Subway Chicken May Be Only 50% Chicken!

I'll admit it, I've had Subway sandwiches before. I've never had their chicken though. I've had their turkey and roast beef in my sandwiches.

But after reading this, I'm beginning to question if I also had been eating only 50% turkey and 50% beef. It seems that a test of the so-called chicken that they put in their sandwiches showed that only roughly 50% of it contains chicken DNA.

Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken strips.

Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy.

I have nothing against soy. I myself often eat tofu at home. But hey, I paid for chicken, and I want chicken.

So, until this is straightened out, I'm avoiding Subway for now.

Zz.

Trump Likes His Steak Well Done?

... and served with ketchup??!!!

OK, in this age of Fake News, one cannot put too much validity on silly information like this. And I may be guilty of perpetuating and distributing this piece of unverified news to all of you (or all ONE of you who currently reads this blog regularly). But I just find this hilarious.

This is a report from someone who booked a dinner at the BLT Steakhouse inside the new Trump Tower hotel (of course) in Washington DC where Trump will be dining. Since this is a food blog, I'll quote what he said he heard that Trump ordered:

The President ordered a well-done steak. An aged New York strip. He ate it with catsup as he always does. The sides and appetizers on the table were shared. Three jumbo shrimp cocktails were delivered before the meal. At one point, the President looked at his watch and remarked ”They are filming 'Saturday Night Live' right now. Can't wait to see what they are gonna do to me this week.“ It was hard to serve him because he is so funny and relaxed, it makes you laugh.

Look, people should order and eat what they want, even if it is expensive NY strip cooked to cremation. But honestly, the last time I saw someone who ate well-done steak with ketchup was a 15-year old teenage boy.

Go draw your own conclusion.

Zz.

How To Boil An Egg

OK, confession time. I'm a food snob!

{shock rings through the room!}

Now, let me explain. It is not that I turn up my nose at some food. What I meant by being a food snob is that I like something to be the best that it can be, and hate settling for less, even though in many cases, I do.

Take a hard-boiled egg, for example. I mean, how difficult can it be? It is a hard-boiled egg!

Ah, but that is where you are wrong. Even boiling a hard boiled egg can be an art and a science. I once was staying at a hotel in Berkeley, CA that provided breakfast, and the hard-boiled eggs were boiled for so long and so overcooked that you can almost bounce the egg off the floor! In fact, many of these breakfast places simply abused the egg, turning it into a rubber ball!

Here's the thing. Overcooked hard-boiled egg is less tasty, and once you get that dark ring around the yolk, that is when you get the acrid, sulfuric taste one associates with smelly egg.

But I go even a step closer. I way prefer a hard-boiled egg where the yolk still has a patch of darker, almost orange color where it is slight moist (see photo). Not only is the egg white nice and soft, the yolk is also tastier without the strong egg smell.

Trust me, you can tell the difference between these eggs, and the ones that are overcooked and rubbery.

So how do you get such "perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs"? Put the eggs inside a heavy-bottom saucepan, and filled it with water will the water level is about 1/2 inch above the eggs.

Put it on the stove on medium-high heat. Let the water comes to a rolling boil.

Put up the lid onto the saucepan, and kill the heat.

Let the eggs sit in the saucepan for 5-6 minutes.

Remove the eggs and immerse them in cold, ice water. Let it sit in the water for 3-5 minutes.

Peel the eggs. Do this even if you don't intend to eat the eggs. You may store the eggs in air-tight container till you are ready to eat them. Do not cut or slice them till they are ready to be eaten.

After you get used to these eggs, you'll never be satisfied with badly-cooked hard-boiled eggs.

Zz.