It must be so that the underbench oven keeps your legs warm while you are
working at the cooktop.
After all, soup is a winter food.
400F will toast your knees.

--
Joan.

"Bob" > wrote in message
...
>
> Reminds me of one of my pet peeves: So often, recipes will tell you to
> preheat the oven before you start anything else, then either the recipe
>
> 1) Doesn't use the oven at all, or
> 2) Has you chill something or let it rest for hours and hours before it
goes
> into the oven
>
> I have to do the "sanity check" every time I read a recipe!
>
> Here's one I saw from Emeril just a couple days ago:
>
> http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._13249,00.html
>
> Bob
>
>