by workinghard on Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:20 pm Well, I recorded and am currently watching an Iron Chef episode in which the primary ingredient is...COFFEE!
I was really, really excited when it first appeared, but, as you may anticipate...I have been very disspointed thus far.
Alton brown, who normally provides a plethera of background information and informative tid-bits of knowledge has thus far only said "different degrees of roast make a different taste" or something approximating such and "now Cat Cora is using a espresso roast, which is, as you know, really dark and bitter" or again, something very similar to this.
The judges were even worse, one of them said that he hopes that they make a strong bitter cup of coffee, and the woman judge said that there is just something wonderful about the muddy bitter taste of gas station coffee.
MUDDY! Come on!
The chefs, that hopefully have prepared for this, are doing a little bit better. However, I have not seen a burr grinder yet, only small whirly blades, and the espresso machine they are using is some type of Francis Francis machine. Not terrible, but not what I would expect from chefs that use immersion currculators to boil eggs. lol, a real dissapointment.
So, since the professionals have left me dissapointed (I normally pick up one or two good recipes when watching Iron chef, but perhaps not today.) I thought its time that we create a thread for actual recipes that use coffee for something other than a drink.
