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On 2011-04-19, Mark Thorson wrote:

Silly writer nonsense to earn a paycheck.

What passion doesn't have its collector kooks? Guitar players with
1000 guitars. Ham radio amateurs with enough electronics to
communicate with Pluto. A fly fishermen can easily drop $5-8K for
just the outfit he wears standing in a stream. I had a next door
neighbor who obviously made a lot of money cuz he had an mint orginal
Shelby Cobra and Harley-Davidson that was a custom show drag bike
worth at least $100K. He never drove/rode either the whole 2 yrs he
lived there. Why shouldn't non-cooking cooks have outrageous
kitchens?

I'm happy to say there are almost no kitchen tools/implements I do not
use regularly. Otherwise, the get tossed.

nb
 
"notbob" > wrote:


Thank you, Mark. I enjoyed reading the article. LOL with the one who
stored her sweaters in the Viking. My sister, a cook book much loved
author, has a new Viking and cusses it on a regular basis. She's in south
Florida and I don't know if she has any sweaters but I could ask. Polly
 
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:48:35 -0800, Mark Thorson
wrote:



It's the NYC (nah, make it more money than God) frame of mind.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

LOL.. the video shows her trying to cream butter and eggs with a rubber
spatula; no wonder she thinks it was difficult.

I agree about the status symbol kitchens though. My Aga service engineer
used to say he was called to annual-serviced status-symbol Agas which had
never been cooked on .

Janet
 
Janet wrote:

My cousins who eats out three times a day every day. They got a seven piece
collection of all-clad pans for their wedding gift. After they read an
magazine article about aluminum pans they got nervous about aluminum cores
and gave them to me. I smiled and did not have the heart to tell them
otherwise. The all-clad pans are of my favorite cookery. I deemed my
cousins Stupid or am I a greedy bastard :)

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:48:35 -0800, Mark Thorson
wrote:


When shopping for a new oven and range about 10 years ago at a kitchen
appliance shop, the owner asked me if I cooked. Even at that time I
understood what he meant.

There must be some actual change occurring in the cooking habits of
those around me. Many more ingredients are available to me now than 5
years ago.

Janet US
 
On 19 Apr 2011 03:31:15 GMT, notbob wrote:


Wonder if that was the Cobra that sold for $1,165,000 or the one that
went for $1,600,000?
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)
 
On 2011-04-19, The Cook wrote:


This was about 15 yrs, ago. They could be had for a measly $400K,
back then. Hell, when I got out of the Service in '70, you could buy
a used 289 S-C for under $5K. My all time fav was the old geezer
....an eccentric engineering type, by his looks.... who commuted to
work every day in his faded green S-C. That's true car love. ;)

nb
 
Giusi wrote:

So I'm watching the clip and thinking-she's not "creaming" anything..
she's ineffectively stirring it around in the bowl. She's using hard
cold butter to grease the pans, whereas a smart cook can do it with real
butter in less than a minute if only she planned ahead to allow the
butter to soften. How hard or time consuming *is* sifting? She seems to
make it a lot more complicated than need be. I gave up after she annoyed
me with her biased comparisons. No wonder the old fashioned way is too
hard for her. She's clueless.
 
Nad R wrote:

Yay for you!!
I've been buying pieces of it on sale for the kids while they're young
and just starting out. I figure it is investment cookware to last a life
time.
 
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