Comments on: You learn from your mistakes...

By: maris

maris — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:31:30 +0000

It happens to the best of us! :) There will be other cutting boards

By: vegoftheweek

vegoftheweek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:57:33 +0000

I too have left a dish or two too close to the burners and been drawned to the kitchen by the "burnt chemical" aroma. Luckily, nothing I find too prized has been destroyed.

By: Whitdawg

Whitdawg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:28 +0000

Are you sure thats not a portuguese man-o-war jelly fish ?

By: Zino Davidoff

Zino Davidoff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:13:28 +0000

Thinking back I recall I moment when I filed up the electric kettle and placed in on the gas stove to heat it up. Within minutes I was confronted with a similar problem. In my defense I was up for more that 48 hours working on a contract negotiations and my mind was not at all focussed on practical matters.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:21:31 +0000

I think you have microwaved tupperware plate etc.

By: Kevin Anthony Ashton

Kevin Anthony Ashton — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:21:41 +0000

My first visit to your food blog...so Hi

As for the cutting board....
As a chef and food writer I am forever vexed at the lies that circulate the cooking world. Such as margerine is healthier than butter...or plastic cutting boards are more hygienic than wooden ones.

In several university studies on both sides of the Atlantic it was found not only that bacteria grows more slowly on a hardwood cutting board than on a plastic one. It was discovered that there is a natural bacterial inhibitor in hardwoods.

Plastic cutting boards are harder to clean, and are rarely scrubbed before putting in the dishwasher to be sanitized.

They blunt your knives and hold onto grease more profoundly than wood.

Perhaps your innerself (the witty and intelligent one) was trying to get you to change your cutting boards to wooden ones.
regards
Kevin Ashton
chef and food writer