Author Archives: jimhu

Char Siu/Cha Shao Sous Vide

Note: this post was started over a week ago, but I didn’t get around to finishing it because I was having trouble uploading the final image from the WordPress App on my iPhone… The experiments with ribs made me think about trying one of my other favorite forms of BBQ pork: Char Siu, aka Cha Shao. […]

Sad news from Indiana Chemistry

A colleague just showed me that my former colleague Dave Giedroc is in this CNN video. While it is usually cool to see that one of your friends was interviewed, in this case it’s for the sad news that one of the victims in the Malaysia Air plane downing was a grad student in Dave’s department.

James Garner, RIP

Just heard that James Garner was found dead in his home at age 86. From the NYT obit: Alone among westerns of the 1950s, “Maverick,” which made its debut in 1957, was about an antihero. He didn’t much care for horses or guns, and he was motivated by something much less grand than law and […]

The missing Hobby Lobby reaction

I haven’t read all of the reactions to this past week’s Burwell v Hobby Lobby decision, so perhaps I missed this, but I haven’t seen much of what I thought would be an obvious reaction when I was much younger. This post is an extension of the comment I left at Althouse when the decision […]

More sous vide ribs

Got a larger rack. Bagged with salt, pepper, brown sugar in the fridge on Sunday. Monday night, added soy, sherry, cider vinegar, garlic, red pepper flakes, and star anise and put into a 138F bath at 9:30 PM. The vinegar is a change from last time. I cut the rack in half and put both […]

Sous Vide Pork loin and glazed carrots

Previously I did a pork loin with a coffee-chocolate rub. It was so nice that I thought I’d get another pork roast and experiment with another variation. This time it’s 2.5 lbs and I used a pot for the brining step. Getting a later start means a much shorter brine: 2.5 c kosher salt 2.5 […]

Sous Vide Lamb Shanks

The consensus of various posts seems to be 48 hours at 140-161F. But low end pictures all look a bit on the red side, so I’m going to up the temperature to 145. Started at about 8PM on Thursday night. Shanks were rubbed with olive oil, sprinkled with salt and pepper and put into a […]

Yet more testing of JSmol2wp

[jsmol acc=:adenosine commands=’adenine=load :adenine|||adenosine=load :adenosine|||guanosine=load :guanosine|||cytidine=load :cytidine|||thymine=load :thymidine|||uridine=load :uridine’] This is a test of the isosurface capability using an xyz and jvxl file uploaded to WordPress media. Markup is: [[jsmol acc=’s_den.cub_’ type=’xyz’ caption=’Load local file’ isosurface=’s_den.cub_.jvxl’]] [jsmol acc=’s_den.cub_’ type=’xyz’ caption=’Load local file’ isosurface=’s_den.cub_.jvxl’]