"Roll Your Eyes department" - letters to Cook's Illustrated

[Tab]

Current issue someone writes in saying that some recipes call for the white part of a scallion and some call for the green part, and the reader wanted to know if there's a difference...

Would it kill you to buy a frickin' scallion and try the white part and then try the green part? You gotta write a magazine to ask?

(sigh)

[hippywife]

1. That's just silly!

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Clearly,

you simply throttle them off at the neck, and use the parts separately.



EVERYBODY knows that...

:eyes:

[Lucinda]

5. Awwww KITTIES!

:)

[Beacool]

6. Wow, that's so creative!!!!

It looks great!!!

:o

[kestrel91316]

7. I'll be the killjoy in THIS sub-thread..................

Dontcha know onions (and garlic) are TOXIC to cats??????/?//???

:evilgrin:

[Tab]

9. They won't help YOUR love life either...

just sayin'...

[Tab]

3. It reminds me of a letter written to The Straight Dope

(a not-so-well-known Chicago Reader newspaper column that tries to answer everything, no matter how bizarre.

The question in question:

Dear Cecil:

I have a friend who insists that filling an ice cube tray with warm water will cause the cubes to form more quickly than they would if you started with cold water. He said it had something to do with the air circulation around the trays being affected by the temperature.

Not knowing much about frigidity myself, but being contrary, not to mention skeptical, by nature, I expressed doubt. Cecil, was I right, or is there indeed some basis in fact for this foolishness?

— Mary M.Q.C., Santa Barbarba, California

And the first part of his response...

Cecil replies:

You were smart to let me handle this, Mary. God knows what would happen if you tried to experiment with ice cubes on your own.

I mean, sheesh. :eyes:

[hippywife]

4. ...

:rofl:

[Tsiyu]

8. Now that littel guy has cracked me up this morning

there are days I feel like that :)

[mtnester]

10. Calcots in romesco sauce...that is what this thread reminded me of

http://www.travelchannel.com/Video_&_Photos/Video_Detail?lineupId=1387565829

Under the video window, scroll down on the episode segments clips to Onions, Wine and Gastronomy

Bourdain in Spain...amazing.