Yeah, I said fire power but this isn’t a blow torch, it’s just a lighter and I don’t think it’s going to get the job done of browning my steak. Hell over this kitchen blow torch, I don’t think it’ll brown my steak very well either, it might brown the outside but it’ll take a while; they cost about 25 dollars and they can be found at any local gourmet food store or online at gourmet food catalogues. Now, sometimes this flame isn’t quite big enough for things that I want to do in the kitchen, and that’s when I turn to something else, the burnsematic, self-igniting propane blowtorch. Now this is like a blowtorch that I’m used to, it’s found at hardware stores rather than gourmet food shops but that doesn’t mean it can’t be used in your kitchen, it runs on propane, which is a hydro-carbon, just like butane; it has three carbon atoms whereas butane has four, those gases from the processing of petroleum and natural gas products. It has a nice feature where you have a screw, starter to get the gas going, and the igniter works nice and easy and you get a big flame. You let the igniter go and you can change the flame, turn it down or even off by adjusting the amount of gas that comes out through this little thing on the back. The nozzle is great because it allows a much larger amount of gas to come through, opens up that flames, you get a really good, big flame for your jobs in the kitchen. Now it’s also really handy because it can be found at hardware stores, it’s about 25 dollars, which is very similar to the price of the kitchen blowtorch that’s found at the gourmet food shops, but because it’s a hardware stores that might make it a little bit easier to find.
Now what can we do with this blowtorch is that we’ll enjoy eating; I think Crème Brulee sounds kind of nice. Bothe of these can do a nice job of browning and hardening the sugar shell on the top of the Crème Brulee, you try the little propane blowtorch and you got a nice little flame as you can see, but they’re just slow-browning, it takes a much longer period of time to get that sugar where you want it. If I try my propane blowtorch, my big flame, I can turn to that nice and high; the sugar starts sizzling almost instantly. That’s going to be a quick Brulee if I ever saw one. Other things we can do, we can brown the outsides, make some roasted red bell peppers, roasted red bell peppers, they’re really great in salsas, if you want to make it yourself, this makes it very easy to do, you know, alternatively you could go to a grocery store and just buy it but this makes it a lot more fun; I mean having flame in the kitchen is definitely something to look forward to.
So you see here, I’ve got a nice blackened outside on this bell pepper and scrape it right off the bell pepper, umm, it’s starting to release all those nice flavors. Other things that you can do, we can roast nuts, I’ve got some pine nuts here, you can roast them as opposed to either putting them in the oven to cook or even putting them in a pan to fry. You can take other things like a pineapple for instance, slice it up, add some brown sugar and melt the brown sugar over it, it’ll happen nice and quick and what a way to bring dessert to the table with your propane blowtorch. And last but not the least, in the middle of the summertime, when corn is plentiful, I usually enjoy having a nice ear corn that, when I didn’t have one of this in the kitchen, I used to halved it, cook it over my open flame of my gas stove, but now propane makes it easy; roasted corn on the cob in my hand.
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