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What are your favorite end of summer recipes?
Front-Ranger:
I agree, Jeff, but regulators seem to be heading towards all electric for new housing.
I'll try that method, crayons, when the weather gets a bit cooler.
Now here's a sheet pan foccacia that's appealing to me. The way the NYT does it is half-eaten already with crumbs spilling all over. :-\
serious crayons:
I can't stand the electric stovetop in my apartment. I grew up with electric but had a gas stove in my first apartment in 1981 and have had gas in all subsequent homes. Gas is far superior for controlling temperature. When I cook something on my electric stove, I have to kind of vaguely guess where to set the temp, then adjust as needed if it's too hot or not hot enough, but then it takes forever to heat up or cool down.
Unfortunately, my city (no longer Minneapolis -- I'm now living in a suburb across the street from Minneapolis) bans gas stoves in multi-unit housing.
Meanwhile, gas stoves are bad for the environment and there's recent concern that gas stoves emit more dangerous levels of indoor air pollution than previously thought. I googled just now and found headlines saying they're more dangerous and headlines saying nah, they're actually not that bad. So who knows. Seems to have to do with asthma and at my age I feel somewhat unlikely to develop asthma. Meanwhile my ex-husband, who does have asthma, has never seemed to have a problem with gas stoves.
Here's a fairly recent article:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/gas-stoves
serious crayons:
The sheet-pan focaccia is pretty, but looks like some bites would be very oniony.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm glad to know others share my opinion of gas v. electric stoves. Maybe if you use it more often you get used to it--I don't know--but with my dad's stove, it seems to take forever for things to boil, and then you have to watch like a hawk so things don't boil over.
I'm sure it's lovely to have everything in the house, including the kitchen, electric when the power goes out. ::)
So these sheet pan meals you all are talking about. Is that the same sort of pan you would use to bake a cake, or is it shallower?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 16, 2022, 11:30:05 am ---I'm glad to know others share my opinion of gas v. electric stoves. Maybe if you use it more often you get used to it--I don't know--but with my dad's stove, it seems to take forever for things to boil, and then you have to watch like a hawk so things don't boil over.
I'm sure it's lovely to have everything in the house, including the kitchen, electric when the power goes out. ::)
So these sheet pan meals you all are talking about. Is that the same sort of pan you would use to bake a cake, or is it shallower?
--- End quote ---
Shallower. More like a cookie sheet but the edges come up a half inch or so on all sides. Frankly, aside from roasting I don't fully understand the advantages of using it like you would a regular pan with sides, but I may be missing something.
My former stove used electricity to start the burners and display the oven heat, but if the electricity went out I'm sure I could have turned the gas on and held a match to it and guessed with the oven.
As for ovens themselves, power issues aside I don't notice too much difference between electric and gas.
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