XPost: rec.food.equipment, alt.food.barbecue, rec.food.cooking 
 XPost: alt.religion.kibology, misc.consumers.house 
 From: rescyou@spro.net 
  
 On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:20:33 GMT, "Muddle" 
  wrote: 
  
 > 
 >"Kevin S. Wilson"  wrote in message 
 >news:7idai2ltfstb5qjaog2tmnu55386sqi5gb@4ax.com... 
 >> 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 fuckin 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? 
  
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