On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:34:40 GMT, "Christopher M."
> wrote:

>
>"Nancy2" > wrote in message
...
>On Jan 24, 7:34 pm, "Christopher M." >
>wrote:
>>> I recently bought a cheap electric skillet for cooking panakes. I've used
>>> electric skillets in the past but I seem to be having a lot of trouble
>>> with
>>> this one. I seem to be constantly changing the dial in order to maintain
>>> the
>>> right temperature.
>>>
>>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>>
>>On my West Bend grill (about 40 years old), for French toast or
>>pancakes either one, I turn the dial all the way up as high as it will
>>go and leave it there. It works fine. (I think it's about 425 deg.
>>F.)
>>
>>I can't imagine cooking either and ever turning the dial down. Why
>>would you?
>
>I guess you don't cook with butter. Gee might work. But your oil must smoke.
>Isn't it bad when the oil smokes?
>

only if it doesn't go outside and stand five hundred feet from the
door.

your pal,
blake