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On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:05:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote: > Joel Bernstein wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:32:11PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > ><snip good explanation of how to season a pan> > > > >But whatever you do, don't try this with a nonstick pan. > > :-) Was it the "use the salt as a scouring powder" that gave it away? Well yes. Teflon and grinding paste don't really mix. > And was the warning from bitter experience or not? Sadly yes. When I still lived with my parents I owned a really nice non-stick wok [shhh, it was great] which my mother tried to season. > p.s. Am much liking cumin, it is the seasoning du jour for me... Cumin is good, but the seeds get stuck in my teeth. Caraway, on the other hand, is the stuff of gods. Soda bread with caraway seeds in... Mmmm. Incidentally, ought I to post a quick soda bread recipe here? It's the most fantastic bread because it takes about 15 minutes to make, unlike yeast-based breads which take ages. /joelThere's stuff above here
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