Alton Brown and crackers

Janet Bostwick

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Feb 9, 2012, 12:30:31 PM2/9/12

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I just watched Alton Brown make a variety of crackers. The one thing
I don't like about making them is the rolling out. He has a simple
solution -- use a pasta roller. How easy. Why didn't any one suggest
that earlier?
Janet

Boron Elgar

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Feb 9, 2012, 12:46:56 PM2/9/12

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Hasn't John been using a pasta roller for kneading? Someone here has.

Boron

Janet Bostwick

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Feb 9, 2012, 12:55:58 PM2/9/12

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Yes, he is using it for kneading. But the roller for crackers. . .you
get crackers that are evenly thin, thus bake alike. You can go really
thin successfully and get crispy. And, AB pointed out, rolling out
crackers with lots of seeds is a PITA.
AB rolls two strips, drops them on parchment on a cookie sheet, cuts
them with his rolling pizza cutter and into the oven. After baking,
he drags the parchment off the cookie sheet onto a rack for cooling. A
real sweet system.
Janet

Boron Elgar

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Feb 9, 2012, 1:11:08 PM2/9/12

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:55:58 -0700, Janet Bostwick

<nos...@cableone.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:46:56 -0500, Boron Elgar
><boron...@hootmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:31 -0700, Janet Bostwick
>><nos...@cableone.net> wrote:
>>
>>>I just watched Alton Brown make a variety of crackers. The one thing
>>>I don't like about making them is the rolling out. He has a simple
>>>solution -- use a pasta roller. How easy. Why didn't any one suggest
>>>that earlier?
>>>Janet
>>
>>Hasn't John been using a pasta roller for kneading? Someone here has.
>>
>>Boron
>Yes, he is using it for kneading. But the roller for crackers. . .you
>get crackers that are evenly thin, thus bake alike. You can go really
>thin successfully and get crispy. And, AB pointed out, rolling out
>crackers with lots of seeds is a PITA.
>AB rolls two strips, drops them on parchment on a cookie sheet, cuts
>them with his rolling pizza cutter and into the oven. After baking,
>he drags the parchment off the cookie sheet onto a rack for cooling. A
>real sweet system.
>Janet

It all makes sense, and I do like crackers.

Boron

Dick Margulis

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Feb 9, 2012, 1:56:32 PM2/9/12

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It's the only way I ever made them (back when I had access to the
machine, which is now in the possession of wife number one).

Janet Bostwick

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Feb 9, 2012, 2:54:02 PM2/9/12

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Hi Dick!
Why did you do it that way? Is it common knowledge that it is done
that way? I wish that instruction was carried with the recipes for
crackers.
Janet

Motzarella

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Feb 10, 2012, 1:35:19 AM2/10/12

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"Dick Margulis" wrote in message
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Don't you just love how we fondly remember our possessions. Just like
yesterday, I remember which ones are now with number one and two. Remaining
married to number three ought to keep things easier to remember.

Alan

Dick Margulis

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Feb 10, 2012, 1:30:23 PM2/10/12

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Janet,

Like Everest to Mallory, because it was there. Dough. Need uniform
thickness. Associative thinking process. Aha!

Also, I worked in a bakery, where we had a sheeter. So the associative
thinking process was reinforced by that.

KingOfGlop

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Feb 12, 2012, 12:02:30 PM2/12/12

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Cor Blimey, Janet me old china! I've been using a pasta machine for
years when rolling out anything that needs to be thin and even as well
as bread dough. Pasta, crackers, chapattis.

I would regard my pasta machine as indispensable.

Love

John

BobbiJo_AZ

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Mar 18, 2012, 2:00:44 PM3/18/12

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That is is really great idea. The next time I make cheese crisps, I am going to try using the pasta roller.