www.andrewmackay.net: » Cooking http://www.andrewmackay.net in search of inspiration, laughs, and great reads Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Love of the Slow Burn http://www.andrewmackay.net/2009/09/the-love-of-the-slow-burn/ http://www.andrewmackay.net/2009/09/the-love-of-the-slow-burn/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:01 +0000 andrew mackay http://andrewmackay.wordpress.com/?p=361 I think that everyone has something that they love that other people have a hard time understanding. Case in point: my wife and I had a discussion recently as I was getting ready to spend roughly 13 hours babysitting a pork roast on the grill. She didn’t understand the sense of doing it that way. She’s right, too, there are easier ways to roast a pork shoulder.

But, I love the process. I love the science of it, I love the challenge, I love the pay off of having spent hours on something and having it turn out well.

It did, too. It was delicious. Well worth waking up every couple of hours through the night, and then checking it every couple of hours through the day until it was ready. Sometimes you do things, I guess, just because you love the process, not because it’s the most expedient or easiest.

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