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Question from bangthedrum
( , Thu 30 May 2013, 15:27)
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I was preparing a few peppers for skinning. The easiest way to do this is to blacken the skin with some kind of flame. I have a new gadget for this purpose - one of those blowtorch things. It was all going swimmingly well and I was quite pleased with myself. It ran out of lighter fluid and I refilled it, but spilled some ( a lot). At this point it might have been better to relight it somewhere other than the location where I spilled it (the sink). What followed was a sink full of flame, a burning dishcloth and the simultaneous burning of my eyebrows, eyelashes and fringe (its even further back than it was). My question is... what else can I use the blowtorch for (presuming my wife allows me to use it ever again)?
( , Sun 2 Jun 2013, 22:01, 9 replies)

Browning meat before putting it in the oven, although time consuming, can be used if you're cooking steak very slowly Heston Blumenthal-style. I watched a sushi chef use it to cook only the very outside of tuna steaks before slicing it for sushimi.
Although mine mostly gets used for lighting smokes...
( , Mon 3 Jun 2013, 7:21, closed)

But I'm not sure the fire would ever go out - bit like one of those peat fires that start or in coal mines etc...
( , Mon 3 Jun 2013, 20:24, closed)

There'd have been a most terrible smell if you'd singed some pigeons. Just saying.
( , Mon 3 Jun 2013, 23:07, closed)

You put lighter fluid in a gas blowtorch? I think I see the problem there.
( , Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:57, closed)
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