows nest thread)

Im a lazy baker though, so I prefer to cold rise the dough.
I put a dash of wheat flour, and bigger dash of barley flour in a bowl. Then I added a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar.
I then heatet water to aprox 37 degrees celcius and added some dry yeast and a dash of canola oil. Then I put the water into the flour mix and stirred until it was a wet dough. I then put the bowl in the fridge over night.
In the morning I took the bowl out of the fridge and put the ceramic plate in the oven and preheated it to 250 degrees celcius. When the plate was hot I took it out, sprinkled some flour on it and poured the dough on it and put it in the oven and reduced the temperature to 200 degrees celcius and cooked it for 1hour.
The result was not half bad:

zoidberg · **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2015, 11:23:41 AM

When can we eat? Is it ready yet? What about now?

Grathr · **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:23:41 AM

When can we eat? Is it ready yet? What about now?

How long does it take to fly here from you? 14-15 hours?

zoidberg · **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2015, 11:37:35 AM

Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
When can we eat? Is it ready yet? What about now?

How long does it take to fly here from you? 14-15 hours?

Yeah I don't know, my arms normally give out after the first hour.

Grathr · **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2015, 01:47:40 PM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:37:35 AM

Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
When can we eat? Is it ready yet? What about now?

How long does it take to fly here from you? 14-15 hours?

Yeah I don't know, my arms normally give out after the first hour.

Then it will take a lot longer

Grathr · **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2015, 01:49:45 PM

I forgot to mention that the ceramic plate is made to put on the grill, so Ill try it on the weber at a later time. If it works I can make bread even if we loose electricity.

zoidberg · **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2015, 01:50:29 PM

Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 01:47:40 PM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:37:35 AM
Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 11:30:21 AM

Quote from: zoidberg on December 30, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
When can we eat? Is it ready yet? What about now?

How long does it take to fly here from you? 14-15 hours?

Yeah I don't know, my arms normally give out after the first hour.

Then it will take a lot longer

zoidberg · **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2015, 01:54:13 PM

Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 01:49:45 PM

I forgot to mention that the ceramic plate is made to put on the grill, so Ill try it on the weber at a later time. If it works I can make bread even if we loose electricity.

A weber is on my wants list.

Smashie · **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2015, 05:14:24 PM

Have a look on YouTube for French Guy Cooking, he did a whole series on making the perfect pizza at home and he gave up with the ceramic plate and went with stainless steel instead. He explains why a lot better than I can

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Crow · **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2015, 05:20:20 PM

Looking good man. It is fun to try different bread receipts. And the feelin, when making good one is success.

Making bread in Weber grill will work. Just be careful with temperatures. Really like that ceramic plate. I will have to look one for myself. Sometimes i have been using just plane carbone frying pan.

Waiting to see what you come up with that pork.

Grathr · **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2015, 05:46:58 PM

Quote from: Smashie on December 30, 2015, 05:14:24 PM

Have a look on YouTube for French Guy Cooking, he did a whole series on making the perfect pizza at home and he gave up with the ceramic plate and went with stainless steel instead. He explains why a lot better than I can

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Ill have to look into that!

Grathr · **Reply #12 on:** December 30, 2015, 05:50:42 PM

Quote from: Crow on December 30, 2015, 05:20:20 PM

Looking good man. It is fun to try different bread receipts. And the feelin, when making good one is success.

Making bread in Weber grill will work. Just be careful with temperatures. Really like that ceramic plate. I will have to look one for myself. Sometimes i have been using just plane carbone frying pan.

Waiting to see what you come up with that pork.

Thanks!
I got it at Biltema

I have also tried it with a cast Iron pot, but that did not work as well.

Crow · **Reply #13 on:** December 30, 2015, 05:54:48 PM

What went wrong on cast iron?

Did you pre heat that ceramic plate?

Grathr · **Reply #14 on:** December 30, 2015, 06:06:14 PM

Quote from: Crow on December 30, 2015, 05:54:48 PM

What went wrong on cast iron?

Did you pre heat that ceramic plate?

It didnt go wrong, it just didnt work as well.

Yes, I preheated it to 250 degrees celcius.

Crow · **Reply #15 on:** December 30, 2015, 06:14:49 PM

Quote from: Grathr on December 30, 2015, 06:06:14 PM

Quote from: Crow on December 30, 2015, 05:54:48 PM
What went wrong on cast iron?

Did you pre heat that ceramic plate?

It didnt go wrong, it just didnt work as well.

Yes, I preheated it to 250 degrees celcius.

Cheers. I just re-read your post, and realized you did say it.

Grathr · **Reply #16 on:** December 30, 2015, 07:22:18 PM

I just took out the last two pieces from the salt and put them in the curing pan with the others.
Here is a pic:

Grathr · **Reply #17 on:** December 30, 2015, 07:26:56 PM

I also turned them all around. It now looks and feels a lot like bacon.
I might have to try to fry a slice tomorrow.

Grathr · **Reply #18 on:** December 31, 2015, 10:15:19 AM

I test fried some of it today, and it turned out great!
The salty ones (24 hours in salt)where a bit too salty, but the lightly salty (14hours) was just right.

The weather is becoming too wet here, so I decided to vacuum pack it before Id get any mould problems.

Grathr · **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:27:43 AM

Baked some more bread. Some adjustments to the contents and it turned out very good:

Crow · **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2016, 09:18:35 AM

That looks delicious. Any chance for recipe?

Grathr · **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2016, 09:51:58 AM

Thanks:

4/5 wheat flour
1/5 wholemeal rye flour
A pinch of seasalt
A pinch of sugar
1/6 pack of yeast
A dash of oil
Water

Mix it together into a wet, but fairly firm dough.
Let it stand for 1hour or so
Put in fridge over night.
Take out if fridge and warm oven with stone/ceramic plate to 250C.
Take out plate, sprinkle with flour, put dough on plate and put back in oven.
Turn temperature down to 200C. Cook for 1h 15 min.
Take it out and let it rest for 20min.
Enjoy with butter and brown goat cheese