Been bouncing all over Cary and South Raleigh today. After meeting Thomas for lunch at a nifty little diner that’s an NC State institution, it was over to one of my favorite restaurant supply stores to pick up a few accessories (our rubber spatulas have seen better days), then got a quick haircut, picked up a few items from the grocery store, and then got some stamps and dropped some bills in the mail. Oh, and catching the last few chapters of Harry Potter on audio as I was driving. Whee!
We fly out for Chicago on Thursday afternoon, but I’ve got a lot to do before then – last-minute prep stuff for the Midwest Furfest meetings, doing laundry and packing for the trip, housecleaning for the open house our realtor is throwing in our absence. I need to go start prepping dinner before Takaza gets home – recipe to follow, of course!
>>> our rubber spatulas have seen better days…
*snickers wickedly* Oh, really? Something you’d like to share with the rest of the class, mr. Husky? 🙂
Nothing as interesting as you’d guess, actually. The moral of the story is, if you’re going to make sugar syrup, DO NOT scrape it out of the pan while still hot with a rubber spatula. It didn’t melt into the syrup, thank heavens, but that was the first mistake that has caused the spatula to degrade with every run through the dishwasher.
Did you go to Spatula City?
I know they make heat resistant rubber spatulas… did it melt one of those kind or just a regular rubber spatula? 🙂
Well, it didn’t actually melt, just degraded the rubber somewhat. I believe it was heat-resistant, but the sugar syrup was > 270 degrees F. Silly me, I should have realized this (gee, dealing with high-temperature fluids with the proper equipment is only my job, when I have one…)
I approve of the music choice, I just thought I’d say 😉 Great album!