I'm pretty gadget-avoidant. I just prefer poaching or broiling, I guess.
I'm an exceedingly lazy cook. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Which is why I love the grill.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Mar 03, 2005 2:12:57 pm PST #3742 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Allyson - Mar 03, 2005 2:13:48 pm PST #3743 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Lucky Fury.
Hee. He's love on a stick.
His assistant asked if we had ever met, if I wanted to be introduced to Fury. I just grinned.
Jessica - Mar 03, 2005 2:16:23 pm PST #3744 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm an exceedingly lazy cook. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Maybe it's the NYC-esque lack of counterspace, but I've never understood why cooking something in a Foreman grill is easier than cooking it in a skillet. It seems like a lot more work to me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 03, 2005 2:17:51 pm PST #3745 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
With lamb in particular, I find that the grill draining the fat away results in a much better tasting finished product - pans or skillets just end up frying it in grease and getting the meat oversaturated. But I opt for the maximum grease version of hamburger and eye of round in a skillet-they seem to cook more evenly and flavorfully.
This reminds me of the one time I bought a T-bone from a cajun butcher, and the thing simmered down to half its starting mass when I cooked it—grease EVERYWERE. I think that particular cow had died from clogged arteries before they could get it to slaughter.
Allyson - Mar 03, 2005 2:18:52 pm PST #3746 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Jess, I dropped off the TVGuide signed by your DH to be signed by the writers. Fury's assistant was all, "wait, this is the guy who wrote this stuff? How'd you get this?"
So I got to namedrop you DH at the LOST office.
If anyone asks, me and DH go WAYYYY back. heh.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 03, 2005 2:20:54 pm PST #3747 of 10002
What is even happening?
Maybe it's the NYC-esque lack of counterspace, but I've never understood why cooking something in a Foreman grill is easier than cooking it in a skillet. It seems like a lot more work to me.My counter space is at a premium now, which does not make it more attractive, but even when I had my big kitchen in my old house, I decided against one. My mother loves her, but I'm gadget averse.
Also, I'm the cast iron skillet's bitch. It's a pan, And a weapon. You really can't ask more from any kitchen utensil.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2005 2:22:15 pm PST #3748 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You really can't ask more from any kitchen utensil.
Well, you could ask it to be a cleaver.
I'm forever asking the objects in my kitchen to do this.
No luck so far.
Jessica - Mar 03, 2005 2:22:56 pm PST #3749 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
With lamb in particular, I find that the grill draining the fat away results in a much better tasting finished product - pans or skillets just end up frying it in grease and getting the meat oversaturated.
That's what the broiler's for! Gets hotter than the Foreman too, so you get a much better sear.
If anyone asks, me and DH go WAYYYY back. heh.
Well, he's been a lurker for as long as I've been a Buffista, so technically, you've been hanging out online together for what, 4 years?
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2005 2:25:01 pm PST #3750 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, if my boss would stand somewhere other than at the cube next to me, I could go home like I want to.
Pfft.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 03, 2005 2:25:11 pm PST #3751 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmm, I just read a Stephen King story where someone uses kitchen pans and cleaning utensils to protect himself from a knife-wielding lunatic. King didn't choreograph it very well though, the guy grabs a skillet full of boiling stuff to fling at the guy, and all the while I'm thinking "No, moron! Don't try to hit his head and expose yourself to that knife—crack him in the hand with your skillet and he'll be weaponless. THEN brain him!"