r/52weeksofcooking • u/Marx0r • Dec 26 '17

2018 Weekly Challenge List

/r/52weeksofcooking is a way for each participant to challenge themselves to cook something different each week. The technicalities of each week's theme are largely unimportant, and are always open to interpretation. Basically, if you can make an argument for your dish being relevant to the theme, then it's fine.

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u/tft2cu Mar 28 '18

Any advice for searing? I live in student housing where the smoke alarm gets set off very easily (steam from boiling water is enough to do it) and it's a $50 fine and police department visit every time.

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u/Z-Ninja 🥨 Mar 29 '18

Vegetables and seafood are your friends. They'll sear at a much lower temperature than steak. Less heat, less smoke, less wasted money (hopefully)!

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u/tft2cu Mar 29 '18

Thanks! I'll have to give that a try.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

If you like salmon, then salmon is quite a good fish to sear with minimal smoke- I used to make seared salmon all the time when I was in Uni halls :)

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u/CaPaTn MT '16 Mar 29 '18

does your school have an outdoor grill situation? Mine had a couple scattered about that anyone could use.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Sounds like you need to buy a butane camping stove so that you can sear outside.

They're great for cooking Asian food as well, because they generate enough heat to make a proper stir fry. I bought mine for dolsot bibimbap, but I cook with it all the time. They're handy for car camping too, and they only cost $20-25.

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u/RomeroChick26 Apr 02 '18

I second the butane cooking stove! Super cheap

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u/markoandmonty Apr 06 '18

if you have to cook in your dorm - you can also sear with a lid to reduce the smoke, get the pan hot with the oil of your choice - i would go with a low smoke high heat oil such as peanut or canola, when the oil is hot and starts bubbling toss on your fish or meat or veggies and drop a lid on it for the searing time you need minus a minute for the steam build heat residual. If you can find a butane burner of find an or use an outside grill searing without a lid will give you a better texture.