Archive for the ‘cooking’ tag
Gas vs. Charcoal #
In pure combustion terms, propane always wins. If you add enough other factors, you may be able to excuse your preference for the taste of charcoal.
…because the substance is made from trees, it can actually be carbon neutral in the end. They contend that the harvested trees, if taken from well-managed timberlands, are presumably replanted. So, while the felled trees are emitting carbon on barbecues nationwide, the new trees are sucking that carbon right back up. Gas, on the other hand, can’t be replenished—or at least not for the millions of years it takes for organic matter to break down into fossil fuels.
Gordon Ramsey’s American Train Wreck #
Alex Koppelman’s essay isn’t exactly new news, but he says it admirably and it’s a point I like hearing:
The new season of Fox’s reality show “Hell’s Kitchen,” starring Ramsay, kicks off Tuesday night. It’s a show that seems deliberately designed to waste Ramsay’s considerable talents both as a chef and as a television personality by having him send inexperienced, talentlesscooks through a particularly dull meat grinder. Ramsay and Fox give these poor saps simple kitchen tasks that are obviously way above their skill level, presumably in the hope they’ll fail. And then, joy of joys, Ramsay gets to turn insincerely red-faced and yell.
For the record: despite it’s massive, glaring, almost intolerable, flaws I do have a season pass to Hell’s Kitchen on the TiVo.