Re: [Phys-L] physics and potatoes

[Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net>]

It's not some "snooty attitude"...by "some chef"... and  it's not a regional thing... and it's not a "food fashion".  You will find chefs throughout the country agreeing on this.   
Plus... have you ever peeled off the foil and have it lying crumbled on your plate?  Sometimes the foil doesn't come off in one piece and you have little bits and pieces of foil mixed in with the green beans or start cutting into your steak and find bits of foil on your fork.  disgusting.
  
On Jan 14, 2015, at 7:33 PM, John Clement wrote:

> It's purely food fashion.  Different types of ways of preparing foods go in
> and out of fashion.  The "correct" way is the way that pleases the customer.
> Look a cookies.  They used to all be crispy, but then soggy, I mean soft
> cookies became the rage.  Some people loved perked coffee, but then filtered
> coffee came in, and now single serving coffee is the rage.  Remember at one
> time people loved coffee boiled in a pan and argued about the merits of pans
> and other things when boiling the coffee.  Is white chocolate superior to
> dark, or is it merely different?
>
> So you might expect to find regional preferences which are not necessarily
> wrong, despite some chef's snooty attitudes.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX