kappaw

After watching this thread for a long time, I finally have an oops to share. Another burner mistake. As an owner of a glass top electric cook top (which I love) I’ve always felt a bit smug because I’ve gone years without a mishap more serious than the occasional escaped potato that lands on the burner. Well, no more feeling smug for me! Monday evening…making pad thai. Rice noodles have been cooked and are in the sink draining. So far, so good. Heating the frying pan to high heat, check the recipe and it calls for some brown sugar. OK, grab it from the cupboard and promptly plop it on the still very hot burner that cooked the noodles just moments before. Oooh noooo! But I’m fast, right? I can grab the plastic bag before it melts, right? Not. I yank the bag off the burner and 2 pounds of brown sugar flies all over the stove and into the now very hot sauté pan. I am left with molten brown sugar, smoking plastic bag, much scrubbing (after everything had cooled) and dinner about 45 minutes later than planned. Seems like the sort of mistake that one makes only once…I hope. k8

I also did the Heartland Aids Ride for two summers. I was never hungry but the Frappacino Fridays by Starbucks were some of the best caffine that I've ever ingested.

As a new member of eGullet, it's great to see a marraige of my three favorite activities...cooking, eating and cycling. It's early in the season for me so most rides are between 20-25 miles but after the weather warms and the snow is gone the rides will get longer. After eating plenty of Power Bar and GU, I'm usually of the "Eat whatever the body wants" school of thought. Yellow Truffle, thanks for the Mike Bentley link! As a Wisconsin resident (just north of Milwaukee) I, too, would be interested in an eGullet Century.