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(N. Thornton) writes:

> The dough wont sit on the wire, it sits on a sheet or tray on the
> wire. I'm truly puzzled, and curious as to why youre not familiar with
> hobs or wire trays.

I don't know a lot of culinary terminology because I've never studied it.
As my original posting shows, I'm inclined to improvise a lot and not
to read or follow recipes. So even when I know what something is, I don't
always know what it is called. Now that I think more about it, I think
I've seen, lying around in drawers full of incomprehensible culinary
apparatus, something consisting of a rectangular steel frame and a woven
mesh of steel wire running across it and a metal handle. Maybe that is
the item you're referring to. I don't have a large repertory of recipes
and most of what I cook uses only a few kinds of tools and containers.
Anything else didn't make a big impression on me. Sometimes someone else
cooks and I watch and learn something, but in my experience no one has
used a wire tray.

People are often astonished at how little formal knowledge I have about
some of the things I ask about, even though I often have more passive
knowledge or intuition than I appear to. There are other areas where I
am better educated and, if we were discussing them, it might be my turn
to be puzzled and curious. There might also be some language barriers
in this case, since I notice you used the expression "spot on" where I
think someone in the US might be more inclined to use the expression
"right on" (if that's what you meant).

In this connection, let me mention a story which was allegedly composed
under the sole constraint that it end with the line "East is east and
west is west". The father of a large family died and after the funeral
the family returned home where some of them started setting up card tables
and putting out decks of cards. A friend of the family was horrified and
asked them what they thought they were doing under such tragic circumstances.
One of them turned to him and told him, "Well, 'e's deceased and whist
is whist."

Ignorantly,
Allan Adler

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