Summary of How Coffee Brewing Makes Better Vegetable Stock

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This video demonstrates how to make better vegetable stock using coffee brewing techniques. The video suggests using half the amount of vegetables that would be used in a traditional recipe, and also suggests that if making meat-based stock, the thinking should apply to exposing maximum surface area.

• 00:00:00 In this video, Coffee Brewing makes better vegetable stock than chopping big pieces of vegetables. Chris Young, a friend of the presenter, explains that the finer you grind your coffee, the more surface area you expose, and the more extraction of flavour you can do. He also notes that juicing vegetables gives more flavour than traditional cooking. Ramsay's baseline recipe calls for three onions, a leek, two celery stalks, six carrots, one head of garlic, and a teaspoon of white peppercorns.
• 00:05:00 Gordon's technique for making better vegetable stock is to chop everything very roughly, put it into a pan with two liters of water, bring it to a boil, simmer for 20 minutes, take the pan off the heat, add the herbs, wine, and seasoning, and give it a stir. Version two, the juiced version, uses the same mass of each ingredient, but different volumes to account for the difference in juice yield. The coffee brain is upset that the juiced version looks watery in comparison to the original stock, but the flavour is more intense and the two stocks are still fairly balanced. There are some interesting implications to this technique, which will be discussed later in the video. If you want to develop a skill or explore a passion, Skillshare is a great place to start.
• 00:10:00 In this video, Chris Gamberini of the Fresh Off The Boat kitchen show demonstrates how coffee brewing makes better vegetable stock. He suggests using half the amount of vegetables that would be used in a traditional recipe, and also suggests that if making meat-based stock, the thinking should apply to exposing maximum surface area. Finally, he offers a Google Form to shareExperiment results.