Moving Away From Teflon: Sticky?

So, I make one of my kids scrambled eggs a lot. I got rid of our Teflon pans a while ago because of health concerns. And I pretty much hate doing dishes at all, but the daily layer of impossible-to-remove-scrambled-egg gunk was pretty much making my head split right down the middle. Does *everything* healthier have to be a PIA, I wondered?

Actually, it turns out I am just a lousy cook! What I needed to be doing was to heat up my pan super hot and then add the olive oil (if I used butter, it would stick even less). Who knew there was a different way to cook to keep the horrid scrambled-egg crust from bonding like SuperGlue to the bottom of my pan?

Apparently, Ask Metafilter (thanks to not martha) and Harold McGee knew. I love the way the interwebs make me a better person cook.



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Hairy, Hot Mamas Hoarding Health

Hard to believe study showing that hairless, cold mice produced more breastmilk (and therefore fatter babies) than their hairy-backed, hot mouse brethren. Awesome! Forget the fenugreek and hospital-grade pumps. Hit the spa, crank the ac, and nurse in the buff, mamas!

Sounds like a male fantasy if I have ever heard one. Really, it's best for the children if you wear that bikini, ma'am. And the prospectus for that study? I want to see it...

On a serious note, this may have ramifications for warm-blooded mammals in the context of global warming... Read more!