I have been blind most of my life since the age of two and have worked with a few people just learning to cook without sight. First, when you are learning, try putting one thing in your pan, like a chicken breast, that is fairly dense. Practice sliding your spatula underneatht the meat slowly and lifting slightly to test and make sure it doesn't fall off and is fairly centered. When you are confident it is staying on the spatula, move the spatula about the distance of the meat toward you in the pan and flip. If you are really nervous, you can try with frozen meat on a cold pan so you can touch and adjust until you think you are ready for the hot pan. Touch the top of the spatula to the meat and find the edge. Ven carefully lift one edge and test that the sides are beginning to cook. This is an indication that you can flip.
After you have mastered something dense like a pork chop or chicken breast, try harder things like hamburger patties and frozen hash brown patties. Then you can move onto things like eggs. After that, if you'd like, try the much harder items like pancakes. If you don't want to flip some things, you can buy many things frozen or cook them in the oven or on a George Foreman grill. *smile* Regina Marie Phone: 916-877-4320 Email: [email protected] Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/mamaraquel Find Me: http://www.facebook.com/reginamarie Listen Live: http://www.jandjfm.com -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons via Cookinginthedark Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:54 AM To: [email protected]; Parham Doustdar Subject: Re: [CnD] Flipping stuff in pans -- how do you do it? you can buy a double spatula. I at one time could see so I remember how to flip. I also don't crowd my pan. Betty Emmons ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:00 AM Subject: [CnD] Flipping stuff in pans -- how do you do it? > Hi, > > Some time ago I asked the members of this list how they turn something > like a sausage over in a pan. I have found that rolling the sausage > around and feeling for what bits don't feel crispy enough usually does it for me. > As you can imagine, I had to work on my skill of feeling things > through the end of cooking utensils. > > Now, though, I am moving on to (seemingly) more difficult stuff. > > How do you efficiently flip flat things in the pan? This includes > burgers, nuggets, and so on. And, after you do flip them, how do you > keep track of which ones you've flipped and which ones you haven't? In > my own experiments, I have found that using a fork with a spatula > works nicely as far as the flipping part goes; I use the fork to guide > the thing I want to flip onto the spatula, then I lift the spatula > slightly and flip it. I then have to double-check to see if that piece > is not overlapping anything, and if it is, push it around. > > Is there a more efficient way you've found? > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
