Preparation of meatballs and not only in silicone ice molds

[Svetlenki]

Svetlenki, certainly. Now I will start putting the Temka in order and, along the way, I will bring both recipes and useful tips to the main page.

ABOUT! Lenuska has come, she will put things in order!

I will try.

Yesterday, when freezing, the molds were shifted with leaves from the cut ice cream package (I have ice cream "as before.") This morning I took out and lo and behold! - the molds did not stick at all, did not freeze to each other. The packing leaves themselves are not frozen to the meatballs. How I liked it! Now I myself will only do this and I advise you so.



And here I took off the very beginning of the process of knocking out the meatballs, my first bend of the stuffed mold on the edge of the table, exactly along the diagonal rows. I put a cutting board on the mold so that its edge is aligned with the diagonal row and everything is exactly on the edge of the table.



I made one bend, move the cutting board to another diagonal row and again bend the shape with my right hand on the edge of the table, resting my left on the cutting board. And so we move, bending over all the diagonal rows. This is a general rule of thumb for knocking out frost from any silicone mold. It is necessary to bend over the jumpers on the edge of the table, and use a cutting board to help yourself to support. It is this method that makes it relatively easy to knock out large cubes from an 8-seater whiskey mold, which is problematic to knock out in another way, but so easily.

the very beginning of the process of knocking out the meatballs

Yes, this is a very convenient way
Alya, thanks! This time, she effortlessly pulled out all the meatballs.

Quote: Yarik from 15 Sep. 2017, 20:52
But the problem of cracks on the dumplings is really a problem.

This recipe for dumplings dough was taught to mom by the cook. With this dough after the freezer, dumplings do not crack even with me ... So - bring a glass of water to a boil, put 20 grams of butter there, remove from heat. Cool to 60-70 degrees. Three glasses of flour, 1 egg and this talker ... Mom kneads with her hands, I'm in the processor for 20 seconds ... By liquid - bring to the consistency of dumplings. When cooking frozen dumplings on this dough, they don't crack, honestly.

I passed this dough, it only took much more flour than three glasses. But soft in consistency, let's see how it will endure freezing.
Thank you!!!

Girls, something completely calms down the topic of incognito congratulations, but it's a pity, a good kind topic, take a look, well, please! Congratulations and joke with SMS # 3452

Girls, hi-hi! I'm already afraid to jinx the order in Galamart, but today I was going to buy out the honeycomb molds, two things seemed to me not enough on the farm. If TTT in the store is all right and I buy out more than I need, will there be anyone willing to buy them for 59 rubles? I can't guarantee, but theoretically there is such an opportunity (we have such a Galamart ...) Stuff 7-8, maybe the St. Petersburg girls need it?

there are those who wish for them, for 59 rubles

I could take 3-4 pieces at this price

[Mrs. Addams]

Mrs. Addams, I would also take 1, that time one was not enough for me. My friend lives in your area.

Girls, hi-hi! I'm already afraid to jinx the order in Galamart, but today I was going to buy out the honeycomb molds, two things seemed to me not enough on the farm.If TTT in the store is all right and I buy out more than I need, will there be anyone willing for them, for 59 rubles? I can't guarantee, but theoretically there is such an opportunity (we have such a Galamart ...) Stuff 7-8, maybe the St. Petersburg girls need it?

and what part of Kupchino are you geographically? If not far from the metro, or a construction site on the site of the Balkans, I would like things 4. It's just that there is absolutely no time to go further - I am mired in blanks and sewing.

Girls, hi-hi! I'm already afraid to jinx the order in Galamart, but today I was going to buy out the honeycomb molds, two things seemed to me not enough on the farm. If TTT in the store is all right and I buy out more than I need, will there be anyone willing to buy them for 59 rubles? I can't guarantee, but theoretically there is such an opportunity (we have such a Galamart ...) Stuff 7-8, maybe the St. Petersburg girls need it?

And I would not refuse 4 pieces, in Rybatsky I ran into Galamart, - there are no molds.

[nadusha]

nadusha, Anna1957, Fotina, tatlin, girls, well, then I'll buy it out to the maximum, then I will unsubscribe how much it turned out.

[Mrs. Addams]

Mrs. Addams, right now, Galamart's roof will go again.They clearly suspect us of something

[Guzel62]

Guzel62,
I am now a happy owner of molds.
My son brought them to me for the weekend. How cute they are!
Guzel, thank you very much !!!!

I also bought them today in Galamart

[kykysik1107]

kykysik1107I hope not mine

Natasha, thanks for writing about Rybatskoye, I was going to drop by tomorrow)

[kykysik1107]

kykysik1107I hope not mine

there are many more, just I can not put a photo, supposedly even a share on them

Natasha, thanks for writing about Rybatskoye, I was going to drop by tomorrow)

I was at the beginning of the week, maybe I did, call just in case to clarify.

[Irina]

Irina, kykysik1107, on Fucik, right?
Fotina, geographically I'm on the "International".

Many have already purchased molds, others are actively buying or buying in addition, and therefore interest is smoothly moving towards the rational storage of ready-made meatballs, so that they can be placed more, and so that there is less space in the freezer. Today I took out my food-grade plastic container tek-a-tek 2.3 L (2.3 liters) with a lid that fastens on 4 sides. The container is designed for temperatures from -40 to +120 degrees. For fun, I tried on a honeycomb mold. I went in entirely without tension, 3 molds entered in height and another 1 cm remained on top. I tried to pack the meatballs. 45 meatballs entered the bottom - 9 rows of 5 meatballs. And since there are three meatballs in height, this container contains 135 meatballs, that is, it turns out that you can put 3 whole molds of 37 meatballs in it and another 24 pieces from the 4th mold. I repeat, this is a layout for a tek-a-tek 2.3-liter container. This container



And this is a top view of 45 meatballs. The meatballs in this container enter well, tightly and do not hang out at all along the bottom.



I have a question for those girls who have already bought honeycomb molds and have tek-a-tek containers for 3.7 liters and 3.9 liters. I'd love to know how many meatballs fit on the bottom of these two containers and how many meatballs fit in the height of the containers. At Ozone, all these three sizes of containers are sold inexpensively, but I would like to know first about the capacity of the meatballs. Girls, if not difficult, try on and respond. Container volume marking is cast on the bottom

[nadusha]

nadusha, Anna1957, tatlin, girls, bought for everyone: 4, 1 and 4 pieces, respectively. I will get home, write off how and when to transfer to whom

[Mrs. Addams]

Mrs. Addams, Excellent thank you.

[Anya]

Girls, Sunday-Monday I can't plan anything special, family matters. This week I can meet at the Mezhdunarodnaya metro station, or in the center (metro Ligovsky, Vladimirskaya / Dostoevskaya, Zvenigorodskaya, well, plus or minus not far from them). Please write to me in a personal, whoever can.

Anya, in this Galamart they already look askance at me, as if they suspect something, I will not go there any more ...
By the way, there were still 10 pieces left on the shelves.

Anya, they already look askance at me in this Galamart, as if they suspect something,

[Creamy]

Creamy, Alya, I won't get tired of thanking Thank you for showing such different molds (and even for the alteration of dumplings, in general, a medal is required). I already have a feeling that I am becoming a freeze-silicone-container maniac, now everything that comes into the field of view is evaluated from the standpoint of what can be shoved into it and frozen

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, look what you got on the Internet

🔗

, Maybe they already looked at and discussed, then poke your nose. In general, what do you think, it seems to me that a convenient thing, or ...
And if you take two, and cut off the partitions of one, you will immediately get out of 7 round pies! I figured it out, the diameter of the pie is about 7 cm.

[Mrs. Addams]

I already have a feeling that I am becoming a freeze-silicone-container maniac, now everything that comes into the field of view is evaluated from the standpoint of what can be shoved into it and frozen

Mrs. Addams, Sister! I, too, have been evaluating everything from such positions for a long time.

Ilmirushka, you can cut everything. And now I didn't quite understand how to cut down the partitions of only one? Why one? Or you can sketch by hand on a piece of paper a sketch of the already sawn dumplings. And a sketch of a pie. Will the pie be a crescent moon or a round disc like a flying saucer? Also, would you like the 4-corner pie? But it is precisely this shape that implies angles. On the Internet there is a photo of dumplings from this form, the form is called a dumpling maker. And the price was amazing, it is 4 times higher than what is sold in all markets, they ask for a little over a hundred rubles. I have this dumpling maker in my collection. Moreover, this dumpling maker has microscopic legs, and therefore you cannot really fill it with a filling, it will not be a pie, but rather a pancake with a filling, because the height of the legs does not allow. What size do you want a pie? It seems to me that now there are plastic molds of the right size for the pies, although the capacity of these molds also leaves much to be desired.

In a whisper

And I still don't have these honeycombs ... It seems that I need to improve ...

[Ala]

Ala, "to cut down the partitions at one" - I didn't mean it. I wrote: "if you take TWO, and cut off the partitions of one," that is, leave one as it is, for the dumplings, and modernize the other.

the price was amazing, it is 4 times higher than what is sold in all markets, they ask for a little more than a hundred rubles.

Pichalka, but we don't have such on the market, I ordered it from an Internet store.
Well, yes, the legs are short ... but after all, it's not a problem either - to pick up the nuts by the size and screw them on, thereby increasing their height.

Yesterday I bought protvishki, which are for freezing dumplings))) I think I showed them here: D They are multifunctional! I bought 95 rubles in Auchan. She sliced ​​the zucchini for freezing into it, then put it in a bag and rolled it with sausage.

[Mrs. Addams]

By the way, there were still 10 pieces left on the shelves.

Girls, I don't want to upset you, and maybe even make someone happy, but these are not the forms with which this temka began. They are less, probably two times.
Mrs. Addams, measure the shape and the cells themselves and compare with measurements Creamy.

I get out of the thickets.
I also live next to the "Mezhdunarodnaya", once walking around the RIO I went to this Galamart (where I did not notice anything that I really needed). I saw these "honeycombs", I immediately remembered Creamythat she would figure out what to do with them. The hand seemed to reach out, but after weighing everything, decided that I didn't need it, and so a whole bucket of different silicones was standing idle.
Literally a couple of weeks later, this topic and active discussion appeared, I kind of caught fire again and wanted to jerk after the forms, but there was no time. Then, from the topic, I learned that they bought all the forms, and Anya's adventures with the order, and the fact that it turns out I live in the same * opera. In general, a fun Temka!
Today I again saw a movement in the subject, went to Galamart, and there the molds are small.

[Creamy]

Girls, I don't want to upset you, and maybe even make someone happy, but these are not the forms with which this temka began. They are less, probably two times.

I ordered with Ali ... I went to measure mine - I have exactly the same as Creamy honeycomb sizes

[Vasilica]

20.7X12cm and 2.5cm cell - are they not? Vasilica, I have a district of Bolshaya Okhta - * oops no better
Normal size meatballs are obtained. I also make chocolates from dark chocolate in them (Zvezda approved), but the sweets are too big for me - I cut them into plates to prolong the pleasure
I looked at the Cream Cell - 2.6 cm. And the number of cells is the same. In short, the main thing is the principle of convenience and ergonomics in the layout of minced meat, in my opinion.

Girls, can you ask a question about the frozen meatballs themselves?
This was the first time I cooked this way (usually from fresh minced meat), and from them it began to stand out ... I don't know what.
Usually the foam fits, I take it off and that's it, but here it is. How are you doing?

[Vasilica]

The length of the mold is 21.5 cm, the width is 12 cm. The dimensions of the cell: the length of each of the 6 ribs is 1.4 cm, the length between the opposite corners is 2.6 cm, the depth of the cell is exactly 2 cm.

Vasilica, measured its molds: one to one - and the edges, and the length, and depth, and the number of cells. The only common size is 12 cm by 20.5 cm. So it's them. True, I have nothing to compare with, but these are very pretty and comfortable.

[Natasha]

Natasha, I thought it was just me, so I stopped freezing meatballs

[Natasha]

Natasha, Marina, girls, this is nothing more than an ordinary curdled meat protein, which, in fact, is the food for our body, and which we do our best to preserve in the meat when we boil it or fry it. Many people just throw it away ... collecting it with a slotted spoon and into the sink. Yes, yes, I was talking about foam, a long time ago (from the very beginning of marriage) I learned to cook meat so that the foam would not collect in a gray cloud on top of the broth. I don’t collect it, much less throw it away. I don't understand why to eat meat cooked to nothing without the most useful - proteins, for which we eat meat products.

that it turns out I live in the same * opera

Kupchino is the capital of the world!
It turns out that there are a lot of us)))



We are not far from Khors on the Moscow highway, we need to call and find out if there is kitchen silicone available there. I have known for a long time that there are Khors auto goods. But if there is also for the kitchen, you will have to call in, feel everything, consider)

[Ilmirushka]

Ilmirushka, but how it turns out that there is no foam. Ilmirushka share your knowledge!

learned to cook meat so that the foam would not collect in a gray cloud on top of the broth

Share your secrets))

[Lily]

Lily, Yulia, yes there are no secrets, foam appears, BUT! I just know how to make it absolutely invisible in soup-borscht, at the same time not to throw away such a valuable part of the meat. Everyone knows that a good rich broth is needed - put the meat in cold water. If the broth is not important, but you need high-quality boiled meat, put it in boiling water. In any case, we bring to a boil with the lid closed, now there are a lot of glass, the process can be controlled, and control is not required in pressure cookers. After boiling and raising the foam, you need to salt it immediately, all (!) Foam after that does not happen (well, if only a little), it curls up in small particles and is almost invisible in borscht soups. If any tiny visible particle has fallen into the spoon, I take it calmly.

[Ilmirushka]

Ilmirushka, Ilmirchik, and if you cook it in a pressure cooker, then when to salt it?
I immediately add everything and cook ...

[Ksyusha]

Ksyusha, so everything is correct, I also salt the broth with meat in the pressure cooker right away.

Yeah, but you write that if in a saucepan, then when it boils, and in a pressure cooker right away ... although there is no foam in my pressure cooker

[Ilmirushka]

Ilmirushka and all the girls, thanks for the tips, live and learn!

[Ksenia]

Ksenia, which is why it does not happen that the salt is there right away, but it boils quickly in a pressure cooker, so the protein curls up in a salty solution. And there is still foam, but not foam, but such ... "rags". Even in this form I do not catch them and do not throw them away. Then, when potato-cabbage or cereals are boiled, these protein "rags" are torn into tiny particles, which we safely eat, getting the necessary protein.

getting the protein you need.

And this is the main point

And this is the main point

Sometimes for soup you need a broth right here, pure, clean, for example, chicken broth for soup with spider web noodles. I cook broth with chicken as usual, and use a slotted spoon to collect visible protein "rags" into ... minced meat, or into sauce-gravy. Well, my hand with a slotted spoon does not rise to the sink in order to destroy such usefulness