{"id":6215,"date":"2011-10-25T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2011-10-25T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:57:58","slug":"ask-the-audience-on-soup-and-non-non-stick-pans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/ask-the-audience-on-soup-and-non-non-stick-pans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the audience: on soup and non-non-stick pans"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ey bloggy peeps, I have two domestic questions for you today. Please save my family from my domestic obliviousness!<\/p>\n

First, I was surprised to read <\/a>this summer that non-stick pans can release carcinogenic chemicals, apparently to such an extent that people with birds never use them for fear of killing the birds. That was enough to encourage me to reconsider using them… and then I realized that pretty much *all* the pans, cookie sheets and muffin tins in my cupboard have some sort of non-stick coating.<\/p>\n

I’ve started small and bought a (really big) stainless steel frying pan. I actually really like it — it’s deep, with a thick bottom, and it transfers the heat really evenly. But, I cannot figure out how to not burn whatever I’m cooking to the bottom of the pan. I’ve added extra butter and oil, cooked faster with higher temps and slower with lower temps, and no matter what I do, I burn the snot out of the bottom of the pan every.single.time.<\/p>\n

Am I missing something? Before I take the plunge and give up the rest of my non-stick-ware, which I really do want to do, do I need to take some remedial cooking lessons?<\/p>\n

Second, I picked up a really interesting lentil, barley and noodle soup mix from the store, but I am a relative soup virgin. The family likes soup, but I been intimidated by making them from scratch. So I can probably just dump the lentil and noodle mix into some chicken or vegetable stock, but what else can I do to it? Just dump in random veggies? Ugh, I have come a long way in the kitchen in the last few years, but home-made soups have thus far intimidated me.<\/p>\n

Help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey bloggy peeps, I have two domestic questions for you today. Please save my family from my domestic obliviousness! First, I was surprised to read this summer that non-stick pans can release carcinogenic chemicals, apparently to such an extent that people with birds never use them for fear of killing the birds. That was enough … Continue reading “Ask the audience: on soup and non-non-stick pans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6221,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}