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Condiments and Sauces / Re: Thickening sweet chilli sauce
« on: November 15, 2011, 06:25:03 am »
Cornflour works! I put in a heaped teaspoon to go with the cookbook quantities, and it's come out lovely and thick, yet still pourable. Hasn't altered the taste at all :)

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Condiments and Sauces / Thickening sweet chilli sauce
« on: November 15, 2011, 05:08:42 am »
I've made the sweet chilli (dipping) sauce from the EDC cookbook twice now and both times it's delicious, but too runny for my liking. I'm wondering what I could use to thicken it to make it more like a pouring sauce; in my pre-Thermo days I'd have added a small amount of cornflour but would this work? Is there something else that other people have used successfully?
Cheers

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello and help
« on: October 18, 2011, 02:21:03 pm »
Hi again,
Thanks for the links CC; I'll check them out for future batches but guess what - I followed the advice to try again with a new egg yolk and it worked! I also set the timer and poured the mix in counting down, rather than up, so I think that helped to keep me on track.
Yippee, no more pouring expensive sunflower oil down the drain  ;D
Thanks everyone for the encouragement!
I'm now going to try converting my all-time favourite gluten free rich mud cake to a thermo-friendly recipe - if it works I'll post it in the cakes section 8)

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Introduce Yourself / Hello and help
« on: October 17, 2011, 03:41:42 pm »
Hi all,
My name is Helen, I'm from Perth and I've had my thermo for a couple of months now. I've been happy mucking about with recipes and have had no major failures until now - with Mayonnaise! I made it once, when I'd only had the machine for a couple of weeks, and it turned out fine. Beginners luck, I think: since then, every time I try it it either curdles or - tonight's "close but no banana" fail - it just doesn't thicken. Does anyone have any advice? Everything I use is at room temperature. I do think I'm adding the oil too slowly but if I try speed it up I can hear it curdling.
Any advice or comments would be well appreciated!

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