Sarah,
When something is browned, you can tell by touching it lightly with your
finger, feeling it with a spatula, (it will feel rough in texture under the
spatula) and/or by the smell it omits, and by timing it. For instance, if a
recipe tells you to brown on both sides and says it will take 10 minutes to
do so, it is safe to assume that you would cook it 5 minutes on each side.
Around 4 minutes, I start checking by sliding my spatula under it to see if
it feels rough and to make sure it is not sticking to the pan. It is not a
good idea to keep sliding the spatula under it priar to a minute or so
before you plan to turn it over because some things such as hamburgers could
start to come apart. Also, don't turn the burner up to high when browning
something because the high heat could blacken it before you even think it is
getting close to browning. It is usually best to brown with a burner set to
medium or low low medium.
Hope this advice helps.
Barb Esposito
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] A question
some people tell by touch, it does feel different, if that doesn't do it
for
ya, then maybe the smell raw verses cooked.
I think Dale Campbell has a meat thermostat that you could buy from his
blind mice mart store that might work better for ya.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Mellor" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:18 PM
Subject: [CnD] A question
Hi guys.
I am really enjoying the list and all the fantastic and interesting
recipes I am receiving its nice to find things that are different to try.
In many recipes it says to cook things until brown but I just wondered
how
you know something isn't cooked when you can't see how brown it is?
Best wishes.
SArah
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