#mayumu

Went ahead and made the latik (coconut cream, fried in its own oil as it reduces and separates) and turned off the heat, noticed a few bigger pieces were still too light. (For reference, I was probably aiming for colour halfway between the second GIF and the burnt final product pic.) I turned the heat back on to high, hoping a few seconds longer would finish them, since it was otherwise done. Bad fucking move. The oils began to rolling boil and the latik turned darker than I wanted. I then had the dilemma of turning off the heat to find that the pan was STILL FUCKING BOILING AND WOULD NOT STOP, and I'm standing there panicking, holding the pan up so it doesn't get hotter by touching the burner, and looking at the ramekin I set to pour the oil into like... "If I pour this boiling hot oil into a cold ramekin, will it shatter and splash hot oil onto me??"

I stood there for a whole fucking minute, panicking, as the pan KEPT FUCKING BOILING IN THE AIR, and then I remembered I had just washed a steel cup (pushed to the back of the stove while I cooked) and that steel cup has been used for meat oils before, so it should withstand coconut oil. Pulled it over and struggled to set up the strainer on it (strainer was handle-heavy so I had to prop it up on a ramekin), all one-handed while holding a 12lbs pan of boiling hot coconut in the other.

It was nerve-wracking to say the least. I should've just kept the few less-done pieces, because all that boiling broke all the pieces apart into tiny crumbs. I was all fanning and blowing on it in the strainer to try and cool it off because it was still bubbling as it strained lol. Thankfully, the latik doesn't taste of "burnt" so I was able to use them on the marshmallows after like an hour+ of effort slow cooking them. (I do wish they had a better consistency, though.)