- rec.food.cooking FAQ pointer

I feel very lucky to have found this group. I am enjoying
every minute.

Thanks to your post today, I found your FAQ for the first
time and have saved the address in my "Favorites" directory.

In looking through the FAQ I found the following statement
in the section on woks:

"The support ring with the narrower diameter side up is used
for electric stoves and the larger diameter side up is used
on gas stoves."

I think this should be the other way around. The small
diameter "up" raises the wok bottom to the hottest part of
the gas flame --- and the large diameter "up" lowers the
bottom of the wok to capture and use the greatest amount of
heat from the electric surface.

Thanks --- and keep up the good work.

Bill Boylan

"Victor Sack" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

This is a weekly pointer to the rec.food.cooking FAQ and
conversion file. If you do not want to see it every week,
you should put the title, which will not change, into your
killfile.

The rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file is posted
monthly to rec.food.cooking, rec.food.recipes, rec.answers
and news.answers. It is also available as an easy-to-
navigate frames version at

<http://vsack.bei.t-online.de/rfc_faq.html>.

There is both a link to a no-frames version and a built-in
no-frames content for older or text-only browsers.

The rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file has two
parts. The first part covers conversion and equivalence.
Tables are given for conversion of oven temperatures, food
names, weights and measures. Some useful substitutions for
unavailable ingredients are suggested.

The second part is more descriptive. It outlines some
of the commonly discussed topics of rec.food.cooking
and explains a number of food terms. It also lists
other food-related newsgroups and mailing lists, as
well as food-related FAQs, recipe archives and other
food/cooking sites.

Bill Boylan said:

In looking through the FAQ I found the following statement
in the section on woks:

"The support ring with the narrower diameter side up is
used for electric stoves and the larger diameter side up
is used on gas stoves."

I think this should be the other way around. The small
diameter "up" raises the wok bottom to the hottest part of
the gas flame --- and the large diameter "up" lowers the
bottom of the wok to capture and use the greatest amount
of heat from the electric surface.

Thank you! I'll look into this.

Victor