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May 23, 2024 at 11:02 am #42749
Congrats Mike. Glad you found something that works.
May 23, 2024 at 2:02 pm #42755Here's a different take on Keto friendly pizza crust, Chicharrón Pizza
May 23, 2024 at 2:16 pm #42756I think I'll pass on the chicharone pizza.
May 23, 2024 at 4:12 pm #42757I like the fried pork skins so if I could find a Chicharrón that size I would try it. But I would build it a little different, I would lay slices of mozzarella on it first, then sauce and toppings. I want to make sure it stays crispy and crunchy.
May 23, 2024 at 9:43 pm #42761Len I love pork skins but I've never seen one that big. I'd probably like it.
August 23, 2024 at 7:50 pm #43684Mike--I was looking at this rice/grain cooker because of the ceramic interior, but it also claims to do carb reduction if one of the inserts is used:
While I'm not particularly interested in the carb reduction feature, I wondered if it actually works. I do not understand the science behind it.
August 23, 2024 at 8:46 pm #43685I'm guessing it essentially uses steam to cook the rice, with some of the starch dripping off into the bottom of the cooker.
FWIW, recently I asked Harold McGee, author of "On Food and Cooking", how much starch (aka carbs) is removed when you boil potatoes and other vegetables. He said there's not a lot of research on it, and it depends on the surface area, so the finer you cut them up, the more starch would leach out. But in general, he said it isn't much. Rice has a relatively large surface area, though.
This research article says on average it lowers the rice from 34 grams of carbs per 100 grams of cooked rice to 27.5 grams. Not a huge reduction, but when combined with lower-carb strains of rice it might have some benefits, maybe enough to allow some rice in a modified keto diet. Probably not good enough for someone aiming to stay under 20 carbs a day, though.
It isn't clear to me whether the W-S one is a 'siphon' or a 'wash down' low-carb rice cooker as described in this article, so I asked that question in the W-S questions area, I'll let you know if I get an answer.
August 24, 2024 at 1:51 pm #43692I did get an answer from W-S on the rice cooker, but it didn't say which type of low-carb rice cooker this is, it just repeated the sales literature's description of it. (I flagged it as 'not helpful'.)
I'm inclined to think it must be a 'wash-down' type, which is doesn't remove quite as many carbs as a 'siphon' type.
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