Yes, there are a lot of chemicals in plastic. I was alone and it really
scared me, but I just turned off the stove and waited, and nothing
happened, I didn't burn up or anything. (lol) I'm still here amazingly
after the life I've lived1
On 7/11/2020 7:35 PM, Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Oh, wow, that must have smelled awful. Glad we have microwaves for melting
butter and chocolate and stuff.
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That's all you can do is laugh after it's all said and done.
Oh yes, the chocolate. One day I decided to make a chocolate cake from
the Cooking without Looking book. I was doing really well until the
recipe called for melted butter. I took a plastic dish put the butter in
it, and put it on the stove to melt. Needless to say, I had melted
butter and dish all over the place. This was just after I left home and
moved in to my own appartment. I had just graduated from Ocb, and that's
one thing they didn't teach, is that you can't melt plastic dishes on
your stove. (lol)
On 7/11/2020 7:08 PM, WitKnit via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Oops! I’ll just bet that gave your dad quite a scare. But, I like the time
when you were a bran new cook and wanted to melt some chocolate. But, I’m no
better. Way back in the day one of my nieces and I decided to make popcorn.
This was the kind of popper you just put on the burner and lifted it up to
shake it. Diane was about 8 and I was probably about 19. I was holding the
thing on the burner while shaking it a bit. Well, my hand started feeling
uncomfortably warm and without thinking I jerked it away. That would have been
ok had that not been the hand holding the popper’s lid. Needless to say, we
had popcorn all over the place before I could get the lid back in place. It
was so dumb I just had to laugh at myself.
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On Jul 11, 2020, at 6:34 PM, Linda S. via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
Oh, this is such a fun story. Isn't fun to relive those cool memories? I
remember one of my resource teachers came and almost set our house on fire when
I was a senior. My mom was in the hospital, and my dad was at work, so she
asked me if I'd like to surprise my dad with dinner when he came home. He got
home just in time to see smoke coming out of the house because we had made
hamburgers, and the broiler was on and I think it hadn't been cleaned or
something, and ... well, thankfully we didn't have to call the fire dept. (lol)
On 7/10/2020 3:39 PM, Lee Mounger via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Greetings All,
While perusing numerous saved months of this forum I came across this post. Wow, did it
bring back some memories. In 1970, I was a senior at Texas School For The Blind. At the
beginning of the year, two other senior guys and I needed a half credit to for some
reason fill our graduation requirements. It turned out that we could either take shop or
home ec which meant cooking for half the year until Christmas break. We had all taken
various kinds of shop for years so we decided together that it might be fun to take
cooking, and so we did. Mrs. Tipps had been the home ec teacher for many years and in
fact, she had written Cooking Without Looking which was inspired by her husband who was
totally blind and had passed away sometime back. As fate would have it, it ended up
being just us three guys and Mrs. Tipps in cooking class. It was interesting because I
don't think she had ever taught any males much less three fun-loving guys like us and no
girls in class. It was hard for us to take cooking class really seriously, so we
probably took it half-seriously. Anyway, I remember we laughed a lot and worked in some
learning too. To her credit, Mrs. Tipps was very tolerant of us. For the culmination of
the cooking class, each class got to decide what they'd like for a meal and then prepare
it. When she asked us what we wanted to do for our meal, I wonder how she looked and
what she thought when we told her we wanted to do chili and milk shakes. The day before
our meal, she went shopping and bought everything we'd need. The next day when we came
to class, somebody came and told us that Mrs. Tipps was out sick but her message to us
was to go ahead and prepare our meal. So I remember three unsupervised senior guys
prepared and ate our chili and milk shakes. I think we may have laughed the whole
period. I remember the next class when she came back, the only thing she said was,
"You know guys, you really didn't have to use all the ice cream for your milk
shakes". All in all, she was a nice lady and her book is still useful and has
pretty much stood the test of time.
On 2/18/2020 3:47 PM, Jeanne Fike via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Hi everyone,
According to BARD there are two audio versions of the Cooking without
Looking book: one with a db starting with 11 and the other with the db
starting with 52; as well as a braille version. (I just looked.)
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, an aunt of mine read for a Talking
Book organization in the St. Louis area. She recorded a copy of the
Cooking without Looking book (on cassette) and gave it to me at
Christmas that year. I still have the cassettes, but would like to get
them on to a sd card for my stream.
Happy cooking. :)
Jeanne
On 2/18/20, Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
I know; I used to have a braille copy.
Now, the recipes I copied from it are digital, and the book
Has long gone into the recycling bin.
Marie
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From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On
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Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind
I don't know about the others, but Cooking without looking is also
available
in braille.
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Subject: [CnD] More books written for the blind
Hello, everyone.
For those who may be interested, I highly recommend the following
Books written for the blind. They are all on Bard,
And in audio formats.
Cooking Without Looking by Esther Knudson Tipps
There are two different recordings of this book.
The information is dated, but much of it is useful and there
Are many easy recipes. One of the audio versions is actually
Read by a blind man from a braille copy for NLS.
When the Cook Can't Look by Ralph Reed
He is blind and explains how he does things well, how
To do things step by step without vision or supervision.
He has recipes in the book, and he
Rates them level 1, 2, and 3. All the recipes
Are easy and that book is well written. It is read by
Ray Hagen. One recipe I like is sauerbraten, which is not
Soaked with cookies; that recipe in the book is the real
Sauerbraten.
Another book full of tips is written by a
Deaf-blind woman. It is called Pathways to
Independence by Rita Kersh.
It covers everything from housekeeping to
Cooking without sight and hearing, but those who can
Hear can also benefit from this book.
Please check it out. It's on Bard.
Another one available on Bard is
Adaptive Culinary Techniques for the Visually Impaired
It is well written by its blind author.
I frequently monitor Bard and so all this
Comes down to knowing what is out there.
Now, you have more easy recipes when you
Get these books from Bard or your local braille and talking book library.
Of course, we should continue to help each other on the list.
Don't stop sending tips!! Even I can benefit,
And I'm an old hand. There are things I never would
Have thought of, always something new to learn from others.
Best,
Marie
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