On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:24:22 GMT, notbob wrote:

> On 2010-08-11, gtr > wrote:
>
>> I also don't recall any one on a cooking show leaving a built-in oven
>> open while broiling.
>>
>> Can my wife possibly be right--again?
>
> It comes from the past, when most early kitchen ranges were gas. Gas
> heats up fast and if you wanted to broil something in the
> under-the-oven broiler, you set it to "broil" and left the broiler
> door ajar. There was even that six inch detent to stop the door at
> "jes a crack" open. By leaving the door ajar, the broiler never
> really reached its hottest temperature and so the gas burner remained
> lit, thereby generating a continuous heat source. If you closed the
> door, the high temp inside was eventually acheived and the burner shut
> off. Not what you want when broiling.
>
> I'm not sure about today's new fangled computer controlled
> self-cleaning ovens/broilers. Perhaps leaving the door cracked is no
> longer necessary. Does it have that detent point to hold the door
> open jes a bit? Read the manual.
>
> As for your wife, aren't they always!?
>
> nb

'if a man says something in a forest and there's no woman there to hear
him, is he still wrong?'

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:46:32 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

> 'if a man says something in a forest and there's no woman there to hear
> him, is he still wrong?'

Of course! Only a man can pose such a dumb question.

--

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:29:44 -0700, sf wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:46:32 -0400, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>> 'if a man says something in a forest and there's no woman there to hear
>> him, is he still wrong?'
>
> Of course! Only a man can pose such a dumb question.

....although in that case he was smart enough to go into the forest with no
women around.

your pal,
blake