I made a chocolate cake.
I washed the pan.
I broiled a steak in the pan.
It tasted like chocolate cake.
I washed the steak.
It still tasted like chocolate cake.
I threw the steak away.
I might need to throw up, as even eating other things is making it worse.
I no longer like steak.
I no longer like chocolate cake.
Urp.
I would like to point out that, in my honest opinion, anything that tastes like chocolate is good by definition.
Damn, now I have to get up, go up the store and get me some goodness.
See, that’s the thing-
I don’t like chocolate all that much- I don’t dislike it, but I would take a handful of sweetarts over chocolate anytime.
But I loooooooves me some steak, so the crime is that I have been given a negative incentive for steak!
BTW, it was rather interesting at first, which is why I ate as much as I did. It really tasted chocolatey- and good chocolatey, like I used to like as a kid, but it still tasted like steak! I have the feeling that several people I know (and perhaps a few dopers) would really enjoy it, and possibly pay good money for it.
shudders
But not for me! The memory is still sickening. Of course, it’s only been an hour or two.
I take it you’re not a big fan of Mexican mole sauce? (You know, the kind that has chilis and chocolate.) Chocolate doesn’t have to be sweet, you know…
Thou art correct. I am not a big fan, but I can tolerate mole. The reason that this was soooo bad was that it was ever so slightly sweet. Thus the mention of chocolate that tasted as I remember liking as a child.
I wish there was some sort of a taste snapshot I could upload. It was of the type of flavor combination that was like mango salsa- a dichotomy of flavor that was somehow just right. For the record, I don’t like mango salsa either, but I can taste the sort/type of appeal.
I’m having trouble picturing this.
When I think of ‘cake pan’, I think of an 8x8, 9x13, or 9-inch round pan (or something similar). When I think of ‘broiling a steak’, none of these come to mind to use. I could envision someone making meatloaf and bread in the same loaf pan, but I really can’t grasp what sort of hardware one would use for both cake and steak.
Picture a single father with absolutely no home training in cooking (I grew up building fires to cook outside) and the 9x13 pan I use for broiling steak I used to bake a cake when my daughter demanded I do so.
I used that pan cause it was on the cake box.
It sounds like you would not use a pan like that for broiling.
What would you use?
Oh, I also roast chickens in this pan.
OK then.
As to the question of “what pan would I use”; I’d use the broiling pan that came with the oven.
In the absence of a broiling pan, I’d use some sort of shallow pan, with a rack of some sort in it to let the fat drip away from the meat. Probably the same ‘cookie sheet’ that we use for heating up frozen french fires, onion rings, etc. Which is not the same cookie sheet we use for cookies, because it gets all gunked up from the fries/rings/etc.
I try to make a distinction between “pans used for baking” and “pans used for cooking”, though I’ve always thought of it as keeping baked goods from tasting like meatorfried foods, rather than the other way around.
Hmmm- I have always had a distrust of those ‘broiling pan’ things. As I said, from childhood we cooked on straight fires or wood ovens, so pots/pans were always involved. Then, as a renter in adult life, I always have seen the broiling pan thing in the oven caked with soot- it never occurred to me to try and clean it off and cook on it any more that I would do so on the bottom of the oven itself. I didn’t actually know that was its purpose until I read the stove manual that someone left in my last apartment.
I may try to do so- but with my cleaning on par with my cooking, I wouldn’t expect it soon.
Thanks!
Oh, I do cook my cookies on that meat cookie sheet as well. Never had any tasticle problems on that, tho.
I may just not notice, however.
I am much more of a ‘savory’ than ‘sweet’ man.
Hmmm- on re-reading, that applies to more than food…
So now when you bake a cake is it going to taste like steak?
Mmmm, now I’m hungry for a Chocolate Steak, with some Steak Cake for desert. 