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Post by fumobici on May 4, 2022 3:36:57 GMT
Why is there such a thing as glass lids for cooking pots? Were these foisted on the public by the same fiends who somehow made bras that adjust in the back commonplace? I've got a little T-Fal set of two pots and a pan I got cheaply at Target with glass lids that I almost adore. Sometimes I can see inside; sometimes I can't. A metal lid bats .000 every time on that. T-Fal antistick coating is the best, most durable I've used, and I've used the expensive and highly-regarded stuff as well. Antistick is over-rated, but for a few things like fried eggs, it is nice to have.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2022 3:55:13 GMT
For me, being able to see the food cooking in the pan is about as useful as being able to see the clothes going around in the dryer, but to each his own.
I flat don't do non-stick.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2022 4:52:05 GMT
I have one glass lid that fits on one pot and one pan. I find it useful but not indispensable. Actually one of the best uses for me is for observing popcorn popping.
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Post by htmb on May 4, 2022 6:49:53 GMT
I inherited my son’s pots from when he was in college and they have glass lids. I absolutely adore them, especially when I’m cooking rice. The glass lids are heavy enough to seal in the steam and, once the rice is almost cooked, the lids begin to clear so that I can see inside the pot.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2022 17:12:02 GMT
Well, obviously people like them. Two anyporters even adore them. Recently I have been looking for two specific types of pots (well, one pot, one pan), so I have seen how common the glass lids are. Hence my peeve, as I don't care for them. My gripes about them are that they're harder to store than metal lids, obviously can break, & just generally seem excessive for their purpose.
I have two glass lids. One came with a set of two pressure cookers and the other with a small pan left me by a friend who moved away. But for the pressure cooker I generally use an all-purpose orphan metal lid that is part of my kitchen equipment because it fits some skillets & things which don't have their own lids.
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Post by casimira on May 4, 2022 17:29:29 GMT
I always thought that pressure cookers required a lid that have a clip or something similar to keep the lid from staying on while under pressure while cooking.
They scare the hell out of me as I know of at least two people who were severely burned when the lid flew off while they were in too close a proximity.
T.'s mother swore by hers and used it frequently. Red beans in particular were cooked every Monday per New Orleans tradition.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2022 17:39:33 GMT
That is indeed the kind of lid that pressure cookers have. My two came as a set which included an 8-liter pot, a 6-liter pot, one pressure-cooking lid, an interior basket, and the glass lid that fits either pot.
Somewhere on anyport there is a discussion on pressure cookers. Like many another person I was scared away from them by my mother with the exploding pot stories. Thus it was that I didn't own one until I was in my mid-fifties and came upon that set, which was a major deal. The very first time I used it, I was completely converted to pressure cooking.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2022 17:54:03 GMT
I inherited a pressure cooker when my parents and grandmother left the country, but I didn't keep it long because it scared me.
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Post by onlyMark on May 4, 2022 18:41:21 GMT
My only gripe about glass lids is that they are harder to appear clean when you've washed them.
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Post by lugg on May 4, 2022 19:52:04 GMT
I have never used a pressure cooker but I do have a few glass lids - I agree with Mark - its the cleaning of them that I dread.
I'm not sure if this belongs here ( do we have a pots and pans thread since this is really not a peeve ?) but I was talking, just the other day about how much I adore my Le Creuset casserole dish. I inherited it from my Mum in 2002 approx ....my sis and I worked out it is at least 45 , possibly 50 years old, but really it is just as good as new . Rooting around for a peeve ....I suppose it would be that I would love a smaller version but they are just so expensive. A further peeve is that now I have decided to divide the cost between serviceable years and length of use and my maths has never been great.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 4, 2022 20:03:32 GMT
When my kids were small we used to do the day trip to Calais and always bought a piece of Le Creuset. My daughter has “borrowed “ all but a small casserole dish which we still use regularly,
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2022 20:10:08 GMT
They absolutely cost a fortune now.
As for the stains on glass lids, I know that I have cleaned them as best I can and also that no photographers are arriving for an "elegant living" report, so I really do not care if they don't look as nice as when I bought them.
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Post by whatagain on May 4, 2022 22:48:13 GMT
My pet peve is again about nudity. I feel persecuted. I booked a hotel in Koeln on the fact that it had a swimming pool, a sauna etc. So i went there. I wanted to go into the sauna but it was writren all iver the place that you had to be totally naked. I don't like to sit where other had their bollocks sit. So i went into the swimming pool. Small but nice. Then the three young ladies who were at the end of it, whose cumulative age could have been under mine left the pool and were also totally stark naked. I don't like to swim in places where pubic hair can float, i prefer moustache. So i left alrtogether, spotting a guy older than me and fatter coming towards the swimming pool. Call me prude but i am always ill at ease. Look at those nude girls too much and i would feel like a pervert, avoid looking at them and i look like an idiot. But just in case i would have had an erection, i preferred to leave. 😳😳
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Post by questa on May 5, 2022 1:04:01 GMT
www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Hair_Miller.pdfThis is an essay about the Musical "Hair" It is long but interesting and I was thinking of Whatagain as I went looking for it. 60 years! 60 YEARS ago this musical burst onto the stage and into the awareness of anyone who had any contact with USA. People were either for or against and eventually it was seen as spectacular for its time but the times change. The highly talented caste have moved on, and many of the songs have little to say in this Age. I saw the movie which was good but lacked the bite of the play. Did anyone here see "Hair" in its prime? Were you shocked by the nudity (such as it was)?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2022 4:28:54 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2022 4:47:02 GMT
Did anyone here see "Hair" in its prime? Were you shocked by the nudity (such as it was)? I saw Hair in both Los Angeles and Paris. It seems so strange now that it could shock people. I know that in the French production two major singers played the role of Claude. The first one, Julien Clerc, refused to appear naked, so he was later replaced by Gérard Lenorman who had no problem with it. (They are both still stars today.)
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Post by Kimby on May 5, 2022 12:43:33 GMT
Re: glass pot lids. I’m in the “love em” camp (sorry Bixa).
If they don’t come sparkly clean from washing by hand, I just run em through the dishwasher once in a while, just the lids.
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Post by casimira on May 5, 2022 13:28:31 GMT
Many years ago, my mother gave us a set of Le Creuset and All-clad. Love them all.
I did see Hair when it was on Broadway. I thoroughly enjoyed it save the audience much like HTMB posted.
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Post by fumobici on May 5, 2022 14:37:18 GMT
I don't find any downsides from glass lids at all. I find them, if anything, easier to clean than metal lids as I can see both sides at once and slick, shiny glass is always easier to clean than a relatively rough metal surface. I've also never broken one and store them exactly as I would metal ones. I'd in fact be quite happy to buy all-glass pots and lids if they were practical and available.
I deeply don't understand why humans feel awkwardness, shame and embarrassment and titillation over simple nakedness. It clearly seems hard-wired into our species but it never made any logical sense to me.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2022 15:43:03 GMT
I agree, fumobici, but it is not hard-wired into the species, just in certain cultures. While there are very few cultures that make a point of walking around naked in public, there are plenty of cultures that find public nudity totally normal in bathing situations -- the Japanese, the Scandinavians, the Turks, to name just a few.
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Post by whatagain on May 5, 2022 19:27:59 GMT
Indeed Fumobici, you are spot on.
You don't understand why i am embarrassed but you realise i am.
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Post by lugg on May 5, 2022 20:37:55 GMT
Ooh thank you will have a look . Just a quick glance at the Marmite link and I think that is what I have inherited , but will have to research more
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Post by bixaorellana on May 6, 2022 0:28:07 GMT
If you google "enameled cast iron cookware" you'll find a bunch of different brands similar to Le Creuset, but with several at a much lower price. No idea if the quality is similar.
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Post by whatagain on May 30, 2022 14:25:02 GMT
Mybpet peeve of the day is to run towards thecteack and come when the train is still there but doors closed. Embarquement terminé. Catching my breath and seeing it depart. Grrrrr. Good news is they start to run more trains so only one hour late.
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Post by whatagain on May 30, 2022 14:54:56 GMT
And of course the next one is 10 min late...
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Post by questa on May 30, 2022 23:17:16 GMT
The best thing of all is you can run fast, Yes?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 31, 2022 11:06:21 GMT
Now that masks are no longer obligatory in most places in Europe, I think it is totally fine if some people find it prudent to keep wearing them. But it drives ee crazy to see some of these people wearing their masks pulled under their nose.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 31, 2022 11:49:21 GMT
And me! Mostly old people it seems.
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Post by questa on Jun 6, 2022 12:31:39 GMT
w-when you are our age, young man, you know each breath could put you into an ICU. So you want that breath to keep you alive without obstruction. And anyway these masks fog up my glasses something terrible.
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Post by casimira on Jun 8, 2022 17:21:45 GMT
The apartment where we are living now has one of those electronic keypads to enter and exit. It took us a while to get used to it to begin with. Then this past week it went on the "fritz" and we couldn't get into the place. We contacted the property manager and she sent one of the crew of people that they use for "handiwork" on the property. (I had requested a real key to have in the event of something like this happening and was told that they didn't know if there was one and if there was no one knew who or where it was located). Finally the "handyman" came and installed a new keypad but didn't know how to program it with a new code despite the instructions that came with it. Still, he couldn't out how to do it and the key function didn't work. He was supposed to have his boss come over and deal with it. He never showed. In the meantime I had to pop the screen and crawl into the window to get in on two occasions. The property manager is on vacation in Colorado and was difficult to contact. Finally, I left a somewhat terse message on her phone expressing my frustration with the whole thing. Yesterday, (after 5 days of this major inconvenience), a "real" locksmith came and properly installed the new lock. I hate these keypads so much and would never have one. What is wrong with a simple lock and key?
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