Basic Recipe I followed:
Same as #2, swapping in Mayo.
Ingredients used:
Mayo= Burman’s
Vinegar= Walmart Apple Cider Vinegar
Salt= Morton’s
Sugar= Infamous unlabeled clear bin from the kitchen pantry, again
Pepper= From the grinder on the kitchen table + Course Black Pepper to finish
Cabbage= Source: Aldi by my house
Carrot= Same as prior batches. I had trouble with this particular carrot, in terms of getting the larger size pieces I desired. They seemed to break off the grater rather than slice cleanly. Might try to make sure the carrot is room temperature in the future.
Lemon juice= After last time decided to leave this out entirely and go with the added Vinegar as in Batch #2
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Intentional deviations from Recipe:
I went back to Mayo from Batch #2’s Miracle Whip
Unintentional deviations from Recipe:
None
Beer accompaniment:
Treehouse Doppelganger. The imperial version of Alter Ego, which is itself a takeoff on Julius. This stuff is the truth. Treehouse beer pretty much redeems Massachusetts from all Red Sox/Patriots related-sins. At 8.2% I definitely had to watch my knuckles.
Beer accompaniment potential box-grater finger injury rating (BAPBFIR):
4.5 bloody fingers out of 5.
How I felt:
Appearance-wise, I was unsatisfied with my veggies. In addition to the above issues with the carrot, I felt I got too many thick pieces of cabbage. I think that I am accounting for that as:
- 10% My knife needed sharpened
- 50% My bad knife technique/impatience
- 40% The cabbage head itself
Mrs. Slaw noted this particular head was really dense near the core.
That said, these minor imperfections didn’t have a big impact on taste and if I had missed both the same direction- rather than having small carrot with big cabbage pieces it might have been a total non-issue visually.
How others felt:
Mrs. Slaw liked this batch better than Batch #1. I also felt it had a better flavor.
Grade:
CC- for Can’t cut. Is there a knife skills bootcamp or something? I really want to improve and am too lazy to work on this skill absent external stimuli.