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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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All Ancho are dried. An Ancho is a dried Poblano :-)
At any rate — sounds DELICIOUS.
I put in a whole lot of cumin, since that’s what makes it taste like chili. But some others don’t. That’s why I was asking.
Supposedly it’s the chili powder that makes it taste like chili. Cumin gives it spice/heat.
Search string at duckduckgo.com “Tolbert chili a bowl of red” will yield lots of results.
Frank X. Tolbert’s Original Bowl of Red Recipe – Red.Food.com
I’ll note that list includes neither beer nor water.
I posted a link to the full recipe below. This was just to answer the question about cumin.
Cumin is the part of chili powder that makes it taste like chili.
See, I don’t think I’ve used chili powder ever. I use ground spices, chilies, various peppers, herbs and vegetables, including cumin, but I’ve never used Chili powder. Without cumin it just tastes like stewed ground beef.
They should call it good old fashioned Texas Cumin.
Food based on chile tastes like chile.
Inappropriate, if you are eating BBQ. Then she should put the whole roll on the table for you to use as needed.
Sock It To Me rhymes with Nakatomi.
Nice name. What does this have to do with the topic of this post: specifically how many paper towels you should be given per BBQ rib? I say, one quarter towel for general population, one-half for men with thick fingers, and 1 whole for the bearded. :)
The answer is 47 square feet.
If you ever get the chance, go to the Hatch Chile Festival in Hatch, NM, over Labor Day weekend. Some of the best food I’ve had in my life. For lunch, we found the concession that had a long line of locals. They only had one thing on the menu: Chile Relleno Burritos. I don’t have words to describe how great they were.
Later, they had a chile-eating contest. A girl, 19 or so, won the female division. The next event was the Miss Hatch Chile pageant, so she quickly changed outfits and was the runner-up for that. I leaned over to my wife and said, “I’m gonna marry that woman.”
(My wife rolls her eyes a lot.)
Per rib? That sounds outrageous. One, maybe two, but no more. Think of the baby trees.
BBQ IS different.
Yeah, from what I understand grilling, even with a sauce, is different from BBQ, which is slow cooked over low heat for several hours.
Lol. I don’t know anything about that. We always buy ours.
Though the wife is about to buy a pellet smoker. I figure I’m about to learn a lot more about barbecue.
Pellet fuel could be hard to come by if there’s a crash.
We’ve got a fireplace and a lot of trees.
Sure but that doesn’t help the pellet smoker.
True. But buying a pellet smoker isn’t going to break the bank.
A friend of mine hired me on for a couple of jobs installing satellite dishes etc for public buildings. We went to hatch and hooked up a school. I was already a convert, but the Blake’s Lotaburger there said they had the freshest green chile on the planet, and they were right. It was very nearly life-changing — seriously, I was looking at jobs and housing down there for a while.
The town of Hatch sits along I-25 in the Hatch valley, and produces the famed green chiles of the ubiquitous name. It was a nice small town, between Truth or Consequences to the north and Las Cruces to the south. Heaven knows what’s going on there these days, but even if the place goes to Hell, there’s hope: Hatch Green Chiles Harvested aboard International Space Station.
It this anywhere near Humble?
Not really. From Humble go directly west until you see I-25, the main north-south interstate highway. Humble is at the eastern border of NM, and Hatch is west-central. Interesting roads to get there though.
Never even heard of Humble — had to look it up. Why do you ask? That’s onion country.
And it’s not the only one:
I just spaced out and thought you were talking about Texas. I see that Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces are down south, but Humble, Texas is just north of Houston.
I thought it might be halfway between Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces, philosophically.
I think there’s also still the annual Vidalia Onion Festival in Brookings, Oregon, near where I grew up.