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celticdragonfly) wrote2006-06-26 03:42 pm
celticdragonfly) wrote2006-06-26 03:42 pm
Funnel cakes
Before I get around to chronicling the fun that was ApolloCon, I realize I never got around to posting about last Wednesday, and our experiments in hot oil.
No, no, not like that. We were over for our usual Wednesday night movie night at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fordprfct and kattelyn's house, and had decided to try to make funnel cake. I had funnel cake mix and powdered sugar, and they had a deep frying pan and a funnel-tipped plastic pitcher. And we all like funnel cake, so we decided to give it a try.
They also had a candy thermometer, sofordprfct decided to use that to judge the heat of the oil. It kept saying it wasn't hot enough, not enough, not enough - and we were letting it heat up as we watched more of the Dr. Who we're trying to catch up on. Eventually kattelyn and I started saying that it smelled too hot and was getting too smoky, and we got it turned down. fordprfct even moved it off the burner for a while - spilling a bit of oil onto the glass stovetop, where it caught on fire. That was briefly exciting.
We finally thought maybe it was cool enough, and tried making one. Um. No. We quickly got a black burned mass, very quickly indeed. I commented that it looked like some kinda dead squid/octopus alien embryo special effect we'd expect to see on Dr. Who rather than in the kitchen. And the thermometer was still insisting it wasn't warm enough. The thermometer lies.
We kept letting it cool and trying just a tiny bit at a time, and eventually got well, funnel cakes.kattelyn did one that was way better than mine, but I intend to keep getting better at it too. It was yummy, and the funnel pitcher they have was perfect. I intend to get more mix sometime, and I expect I'll definitely be making it over in their kitchen when they're willing to put up with it.
No, no, not like that. We were over for our usual Wednesday night movie night at
fordprfct and kattelyn's house, and had decided to try to make funnel cake. I had funnel cake mix and powdered sugar, and they had a deep frying pan and a funnel-tipped plastic pitcher. And we all like funnel cake, so we decided to give it a try. They also had a candy thermometer, so
fordprfct decided to use that to judge the heat of the oil. It kept saying it wasn't hot enough, not enough, not enough - and we were letting it heat up as we watched more of the Dr. Who we're trying to catch up on. Eventually kattelyn and I started saying that it smelled too hot and was getting too smoky, and we got it turned down. fordprfct even moved it off the burner for a while - spilling a bit of oil onto the glass stovetop, where it caught on fire. That was briefly exciting. We finally thought maybe it was cool enough, and tried making one. Um. No. We quickly got a black burned mass, very quickly indeed. I commented that it looked like some kinda dead squid/octopus alien embryo special effect we'd expect to see on Dr. Who rather than in the kitchen. And the thermometer was still insisting it wasn't warm enough. The thermometer lies.
We kept letting it cool and trying just a tiny bit at a time, and eventually got well, funnel cakes.
kattelyn did one that was way better than mine, but I intend to keep getting better at it too. It was yummy, and the funnel pitcher they have was perfect. I intend to get more mix sometime, and I expect I'll definitely be making it over in their kitchen when they're willing to put up with it.