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A thread for asking for translations of US cooking ingredients and terms into UK speak or vice versa.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

What is Lowell's seasoning salt and more importantly what is in it?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about Lowell's, but am familiar with Lawry's seasoned salt. It's a fairly standard mix of garlic, onion, celery seed, paprika, tumeric, bay, and maybe a tiny bit of cumin. All things good on beef.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

this is fucking weird timing, i've just this second received my 'How to cook everything' book and realised its american. and was just thinking about this very question.

good book though

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

what is this 'flavor' you speak of??

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Lowell's is much more basic than Lawry's (or Jane's which is more complex than Lawry's), if I have all my peapods in order with this one. It's kosher salt, powdered garlic, and black pepper.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy always used to have a pot of Jane CMUS about.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a shit noob cook and was confused at what 'broiling' was. turns out its just grilling but with the heat above, which is exactly what my grill is! heh ho.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen it in a store in a while, I used to get it because it was a good, quick, lazy way of doing things instead of fussing but then I realized I ended up fussing with the heat quotient anyway if I was using it to cook. TERRIFIC, though, on raw tomatoes sliced for a sandwich. IIRC Eli swears by the stuff.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Broiling = grilling, grilling = frying... right? ... xpost.

A slut is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and a bum is a fanny and a fanny is a punani.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

no grilling in US terms is just the reverse of broiling, heat is below the food.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

"no, grilling....."

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

frying is nothing like grilling!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

But a grilled cheese sandwich is made in a frying pan?

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

US ------------------- UK
broiling ---=--- grilling
grilling --=-- barbequing

someone stop me if i'm talking crap btw

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

And is a griddle just a frying pan or is there something else to it?

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

a grilled cheese sandwich can be made either way and "grilled cheese sandwich" sounds more appealing than "fried cheese sandwich" so I expect that's why the grilled name sticks.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ste I think that's actually basically right, but let's not get into the whole BBQ discussion again, it's just too stupid to deal with.

Heat can be above food if you're using an oven but yeah, real grilling is on a grill, outside, where the flame, she is a lickin up the grill.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

ok thank you for clarifying that a bit because I had no idea what they were trying to say :(

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, grilled cheese. 'Bout time I made one, it's been years.

Flipper (us) = fish slice (uk). I think you guys win that one.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what flipper is!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also known as spatula. Thing for flipping grilled cheese sandwich.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

never heard of a griddle, is a skillet(US) a frying pan(UK)?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

let's not get into the whole BBQ discussion again, it's just too stupid to deal with

haha i have no idea

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ohhh why would you call that a fish slice??? I just call it the thing generally, as in "Can you hand me the thing?" which results in hilarity as spoons and knives are handed to me instead and I have to go, "no no the flippy thing"

a frying pan and a skillet are basically the same thing in the US, the words are used interchangeably (perhaps based on region?)

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

In the South a skillet (and a griddle) is usually a drop-forged iron beast that can be put in the oven if necessary

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

does a skillet look like this:

http://www.worldfood.com/images/mexican_frying_pan.jpg

if so, yes.

also what kind of measurement is a cup anyway?

the entymology of fish slice is unknown, although i do often use mine for removing fish from pans, although lots o' other things too.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

"the hoojamaflick"
xp

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

a cup is 10 ounces

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

skillet =

http://www.mostanythinghardware.com/images/LODGE3sk2.jpg

frying pan =

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000XK2MS.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I think that's the main difference, what E said--in the north frying pan and skillet tend to be used interchangably whereas in the south skillet notates a specific type of frying pan implement. I try to be more specific about them, or was trying to anyway but then got rid of all my non-cast iron pans and skillets so it seemed pointless to learn new tricks.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this thread would be about Americans alleging that we Brits had accidentally stuck an OED in the microwave...

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

and a griddle can be any shape, as follows (confusingly, this particular griddle can be flipped over and used like a "grill"!!)

http://www.rvsupplywarehouse.com/content/product/small/pro-grid-cast-iron-griddle.jpg

xxpost thatta girl

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

thats fluid btw, xxxxp

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i've always heard a spatula referred to as a spatula, in both the uk and the us. flipper? fish slice? wtf!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

haha I want one of those but have no reason for it, or room for it. It's not like I spend an awful lot of time cooking pancakes, I mean honestly I don't like pancakes. And we have a cast iron grill pan so the flip side isn't a huge advantage either, other than the sheer mass of it.

xpost I was trying to suss out if flipper/fish slice was like some kind of tuna thing, to be honest.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Spatula = rubber/plastic, used for scraping sauce out of pots. fish slice = plastic or metal, used for flipping or lifting. I RECKON.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

We're getting a new range soon and I'm pushing for one with a griddle in the middle. Tortillas people, tortillas.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I mean honestly I don't like pancakes

This makes me very very very sad.

― mr. Que. (Mr.Que), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

A cup is 8 ounces. A pint is two cups (16 ounces). Hence, "a pint's a pound, the whole world 'round."

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Except UK pint is bigger than US pint. Plus general madness of conflating volume and weight measurements.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

is a fish slice a metal rectangle with a little bit of give attached to a wooden handle? i hated that thing. the metal bit was way too springy, so anything that you tried to pick up and flip/remove with it would bounce slightly and then usually slide off.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

aye -

http://static.deliaonline.com/images/width150/fish-slice-19309.jpg

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

oh, no. that's not what i was thinking of. that's a spatula!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, everyone probably knows this but:

Fish fingers (UK) = Fish sticks (US)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Fish Sticks (UK) = awful surimi-based product not even close to fish...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jane's CMUS/Lowell's equivalent appears to be Bart's everyday seasoning salt.

Cup is a measurement of volume not weight, no wonder victoria sponge is an english invention.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

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