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I confess to not always completely washing pots and pans that are lightly used before putting them away.

Me too.

"I am using my new rotisserie a lot now." dcarch I'm curious about your rotisserie. What kind do you have?

More about Padma from Christopher Kimball: Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, is beautiful, speaks 5 languages, was married to writer Salman Rushdie, and wishes she could invite Confucius and Cleopatra over for dinner #314 MAY 10, 2014 Inside Top Chef with Top Model Host Padma Lakshmi Photo Credit Charles Thompson It is unusual for a beautiful TV host, actress, Versace model, and author to also be thoughtful, world-traveled, and a certified intellectual. I discovered that Padma Lakshmi is all of those things in an America's Test Kitchen Radio interview. One of her most beautiful (her word) images is of being thrown through the window of her parents' car in a terrible crash in California as a teenager—floating through the air in slow motion. But she also loves her work at Top Chef and describes what she looks for in a winner; someone who has to come from behind and struggles to make it to the top. As for dinner with Confucius (she also wanted to invite Cleopatra and Muhammad Ali), I hope that she will give me a ring and an invite too!

I would think that the optional Side Swipe or Metro beater blades would solve that problem. I've used both in my mixer and of the two, the Side Swipe is much, much more efficient.

Oops, I mean to add this part as well: "Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, is beautiful, speaks 5 languages, was married to writer Salman Rushdie, and wishes she could invite Confucius and Cleopatra over for dinner."

If my Hobart-made KA ever dies, I'll go for the 5-qt. Artisan with the glass bowl, it's just so good-looking!!!

Aside from that, there's this: #314 MAY 10, 2014 Inside Top Chef with Top Model Host Padma Lakshmi Photo Credit Charles Thompson It is unusual for a beautiful TV host, actress, Versace model, and author to also be thoughtful, world-traveled, and a certified intellectual. I discovered that Padma Lakshmi is all of those things in an America's Test Kitchen Radio interview. One of her most beautiful (her word) images is of being thrown through the window of her parents' car in a terrible crash in California as a teenager—floating through the air in slow motion. But she also loves her work at Top Chef and describes what she looks for in a winner; someone who has to come from behind and struggles to make it to the top. As for dinner with Confucius (she also wanted to invite Cleopatra and Muhammad Ali), I hope that she will give me a ring and an invite too!

Sorry.

Mostly it will depend on what size recipes you make. If they're smaller, I'd go for the 5-qt. tilt head with glass bowl. Mine is the 5-qt. lift and I like that too. They go all the way to the big 7-qt. While I love it, it's just too big for my kind of baking.

I SO agree with you. It is totally offensive and egregiously bad-mannered. Of course I am from an older generation where men never wore hats indoors. Another reason I love "Mad Men'; love seeing the men in the elevators holding their hats.

I've had my KA since the mid 70s (Hobart-made) and it is still going strong, I hope it goes forever - I love that thing! I bought a Magic Mill DLX in the 90s and thought about selling the KA. I'm sure glad I didn't. While I used the DLX for a couple of years I returned to making smaller recipes and started again using my KA. The DLX has been tucked in a closet ever since.

Yeah, I forgot about my two upright freezers; how would I survive without those? And, of course, I love my little Braun automatic citrus juicer that I bought in 2004. I use a lot of lemons and limes and it's a real timesaver.

I'm not kidding here, these people eat doughnuts and pastries for breakfast and have a lot of take-out or TV dinners. The last time we were invited to their house we had to bring the main dish (salmon) and we also had to cook it!!! Neither of them like to cook (obviously) so they almost never invite others for meals. This positively the most wonderful thread! I adore these stories.

This isn't exactly about a bad meal: Husband and I and a friend were at a vacation home on the lake one summer. We invited dear old friends who lived nearby to come for dinner with us. The wife, a woman in her late fifties at the time, asked friend and I what she could do to help us with the dinner prep. We asked her to chop up some garlic cloves. He response was, "Huh? I don't know how to do that." She wasn't kidding, she had never prepared garlic. We also gave them a whole, fresh chicken to take home with them because we weren't going to be able to use it before we left. Husband says, "What's she going to do with it?, she doesn't know how to cook a chicken." He wasn't kidding, she'd never roasted a chicken - they buy take-out chicken instead. I can't believe they're both still alive what with the kind of diet they have.

Hey, I like Padma. So what if she's a little toasted some of the time.

Forgive me if I posted about this before. My husband and I were invited to his niece's home in a nearby city for dinner. She was not a great cook. We sat at the table while she finished up in the kitchen. I could see her with the hand mixer working over the mashed potatoes; she kept mixing and mixing and mixing, for about 10 minutes. You can easily imagine what those potatoes were like when they were served. Not only cold by then but you could have stood a pitchfork in them and it'd stay upright. The rest of the meal is lost in my memory but I do know it was not good.

Do you ever wonder what her reaction would be if you made her your posole? Would she think it was not very good?

Also the Breville Smart Oven, don't know how I lived without it for so long. Kitchenaid circa 1980s Hobart-made 5-quart lift mixer...Love it and hope it never dies. Zojirushi induction rice maker. Zojirushi Bread maker - though I only use it for kneading. All Clad 3-quart sauté pan, one non-stick and one without. Fissler 4-qt. Pressure Cooker Pan set

Did you, by any chance, use a pan de mie without the lid? I don't run across this size pan anywhere else.

I make my own as well, nothing beats these rolls! The recipe I use is from King Arthur Flour's website. Wonderful. I wish I had more room in the freezer right now so I could bake up a batch.

I have numerous LC pots; a couple are so old that they have the unglazed bottoms. But I digress. Barkeeper's Friend works very well for my pots. Except for the ones that have been used for no-knead bread and have gone into 500° ovens. Those will never be pristine again. Some staining is inevitable considering what all is cooked within. Edited for spelling.

I've only had BR one time; it's hard to come by here and costly (probably why the stores don't stock it). Mine was not bitter at all, and I cooked it just as you described. I'm sure it just varies in bitterness. Edited for spelling.

Thanks for posting, this looks worth trying.

Thanks for all the rave reviews on the bread proofer. I bought one from King Arthur (nowhere else had them in stock at the time). Love it! And I do leave mine set up (in the dining room so it doesn't take up kitchen counter space. I checked its temperature(s) with my Polder probe thermometer by laying the probe on the rack inside. Temps fluctuate minimally in what I think is a normal range. I'm enjoying using it and have made several loaves and rolls with it. How come I never thought to use it as a warmer???