SC - cooking times

[Sue Clemenger]

Earlier post on anti-period fascisti? I think that's before my time on the
list....Can it be found in these infamous archives I've heard about, but never
seen? (a cook's el dorado?) Yes? Can someone out there tell me how to access
them?
Thanks,
- --Maire

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
> >
> > I recently heard the notion that (this was for camp cooking) "if you are
> > short on time you may have to forgo period in favour of quick". Assuming
> > that evil things like instant rice/pasta and Ramen noodles are banned by
> > definition, and that I do take shortcuts like buying pasta and
> > using stock cubes, anyone who can offer some comments or arguments?
>
> Well, how about this? Assuming you're going to take the trouble to build
> a fire, set up a pot, etc., how much time is really saved by Ramen or
> Minute Rice? (Ramen, BTW, is a perfectly legitimate food in Japan, often
> made by hand by skilled cooks, but I know the stuff you're talking
> about.) I don't know what kind of numbers you're going to throw at me,
> but does the extra 7 minutes (average) it takes to cook real pasta over
> ramen justify the decrease in quality _and_ perodicity? Nineteen minutes
> for real rice versus that horrible extruded fake rice-flour pasta? You
> still have the same pot to wash, the same fire to deal with, but you've
> traded a few minutes out of a process requiring considerably more time
> overall, no matter which way you go, and eaten a significantly better or
> worse meal. The few minutes' difference seems not very significant.
>
> BTW, some of the English recipes, as well as several Italian ones and
> the various depictions in Tacuinum Sanitatis, suggest pasta was often
> dried, which means there ought to be no problem with either carrying
> pre-made dried pasta or with using a commercial product. Other possible
> timesavers might be to carry pre-made flatbreads, cheeses, various
> pickles, smoked and dried meats, fish, etc.
>
> It may be true that some of the more obnoxious convenience foods are
> timesavers, but a deliberate sacrifice in the periodicity level seems
> for some a moral issue. See the earlier post to Rayne on anti-period
> fascisti and their eating habits. But you know, you might consider a
> cook-off. The detractors of your methods can cook their minute rice, and
> you can make some sawgeat (scrambled eggs with sage and sliced, probably
> smoked, sausage). Whoever is finished first really ought to get to eat
> the sawgeat, don't you think? Loser eats the minute rice?
>
> Adamantius, who turns out an omelette in about _half_ a minute...
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
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