Drum roll please

[cjsmith]

I am now the proud owner of a second nonstick skillet* large enough to brown a pound of ground turkey. Being able to run two of those at once during a cook-for-the-week session is going to be a real win for my tender feetsies.

So far I have learned two lessons with my new skillet:

1: It takes a lot longer to cook stuff if the pan takes a lot longer to heat up.

2: Scraping the meat to one side of the pan and tilting the pan to drain off the fat is downright awkward if your skillet is slicker'n black ice. The meat keeps sliding around!

I am also the proud owner of a garlic press. I am getting more frou-frou by the day. A garlic press! *eyeroll* But by golly I am going to get over my fear of using stuff that grows in the ground as opposed to stuff that comes in jars. (I reserve the right, however, to go back to jars due to the economics imposed by waste. How fast do I have to use up a bulb of garlic?)

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*Those of you who wish to argue that my first large skillet is no longer nonstick will get a fair hearing. I've clearly eaten a lot of Teflon over the years.

Comments

[tattermuffin.livejournal.com]

I got rid of all my teflon - if it burns the fumes released can kill birds in 10 minutes flat ... and really, the birds' health aside, do I want something like that in my home, my food, my kids?

Have you considered getting a stool, maybe one with wheels, that you could sit on while in the kitchen so you can stay off your feet? With a little engenouity (however that's spelled, too lazy to go look it up) you could get from counter to cook-top using ropes to pull on or something.

And wouldn't your cats LOVE that?! :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm not honestly sure those old skillets of mine are Teflon itself, although given their age, they might well be.

I do have a tall chair I could sit on to chop. I use it sometimes. The annoying part is that nobody makes a space for knees underneath a kitchen counter!

My cats *adore* the smell of cooking meat. When I pulled out a pot roast a few days ago, they about went nuts. :-)

[lrc.livejournal.com]

Technically Teflon is just a brandname for PTFE.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That fact doesn't allow me to conclusively identify that stuff on my skillet. :-)