Adrian Mariano

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• July 7, 1999, on Kitchen Remodeling:

  Does the oven really display actual oven temperature? I heard that in fact these displays are bogus: they ramp up to the requested temperature and then display the requested temperature even if you leave the oven door wide open. The actual oven temperature isn't involved in the process. Is expensive cooking gear dumb? Well, it depends on whether or not you cook. It's frustrating to cook with poor tools. I used to use a cheap 1 qt sauce pan. It was almost impossible to cook anything in that pan without scorching. How much of my life do I want to devote to scrubbing scorched food off my pans? This scorching problem is not merely an indication of my incompetence. I tried making candy in my cheap pans using maple syrup. The procedure: boil syrup without disturbing it until it reaches a certain temperature. The result: in the cheap pans, the syrup burns long before reaching the target temperature. In better pans: it works fine. There's no skill involved, so clearly the equipme...