Think of Stella Cast! as 1/2 talk show, 1/2 news service, and 1/2 culinary Q&A.
Chef Jacob aggregates everything that's going on in the Stella Culinary Universe and turns it into podcast form. This allows you to stay up to date on the Stella Culinary forums, behind the scenes happenings, and really anything else that Jacob feels like talking about.
While a lot of the audio podcasts will be Chef Jacob flying solo and answering forum questions and talking industry news, he also taps into other industry professionals in the form of interviews and guest co-hosts to bring interesting perspectives from different areas of the culinary arts.
This is an un-edited, casual culinary conversation. Explicit language is sometimes used.
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In this episode of Stella Cast, we welcome J. Kenji Lopez Alt, managing Culinary Director of Serious Eats, and author of the wildly popular Food Lab Blog.
In September of 2015, Kenji released his book, The Food Lab - Better Home Cooking Through Science, which landed him on the New York Time's Best Sellers list.
Here are some things we discussed in this episode:
In this episode of Stella Cast, we catch up with SC community member extraordinaire, Mucho Bocho!
Mucho is always working on something new, and I love picking his brain to see what he's up to. In this episode we talk about:
In this episode, we catch up with Kimberly Schaub and get all the delicious details of her trip to Hong Kong. We also talk industry news, including the closing of all La Cordon Bleu culinary schools in the United States.
In this episode of Stella Cast, I talk with Sourdough Bread Baker and Stella Culinary Community member Dave Mott.
Dave was an early Stella Culinary "bread head," and recently created a micro-bakery in Canada called Rye Not Bread. We discuss everything from beginner issues and pitfalls with sourdough, to Dave's bread baking workflow, and some tips and tricks he picked up along the way.
You can keep up with Dave's sourdough bread baking adventures by following him on FaceBook at Rye Not Breads.
R&D Chef Kimberly Schaub is featured on this episode of Stella Cast.
Kimberly worked in the world famous Modernist Cuisine test kitchen. During her time at "MC," Schaub assited in recipe testing and development as well as modern, multi-course tasting menus presented to some of the world's most elite chefs.
Schaub is currently the Product Innovation Manager for Lundberg Family Farms and runs her personal culinary blog, Peas On Moss.
I'm happy to welcome my good friend Hank Shaw to Stella Cast.
Hank is the James Beard Award winning author of the popular blog Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook. He just successfully funded his third and latest book through Kickstarter, Buck, Buck, Moose. It can currently be pre-ordered on Amazon.com.
Hank will be hosting a pop-up dinner in Sacramento this coming February. To be notified when tickets become available, sign up for his newsletter at honest-food.net.
SCS community member Mucho Bocho joins chef Jacob to talk Kamado cookers, sous vide, tricks for the chamber vacuum sealer, and chicken wings.
Chef Jacob is joined by Ben and Alex to discuss various industry issues including low wages and the disappearing labor pool of cooks.
The tables are turned and Chef Jacob is interviewed by journalist Ashley Owen of Moonshine Ink. Topics discussed include Chef Jacob's approach to culinary instruction, why he hates recipes, the transition from a full fledged restaurant to an educational/event based environment, and the Stella Underground Diners.
In this episode we answer questions from the Stella Culinary Community, including issues with candied nuts, how to make basil jelly, dry brining, and other ramblings.
In this episode, Chef Jacob talks gravy and reductions sauces, including how to get a shiny, smooth sauce, why simmering gravies is important, and how to make a quick gravy using the pan drippings from a roasting pan.
If you've ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for one of our menu meetings, now's your chance. We spend the first 20 minutes of the podcast talking about chicken wings and sauces, and then switch gears into planning an all sea food menu for an upcoming pop-up dinner. Maybe you'll find it fascinating, maybe you'll find it dreadfully boring. But this is a big part of what we do for a living, so I thought it might interest some of you. Whether you love it or hate it, I'm open to hearing your feedback on this episode.
Chef Jacob is joined in studio with Ben and Alex to discuss various view points on what American Cuisine.
Chef Jacob mumbles his way through a couple chicken topics, giving you some good, albeit boring, tips on cooking chicken legs & breasts, and chicken galantine.
In this episode of Stella Cast, we talk about the best approaches for achieving crispy skin when cooking chicken, pork, and duck, and spend some time discussing how this can enhance your ability to serve and cook crispy chicken wings.
This one's for the bread heads! We talk sourdough baguettes and why you need to bake at a higher temperature than traditional breads, and I give Tmorrision feedback on his sourdough boule. I answer a question on double hydration sourdoughs, and how soy lecithin can be used to enhance your breads that contain fat. We finish the conversation troubleshooting large holes in the interior crumb of a bread.
In this episode we talk about using sodium nitrite when brining pork for added flavor and color retention, and how the addition of baking soda can lead to more tenderness. We also talk about "tyndallization" and if that concept can allow you to sterilize meats for long term storage using sous vide. Then we finish this episode with a quick question about fats turning rancid after being used for confit, and get an update from Mack-The-Knife on his Halloween dinner preparation, talking about pumpkin pie and cheese cake.
In this episode we jump on Mack-The-Knife's Halloween inspired dinner, talking about braised pork stew with apples. We also talk infused oils and how they can be incorporated into various dishes, sauces, & emulsions; I answer PagenBear's question on how to best practice the Five French Mother Sauces, and we finish the episode talking scrambled eggs and omelettes.
