On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:20:33 GMT, "Muddle"
> wrote:

>
>"Kevin S. Wilson" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:08:42 GMT, "Muddle"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >As Alton Brown on one of his shows once said: "A broiler is nothing more
>> >than an upside down grill."
>>
>> Did he also say that most residential broilers don't get hot enough to
>> cook steaks and chops quickly enough, much less sear them?
>>
>Ovens have slots to move the food being broiled closer to the flame or
>barring that purchase a stack of garden variety terracotta to move the food
>even closer.

Thanks for the news flash. I assure you that my comment takes into
account the design features of most modern ovens; it appears that only
you find these design features remarkable enough to bring them
explicitly into the discussion.

>It doesn't take a $100,000 dollar Food Network Kitchen makeover, sponsored
>by Lowes or Home Depot to produce good food. I wouldn't let any of those
>three entities into my home.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were done with this particular lecture. I
now see you're just getting warmed up. Should we be taking notes? How
much of this stuff will be on the mid-term?

>Rachael Ray's voice sounds like chalk grating
>on a slab of slate and her recipes taste exactly like chalk grating on a
>slab of slate. I can't believe that stupid bitch has a major network TV
>show. Even I could open a few can of vegetables, some chicken stock, reveal
>the fact that I'm flat chested and have huge hips, while burning enough food
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hold that thought, please.

>to feed all fifty people who make sure I don't have to move more than ten
>feet to cook a 30 min. meal.
>If I had a variety of prep cooks, prep video whores and dish washers my
>meals would be spectacularly mediocre just like hers are. She often states
>she's bad about burning bread she wants to toast in the broiler. Have you
>ever seen her do it? Why, because she's got fifty idiots making sure she
>doesn't. I personally would rather watch endless reruns of Jamie Oliver
>than that canned Rachael Ray crap. The Oprah of food, my ****in ass is
>hurting over that. Not only do I have to change the channel during 30 min.
>meals, now I've got to change it every time $40 dollars a day, Tasty Travels
>and a host of other specials appear. She's a flat chested, loud mouthed,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

>MILF type who can't cook unless she's got an army to prep and clean up
^^^^

You don't really know what that acronym stands for, do you?

>afterwards. I'd like to see her on the next four episodes of Iron Chef
>getting her ass handed to her on a silver platter by every other food
>network star.
>Darn near everything you need to make delicious meals can be purchased at a
>mom and pop hardware store or a yard sale.

How true. I know I would be lost without my 16-penny nails, a box of
used infant clothes, a toilet plunger, an exercise bike, and a
waterbed.

Christ, you can smoke salmon
>with an electric hot plate, a cardboard box and a few limbs you pick up
>under your neighbors pecan tree.
>

Back to your charming description of Ms. Ray: Bitter much? How long
has your divorce been final?