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  • Elsewhere: When Fat-Free Makes No Sense

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    …or Why I NEVER Buy Reduced Fat Sour Cream!  From the always great Fooducate Blog: Regular’s Ingredients [3 of them]: Cultured pasteurized grade A cream and milk, enzymes. … Fat Free’s Ingredients [12]: Cultured Lowfat Milk, Modified Corn Starch,Whey Protein Concentrate, Propylene Glycol Monoester, Artificial Color, Gelatin, Sodium Phosphate, Agar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate,…

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  • Elsewhere: Homemade Ricotta Cheese

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    Serious Eats has a Food Lab feature on how to make Ricotta cheese, where they dispel some myths about temperature and level of difficulty, and confirm something anyone who has ever heated milk on the stovetop already knows: As milk heats, the proteins and fats on the top surface begin to coagulate, forming a sort…

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  • Elsewhere: How to Beat Egg Whites

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    Improperly beaten egg whites (both under- and over-beaten) aren’t aerated adequately, and as a result, the final product is dense, flat, and a big disappointment, especially if your arms are aching from beating those eggs by hand. But it’s not hard to get it right, especially if you know a few tips.

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