On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 7:42:22 AM UTC-6, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 2/25/2014 5:17 PM, gtr wrote:
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> > On 2014-02-25 15:29:01 +0000, sf said:
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> >> How to combine pasta with sauce... and you know which numbskull this
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> >> is posted for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpbWhfsBxw
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> > What the ****--I learned something!
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> > Some of the first few "wrong's" seem inconceivable: Putting the cooked
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> > pasta on a plate and then starting the sauce! What the hell.
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> I've never heard of nor seen anyone do that.
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It'd be funny if someone made YouTube videos showcasing bad techniques
of food preparation, but presenting them as the right way to do things.
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> nancy

--B

On Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:45:34 AM UTC-6, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> sf > wrote:
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> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:24:02 -0800, gtr > wrote:
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> >> 35 years later I heard Gordo tell a lackey in Hell's Kitchen to restart
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> >> a dish that demanded boiling water, likely pasta. Someone noted the
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> >> lackey pulling cold water and Gordo asked why. They proffered the
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> >> age-old snipe-hunting mythology: Cold water boils faster and his
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> >> incredulity knew only the limits of his rage du jour
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> > Boiling faster would be some wanna be science nerd making things up.
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> > I've heard something to do with heath concerns... probably coming from
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> > the old lead pipe days. In any case I'm not in such a rush that I
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> > care and start with cold water.
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It was about lead pipes, but in most regions the insides of pipes develop
an inner coating of calcium carbonate that eliminates any real chance of
lead leaching into the water.
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> Water from the water heater tastes funny. I do not consider it to be
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> potable.

It has less dissolved gasses, but water boiled on the stove is no different from water from the hot water heater. If you think it does, you're imagining
things.

--B

Nancy2 wrote:
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> I learned most German ending "e" vowels are pronounced as a dropped "a." " Bitte sehr," for example, is "bit-a zair."
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> N.

That's a somewhat difficult language to learn. I dated a girl from
Germany once and she taught me a little but it was hard. She used to
be amused whenever I spoke in German. I would always say it very
harshly (from seeing all the old ww2 movies). She would laugh and
say, "Gary, German men speak softly too." eheh

G.