Use clean fingers as a guide if there isn't any frosting or other stuff you don't want disturbed by fingering. Another idea is to use a pizza wheel on stuff other than pizza. Cutting fudge is a lot easier than with a knife.

Speaking of cutting things, I've got questions about electric carving knives. I've often thought of buying one so that I could slice ham or roasts more easily than using my electric meat slicer. My slicer will cut a boneless ham into luncheon meat thickness or thinner, and it does so uniformly. An electric knife would be handy once in a while if, I, as a blind person, can safely use it. Questions: Do they have an adjustable guide that can be used to make uniform slices? Can a blind person follow along a bone to cleanly carve from a ham or chicken, turkey, or other food containing a bone? I would like to hear from blind people who have used one and their thoughts, tips and tricks before I consider purchasing one, and what I should look for in an electric knife. Even if I do not get one, I will find it interesting reading. Thanks.

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Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia via Cookinginthedark" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "'Nicole Massey'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:12 PM
Subject: [CnD] Cutting Things


Hi All,

Do you have suggestions for cutting pastries, such as brownies or cookie
bars, as a totally blind person?
Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]; 'Kimsan'
Subject: Re: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question

Welcome to the list. You'll get a lot of great recipes and techniques here.
Sorry, but my only pork chop recipes are either oven or electric skillet
recipes, though the basic oven pork chop recipe might work. In this one you slice up potatoes and an onion and layer the onion and then the potatoes in
the crock pot. Then you shake some seasoning mix on the potatoes (ranch
dressing mix, Greek seasoning, or possibly even taco seasoning would work)
and then layer the pork chops on top of the potatoes. Some people also pour
cream of mushroom soup over the chops at this point. In the oven it cooks
for about an hour and forty five minutes at about 400248f, so someone else
will have to give you a crok cooking time. The number of chops depends on
the size of them, but you want good coverage over the potatoes.
There are a lot of great crock pot recipes out there, and I use mine a lot
during the cooler months. (Heating up the kitchen during a Texas summer
isn't appealing very often)

-----Original Message-----
From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Kimsan via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 8:23 PM
To: [email protected]; 'janbrown'; 'Drew Hunthausen'
Subject: Re: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question

Thanks everyone. I completely spaced making it in the oven. I guess I
got caught up with my slow cooker lol.

Anyone have a crockpot recipie for porkchops?
I've googled a few but just wanted to get ideas, more ideas.
 "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from
failure, loyalty and persistence." Colin Powell


-----Original Message-----
From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of janbrown via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 4:33 PM
To: [email protected]; Drew Hunthausen
Subject: Re: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question

You could also cook bacon in the microwave or buy microwave bacon.
 There are lots of options.
Sausages have to be cooked though.
Jan

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> On Aug 31, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Drew Hunthausen via Cookinginthedark
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Also in terms of cooking bacon, I likI find that the microwave
> actually does the best. I just take the bacon and put the strips
> between paper towels. I actually think it does a better job than
> cooking
bacon on the stove.
>
> Drew Hunthause 714-296-7111
> www.noexcusesblindguy.com-296-7111
> www.noexcusesblind
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cookinginthedark
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Kimsan via Cookinginthedark
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 4:07 PM
> To: 'Katie'; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question
>
> Hello Katy and Sandy:
>
> I just wanted to confirm that, thanks. I have a George formen grill
> which will do the same as a toaster oven, so any meets for the
> caseroll, will need to be cooked, then. I'll keep that in mind.
> Thanks.
> "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from
> failure, loyalty and persistence." Colin Powell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katie [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 3:47 PM
> To: [email protected]; Kimsan
> Subject: Re: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question
>
>
> Hi!
>
> First, No question is stupid, asking how is learning. smile.
> Welcome to the list. You should find plenty of help offered on this
> list. We
>
> have people from all over the states, Canada,and overseas.  Some
> with lots of knowledge and good recipes.  So, hope you jump in and
> ask
what
> ever you want and someone will come to your aid. Smile. My name is
> Katie, and, I am from Oklahoma.
> Here is a tip you may want to think about. Toaster ovens are that
> expenses and will, bake,broil,and toast. Maybe you could get one
> till you can get a oven or get it fixed?  If your stove is gas or
> electric and the top burners still work, you need to fry the pork
> first, at least partly done before putting in a crock pot. Some may
> disagree, but,  I would anyway myself. Then
>
> transferr it to a crock pot. If you have a electric skilett you can
> use that
>
> instead if you want. Right now, my stove is a gas one and my oven
> isn't working well, so I have bought a toaster oven  I do any baking
> in it, even though, I can only fit a 9 by 9  pan in it and, wish I
> could get a bigger one. I live a lone though so can make do with
> smaller pans for right now, till I can do better.smile. I have many
> reciepes if you need any thing you can not find, let me know what it
> is and I probably have it or similar to it. There is over 2,000 in
> my
recipe folder.
> Enjoy the list and welcome again.
> Katie in Oklahoma
>
> Love makes the world go 'round.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kimsan via Cookinginthedark" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 5:20 PM
> Subject: [CnD] new member, intro and quick real stupid question
>
>
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> I learned of this list after a buddy sent me a recipie for the slow
>> cooker.
>>
>> I, will not come on here and pretend to be the greatest cook, let
>> alone a good cook. I was married for 9 years where my wife did all
>> the
cooking.
>> Now
>> that I am divorced cooking for our 3 kids daily, its time to
>> improve my cooking skills. I do not have a stove with a working
>> oven, so until I can get one, I am using a slow cooker.
>>
>> I've googled tons of recipies for the slow cooker, and if anyone
>> has any suggestions to broaden my horizons let's hear them, but
>> here's the stupid question.
>>
>> I want to make a breakfast caseroll and some of these recipies call
>> for stuff like bacon, so the slow cooker, one must just throw
>> everything in there and be gone for several hours; however, when
>> wanting to make a caseroll using things like bacon or s, must I
>> cook them first then put them in the crockpot or put them in as is.
>> See, told ya that was stupid lol.
>>
>> Take care.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from
>> failure, loyalty and persistence." Colin Powell
>>
>>
>>
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