How do you manage all your notes on various ingredients, the ways you could imagine using them, proteins, vegetables, root veg, herbs, spices, etc? Do you all in the same note book, or a note book for each, or,? These seem to be the cooking related things that keep me up at night. I really want to slow down a few of my process and start understanding the quality of ingredients, the various timing of preparing, and new ways I can utilize them. And, if you also do this, what questions do you ask of an ingredient when considering using it.
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I have not taken the time to learn Paprika app, so maybe this is available there.
How do you manage all your notes on various ingredients, the ways you could imagine using them, proteins, vegetables, root veg, herbs, spices, etc? Do you all in the same note book, or a note book for each, or,? These seem to be the cooking related things that keep me up at night. I really want to slow down a few of my process and start understanding the quality of ingredients, the various timing of preparing, and new ways I can utilize them. And, if you also do this, what questions do you ask of an ingredient when considering using it.Tags: None
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24X40 Lone Star Grillz offset smoker
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SnS 18" Travel Kettle
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2 W22's w/SnS, DnG (1 black, 1 copper) (Minions 1 and 2)
20+ y/o many times rebuilt Weber Genesis w/GrillGrates (Gas Passer)
20 x 30 Santa Maria grill (Maria, duh)
Bradley cabinet smoker (Pepper Gomez)
36" Blackstone griddle (The Black Beauty)
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Thermoworks Smoke and Thermapen.
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Jambo Backyard Smoker
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Grilla Silverbac
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Weber Summit S-670
Camp Chef Escape
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I use piece of software that was actually built in the great state of Texas. Chaos Software Group. I have used it for 20 years. I manage my contacts, my calendar, email and all my notes in this app. Dont know what I would do without it.
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Primo XL
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Orion Smoker
DigiQ DX2
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Blaze BLZ-4-NG 32-Inch 4-Burner Built-In
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- With Rotisserie
Empava 2 Burner Gas Cooktop
Weber Spirit 210
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Weber Q2200
Blackstone Pizza Oven
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- Mar 2020
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Current cookers:
Rec Tec RT700 "Bull" pellet cooker
Smokin-It model 2 electric smoker w/ Maverick 732 temp monitor and cold smoking kit
Weber Genesis 3 burner gas grill w/ rotisserie
Charbroil Grill2Go gas grill
Weber 22" Performer Deluxe kettle grill w/ThermoPro TP-20S temp monitor
Onlyfire rotisserie kit for 22" kettle
Weber Smokey Joe
SnS Deluxe
Vortex
The Orion Cooker convection cooker/smoker (two of them)
Pit Boss 29â€, 3 burner griddle
Joule Sous Vide circulator
Favorite beer: Anything that's cold!
Favorite cocktail: Bourbon neat
I have never kept any notes on my cooks. That’s probably why my cooks are so hit and miss. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ Maybe I’ll start.
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I typically don’t write it down and then two months later when I want to make something again, I frantically search the internet, either what I wrote on this site or me trying to find the original recipe I used or riffed from. Every six to ten months, I re-dedicate myself to writing everything down in a notebook which generally lasts 1-2 cooks before I start slacking.
Would not recommend this approach
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Cooking gadgets
Weber Summit Charcoal Grill Center
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Dyna-Glo XL Premium Dual Chamber
Camp Chef Somerset IV along with their Artisan Pizza Oven 90
Anova WiFi
Thermometers
Thermapen Mk4 - ThermaQ High Temp Kit - ThermaQ Meathead Kit - ThermaQ WiFi - ThermoWorks IR-GUN-S - ThermoWorks Signals & Billows - ThermoPop -ThermoWorks ProNeedle - ThermoWorks TimeStick Trio x2 - and a Christopher Kimball timer - NO, I do not work for ThermoWorks...I just like their products.
Other useful bits...
KitchenAid 7-qt Pro Line stand mixer
A Black & Decker food processor that I can't seem to murder
A couple of immersion blenders, one a "consumer" model & the other a "high end" Italian thing. Yes, the Italian one is a bit better, but only marginally
Instant Pot Duo Evo Plus 8-qt + accessories like egg-bite & egg holders
All-Clad pots & pans, along with some cast iron...everything from 7" Skookie pans to 8.5qt Dutch ovens
Weber GBS griddle, pizza stone, and wok
Knives range from Mercer to F. Dick to "You spent how much for one knife? One knife?!" LOL
Generally it’s either a Notes or a Word doc...saved to a file on Dropbox. That way I can search for recipes, ingredients, cooking methods or whatever. I can also easily share it with someone if I’m so inclined. If I’m sharing it I’ll usually convert it to a PDF because it can be opened & printed by just about everything/everyone.
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22” Blue Weber Kettle with SnS insert
Kamado Joe Jr with Kick Ash Basket
Char-Broil Smartchef Tru Infrared Gasser
Anovo Hot Tub Time Machine with Custom Hot Tub
I keep a 3 ring binder for printed recipes I keep. Eventually, they may make it to Paprika. I keep a spiral notebook for random notes. And I write in my cookbooks.
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MAK 2 Star General
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Weber Summit Charcoal Grillw/ Big Joetisserie, SnS LP, and VortexWeber Genesis II - S-345
Weber Traveler
Fireboard 2 Drive
Anova Precision Sous Vide
All the (pellet) grills I’ve loved before:
Traeger Junior Elite^
GMG DB
Traeger Texas Elite
Memphis Pro§
Traeger Pro 575
CampChef SmokePro STX (ugly grills need love too)
Weber SmokeFire EX4§
Traeger Select
CampChef Woodwind WiFi w/SearBox^
Weber SmokeFire EX4§
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My notes are usually looking back through my Fireboard sessions hoping I used it for the cook I think I’m remembering. I need to take better notes and remember to name my Fireboard sessions.
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From the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia
i have done brisket, ribs, pulled pork, cheese, pastrami, turkey and chicken. my goal this spring and summer is trout (if i can catch a few) and salmon.
I have been gradually digitizing my recipes into OneNote. in the past I used Parika but I got a bit concerned last year when several iOS apps that I had "purchased" decided that they were going to move to a subscription model and that my purchased version would still work, I just couldn't get any support or upgrades unless I updated to the monthly\yearly subscription plan. I understand the developers need to make some money and selling an app once for $5 isn't going to pay their bills but i don't want to pay a subscription for everything and get nickeled and dimed to death for a bunch of apps so i had started looking for other options for recipes and landed on OneNote. it's free and built into Windows, I can cut and paste recipes, pictures, etc right into it and organize, search by ingredient, name, etc.
for my cooks, I still do that longhand in a journal. I have one for grilling\smoking and one for baking. I do this for one simple reason, it's kind of morbid but some of my most cherished things are handwritten recipes from my grandparents and mother. I know with the digital recipes my kids won't have that, but they will have the journals to look back on how i did the actual cook or how I experimented with changing a temperature or different wood, etc. Maybe it will tie their cooking legacy to mine like those handwritten recipes do for me.
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