Re: [CH] Residual heat in cookware

Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:49:28 -0700 (PDT)

--- Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> At this year's Open Fields, I picked a full plastic
> grocery bag with fatalis 
> and a few habs.  This went into a fairly evil hot
> sauce built on a base of 
> cooked squash and sweet potato.
> 
> This is the batch, cooking _outside_
> 
>
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/HabaneroHead/Open%20Fields%202006/sauce_stove.jpg
> 
> I used my favorite Le Creuset pot.  When I was
> finished, I gave it a normal 
> washing, nothing special.  After it dried, I could
> still smell that 
> fatali/hab aroma in it, and I wondered how much heat
> was lingering with that 
> aroma.
> 
> (At the 1999 OF, I was cooking habs in a 12-qt
> stockpot, and one person 
> said, "You'll never be able to use that pot for
> anything else."  But I never 
> had any problem with it.)
> 
> This morning, I used a leftover chicken carcass to
> make a batch of soup in 
> the same pot I used for the sauce.  I added no heat
> except for a few black 
> peppercorns.  I couldn't smell much pepper aroma in
> the soup, but there was 
> still a faint aroma on the inside of the lid.
> 
> I just turned off the heat and strained the broth,
> and I'm sipping a sample 
> mug as I type.  *pauses*  So, yes, there is a faint
> heat in the background, 
> but for me at least it's just right!
> 
> ...besides, it's turning cold and rainy, it's
> soup-making season again!
> 
> - A
> 
> 
> 

Was it your intent to simply make us drool or will you
PLEASE share the recipe for the soup????

T


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Tina Brooks
VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces
www.peppermaster.com
Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.

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