On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:48:58 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe wrote:

> On Nov 29, 7:36*pm, Melba's Jammin' >
> wrote:
>> In article >,
>>
>> *Sqwertz > wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:19:16 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe wrote:
>>> > I pour the cooked syrup onto a buttered marble slab,
>>
>>> That's what I was afraid of. a buttered slab is totally unnecessary
>>> for toffee. *It's not ice cream.
>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> Maybe. *And maybe he has a marble slab and wants to use it. *Pfftthhbbt.
>
> The marble slab is a top to an antique washstand (whatever that is?)
> that my Ex wife got from her mother, who got it from her mother. It
> was acquiring this marble slab that was actually the progenitor of my
> decision to start making candy, because I knew that there's no better
> surface on which to pour hot hard crack candy syrup on.

Why is that? It's total overkill for toffee. Do you not have any
baking sheets?

-sw