So he made the custards before dinner, and then after dinner, while they were cooling, he decided to practice melting sugar. He pulled out his blowtorch from architecture school (something to do with smoothing the edges on plexiglass for models), which is bigger than your average kitchen torch and much more industrial looking, and lit it using a flint that looks exactly like what we used to light the bunsen burners in my high school chem lab. Then he shook some sugar onto small pieces of aluminum foil and got to melting. Although it was hard to get a even coating of sugar on the foil, he still managed to melt parts of it. Some sections were still to granulated, but others melted into the nice glassy surface you want on creme brulee, and the results were definitely tasty. In a couple of hours, we'll pull one of the pots of sugary, eggy goodness out of the fridge and see if we can get it to work on the real thing.
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Playing with fire
So he made the custards before dinner, and then after dinner, while they were cooling, he decided to practice melting sugar. He pulled out his blowtorch from architecture school (something to do with smoothing the edges on plexiglass for models), which is bigger than your average kitchen torch and much more industrial looking, and lit it using a flint that looks exactly like what we used to light the bunsen burners in my high school chem lab. Then he shook some sugar onto small pieces of aluminum foil and got to melting. Although it was hard to get a even coating of sugar on the foil, he still managed to melt parts of it. Some sections were still to granulated, but others melted into the nice glassy surface you want on creme brulee, and the results were definitely tasty. In a couple of hours, we'll pull one of the pots of sugary, eggy goodness out of the fridge and see if we can get it to work on the real thing.
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