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Introduction to Sous Vide Cooking

I recently started cooking using sous vide. Sous vide means “under vacuum” in French. With this technique, you vacuum seal your food in a bag and then cook it in a water bath at a precisely controlled temperature. When the food (typically meat or chicken) reaches your desired temperature, you remove it from the water bath, sear/grill/broil it, and serve it. Gourmet restaurants have used this technique for years but it only recently became affordable for the home chef. Continue reading Introduction to Sous Vide Cooking

Mike Connelly
Motorcycles

How To: LED Lighting on the BMW K1300S Motorcycle

On my old K1200S, I upgraded the halogen lights to HID lights by DDM Tuning. These were relatively expensive at the time and required that we create a custom bracket to hold the three ballasts. The light output on the DDM HIDs was impressive though the lamps threw the occasional LAMPF error, particularly when I used the high beams. (This was due to the difference between the resistance of the halogen v the HID lamps). Given the advancement in LED technology in the past eight years, I wanted to install LED and not HID lighting on my K1300S. The advantages of the LED lights include: longer life, lower cost, lower energy consumption, immediate full light output, and smaller ballasts. Continue reading How To: LED Lighting on the BMW K1300S Motorcycle

Mike Connelly