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Strange cooking utensils- Fry pan and aluminium boxes
On 7 Jun 2004 10:43:15 -0700, (JRKRideau)
wrote:
>While poking around in a flea market the other day I noticed two
>unusual items. One was a rectangular cast iron (frying?) pan, divided
>lenthwise down the middle with raised ridge and then with one side
>divided again cross-wise. Overall size would be aaboaut 4 inches X 5
>inches. My best guess was that it was some type of frying pan to cook
>individual servings of bacon and eggs. Has anyone seen anything like
>this?
Sounds right for that one.
>The other item was, as best I can describe it, two rectangular
>aluminum pans, about 3 inches X 4 inches and 1.5 inches deep, hinged
>on one side and with handles on each pan (both handles at the same
>end). The two pans folded over onto each other but there was no tight
>seal. This item left me and the flea market owner totally at a loss.
> Any suggestions as to what this could possible be would be
>appreciated. BTW, it may not even be a cooking implement, but the
>guage of alumiium and the handles looked like typical alluminium
>cooking ware
>
Omelette pan. There was a fad with that kind of pan when omelettes
first became popular in the US and people who hadn't a clue wanted to
make them. Cook some of the mix in each side, put on the cheese /
whatever and flip them so it was all on one side with the cheese /
whatever in the middle. Cook a bit more, open, flip the 'omelette'
onto a plate and serve.
I invented my own version that was sort of like scrambled eggs, sort
of like an omelette and a tiny bit like a souffle. Family liked it.
I just did up some eggs to barely set on the bottom, stirred, added
stuff to the top goop, popped it all in a hot oven and pulled it out a
few minutes later to turn over onto a warmed platter. Good old cast
iron frying pan in a large size helps a lot there. We called it a
scromblette.
It beat making omelettes all to heck from my point of view.
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