the ketchup issue is...

[AFK]

What is Crystal sauce?  

[LMNO]

A kind of hot sauce.  Sort of a Franks-meets-Tobasco kind of thing.

[AFK]

Ah, gotcha.  Always looking for new things to put on burgers.  It's pretty much a staple in the summer. 

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

No, no no.


Sweat miripoix, add tomatoes and olives, a little anchovy paste for depth, and then cook it down until most of the liquid is gone.

where does the "compote" part come in?  
sounds more like a tapenade of sorts. delicious delicious tapenade

RWHN- Crystal is like a not hot tobasco. It's more vinegary. It's what we southern ladies carry around in our handbags to put on fried chicken.

[LMNO]

Well, tapenade is primarily olives, and a compote is slowly stewed fruit, and tomato is a fruit, so...



Anyway, Franks Red Hot is a sour hot sauce (the basis for Buffalo wings), and crystal is a little less sour and a little sharper heat, so I think the Franks-meets-Tobasco comparison works.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I've never had Franks. I don't think I've seen it down here in the swamp.

Roasted tomato just didn't sound good stewed in syrup. But whatever the hell it is you mentioned with mirepoix, anchovy and olives sounded damn good.

[LMNO]

Looks like this:



I'm pretty sure they don't make it south of the mason-dixon.  I'd prefer Crystal, though. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

Nah, the fun is in varying the condiments from occasion to occasion.

[LMNO]

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, tapenade is primarily olives, and a compote is slowly stewed fruit, and tomato is a fruit, so...



Anyway, Franks Red Hot is a sour hot sauce (the basis for Buffalo wings), and crystal is a little less sour and a little sharper heat, so I think the Franks-meets-Tobasco comparison works.

IME compote is fruit stewed with sugar. Very sweet (too sweet for me typically) and traditionally served as a dessert, often with cake and cream.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

Your turn!

Also, on the (sort of) subject of tapenades, have you ever done an olive, mushroom, and dried tomato tapenade? Holy fuckballs! Good on anything.

[LMNO]

IME compote is fruit stewed with sugar. Very sweet (too sweet for me typically) and traditionally served as a dessert, often with cake and cream.

Yeah, yeah.

"Savory Roasted Tomato Reduction," then.

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

Your turn!

You peasants.  I only eat a burger if it is stuffed with imported Boursin cheese from Normandy, topped with lightly seared foie gras, and graced with heriloom red bell peppers that have been slow roasted over a natural-chunk charcoal by a young boy named Philippe.

Also, on the (sort of) subject of tapenades, have you ever done an olive, mushroom, and dried tomato tapenade? Holy fuckballs! Good on anything.

Sun dried tomatoes do odd things to my lower intestines, but that does sound pretty damn good.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I like tomato and chilli chutney.

Its tasty.

[Triple Zero]

I am wondering who can get most douchey in their condimentary requirements.

For example, I simply can't eat a burger (fresh-ground eye of round, of course) without a sauce comprised of homegrown roasted tomatoes, fresh curly chervil, and smoked yellow peppers, sweetened with a touch of plum wine and reduced. Naturally.

I only eat burgers made from skin lesions.

They are the douchiest of them all.

I call them ... "weltburgers"