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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Okay, if my boss would stand somewhere other than at the cube next to me, I could go home like I want to.
Pfft.
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!"
I broil to simulate grilling, but it makes my kitchen hot. I wnt a hibachi for the summertime, but then I have to build a fire. So I suspect an indoor grill would be good for me, if I had counter space, which I don't.
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.
Word. Up.
My other issue with the Foreman is that the cooked-meat smell seems to hang around for DAYS. Aeons. Eternities.
This got me to thinking - what gadgets do I have and which ones do I use out of those? Toaster - don't use. Blender - barely use. Hand mixer - barely use. George Foreman grill - don't use. KitchenAid? You will pry out of my cold, dead hands.
And now I want to bake cookies.
The gadget I don't use much is the ice cream maker, but I'm holding on to it. My lifestyle gets in the way of me using the waffle iron as much as I'd like, but I think I can tweak that. The mixer, the food processor, and the hand blender get almost weekly use. I no longer have a toaster, and do miss it. I do not have a microwave, and ... it's okay.
Frying pan. Gas stove. I'd be tempted by a GF grill if it weren't for the fact I've got the timing down just pat for everything. Except fish, but I don't cook fish. And I don't use a clock or anything. I think I go by how it looks and smells and feels. That's the only logical explanation.
Also, counterspace.
Mister Kitty is being a total shit tonight. Knocking breakable stuff off shelves. I moved the bookcase away from the breakables and he was doing crazy contortions to reach them. He knows he's being a shit too. Twit.