> >
> > Clarification:
> > Room temperature water can boil faster than hot water out of the tap
> > if.... the room temperature water was previously boiled and allowed to
> > cool. That's because boiling gets rid of the dissolved oxygen usually
> > found in water, making it easier for the water to boil the second time
> > around.
>
> Absolute nonsense. I mean, real world-class nonsense. But thanks, I'll have
> to add this to the myth.

Peter, if you are going to write something as gospel you should expect
people to repudiate your claims. I am sure that you have other things
in your life worth getting upset over far more than an annonomous
posting on some news group. Enjoy life my friend it is too short to
pee in the pool for the warm spot.

I can only base this information on a group that spends their time
doing an outstanding job of busting myths "Straight Dope". They could
be wrong but that is what they stated.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_101c.html


>
> > The discussion of which is better gas or electric. You didn't take in
> > to account a measure of importance for each example. For me
> > responsiveness carries an 8 out of ten while using a wok is a 1 out of
> > 10. The argument can still be made that gas is better based on how
> > you rate the test criteria. Does electric not also heat up the air
> > around the pan causing it to rise, that reasoning is difficult to
> > swallow.
>
> Yes, but each person has to decide the level of importance for themselves.
> My point was not that gas or electric would not be better for you or some
> other individual, but that objectively, ignoring individual preferences, you
> cannot say that gas is better than electric. Well, *you* can say it I
> suppose but you would be wrong.

But all the examples you gave for determining that Gas is not better
than electric are subjective individual preferences. Your point was
to prove that gas is not better than electric. My god man that is
what the whole myth thing was about. Now you say it is about
individual preference and then at the bottom you again contradict
yourself by writing "Well, *you* can say it I suppose but you would be
wrong.". Gas is better than electric for what I feel is important in
my cooking. There is no myth there for repudiation. That is my
point. Gas/Electric is not a myth.

> > Aluminum and Alzheimer's: Though this is true absorption and
> > transference of aluminum in to the body by way of the cooking utensil
> > is still a concern. It may not cause Alzheimer's but too much aluminum
> > can still be harmful.
>
> References that the amount of aluminum you can get from cookware can be
> harmful? Ah, I didn't think so.