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What Cookware Is the Best?
Spilling over from Susan’s post on Kamala’s recent cookware purchases is a minor debate on what cookware works the best, for what purpose, and at what price. @doctorrobert, @kedavis, and @jimmcconnell have already commented. But what do you think? I suppose I started the digression with this comment:
I confess to you, I have one of these. I’ve only used it once to fry a single egg. I told my wife before l’affaire Kamala that she might as well start using it — we’re not getting any younger.
Mauviel Copper M’200 CI Fry Pan
Select : 12″
$435 (It was much cheaper when I bought it.)
Williams-Sonoma many years ago. Up ’til now it’s just been too special to use.
What is your favorite skillet, chicken fryer, or saucepan?
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Fauci is on his way . . .
Better than a roll of TP.
We have nice napkins to the side, but we, too, use half paper towels.
Green chili? Is that with very new cheese or very old meat (The Odd Couple)? Seriously, I’ve never heard of green chili.
I some places, that’s to fight for on your table.
The spelling matters. Green chile is not chili. Chili is a meat-and-beany based spicy tomato stew that Texans eat. Chile is a kind of pepper. They can be red or green, and are used in making sauces and stews which are *not* chili.
I recommend that you proceed post-haste to your nearest Mexican restaurant for dinner and ask for enchiladas verde (mild or medium spiciness). That will have a green chile sauce smothering the enchiladas. Also, try green chile stew. Finally, when you have decided that you cannot live without green chile, order chile rellenos (“RRe-ye-nohss”).
Any place that makes a green chile cheeseburger can be great — but Blakes Lotaburger is only in NM. Worth the drive!
Here I always thought Chile was a country.
Of course Chile is, chiles (small c, except at the start of a sentence) are not.
Thanks. That answers a lot of questions.
Please! Turkey is the only country named after a food.
Isn’t that essentially a stuffed pepper?
Wasn’t me.
Oh come on! Mexico is named after Mexican food, China is named after Chinese food…
I don’t think real Texans put beans in their chili.
Mexico, I can’t explain. But China is named after tableware.
Those bastards steal everything.
Yeah. Cheap, knock-off china.
I was thinking about the name.
Real Texans who drove cattle sure did.
Yes, sorta — it’s a chile pepper typically stuffed with cheese, batter-breaded and fried (or baked I guess?), and smothered in its less fortunate brothers; chiles who have been pulped to verde sauce (or a red sauce). Refritos on the side or black beans in a classier place, and for some reason, the interminable scourge of rice.
ON-TOPIC: I uh don’t know what the best cookware is for making rellenos.
“Blazing Saddles” isn’t history.
That spicy beef and bean stew is good, but if you go by the bible, i.e. A Bowl of Red by Frank Tolbert, no beans, no tomatoes. In fact, he seemed suspicious of onions as well.
It will be soon :-(
Seriously, my father was a no-kidding horse cowboy when he was young. He worked for some fellows who had been Texans before escaping to New Mexico. Dad didn’t do actual cattle drives, but he worked with people who had. Still, his crew would ride the fences for days, and in general see to things.
Perhaps modern city Texans who can’t saddle a horse turn their nose up at beans in chili, and to be honest I view beans as filler, like potatoes or rice, but of a higher caliber. But filler was valuable back in the day. Beat the crap outta being empty.
Actually, I have a cast iron pan with depressions for the peppers. It’s actually a mold for chile shaped corn bread. Never used it.
And dry beans were less of a burden on the wagons, etc.
Back in the day, when I worked out of town a lot, I made chili without beans once. It was pretty good. Can’t get my wife to attempt it, though.
Now — does chili take cumin? Or no cumin.
I suppose not, if you just want boring stuff.
I think that without cumin it’s just stew.
According to Tolbert, yes. This is a variation, but every recipe of his that I’ve seen uses cumin. One listed Lone Star beer in place of water.