COOKING UNITHREAD

I would like to share the best way to prep and drain tofu.

I read about this technique that works great if you don't have a tofu press (which I don't have, but I am going to buy one off Amazon because it seems a hell of a lot easier).

In the meantime though, just slit your packages of tofu with a knife, drain all the water out, then stick the entire thing in the freezer. Minimum time to freeze is 3 hours but it could be overnight or a few days, whatever.

Then, take out the tofu and remove the blocks from the packages and boil the tofu for 15 minutes in hot water (the blocks will be yellow which is normal and then they go back to their white color).

Drain the tofu and let cool. Squeeze out all the excess water, it comes out very easily at this point.

Now your tofu is ready to be cut into cubes and made into any dish you want. At this point, you can fry them up in some oil and then add your favorite sauce (I am going to make them like buffalo hot wings with Frank's hot sauce!)

Has anyone made BBQ sauce from grape jelly, or any other jelly, instead of tomato? I have, and it was really good, but I don't have a recipe. I was just doing my normal cooking and throwing stuff in. An easy way to try it would be to mix your favorite BBQ sauce 1 to 1 with your favorite jelly, to get an idea of which way to go. Most likely you'll have to add additional heat like cayenne pepper.

honestly, as I was reading that I thought cherry. The sweetness of cherry would be awesome in BBQ. Shit, im gonna try that

That does sound good. BBQ sauce is basically all sugar, so using some kind of jelly or preserves just seems natural.

exactly... for some reason my mind thinks cherry would mix well and give a nice tang.. if that makes sense

They would save the boiled potato water and take that to work the next day for an energy drink.

Thank you for your answer, and it makes a lot of sense.

Im unbanned!!!!!! So lets go back to cooking.