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franklin said:
Don't think I've tried Crystals but I always use Louisiana, every brand I can get local and a couple out of a multi multi award winning Cali company I don't recall in this state of mind..

I've tried clarified butter and everything... Don't clarify yuck (see emulsion below I think).

The garlic sounds odd since you aren't chopping.. I'll try it.

Mustard might be my problem. That's such a counterintuitive solution, but I also can't get interested in the chemistry of cooking at all for some reason. So thank you Elton Brand, er Alton brown.
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Love Alton Brown.

Clarified butter doesn't really work well because butter has some natural emulsifiers in it that you get rid of when you clarify it. Plus clarifying is for not-lazy people so I don't do that. I do however render my own beef tallow for steaks. You have to have rendered beef tallow for perfect steaks, it's a law. Btw the garlic butter is awesome to top off a great steak.

The garlic is for a hint of flavor in the background, not making garlic sauce but the extra little bit of flavor adds complexity to a sauce that usually isn't all that complex so people always ask me what I did different. If you really like garlic you can try mincing it and sauteeing it briefly then adding it into the sauce at the beginning and just leaving it there. I do that from time to time but it kind of overpowers the rest of it. If you do mince, use less...a lot less.

The mustard is the trick, I have found. Nice neon orange-ish color, a little zing for flavor, and then it helps bring it all together.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Love Alton Brown.

Clarified butter doesn't really work well because butter has some natural emulsifiers in it that you get rid of when you clarify it. Plus clarifying is for not-lazy people so I don't do that. I do however render my own beef tallow for steaks. You have to have rendered beef tallow for perfect steaks, it's a law. Btw the garlic butter is awesome to top off a great steak.

The garlic is for a hint of flavor in the background, not making garlic sauce but the extra little bit of flavor adds complexity to a sauce that usually isn't all that complex so people always ask me what I did different. If you really like garlic you can try mincing it and sauteeing it briefly then adding it into the sauce at the beginning and just leaving it there. I do that from time to time but it kind of overpowers the rest of it. If you do mince, use less...a lot less.

The mustard is the trick, I have found. Nice neon orange-ish color, a little zing for flavor, and then it helps bring it all together.
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Btw, mustard is a secret ingredient in many of my recipes... adds a great complex flavor without overpowering... assuming you don't use too much. Obvi.
 
PKM said:
I'm telling you.. the blue cheese cole slaw is what nailed it.
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Must be the slaw. I've tried every combo of franklins (the standard-bearer obv) that I can think of.. don't care for any.

LogGrad98 said:
Clarified butter doesn't really work well because butter has some natural emulsifiers in it that you get rid of when you clarify it.
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Yeah, it's nasty oily. You've opened me up to exactly why.

Clarified butter is teh stuff for some sautés though fo realz. It's easy to make but don't try using coffee filters in place of cheese cloth like I have a tendency to do when the urge kicks in.

PKM said:
Btw, mustard is a secret ingredient in many of my recipes... adds a great complex flavor without overpowering... assuming you don't use too much. Obvi.
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This.

Anchovies sauce too (incestershire for you Montana prudes).
 
franklin said:
Yuck.

Might as well boil your steak with fennel seed and kill rodents with it.
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When I was about 19 I was home from College and living with my Mom for the summer. I had a little bag of Fennel seeds in my room and my Mom confronted me one day and asked me what I was smoking in my room. I was like, "wut?" and then she showed me the bag of fennel seeds and I died laughing. Also, later that Summer my Mom found hundreds of beer cans in the garbage outside when she returned home from a trip and I didnt die laughing that time.

/True Story(s) Bro's
 
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