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Originally Posted by Worth1
If your smoking the house up you're burning the roux.  |
Yep, it was burned and the smoke alarms were letting me know. Another time, I was trying a recipe to make roux in a microwave. You start by spreading dry flour over a plate and microwave it until it reaches the color you want. Microwaves don't cook evenly, so you are supposed to stir the flour around every couple of minutes. I didn't stir as often as I should have and the smoke alarms told me. It's all fun and flour is cheap. Our smoke alarms are very sensitive and when they all go off, it sounds like Pearl Harbor is being attacked again. Our dogs run for cover when the alarms go off. The flour wasn't really burned and the roux tasted better than I thought it would.