The Frying Pan

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Jolenealaska

23:32

This is nuts. I'm watching Chopped. The contestant (a professional chef) choose to use rice paper from the pantry to put her appetizer together.

This kind:

A: Can lettuce wraps be less messy?

Lettuce wraps are great further wrapped in rice paper, like for fresh rolls. It gives the wraps an additional layer of lovely texture and holds everything together, making eating them a whole lot less messy.

She's trying to wrap the rolls in the hard, dry rice paper. It's one thing to not know that wrappers like that need to be moistened, it's another thing entirely to bring the consequences of your ignorance on yourself. Now she's confused. "Why aren't these working?"

Bless her heart. I feel smarter now.

Cerberus

Ohh smart.

I don't know what rice paper tastes like, though, neither dry nor moist.

Jolenealaska

So you probably wouldn't choose to count on your expertise with rice paper to win you $10000.

You might go with another plan!

If they were in the basket (a required ingredient), that would be a whole different thing.

Cerberus

Haha, yes, I would.

In the basket?

Jolenealaska

I've seen poppadoms give contestants fits, but in those cases they had to do something with them.

Cerberus

Hmm.

They are deep-fried, I presume?

Jolenealaska

23:44

Yeah "in the basket" at the beginning of each round they are given 4 or so ingredients they must use.

Poppadoms? or rice paper?

Poppadoms can be deep fried or shallow fried or just charred on the burner.

I like them deep fried.

Any of those methods will soften them and plump them up. They're basically a dry lentil tortilla.

Rice paper is usually just softened in water and then used as a wrapper. I think they are sometimes fried crispy too.

Cerberus

Ah OK.

How do you mean deep-frying with soften up pappadums?

I've only ever seen them crisp.

Jolenealaska

Depends on how long you fry them

caters

I have made spaghetti at a 1.5 mm thickness and it came out good. I extruded mine so that it has the hollow center that most spaghetti you find at the store has.

Jolenealaska

Crispy (sometimes) yes, hard, no.

They're hard until heated.

Cerberus

I don't know about hard. Just very crispy.

Like...potato crisps.

Jolenealaska

23:54

Spagetti doesn't have a hole, that's bucatelli.

@Cerberus yeah, given enough time in the fryer they'll crisp up like potato chips.

caters

the spaghetti you find at the store has a hollow center