[food, picspam] crème brûlée

[kaberett]

Caramelising the sugar on top of creme brulee using a butane-fired soldering iron.

(With no apologies at all for the quality of the photo, but mild apologies for the lack of apologies.)

I have also, I informed my counsellor yesterday afternoon, Engaged in a Hobby.

... you have Engaged in a Hobby, my counsellor repeated, looking slightly mystified.

I have made Custard, I said. (And did not add "look at it! it's got anxiety!")

... you know, I really do look forward to our sessions, he said, while wearing his the-NHS-is-actually-and-for-realsies-paying-me-for-this-shit face.


All of which being as it may, turns out that the butane-fired soldering iron does an excellent job of bruleeing creme, at least when wielded by A as I look on suspiciously (the suspicion being in large part because it's his soldering iron and What If I Break It). Lessons for next time (we have another two ramekins of custard in the fridge!) are "use a thinner layer of sugar"; and something a little perplexing happened to the texture (it was grainy until reheated and then... stopped... being... grainy?), but that at least is going to have to wait until the next batch gets made for further Experimentation.

("Okay but what in fact is the Hobby to which you were referring," sed A, "because it's clearly not actually cooking, you do that a lot." "Pointless culinary one-upmanship contests against myself. OBVIOUSLY.")

Comments

[macey]

yes yes 'frivolous cooking clearly not for purpose of 'fixing hunger'' as a separate beast from 'but dinner' entirely. (I made tiger bread from scratch the other week!)

[cxcvi]

And all the while, you'll just keep soldering on with your hobby...

[davidgillon]

"Pointless culinary one-upmanship contests against myself. OBVIOUSLY.")

Ha! Who's winning?

[azurelunatic]

OBVIOUSLY.

[vass]

I have made Custard, I said. (And did not add "look at it! it's got anxiety!")

Your memes are hilarious to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[birke]

Hee.

[ironed_orchid]

Some days all I want to do is pointless culinary challenges, and having to actually eat a food gets in the way.