"Dan Abel" <dabel@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:dabel-5470A2.11045725082007@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
> In article <HSMzi.1318$Ay3.959@trndny02>,
> "Paco's Tacos" <paco@taco.net> wrote:
>
>> "blake murphy" <blakepm@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:d4duc3hptsv1lj9r4a2tjdrbpfe7tpvgie@4ax.com...
>> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:03:34 GMT, "Paco's Tacos" <paco@taco.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>"blake murphy" <blakepm@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> >>news:chfrc35qim9a715sgq1klleh7a0f3m2sij@4ax.com...
>> >>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:31:18 GMT, "Paco's Tacos" <paco@taco.net>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>"Sheldon" <PENMART01@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >>>>news:1187753633.341466.4990@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> <snip>
>> >>>>>you need to cook a few
>> >>>>> hundred of each to get a feel for it, I've cooked thousands, tens
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>> thousands, I can roast hams and turkeys of any size perfectly while
>> >>>>> drunk as a skunk... and no thermometer would help one bit, in fact
>> >>>>> I
>> >>>>> don't trust cooking by thermometer, would just fuck me up. I don't
>> >>>>> need to look at your thermometers, and I didn't... you need to
>> >>>>> fergeddaboud em too... just cook.
>
>> >>> it's a wonder how sheldon tolerates existence on this planet with all
>> >>> us lesser beings...
>
>> >>It's not easy being Sheldon.
>> >>
>> > really? i think any half-wit could do it...
>> >
>> > your pal,
>> > blake
>>
>> I have to disagree, Blake. Think of all of the care and thought that has
>> to
>> go into each and every inane statement. And the expertise! On
>> everything!
>> This requires a 24/7 commitment.
>
> Sheldon has a point, though. People with experience don't need
> thermometers and recipes. With experience, it is easy to tell when meat
> is done. With experience, it is easy to tell whether a dough needs more
> flour or more liquid. Since I, and most everyone else, doesn't have
> that kind of experience, we need the damn thermometer and recipes. If I
> roast a turkey twice a year, I can't afford to have it go wrong, so I
> use a thermometer.

Yes he does, Dan. But he envelopes it with such copious amounts of BS.