A new way to cook ham. For cold people.
Nov. 20th, 2007 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperancePut piece of ham in saucepan. Cover with water, and set on nice high heat.
Come upstairs to carry on finishing book.
Some time later, wander downstairs in search of snacky foodstuffs.
Discover downstairs entirely full of smoke, ham utterly boiled dry, pan on the very eve of destruction.
Curse.
Snatch pan off heat, pondering price of new pans and marvelling at how bottom of pan is covered with crusted black stuff although there was nothing in there but ham (which is still there, still whole, welded in place) and water. Set hot tap to run, open back door to let smoke out.
When water running very hot, hold pan under tap and marvel at how water boils on contact.
Empty water into backyard drain; note how much of the black detritus has come away already, and think perhaps the pan can be saved after all.
Refill with water, nudge ham, see it part from pan.
Leave pan soaking, remove ham to plate.
Find that apart from burned bottom, ham looks perfect.
It's been through a sort of triple-process, I guess: first simmered, then steamed, then baked. I'll see if the cats want the burned bit. Not that they deserve it: they made no effort to tell me that catastrophe was on its way, and their sensitive little noses must have known.
Mine, of course, didn't stand a chance. I expect the house stinks, but I can't smell a thing.
Come upstairs to carry on finishing book.
Some time later, wander downstairs in search of snacky foodstuffs.
Discover downstairs entirely full of smoke, ham utterly boiled dry, pan on the very eve of destruction.
Curse.
Snatch pan off heat, pondering price of new pans and marvelling at how bottom of pan is covered with crusted black stuff although there was nothing in there but ham (which is still there, still whole, welded in place) and water. Set hot tap to run, open back door to let smoke out.
When water running very hot, hold pan under tap and marvel at how water boils on contact.
Empty water into backyard drain; note how much of the black detritus has come away already, and think perhaps the pan can be saved after all.
Refill with water, nudge ham, see it part from pan.
Leave pan soaking, remove ham to plate.
Find that apart from burned bottom, ham looks perfect.
It's been through a sort of triple-process, I guess: first simmered, then steamed, then baked. I'll see if the cats want the burned bit. Not that they deserve it: they made no effort to tell me that catastrophe was on its way, and their sensitive little noses must have known.
Mine, of course, didn't stand a chance. I expect the house stinks, but I can't smell a thing.