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Spilled Milk

Episode 62: Utensils II

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious

0:10.4

eat it all and you can't have any.

0:13.4

We want to talk today about a few things that we didn't get to last time.

0:17.4

Yeah, so we're still talking about utensils, but we had a few miscellaneous utensils that we just we just had more to say on the subject.

0:25.1

So maybe we should start with oven mitts.

0:27.9

Okay. You mentioned oven mitts and dish tells.

0:31.2

When you need to grab a hot pan out of the oven, what do you reach for?

0:34.3

So, see, I've kind of got some self-worth issues around this.

0:38.3

Okay.

0:39.3

Because I feel like serious cooks are supposed to grab what we call side towels.

0:44.4

Why do they call them side towels?

0:46.3

I don't know, but if I had to guess, I think it would be because in a restaurant kitchen,

0:50.3

let's say you're wearing an apron that ties around your waist and you would probably hook this towel in the in this the apron string so it hangs at your side.

0:58.0

While we're on the subject, why do restaurant people wear aprons like that don't cover the top half of their body?

1:04.3

So that your shirt can look really pretty and your chest can look nice

1:09.2

while you're cooking.

1:11.0

But you'll get sauce on your chest.

1:12.4

Anyway, I agree. I think it's a little silly.

1:14.4

Anyway, so I feel like you know if you work in a restaurant in general you will use your

1:19.9

side towel to move a hot pan you'll use it in the place of oven mitts.

1:25.3

However, even when I worked at Delancey and I will say even the cooks who are at

1:30.8

Delancey now use oven mitts like industrial oven

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