{"id":1103,"date":"2013-11-06T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2019-11-09T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T19:45:31","slug":"cook-to-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/cook-to-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook to perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw this line in a recipe: &#8220;Cook to perfection or until brown on both sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, I imagined this: someone&#8217;s cooking chicken. It&#8217;s lovely. It smells wonderful. They turn up the heat a little bit, and flip it over. Now they start to get a little anxious. Is it brown enough? Or has it gotten too brown? Is it sticking in the pan? IS IT PERFECT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then they remember : it&#8217;s cook to perfection, OR UNTIL BROWN. And THIS is certainly some shade of brown. They briefly contemplate writing a &#8220;50 Shades of Brown&#8221; cookbook before moving on to the next step in the recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll bet Chuck Wendig doesn&#8217;t have these kinds of problems when HE&#8217;S cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this line in a recipe: &#8220;Cook to perfection or until brown on both sides.&#8221; Of course, I imagined this: someone&#8217;s cooking chicken. It&#8217;s lovely. It smells wonderful. They turn up the heat a little bit, and flip it over. Now they start to get a little anxious. Is it brown enough? Or has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/cook-to-perfection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cook to perfection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-food","category-humor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}