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"Lisa Ann" > wrote:

> Okay, I googled here to get ideas on making Italian meatballs, planning to
> put them in spaghetti sauce after cooking them. No problem, they tasted
> pretty good.
>
> My question is this...how do you get them uniformly browned in the skillet?
> It's bad enough that my kitchen floor is uneven (so naturally my stove is
> too), but I'd go to try to brown another side....and because they were now
> browned and flattened on the first side, they just kept trying to roll back
> over.
>
> I gave up, and ended up finishing them in the oven. I have no talent,
> apparently, for cooking round things.
>
> Lisa Ann

FWIW, if your stove is a slide-in, it should have leveling feet.
Browning them in the oven completely is a fine plan, btw -- no need to
turn and misshape them.

A friend of mine doesn't brown the meatballs, just drops them into her
vat of spaghetti sauce for cooking there.
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