Melting point will definitely change things with cookies—all other things being equal, they’ll spread differently.

Cis versus trans fats really shouldn’t taste different, primarily because fat itself doesn’t have a taste. Fat molecules are fairly big, so they don’t volatilize enough to get into the nose, and none of the main four-plus-two-ish chemosensors on the tongue react to them.

I manufacture my own by mixing blur and blur.

Bear in mind that pH is a logarithmic scale. The difference in concentration of H+ ions between 8.0 and 7.3 is a factor of five. Relatively small-looking changes in source water pH can thus mean big changes in how much stuff you have to add to water to render it suitable for use.

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Well, more along the lines of I didn’t want to go after your chemistry too hard. Cooking residue is not a synonym for polymerized oil seasoning, the brown stuff from Maillard reactions is yet a third thing, steel is not cast iron, yadda yadda. Keeping ancient cookery techniques straight is even trickier, since the…

You’ve definitely got a point with regards to woks. They’ve got it all: cast iron, frying, temperatures high enough to build up polymer seasoning. Still only hundreds of years ago rather than thousands—Ming dynasty was 1368 to 1644—but much longer ago than European skillets. (Woks were in use earlier—but not for…

They worked together on an album in 1991, Kneeling at the Shrine. (The band was Sunday All Over The World, but that was their only album. From Wikipedia: “The members were Toyah Willcox (vocals), Robert Fripp (guitar), Trey Gunn (stick, vocals) and Paul Beavis (drums, percussion).”)

I thought you said “Continents” and was about to go all white knight for North America.

I see your point, but that perspective does require taking “pan” as shorthand for the more general “cooking vessel”.

Only if they were cooked dry. The polymerization you’re discussing needs high temperatures— 400 F or so. (Not nearly as much fat on the meat in Ye Olden Days, either. Modern heavily marbled meat requires a grain-based, or at least grain-finished, diet. Until recently, it was grass for cattle, mast and garbage for…

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That rain simply RUINED our grouse hunt.

Engagement Thirst Trap and Grill.

Heh. For me, “Country style!” means “I biffed my knife skills.”

Ah, but once it’s clear it’s not going to work, do you get a second tortilla and (A) make two, or (B) use the second tortilla to wrap over all of the leaking parts that one tortilla can cover, yielding El Burrito de la St. Francis Dam?