OH no… you don’t need to do that with a Dutch Oven. Just drying the exposed top edge with a towel is fine. Normal cooking will keep it in good shape. I really hope you did not damage the enamel on it. That would be horrible.
On the good side, you can still make bread in it no matter what. Even old chipped dutch ovens are fine for bread seeing as bread is on parchment paper.
Yeah, all too easy to make a mistake. Just have to move on and not hang on it. I’m still in the process of learning that one, know I’d be in a flat out horrible state if I did something like this.
I think I’d just be fearful of people seeing what is going on in what I assumed would be private conversations more than info being spilled. Don’t think people would want to assume my identity for much, for better or worse!
Certainly surprised me to see that popping up in my inbox. I was thinking it was initially about my blood test results and then I was like. “Oh. I don’t think I’m supposed to see this.”
I dunno, if it’s coming out that good, it’s sounding like a good dish to me!
I have a few hours of work left, I shouldn’t be looking at too many recipes before I can munch on something.
I would too!
Given the other issues you’ve had with this provider’s office, I’m wondering if they have a person there who just isn’t well suited to the job they have.
Yeah, after it was too late, I googled it and discovered that’s only for non enameled cast iron or carbon steel, but the risk mentioned is that the enamel could crack due to thermal expansion. I wouldn’t have thought it should melt, which is what it looked like happened.
The Internet seems to have mixed opinions on whether an electric stove could melt this type of enamel.
So my concern is that because this was a super cheap store brand, maybe the “enamel” is not made of the usual materials, but is something else that might not be safe.
The good news is that the interior doesn’t look damaged at all (barring a tiny chip at the edge that it probably had when purchased) and the melted looking areas are small, only right where it made most contact with the burner. So if it’s normal enamel and otherwise safe to use, there’s no reason I can’t keep using it. My concern is only the material: if it melted, does that mean it’s made of something sketchy instead of regular enamel?
That’s what my neighborhood looked like. The city planted a stick in front of everyone’s house. Now, 40 years later, we have a tree lined street. Too bad they are yucky Locust trees. Very messy. Even the little maple tree we planted in the backyard towers over the house and shades the back in the summer.
It can, especially if the pot/pan is empty. My mom did it 40 years ago.
In the 90s I lived in an apartment complex in Houston that must have been built in the 40s or 50s. Of course it got torn down to build something more profitable. Seeing the place I had lived come down made me sad, but I think when they cut down all the huge old oak trees, that was worse.
At least when they did the section on the other side of the street to put in a Kroger, they kept as many trees as they could in the parking lot.
I wonder what this is?
It isn’t even spinning, so it isn’t even a pulsar, but yet, it looks like one.
We have one in our front yard about that old. Several neighbors have them now, too, and while they get the seed pod thingies, we, for some reason, don’t. The black walnut tree, on the other hand… GAH!
Mulberry trees are another issue in our community. They spring up everywhere. I mean, I love the trees, and the berries are tasty. The birds agree. Unfortunately, the berries must be pretty high in fiber; which probably explains how the spring up everywhere.
If it was stuck to the burner, likely melted. Sounds like it was placed on top of an electric coil type burner since otherwise it wouldn’t easily stick, if at all.
Pulsars get their name from the fact that they do spin. What you’re looking at is a neutron star that has no, or almost no spin rate. Though since it’s in a video game and not in real space, the “light” is artificial.
Makes vats of hot chocolate and put out thermoses of it also never enough bacon so puts out extra bacon.
Possibly because your specific tree is male and only produces pollen. Some locust trees produce fruit when pollinated by another tree, some only produce pollen, and aome do both.
I mean, you’re not wrong. I didn’t think neutron stars shined that bright, considering that is way brighter than any star.
For humans to perceive them, neutron stars have to be given artificial light since their real “light” is highly focused beams of radiation.
Fun fact: Even super old neutron stars have surface temperatures 20-100x that of the surface temperature of our own sun.
Oooh, it is a white dwarf…
Quite a bright white dwarf in ED compared to what white dwarves would actually be.
In Houston today, there is enough snow that they are making snowmen. I never saw that much snow in the 20 years I lived there. A few flakes falling a couple times, once a light dusting that only lasted hours. A couple other times freezing rain that made the roads slick until the sun came out. Never snow like this!
I’ve never tried ice skating because the one time we were going to go, they closed the Galleria early because there was freezing rain and most Houstonians have no idea how to drive in that. To be fair, if there’s much ice at all the best driving advice is don’t - because if there’s no traction at all it doesn’t matter what you’re driving or how much experience you have - but it wasn’t that bad. Or at least, we bunch of early 20s kids thought so - could have been wrong.
I think you are fine. It was intense localized heat that caused it. Safe to use, but not pretty. Inside is what matters most given it contacts the food. Dutch ovens and high direct stove heat - esp empty - are not always a good combo. Searing in them for example can cause them to darken and look burnt or something. IDK. Mine is ugly but certainly food safe. The little one I use for bread was my grandmother’s and is in good shape.
Yeah, I have a HUGE black walnut in my back yard. Prob over 100 years old and it is the biggest tree on the street I think. However, it is messy. Do not sit under it when it is dropping full sized walnuts.
Birds planting them, yeah. Same issue. I am constantly digging mulberry trees out of my gardens.
A relatively young neutron star can have surface temps in the hundreds of thousands or millions of degrees, but it’s all retained heat from the intial collapse. Such a star will radiate across the spectrum; at extremely high temperatures, most of the radiant energy won’t even be visible (x-rays or extreme UV). The visible portion would be glaringly white, but tempered by the fact that it’s a ridiculously small object in astronomical terms, so not terribly bright overall at distance.
Try billions of degrees. Initial formation up to about 1M years is 1011K - 1012K, or an upper range of 179,999,999,540ºF. Or in the words of Mortal Kombat: Toastyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Yeah, my original plan was to sear in my new stainless steel skillet and transfer to the dutch oven. When I decided not to use it, the next best thing was this other stainless saute pan that I very rarely use because it’s just not the right pan for most things I make. (It was part of a set I received as a gift.) But it worked out well for this since I could do it all in one pan.
Only real drawback is that it’s heavy (it has a copper layer) and doesn’t have a helper handle like some pans this size have. So getting it out of the oven requires grabbing the handle right up close to the body. If it had any more food in it, I’d have had to try to hold it under the narrow lip or get a hand under it to use two hands.
I have a Corningware dish I probably could have used. I’m not even sure how it’s meant to be used - I’ve used it as a casserole, but it’s deep for its size so if you fill it all the way up, the outside may burn before the center is done. But it would probably work fine half full for low temperature braising like this.