"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2014-04-07 2:37 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I can imagine if one's experience with lamb is overcooked (or badly
>> prepared) they might never want to try it again.
>>
> I remember visiting with my grandmother, and my aunt, who lived with her,
> started cooking their dinner while we were there. She browned the lamb
> chops, added some water and put a top on the pan. I hate to imagine how
> over-cooked those chops would have been because she had started them about
> an hour before they planned to eat.

My mother always overcooked meat. She and my dad were very fearful of
getting food poisoning from undercooked meat. I think she did own a meat
thermometer but I never saw her use it. I was so used to eating meat like
that, that if I did get juicy meat somewhere else, it just seemed wrong to
me.

Thankfully, some people here pointed out the error of my ways, especially
with chicken. I used to cook the hell out of it!