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: "Carol" Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031. Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:58:01 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <2471dc38-b872-9e11-242b-fde8224f0398@example.net> <1c55991b8638a242015f78172a6fd024@www.novabbs.org> <_bTXO.328442$WXO8.118356@fx13.iad> <294692a56994060e8ff1356d145633b1@www.novabbs.org> <5ca3a88fc4039753b202adba9a88cc14@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:58:01 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c18599da49803564089656acc4aa9ca0"; logging-data="1244311"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+39HsxOLZelrkzlq5i0lI7" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yXOdB07Dyx/2QTujwqbT2sf8YJI= Bytes: 3908 jmcquown wrote: > On 11/10/2024 4:12 PM, Carol wrote: > > jmcquown wrote: > > > > > On 11/10/2024 9:48 AM, Dave Smith wrote: > > > > On 2024-11-09 11:25 p.m., dsi1 wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 2:54:14 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I cook those things too. Most people do. You can't cook > > > > > > > these things without special heat retaining pans? Yoose > > > > > > > people are delusional. I am the king of pineapple upside > > > > > > > down cake, and pancakes too. > > > > > > > > > > > > Nobody said that is the only way to cook them. You > > > > > > challenged Carol to name one dish that people would cook in > > > > > > a pain that retains heat. > > > > > > > > > > She said that people down South cook with heat retention. > > > > > Obviously that's not true. You could cook a roast by turning a > > > > > very hot oven off and letting the oven coast for an hour or so > > > > > but that has nothing to do with the pan. If I was cooking a > > > > > steak or pork chop or pancakes, I don't turn the heat off and > > > > > just leave stuff in the pan. You don't do that either. > > > > > > > > You are deliberately overlooking to context.... cast iron frying > > > > pans. You heat them up and slap a piece of meat on and the > > > > give a good sear without the temperature of metal dropping.  > > > > Aluminum will heat up very quickly, but if you apply a large > > > > piece of meat it cools way down. That is why cast iron is so > > > > good for browning. > > > > > > > > > > > IMHO, David often overlooks or distorts the context. He's > > > becoming the new Sheldon. LOL > > > > > > Jill > > > > Yes, or changes it. > > Yep, he posted a silly youtube link about people cooking something in > a huge pit dug into the ground. It had nothing to do with the heat > retention of cast iron or any other type of pan. > > Jill I ignore his youtube links. They waste time and never prove useful.