Burning Down The House

[waitingman]

Things I miss about cooking with gas... as opposed to electricity...

#1. The lack of a controllable flame that tells you how hot the wok's getting.

#2. The ability to heat 2~3 rooms with a couple of jets lit & set to medium.

But mostly #1... it's gonna take a lot of elbow grease & a couple of steel wool pads to get the chicken'n'snowpeas'n'ginger'n'garlic'n'chilli'n'teriyaki residue off the bottom of the wok this time...

Dammit!!!

Comments

[sarin-girl.livejournal.com]

that's when you give up and buy a new wok, or an electric one..

but you get points for trying to use a wok on an electric stove though :)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

It's the smoking oil that tells you how hot it's getting!

When I had a gas stove (never again the burning times!) I missed my electric stove. Mostly because I was used to turning the heat off five minutes before the dish was finished, and having it perfectly cooked when I wanted it. Seriously. I still have a dozen or more large boxes of matches from that rental in various boxes.

Soak the wok. You'll have to reseason it, anyway.

Burning down the house

[(Anonymous)]

Reminds me of when I used to tour - I had a road case with a power socket to power the fridge and the coffee machine - until one day the coffee machine decided to fry itself! boo hoo. Anyway - you were probably too involved in listening to papa bear!

Re: Burning down the house

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

I won't deny that the TLev album was a distraction... and maybe the rather nice (& reasonably priced) verdelho I was halfway through played its part in the calamity as well.

Aahh the perils of cooking with wine...

"... add one dash to the food & a glass for me... then another slosh into the food & a glassh for me... etc... hic..."