Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031. Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:36:52 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <2471dc38-b872-9e11-242b-fde8224f0398@example.net> <246a30e1c50603824a44181320912552@www.novabbs.com> <1e0984b7-d636-e962-822a-283e1542fed4@example.net> <65f4a934811ded2a4a4e8f320b808886@www.novabbs.com> <721fcba3f9b07440225b99a05b56c666@www.novabbs.com> <1c55991b8638a242015f78172a6fd024@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:36:55 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="96db8907f8920773e7a804e067aa2bae"; logging-data="2470268"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19cP7OKSBnkJUjSN4tUokOzypVIj5SZqsA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DhWdV3oZtgtO1+VMARMaZAnMXfE= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3985 Walt Coogan wrote: > Carol wrote: >> dsi1 wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 0:50:25 +0000, Carol wrote: >>> >>>> jmcquown wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 11/4/2024 1:36 PM, Carol wrote: >>>>>> dsi1 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 11/2/2024 3:17 PM, jmcquown wrote: >>>>>>>>> You can make a smash burger for less than half the cost of >>>>>>>>> having someone flatten it for you. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've been trying to make a smash burger but that's been elusive >>>>>>> so I'm looking for some new tools: a flat iron weight to flatten >>>>>>> the burger and a thin metal spring steel spatula. I'm also going >>>>>>> to have to cook these burgers on a carbon steel pan because the >>>>>>> burgers have to be scraped off the pan. Smash burgers are >>>>>>> actually a new way to cook a hamburger. A properly made one is >>>>>>> just a scrumptious, sensual, experience. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2 cast iron pans, 1 smaller. >>>>>> >>>>>> Heat both pans.  They will retain heat so will cook both sides >>>>>> at once. >>>>>> >>>>>> Put meat in larger one and smash with other pan. >>>>> >>>>> I disagree.  There is a kitchen tool called a cast iron burger >>>>> press, which makes more sense than using two cast iron skillets >>>>> of differing size.  You could also use an old style cast iron >>>>> bacon press to accomplish the same result.  That is, if you're >>>>> planning to do this often. >>>>> >>>>> Jill >>>> >>>> It depends on what you already have.  I don't need to buy a burger >>>> press or a bacon press.  I have the cast iron already.  Nothing new >>>> need be bought or stored. >>>> >>>> I have no intention of deliberately making a dry (juice all smashed >>>> out) burger.  That's David. >>> >>> You keep getting sillier and sillier. You don't know a thing about >>> what I do or what I make. Your idea of using 2 pans to cook a burger >>> is the most idiotic scheme yet. You should be ashamed of yourself. >> >> David, you are the one who wants to try a smash burger.  All you got >> was ideas. >> >> We KNOW you hate cast iron or any ideas but your own.  No need to >> repeat it. >> > > Says the catty bully who thinks thee world revolves around her old life > in Sasebo, and nothing more. Shut up. Her Royal Majesty has not banned her (yet)