Back left is king for simmering a sauce
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On many modern ranges it is literally described as a simmer burner.
What's crazy is this is exactly how I do it too... Front right for noods, back left for Sauce
I use back left for basically everything. Keeps hot things away from curious kids. Back left gang!
It's even more natural to handle when you have arms long enough, plus the angle of the handle doesn't make it dangle.
Please don't stone me, but I mean it's good when you just want to put something on boil for several hours.
Np I think this thread is for the hotdogs+ramen crowd maybe?
What? I always default to the back ones since the splatter won't reach my clothes as easily from there
I also use the back ones since it is low likely that I'll hit a handle and have hot food flying about.
Do aprons just not exist any more?
I don't know anyone that actually uses one to be honest
There are dozens of us!
Making Aprons is easier than adding as many pockets to everything.
Might come back as we get out of gambler-designed slave-made garment supply chain.
I use them when naked grilling because I don't want hot grease burning my nuts.
Reasonable answer
Why wear special clothing to avoid the splatter when you can just not get splatter on you
I take the same approach to software development. Why waste time debugging when you can simply not write any bugs in the first place? Mystified how nobody else ever thought of this before.
I mean if you replace "not write bugs" with "write tests", this becomes a good metaphor
My friend, you can just put the pan in the back burner lol
I can also wear an apron
I mean yeah it is an option but wearing special clothes for the splashes doesn't seem as necessary when you can just do a simple thing to avoid the splashes
An apron is a very simple item that simply goes over the clothes and secures with a single, simple tie
It's just unnecessary if you just use the further away burner lol
That's just unnecessary if you just use an apron
Well yeah those are the options. Use special clothiny for the splatters or just don't have the splatters. Second seems simpler imo
Oh, you'll still have splatters.
Can't say I've noticed any but could be
I'm with the others here, back left is great for just getting some shit boiling out of the way, or simmering for a while. Back right is the tiny useless little fucker that gets no play until Thanksgiving.
Yeah. Back left is the only burned in the right size for my pasta pot. Back right is a copy of front left and thus uniquely useless.
Back right only gets used during canning season in our house.
Back left is the second most used one in our house, cause it's the 2nd largest. No idea how universal that is...
Is this an American thing? On my gas stove, the front left is rapid boil, front right is simmer, and the back two are normal.
depends on the model of stove
I use that one specifically for sauces/gravy.
All my elements are broken except back left.
The size should be appropriate for the vessel. Things in the front require constant attention while the rear takes care of itself.