Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: prosciutto

  • MasterChef 4 recap: Sausage and Mushrooms (S4E15)

    (PLEASE NOTE:  This blog contains the drunken ravings of a MasterChef season 2 survivor.  It should be considered solely opinion, and nothing more.) We’re down to 9 contestants, and Luca rubs a bit of sand in the face of Giuseppe Morisco from Season 2 by stating that he is the only Italian to have ever…

  • How to Convert a Refrigerator for Curing Meat or Aging Cheese

    WARNING: Working with electricity is dangerous. This article will teach you several ways to convert a refrigerator into a chamber for curing meat or for aging cheese.  (The same principles can be used to convert a refrigerator into a lagering chamber for making homebrew lager beer, or converting a chest freezer into a kegerator.)  If…