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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:22:11 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:G_udndCbn96tUdvUnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:11:59 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> baxter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 15, 2:06 pm, mimus <tinmimu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:52:40 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's 60 F, moonlit and windy right now, just gorgeous, just unreal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's going to be 30 F tonight.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> By the pricking of my thumbs . . . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's that last part mean? Something like arthritic people knowing
>>>>>>> when it's going to rain due to pressure differential?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It means when I look at the Mega-Clipper comin' on the radar and
>>>>>> temperature charts it makes my thumbs tingle (dam' thing stabbed all
>>>>>> the way South from Canada across the Great Plains to the _Gulf_,
>>>>>> looks like).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To give you some idea of the temperature-differential across the
>>>>>> coming front, it was close to 60 F here today, and in St. Louis,
>>>>>> about 300 miles West, it was 16 F.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Although it's supposed to be warmed considerably by the time the
>>>>>> lowest-temp part of it rolls over here, and we're not supposed to go
>>>>>> much lower than freezing tonight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That jingling sound you hear is everyone's nerves as they batten down
>>>>>> the hatches just in case.
>>>>>
>>>>> what you are saying is very intresting.
>>>>>
>>>>> please don't think me rude, i'm just not sure what you're talking
>>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>> He's just griping because it's going to get **** cold at his place
>>>> tonight. Claims just thinking about it makes his thumbs tingle. Have
>>>> you ever heard of such nonsense?!? I think he just needs a good
>>>> helping of fudge.
>>>
>>> Home-cooked "soup-beans and cornbread", a regional peasant favorite, in
>>> this case pressure-cooked navy-beans and "Mexican" corn-bread with sugar
>>> and cayenne and green-onion shreds in it, with onions and pickles
>>> added, should do just as well.
>>>
>>> <sound of jiggly thing hissing>
>>
>> Hmmm, how do you do that? My pressure cooker instructions tell me NEVER to
>> cook beans or rice in mine because they'll froth and plug up the jiggly
>> hissing thing.
>>
>> BTW, your cornbread recipe sounds decidedly yummy.
>
> Wouldn't the pressure (prevention of water boiling) keep the frothing from
> happening?
It doesn't prevent boiling, it boils at a higher temp, and no, most
definitely not, especially cooking something which is or becomes thick in
the fluid component.
Still, everyone should blow up a pressure-cooker at least once in their
life (it's entertaining and good for the economy), so please do experiment.
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Learning from experience is the lowest form of wisdom; learning from the
experience of others is the middle form of wisdom; and thinking things
through ahead of time is the highest form of wisdom.
> wrote:
>
>> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:G_udndCbn96tUdvUnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:11:59 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> baxter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 15, 2:06 pm, mimus <tinmimu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:52:40 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's 60 F, moonlit and windy right now, just gorgeous, just unreal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's going to be 30 F tonight.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> By the pricking of my thumbs . . . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's that last part mean? Something like arthritic people knowing
>>>>>>> when it's going to rain due to pressure differential?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It means when I look at the Mega-Clipper comin' on the radar and
>>>>>> temperature charts it makes my thumbs tingle (dam' thing stabbed all
>>>>>> the way South from Canada across the Great Plains to the _Gulf_,
>>>>>> looks like).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To give you some idea of the temperature-differential across the
>>>>>> coming front, it was close to 60 F here today, and in St. Louis,
>>>>>> about 300 miles West, it was 16 F.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Although it's supposed to be warmed considerably by the time the
>>>>>> lowest-temp part of it rolls over here, and we're not supposed to go
>>>>>> much lower than freezing tonight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That jingling sound you hear is everyone's nerves as they batten down
>>>>>> the hatches just in case.
>>>>>
>>>>> what you are saying is very intresting.
>>>>>
>>>>> please don't think me rude, i'm just not sure what you're talking
>>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>> He's just griping because it's going to get **** cold at his place
>>>> tonight. Claims just thinking about it makes his thumbs tingle. Have
>>>> you ever heard of such nonsense?!? I think he just needs a good
>>>> helping of fudge.
>>>
>>> Home-cooked "soup-beans and cornbread", a regional peasant favorite, in
>>> this case pressure-cooked navy-beans and "Mexican" corn-bread with sugar
>>> and cayenne and green-onion shreds in it, with onions and pickles
>>> added, should do just as well.
>>>
>>> <sound of jiggly thing hissing>
>>
>> Hmmm, how do you do that? My pressure cooker instructions tell me NEVER to
>> cook beans or rice in mine because they'll froth and plug up the jiggly
>> hissing thing.
>>
>> BTW, your cornbread recipe sounds decidedly yummy.
>
> Wouldn't the pressure (prevention of water boiling) keep the frothing from
> happening?
It doesn't prevent boiling, it boils at a higher temp, and no, most
definitely not, especially cooking something which is or becomes thick in
the fluid component.
Still, everyone should blow up a pressure-cooker at least once in their
life (it's entertaining and good for the economy), so please do experiment.
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Learning from experience is the lowest form of wisdom; learning from the
experience of others is the middle form of wisdom; and thinking things
through ahead of time is the highest form of wisdom.