Kitchen Stuff I Like

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:52:03 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


We could have tolerated the temps, but it was the 4+ feet of snow in
the yard all winter that prevented the trek from house to bins (only
one tumbles, that is my favorite).

Boron
 
Tucson (but probably available in
many other places).

I never in my life have I used oven mitts. I use a tea towel in my
left hand, and a tea towel in my right hand. they are free, they can go
into the
dishwasher and are easily sacrificed/recycled if they grown green or
nasty.that KA can can be washed, but its size means that it holds
a LOT of stuff, and that is why it requires an expensive filter,
because stuff sits there longer than it should.




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M.afaqanjum
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:31:53 -0400, Boron Elgar
wrote:


Yeah, sure. Like we're supposed to hang on your every word and
remember WTF you're talking about from post to post over a series of
days. It was too hard for you to call it a compost bin or whatever
you were talking about instead of a cutesy "KA". KA the flour or KA
the mixer suddenly became KA the something else. That's being a lazy
ass on your part, not stupid on mine.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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Don't you think that would depend on whethwer the person has his own compost
bin a few steps from his house or if as in many cities composting materials
are picked up weekly?
Your solution would also depend on being able or willing to use 3 pounds of
anything, let alone cottage cheese! On occasion I use an old plastic ice
cream box if I am producing way too much composting materials, as yesterday
when I cleaned artichokes. My composting bin is SS with a plastic liner,
not very big. It gets dumped and then showered at the outdoor shower.
Those corn based bags cost a fortune here.
 
"Silvar Beitel" wrote in message
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I have the standard old fashioned sprayer.


I have never ever burned my forearms on the oven. I have regular mitts that
I use like gloves.


No cast iron pans so no need for that. I did have one once and I never got
it to work right.

No need for that either.

I have a timer but never use it for cooking. I just use the one on the
stove.

Yikes! Tried that and hated it. All it did was bring me fruit flies. Now
I just put a biobag in a small plastic trash can and run it out to the
recycle bin as needed.

Had one of those once. Not sure what happened to it. Don't have it now.
Can't remember where I bought it but I think on Cape Cod.

Since I don't own a digital camera, that would be of no use to me. My
recipes are usually just scribbled quickly on a piece of paper. Unless they
are more complicated and then I print them off or bring in the book or
magazine.

I have a pepper grinder. I use Real Salt. Somebody bought me a salt
grinder but I found I never used it.

I have one of those.

Two things I use at least once a week (usually more) are the Rachel Ray
pasta pot and a large Circulon saut? pan with lid, although I rarely use the
lid. My old popcorn pan gets a lot of use as well. I also like the cheap
plastic pizza cutter from the Dollar Store. It's one of those half moon
shaped things. Works better than any other cutter I've used. It was
getting old and I couldn't find another in the stores. Found and bought one
on Ebay.
 
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:34:43 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Then people need to settle on one translation for KA.

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for translation of acronyms. I
didn't know what a KA was either even if I have one.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Apr 1, 3:29?pm, Silvar Beitel wrote:

Agh - is that green thing in the background a kitchen SPONGE? Fie on
sponges. Let's not start THAT debate again, sponge lovers.


A frugal person with a sewing machine can whip these up from some many
layered terry towels. or just wrap a towel around the handle a few
times. Easy to launder and the price is right.


Or use an old mustard container like my aunt did for her dish liquid.
Why buy - ?

WHHAATT? Buy liners? My garbage goes into an old cat litter
bucket, lined with plastic bags leftover from a certain store - they
fit perfectly and I don't compost.

Some scotch tape and some old index cards stuck inside my cupboard
doors do fine. Takes up no counter space either.

So there ya go - my frugalities in Le Kitchen.
 
"Janet Wilder" wrote in message
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I had one of those and hated it. When decompressed it was too tall to fit
in my cupboard. So I had to leave it out on the counter. It was always in
the way and it always seemed to have a nasty oily coating on it that
attracted dust. I tossed it.

Now I just put a little oil in the pan or on my dough or whatever and use my
hand or a piece of paper towel to spread it around.
 
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:56:31 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:


WTF would any normal person want to inhale atomized oil? duh
One inhales enough cooking fumes normally, why over kill???

Doesn't take any skill at all to drizzle minimum oil into a bowl of
salad and toss... those oil atomizers are the idiot's delight.
WTF can't you simply mix up some vinaigrette and apply to suit.
If you were truly wanting to ingest less fat you'd eat your salad from
a cheap paper plate, they suck up oil but not the juices. I fry eggs
in butter but eat them from a paper plate, I ingest considerably less
fat plus I don't have to deal with plates coated with runny egg dried
on... in boxes of 1,000 cheap paper plates cost like .0008? per.
 
"Silvar Beitel" wrote in message
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Ah... Maybe that's why mine didn't work well. I had it in NY. My kitchen
there was cold year round. I cranked up the AC in the summer and in the
winter there never seemed to be any heat in there unless I had the oven on.
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:43:18 -0400, Landon wrote:


King Arthur Flour turned to poopoo around the time they split off The
Baker's Catalogue... I won't buy their products anymore, they're over
priced, poor quality, their flours turned to crap, and their employees
who answer the phone are very surly; a few years ago I queried about
their obtaining/locating/selling windmill cookie molds, didn't have a
clue what I was talking about and weren't interested.
 
On Apr 2, 3:06?pm, Janet Wilder wrote:

I gave up on the MIsto - I wanted to use it with the oil as you say
you are doing, but it clogged up in no time and no way could I get it
clean. I then tried it to spray a little lemon juice on stuff -
BONNNKKKK - no way. What a waste of money. Well, maybe I cud use it
as a safe - I doubt any burglar would shake it to hear what might be
hidden inside.

I went back to my old cruets to store a bit of oil - a few shakes over
a pan and I'm set. I clean it with a paper towel wrapped and rubber
banded around a chopstick, cuz no brush I own would get into those
right angles.
 
Kalmia wrote:




Hmm. I just found an old sprayer when cleaning out a neglected
area of the kitchen. Let me look.

(One minute elapses.) Yep, sure enough it's a Misto. Unused for
10, 15 years.


S.
 
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