New Year's Eve
I had a wonderful New Year's Eve so I won't bore you with it, Dear Reader, and I'll just tell you what happened when I got back to my apartment where I'd left a meatloaf (made with leftover stuffing and one egg) warming in the oven.
It was my last meatloaf of 2007, something I rarely make anyways as I'm always just that one meat dinner away from vegetarianism and meatloaf is just too glaringly carnivorous a dish to pretend one is anywhere near not eating meat anymore, and I was planning a midnight slice of it to delight and amaze my constantly delighted and amazed companion.
BUT, when I turned it out of the loaf pan, it's underside was the most sickenly colour of grey, like it had sat moldering in the oven for all of 2007 instead of just a couple of hours (I'd turned off the stove when we went out so it'd be cooked but warm when we returned). Then I looked at the pan and it was missing its grey coating.
So, putting two and two together, I deduced that the pan's coating had relocated to the meatloaf I had just cooked in it and that, really, since I soak and wash pans by hand anyway (as I do all dishes, not owning a dishwasher), why was I buying ones that had coatings on them that could come off on to my food.
I mean, this was an obvious case of seeing the pan's coating actually on the food, but what about all those other coatings that just leach into it unseen?
Anyway, it's back to basics for me, which is fine because when I'm not worrying about the pan's coating leaching into the food, I'm worried about a kid using a metal utensil on it. So yeah, I'll be reducing my worries for 2008 one coated pan at a time.
