Fannish behaviour
Feb. 12th, 2021 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqChilly weather is chilli weather (and ten days into not getting above -20C, I think I would classify this weather as a tad ... cool.) When I was at the butcher shop the other day, I grabbed some stew beef with a vague idea of making a pot of chilli with cornbread for dinner this evening. Once I'm done posting this, I'll be heading out to the kitchen to begin work on cornbread.
The last two times that I've made cornbread, I overcooked it - not burning it to the point of being inedible, but too dry, and unpleasantly dark in spots. I usually cook it in our toaster oven because it heats up faster, and because it has a convection setting that gives it a very even heat distribution (saves me having to go out and turn it halfway through cooking).
I always make adjustments for the fan when I cook. I looked it up, and the instructions were to set the temperature 25F lower than you would for cooking in a static oven. I double-checked that this morning to ensure I wasn't misreading, and I realized that I had missed the second half of the instructions. "...and reduce the cooking time by 25%."
I'd already added a hand-written not to the recipe: "Check it after 20 minutes." Apparently, my intuition was pretty good, because the cooking time following the recommendations would be 22½ minutes.
Anyway, I guess I'll find out how that works later this afternoon.
In other news, I've been a bit lax about trimming my beard lately. On the other hand, I have discovered that slapping on a fedora can mean the difference between scruffy and stylin'.
Is there anything a fedora can't do?
The last two times that I've made cornbread, I overcooked it - not burning it to the point of being inedible, but too dry, and unpleasantly dark in spots. I usually cook it in our toaster oven because it heats up faster, and because it has a convection setting that gives it a very even heat distribution (saves me having to go out and turn it halfway through cooking).
I always make adjustments for the fan when I cook. I looked it up, and the instructions were to set the temperature 25F lower than you would for cooking in a static oven. I double-checked that this morning to ensure I wasn't misreading, and I realized that I had missed the second half of the instructions. "...and reduce the cooking time by 25%."
I'd already added a hand-written not to the recipe: "Check it after 20 minutes." Apparently, my intuition was pretty good, because the cooking time following the recommendations would be 22½ minutes.
Anyway, I guess I'll find out how that works later this afternoon.
In other news, I've been a bit lax about trimming my beard lately. On the other hand, I have discovered that slapping on a fedora can mean the difference between scruffy and stylin'.
Is there anything a fedora can't do?
