That old cache from a 2006 blog saved my marinade recipe

I was trying to recreate this smoky chipotle chicken I used to make back in college, but the link I had bookmarked was dead for years. Every other recipe online used ketchup or brown sugar, which just isn't the same. I finally remembered the blogger's name and typed it into the Wayback Machine, and bam, there it was from 2006. The secret was a splash of coffee and a specific brand of canned chipotles in adobo that they don't even sell near me anymore. I had to drive 45 minutes to a Mexican grocery in Boyle Heights to find them, but the flavor was spot on. It's wild how one random person's cooking experiment from almost 20 years ago can beat everything modern. Has anyone else had luck tracking down a dead link for a food recipe that changed how you cook something?

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juliam4018d ago

oh man, i just read that coffee trick works great for smoky flavors in beef jerky too.

garcia.charles18d ago

coffee trick works great" yeah sure. People throw around "works great" like it's some kind of miracle fix for everything. I tried putting coffee grounds in a rub once and it just tasted like burnt dirt. Maybe I did it wrong but I'm not convinced it's some game changer for jerky. Smoky flavor usually comes from actual smoke, not from sprinkling breakfast leftovers on meat. If it was that easy every BBQ joint would be dumping Folgers in their smokers by now.

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