Good Eats S1E12P2: Power To The Pilaf

[W0tanTheGod]

2:1 doesnt work? I always use the next best cup I get my hand on to measure it out and it ALWAYS works, though I never have to use more than 2 cups of rice.

[KingRyltar]

ahhhhhhhhhhh $5,000 give or take per pound. Reference,

faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombrel­lo/pow/saffron.htm

[MSTCND]

Best AB quote ever... I smell nuts!

[drakich1]

saffron is like a drug

[lyndensmall1577]

If not crushed or cut saffron which one should u go for?

[Celestyal22]

@lyndensmall1577 Whole saffron, watch the paella episode to see what that look likes up close and how to spot the fakes and real ones.

[D3RP4NZ3R]

Truffles aren't consistent, they go up for auction, not for sale. Saffron is consistent in its price. (For the most part.)

[jesseck312]

i bet the saffron safe has his weed stash too



[McFeely2pointoh]

According to AB's recipe, a proper equation for the amount of water for rice is as follows. W = 1.5x - 0.25(x-1) Where X = cups of rice. I very seriously doubt it would actually work at higher volumes but for reasonable amounts it should work fine... I'll have to try it out sometime.

[michaelnrdx]

@McFeely2pointoh: This equation stops working at 3 cups of rice. (It gives 4 c. water instead of 3.5.) However, plotting Alton's numbers on Excel, the points fit the logarithmic equation W=1.8186 ln (x) + 1.4971, with a correlation of 1. A little complicated for rice, yes.

[McFeely2pointoh]

@michaelnrdx Never bothered with excel, but yea, I noticed the pattern and thought up a new one at the time, but I guess I forgot to post it, and now I don't remember what it was. If you wanted to get REALLY into it you could take into account the surface area of the water in the pot and the heat/time of cooking to compensate for evaporation more accurately.

Enjoy having blown the minds of many future readers of these comments who have no idea wtf is going on.

[forza599]

Wait did alton drop the ball??? Aren't truffles the most expensive food in the world?

[alion06]

truffles are very expensive and more difficult to produce but safron is pound for pound more expensive, but i think truffles are more valuble as the trees that produce them can at any time just stop and never produce them again if anything is done to disturb even if someone walked by the roots the truffles will be ruined

[dumpsterbabies]

Yeah it actually looks like white truffles are well over 1000 bucks a pound, with all other truffles being well under.

[forza599]

Yeah its cool haha I cracked up too. Alton is awesome.

"Til ya smell NUTS"

[keithbuff]

lol he smells nuts

[cpasillas22]

This is great. Thanks for adding these shows. I love good eats but I usually don't have time to catch it and i don't have TiVo... yet.

[BFMVfan324]

Same here. I used to have comcast with the pause and all that. Yet, we moved, and we cant use the comcast things here. It sucks. So thx much for adding these shows ;)

[NoirMusic]

If you can't taste the difference between basmati or Jasmine rice and chemically treated, precooked trash I feel bad for you...

[sugarcaffeine4blood]

@DarkDemonDude666 oh god... I tried those... I almost threw up... the rice was gluey not cooked through...

[GreenManalichi]

I dont understand the last part about fluffing the rice after its cooked. What difference does it make whether you fluff it before or after pouring it into a dish?

[NoirMusic]

Pooring the rice out helps seperate it, and releases a bunch of the steam (water) from the rice. Less likely to gum...

[joelove2]

this-the-family-guy-of-cooking­-shows

[syndetic]

While I wouldn't wash every kind of rice, I do wash basmati rice in order to ensure that the grains remain separate and individual at the end.

One of these days I'd like to get a recipe for sticky rice with mango, a Thai treat.

[hadokat]

sticky rice with mango is SOOO good! i use sticky rice (short grain), coconut milk, cream of coconut, and water. don't trust all the recipes online that don't call for any water bc it's SUPER sweet if not diluted a little. i just grabbed the basic recipe, replaced some cream of coconut with water, and life was delicious :)

[nyczfish]

NEVER eat long grain rice, its taste like bland, wall paper, library paste only small and medium is good.

[xxBloodRedSandmanxx]

you must be eating some good wall paper then. love long grain rice.

[javakat343]

do you salt your rice? :)

[GutsBatman]

If you don't add anything to it, it does taste bland yes.

[zeldarooles]

OMG wats the secret?

[grahambcp]

You only have to wash rice if you're making sushi rice, or serving the rice plain. Washing it will prevent the final dish from being gummy. Rice is processed enough to not need washing from a sanitation stand point.

[llleung]

hey you didnt wash your rice... nasty spnt you have to wash it first?

[llleung]

*dont

[mkrause3]

haha that is pretty funny

[pyropianist]

I SMELL NUTS!