"Sheldon" > wrote:
> This stock cooling business is a very old topic, anyone with the grey
> matter to seach the archives will find tons of info.... way back from
> when rfc'ers could actually cook.
>
> Stock remains sterile for a long time while the fat layer remains
> unbroken, IDIOT! Anyone working in my kitchen poked into my stock I'd
> whack their hand off with a cleaver... actually I'd fire their dumb ass
> on the spot.

> But don't feel lonely, you totally useless waste of protoplasm... VERY,
> VERY FEW here can actually cook... perhaps fewer than the fingers of
> one hand, and that is a fact... proven once again right here in this
> thread. Not to worry, wff-JERK, you ain't one of the fingers (LOL),
> you ain't even good enough to be dirt under my finger nail... each day
> I forget more about cooking than you will ever know in your entire
> lifetime, you wff-NEWBIE piece of shit <g>
>
> Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

This last paragraph is really what the issue is all about for Sheldon...
it's not about stock, it's not about cooking, and it's not about food. It
about Sheldon's emotional problems where he has to be "king of the hill" to
show his "superior" knowledge and abilities. If anyone dares offer an
alternative viewpoint, he invariably responds with pejoratives to belittle
that person... among them in this thread: pinhead, dago, faggot... in other
threads: WOP, mother****er, etc.

Classic bullying, in my opinion. He must have some severe insecurity issues
to have to resort to this kind of behavior, week after week, month after
month, year after year.

One might be able to just ignore his behavior if it wasn't so pervasive, and
if he weren't so emphatic in spouting plainly false information, over and
over. Above he again states that stock is sterile. Far from it, but you'll
never convince him, you'll never get him to admit he is wrong.

Last night I went to the library to return some books that were due, and
while browsing came across an interesting book by a person that writes a
column in the Washington Post food section. It's called "What Einstein Told
His Cook 2" by Professor Robert L. Wolke of the University of Pittsburgh.
Though he is not a "food safety expert", he is very knowledgeable on
scientific issues, and is very good at explaning them in terms a layman
(excluding Sheldon) should be able to understand. He puts quite a bit of
humor into his explanations.

When I got home, it occurred to me to look and see if there was anything
about stock in this book. Sure enough, there's several pages on the topic
(p. 303-312). The book is largely in a question and answer format, and one
of the questions is explicitly about the sterility of stock. He discusses
why stock is definitely not sterile, and the science behind it. I'd suggest
that Sheldon read that section (or another source), but of course, as I said
above, that is really not the issue here.

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