When you consider plov, it looks so simple. Just carrots, rice, meat, and onions. For a little added flair, you can add the spice "cumin" (kind of a Russian tradition), or some raisins or some saffron (probably a little Persian influence there). But your basic plov is just four ingredients. That's it.So, in Experiment 1, we considered the rice. Now, here in Experiment 2, we continue our scientific quest and take a close look at the carrots. There are so many questions you could ask about carrots.
My number one question is why are all the carrots the same size? It just doesn't seem natural. The name on the bag, "Bunny Luv", just doesn't seem very natural either.
I have to wonder how they get every single carrot in the bag to be almost exactly 5.0 centimeters in length. An all the diameters fall within a very narrow tolerance as well. I can't imagine what kind of farm produces such uniform carrots. It almost seems alien.It turns out that the ultimate source of these uniform carrots is Grimmway Farms. It appears that Mr. Grimm was instrumental in introducing so called "baby carrots" to the marketplace.
One of the challenges associated with these carrots is that it take a lot of time to cut them up because you can only get about four pathetic pieces from these alien carrots.
And you have to be very careful not to cut your fingers when working with such small objects and a sharp knife. After some experimenting, I found I could get four respectable pieces from each Grimm's carrot. I have a feeling that these four pieces are still too big for a good plov.
In the end, after a lot of cutting, I was able to generate approximately 800.0 mL of chopped carrots. These I set aside for later use in my first real plov experiment. More regarding that fiasco will be posted later.
