[Sca-cooks] peeling onions/inability to cut onions
Edouard de Bruyerecourt
bruyere at jeffnet.org
Sat Sep 6 13:06:07 PDT 2003
Jeanne wrote:
>
>Candle is best, the flame sucks in the noxious gases so you don't get to
>experience them fully!
>
I suspect it also creates a convective vertical updraft (heats the air,
which rises, cooler air around the candle - and containing the onion
vapour- is drawn in, heated, and rises in turn.) and fuctioning much the
way a fan or open window does.
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Edouard, Sire de Bruyerecourt
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