"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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On Feb 8, 9:37 am, Dave Smith wrote:
Yikes!
I guess the sort of an idiot is:
1. One that doesn't cook
2. One that doesn't know the material would melt
One reason I don't use a dishtowel to get things from the
oven is that they're sometimes damp. Water's a much
better conductor of heat than air is.
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I remember the first time I did that! Actually it wasn't a towel but a wet
potholder. I knew from some science class that water conducts heat. But
the potholder just got a little water spilled on it. I thought... How bad
could it be? Well... It was bad!
What gets me are these chefs on TV who use the towels to remove things from
the oven. I figure that the dishes they are removing must not really be
hot. If they were, those towels wouldn't work very well.
I have transported the removable crock from my crock pot in a cardboard box
lined with foil and the crock wrapped with a towel just in case it spills.
Yeah, I know nowadays you can get them with lids that fit on tightly. But I
do not need another crock pot at the moment. Anyway... That thing puts off
enough heat that it goes through the towel and the box by the time I get it
to my destination.
