Nora, I use either, depending on what's clean. The whisk does work an iota better with less gloppy sticking. I end up making the roux in le creuset pot which is easier to see because of the white enamel.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Feb 29, 2012 6:14:26 pm PST #24509 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nora Deirdre - Feb 29, 2012 6:17:42 pm PST #24510 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
That is exactly what I use, Kat, my Le Crueset Dutch oven. Which is why I use a wooden spoon, so I don't scratch up the enamel. Very prissy of me, I know.
JenP - Feb 29, 2012 6:19:26 pm PST #24511 of 30001
Come visit me, Jen! I will put it on your plate!
Woo! The company would be the best part of that, of course, but I would eat. Oh, but how I would eat!
Now I'm retroactively sad about my dinner. PB&J and some (admittedly yummy) lentils.
Kat - Feb 29, 2012 6:19:36 pm PST #24512 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Silicon whisks!
-t - Feb 29, 2012 6:21:08 pm PST #24513 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My roux-stirring technique is almost all scraping across the bottom of the pan, which I don't think I could do effectively with a whisk. I use a wooden spatula like thing, now that I think about it.
Burrell - Feb 29, 2012 6:21:49 pm PST #24514 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Which pan depends on what I'm making, but my usual pan for most things is my 10 inch cast iron skillet. And as for whisk or spoon, I'm like Kat, it depends on what's clean.
Kat - Feb 29, 2012 6:22:01 pm PST #24515 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Totally vain evening -- I had to paint my nails because I'm going to yoga. Now this isn't, I need to be hot for yoga. But it's more like, SHIT, My face is near my feet and my nails look like shit.
Also, there is a big shitstorm in my yoga community and all of these big allegations against the yoga school's founder. Some of it stupid -- he has consensual sex with women who aren't his girlfriend! he smokes pot! --- and some of it is serious -- he froze funds in pension funds for his employees! But yikes. The sense of betrayal people have.
Burrell - Feb 29, 2012 6:23:28 pm PST #24516 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I just took off my polish as it was all chipped. Need to decide what's next, but probably a purple.
Kat - Feb 29, 2012 6:25:03 pm PST #24517 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
March is green for me. Then I'll do pastel blue for April.
Amy - Feb 29, 2012 6:26:50 pm PST #24518 of 30001
Because books.
Mine are a blue/purple changeable glaze over plum, but the tips are totally worn. I'm thinking something bright next.