High Altitude Cooking... or not (foods, areas, coastal)

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by christylou

Is it just my imagination or does water boil faster here? Please dont' laugh, I know that sounds kind of dumb but seriously, I think it does.

It's not dumb at all.

Here you go:

Boiling Water at Higher Elevations

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by christylou

Is it just my imagination or does water boil faster here? Please dont' laugh, I know that sounds kind of dumb but seriously, I think it does.

Trying to ignore Gay-Lussac's law, just remember that water is not as hot here as it is at lower elevations where you were at.

So you have cook longer....

Pretty neat that you noticed it... I won't say anything about my lovely wife other than she brought home a delicious pizza from Dion's tonight.



Rich

[songinthewind7]

Rich, let's hear about your wife and her experience's with cooking.

[spyrye]

This might help if you can get Ortega's to come out and calibrate your oven.
You do not need to do any of the high altitude adjustments as some recipes call for, unless you are making a soufle!
Unless you are over 5500 ft I would not fret!

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by songinthewind7

Rich, let's hear about your wife and her experience's with cooking.

What makes you think she can't cook

My lovely wife of 39 years is a great cook, finally. It took her a while. She is from West Virginia so she was accustomed to different food than what I grew up with.

I'm not going to go through all the stories, cause like I said, my lovely wife of 39 years is a great cook.

Our first Thanksgiving we could not afford a turkey so she decided on pork chops, we could afford two frozen ones. She put the two frozen pork chops in a frying pan, added some cold Wesson oil, then turned on the heat. For those of you who do not cook you might think that is how it's done. It's amazing how bad those pork chops tasted...

But now my lovely wife of 39 years is a great cook.



Rich

[songinthewind7]

Rich, oops maybe I misunderstood and thought your wife had some stories with her high altitude cooking because you said she brought home a pizza.
I guess right away I'm thinking, she messed something up and went out and got a pizza.
That's happened to me a couple of times but not here.
Unfortunately, in Timberon, if something messes up cooking wise, there are no restaurants to go to.
Anyway that's why I said what I said. Remembering funny and messy experiences.

Spyrye, I'm at a little over 7000 feet.

[WasSoggyInSeattle]

Rich... I still sense there are stories to be heard about your lovely wife of 39 yrs great cooking. She doesn't by chance read the forum does she? Hee hee

[MaggieBelize]

Oh, Towanda, sourdough doesn't work up here? Bummer! I haven't tried it yet, but was thinking about starting a batch of starter ... If I do get around to it one of these days, I'll report the results, no matter how sad.

[lisdol]

Originally Posted by spyrye

Unless you are over 5500 ft I would not fret!

I think a lot of us are over 5500ft, aren't we?

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by songinthewind7

Rich, oops maybe I misunderstood and thought your wife had some stories with her high altitude cooking because you said she brought home a pizza.

Naw, she stops by Dions sometimes on the way home from work and gets a pre cooked pizza. Dion's has pretty good pizza's, subs and salads.

I have been making my own pizza's over the years, looking for my pictures and recipe. You can also buy fresh pizza dough at Dion's.

The trick for home made pizza is the pizza stone which you can get cheap at Wal-Mart. The other trick is getting the pizza on the hot stone, supposed to use a 'Peel' like a shovel....


Rich