Episode 62: Utensils II
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K 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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