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What's the one piece of kitchen gear you can not function without
There are plenty of pieces that I always knew I couldn't get by without, but this weekend, I broke the handle on my heat-resistant spatula, and it was terrible. I had no idea how dependent on it I'd become.
Question of the Day: The five-second ruleis it OK to eat food you've dropped?
The relevant question isn't whether a piece of food dropped on the floor will pick up any bacteria in five seconds; the relevant question is whether that bacteria is likely to hurt you. There's bacteria everywhere, and if you drop food just about anywhere and then culture it, you'll see lots of bacteria. Presumably, however, you're going to eat the food before you culture it. Anything you're likely to pick up from the floor pales in comparison to what you get if you let your food sit out at room temperature for more than two hours. Your body is used to handling the former. The latter is begging for food poisoning.
If I drop something on the floor, I'll eat it unless something's happened to make it unappetizing. But I won't serve it to guests.
Some public health scientists believe that a lack of exposure to bacteria as a child keeps a child from developing a healthy immune system and may lead to more serious diseases as an adult. Here's an article about that. I don't think the theories are universally accepted, but I think it makes sense not to be too squeamish about a little bit of bacteria.
Rachael Ray - love, hate, ignore, pity, envy?
I think you have to ask what she's accomplishing. Is she getting people who wouldn't otherwise cook to cook? Or is she getting people who would otherwise cook better to cook worse?
I suspect that it's more the former than the latter, and I think that's a good thing. I don't understand many of the criticisms of her. There are plenty of Food Network shows that include baking, so a show with no baking is not such a terrible thing. I don't think she says that nobody should bake: she says that she doesn't bake.
My impression is that many RR haters are more annoyed at the totality of the Food Network programming than they are at RR specifically. I think the haters view RR as symptomatic of FN's reliance on more entertainment and less actual cooking. And FN is definitely guilty of that, but I don't think RR is. I agree that RR is probably not the person to expand my culinary horizons, and I wish there were more shows on FN that did. But there are many people for whom RR provides a valuable service.
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If it tastes good, it is good. I make a mean, Velveeta-based chili con queso, and everyone loves it.
On the other hand, I use cheddar when I make macaroni and cheese, and it's light years better than mac and cheese made with Velveeta.
And I can make a scratch chocolate cake that will kick your cake-mix-and-pudding cake's ass. Any time you make a cake from a box, you get the distinctive flavor of something that is not butter, and no amount of covering up will cover that up.