Can anyone explain square dowels to me...

[lmagna]

7 hours ago, Bob Cleek said:

I quietly retaliate by leaving the toilet seat up.  

If you REALLY want to get even you leave it down.😈

[Dr PR]

I have a cast iron skillet that is at least 70 years old. I wash it with soap and water and sometimes scour it with steel wool. After washing I put it on a burner and heat it momentarily to evaporate the water. It has never rusted and foods come away freely without sticking. I also have a large steel wok that I wash and scrub. I have always been told not to wash them and never scrub them. But I have always wondered if these aren't old wives tales, repeated by people who have always done things one way and never tried another.

 

That reminds me of another tale. The first European settlers in North America found tomatoes growing here. They are in the nightshade family (as are potatoes), and some European nightshades have poisonous red berries. So the folk lore said to never eat red berries, especially in the nightshade family, because they will kill you. But someone failed to get the word and ate them anyway. He tried to tell people that they were edible, and quite good, but they didn't believe him. So he stood on the courthouse steps and ate a tomato in public! And he didn't die.

 

I have been eating tomatoes and scrubbing my cast iron for nearly 75 years now, and neither myself nor the pans are dead and rusty.

[Bob Cleek]

5 hours ago, lmagna said:

If you REALLY want to get even you leave it down.😈

I did once explain that leaving it up was proof that I'd lifted it before use. She couldn't grasp the logic of it.  

[lmagna]

6 hours ago, Bob Cleek said:

She couldn't grasp the logic of it.  

You are a braver man than I Gunga Din.

 

Luckily We had a boy in potty training years ago who did the deed for me. She tried to install in him the concept of lowering the seat AFTER use and he became a little confused, or possibly just figured that if you were going to have to lower it anyway then why bother with the middle step? The logic of a two year old! She has been out numbered in our house ever since. Five boys, six counting me, over a period of 50 years!

 

Edited January 29, 2020 by lmagna

[lmagna]

7 hours ago, Dr PR said:

I have been eating tomatoes and scrubbing my cast iron for nearly 75 years now, and neither myself nor the pans are dead and rusty.

While I agree 100% on the cast iron, not so much on the tomatoes! I have never been able to put them on my list of edible foods!  My pans may be a little better off than I though. I may be getting a little rusty as of late.

[Jack12477]

I can't eat tomatoes either, but do like spaghetti sauce and ketchup which are made from tomatoes. Just can't eat the fruit raw or stewed.  I wash my cast iron also in soap and water, no rust, no bad taste either. Go figure ! 

[DelF]

Could this thread get any further off-topic? I love it!

[Edwardkenway]

And I'm still no wiser on cast iron cooking pan cleaning, but the steak still tastes good😆😆

Edited January 29, 2020 by Edwardkenway

[jud]

I also wash my Cast Iron as my family did years ago. I do take care with Tomatoes, but limit my intake and think I have improved my resistants to their toxins but never forget, everyone who ate a Tomato in 1862 is now dead.

 

 

Edited January 30, 2020 by jud

[Jack12477]

17 minutes ago, jud said:

everyone who ate a Tomato in 1862 is now dead.

Good one, Jud ! 

[amateur]

Yup, dangerous stuff. 

Btw Ever thought of using square dowels to pick the dirt of your cooking pans. (I guess they Work better than round ones)

 

Jan

Edited January 29, 2020 by amateur

[Jack12477]

5 hours ago, DelF said:

Could this thread get any further off-topic? I love it!

Yea, it is like the GPS in my car.  Wanders all over the countryside taking me from point A to point B. I refer to it as "taking the scenic route", altho there have been a few times where it took me full circle back to point A. 

 

In Boy Scouts, back in the dark ages, we were told to use clean dirt or sand, put it in the cast iron to soak up the grease, then use a clean rag to scour the pan clean of sand/ grease.     

Edited January 29, 2020 by Jack12477

[lmagna]

5 hours ago, jud said:

everyone who ate a Tomato in 1862 is now dead.

[Dr PR]

What is the topic of this thread?

 

By the way, my dad loved tomatoes, but the "toxins" finally killed him at 98. Mother ate tomatoes too, and they killed her at 106.

 

And that's the truth!

Edited January 31, 2020 by Dr PR

[bruce d]

46 minutes ago, Dr PR said:

What is the topic of this thread?

Dare squowels and hound roles.

[Jack12477]

3 hours ago, Dr PR said:

What is the topic of this thread?

Guess that depends on the day of the week ! 

[lmagna]

2 hours ago, Jack12477 said:

Guess that depends on the day of the week !

Or time of day, but it may have started on the question of if a square tomato can fit into a round hole.

[Edwardkenway]

A square tomato will fit any shape hole if you apply plenty of pushing and it helps if the tomato is very ripe 😆

[DelF]

Square tomatoes were bred to fit neatly into sandwiches. 
 

Derek

[lmagna]

5 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

A square tomato will fit any shape hole if you apply plenty of pushing and it helps if the tomato is very ripe

That's what you get  when you go to the store. Processed square tomatoes:

Square bottle with a round hole.

[Jack12477]

Oh man has this topic ever taken a GPS detour thru the hinter lands. Or is this a new episode of Comedy Central ? 

Edited January 31, 2020 by Jack12477

[glbarlow]

square dowels are ones that are not round and answer that age old question of how you fit a square peg in a round hole - just jam it in there.

[Edwardkenway]

57 minutes ago, lmagna said:

That's what you get  when you go to the store. Processed square tomatoes:

Square bottle with a round hole.

Got to be Heinz though ( other brands are available) as they make tomatoes in other colours!!

So when do we go back to discussing square towels???

[bruce d]

19 minutes ago, glbarlow said:

... that age old question of how you fit a square peg in a round hole

Solved!

 

 

[Jack12477]

3 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

So when do we go back to discussing square towels???

Towels ????   Are we back in the kitchen now ?

[lmagna]

4 hours ago, glbarlow said:

just jam it in there.

Isn't that made with fruits or berries?

 

3 hours ago, bruce d said:

Solved!

That was a square into a BIG square hole. Truly an innovative solution, usually referred to as "Thinking INSIDE the box".

Edited February 1, 2020 by lmagna

[John Allen]

On 1/29/2020 at 2:45 PM, Jack12477 said:

In Boy Scouts, back in the dark ages, we were told to use clean dirt or sand,

Jack,

 

From same era, but we were told in addition to make sure it was clean dirt?, and not infused with animal feces by scraping off top layer foe inspection.

[Jack12477]

4 minutes ago, John Allen said:

Jack,

 

From same era, but we were told in addition to make sure it was clean dirt?, and not infused with animal feces by scraping off top layer foe inspection.

Us too, John.

Edited February 1, 2020 by Jack12477

[druxey]

Bob!!!  (see post #30) Passive aggressive or what?

 

I do all the cooking in our home, as my darling is on record for having once needed to summon the fire brigade (this was before my time, I hasten to add). While she does the washing up as the quid pro quo, I always pre-wash, dry and store my good kitchen knives.

Edited February 1, 2020 by druxey

[Bob Cleek]

On 2/1/2020 at 9:52 AM, druxey said:

Bob!!!  (see post #30) Passive aggressive or what?

 

I do all the cooking in our home, as my darling is on record for having once needed to summon the fire brigade (this was before my time, I hasten to add). While she does the washing up as the quid pro quo, I always pre-wash, dry and store my good kitchen knives.

Lucky you! Your darling has the good sense to know her limitations. My culinary skills, which are not inconsiderable, were experienced by my dearly beloved as an existential challenge to her identity as a "great cook." (This being purely a matter of opinion, mind you, and, knowing the consequences, I've always kept mine to myself.) Over the last quarter century or so, we've negotiated a tenuous truce. The kitchen is "hers" and the workshop is "mine." We still bicker at each other about the messes we respectively leave on each other's turf.  

 

I keep my collection of razor-sharp high-carbon steel chef's knives in my shop these days, save for one or two. She banished them from "her" kitchen because "they are too sharp" and she's cut her fingers on them a time or two. (This by somebody who refuses to acknowledge that there is a proper way to dice an onion, which, of course, is not the way she does it.) Don't get me started on kitchen knives! 

Edited February 2, 2020 by Bob Cleek