Hey @hobodave, when I was searching for those Pyrex articles on Consumer Reports, I happened across a cookware comparison; did you know All Clad is near the bottom according to them?
sorry all, got distracted with a meeting - @gabe, that is my puppy, but that was 3 years ago, she's a full grown german shepherd now. @aaron, i got very lucky, for some reason our cat has no idea he can get on counters!
@yoss, i think we talked about this before, but i'm the opposite - i actually taught my wife to cook :)
benefit of growing up in an italian household where we were always cooking
wow, impressive! growing up, we had a dog that could open the back sliding glass door by jumping, twirling, and pushing against the handle
@yossarian, actually, i have been able to get more and more into her. i taught her about mire poix and how much it helps the depth of flavor in the soups i've been making this winter
and she's still eating around the veggies some, but at least shes getting the nutrients that leeched into the soup...and she is eating at least half of them :)
@hobodave, I don't think I've ever found decent cookware except in specialty stores.
Mine looks the same, although I've been eyeing the All-Clad copper core line lately; I just have to try to make some storage space.
All of my stainless steel is pretty old, and while that's not a terrible thing by itself, it's also cheap. The 4 qt copper bottom sauce pan actually warped.
The All Clad products are expensive but they last about 5 times as long.
In fact one of them was sitting in storage for 3 years, almost never being used because I lived at home during that time. Didn't even need to re-season it.
I'm not surprised @hobodave, those things were built to last.
The cast iron's really great in general but I used to think it cooked evenly, and over time I've realized that it absolutely does not, it's worse than even the non-stick skillets.
It's not like we're getting too much drama (aside from the Aaronut impostor yesterday), but it's always less disputable when the community closes something and not the moderators.
Fortunately things have picked up a lot since then, and we're getting more google juice. Although darin might not come back, others will eventually replace him.
oh, random: restaurant.com (who is always running some kind of promotion, so i don't know if you guys are interested at all) is running another special, 80% off final price using coupon code JOY
good point. i guess being in the US i don't even think to look at that kind of stuff, i should start though so i stop giving out bad recommendations ;)
@hobodave, ha. I thought you had enough votes on the banana question. That's the only reason I accepted the answer. Had I known you needed 5 more, I wouldn't have accepted it. ;op
heh. I accepted it as the best answer. Although, I'm not 100% sure, it sounds reasonable, and outside of a way for me to be certain, I decided to accept an answer rather than leave it unaccepted forever.
After all, if I can't accept an answer, should I have even asked the question?
