Posted by Kathy_S on December 05, 2006 at 02:20:47 from 24.145.179.32 user kschmid.
In Reply to: cooking in Mrs. Dixon's kitchen posted by Ed Kiser on December 04, 2006 at 19:15:13:
I'd pictured Mrs. Dixon as having the frying pan on the wood stove, with the round metal dingus* over the fire box lifted out so that the pan was indeed over the fire. Her wrist wouldn't be bearing the weight, but she'd be holding the pan's handle with one hand while turning the bacon with the other. At least that's how I'd do it.
*It has a special name, but I don't remember -- nor the name of the special metal thingummy for lifting it without burning oneself.