Marble is best for candy as it can hold moisture and it always feels cold.
I think it is a safer material to cook with - calcium carbonate is rather common.
Just add heat. Turn limestone into Marble.
Martin
Martin Eastburn
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NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Gunner wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:31:02 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:
My wife was thinking of a number of them in the kitchen. The small ones were
thick enough to use and just under the way to heavy.
I love the big 8 and 10" think ones - the 4' by 8' size - machine size.
Hard to think of running anything on one that big - I saw (Heaven forbid) forklifts
moving the stone. Then putting it outside of the building in the alley
for a place to store it until next time. SCREAM.
Me with a Metrology Handbook in my shelf. :-)
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Im told that marble is better than granite for candy making. My folks
collected antiques for many years and our kitchen table was the candy
folding table from a very old candy manufacturer. Marble topped.
Gunner
Ignoramus8644 wrote:
I support the idea of using one in the kitchen...
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On 30 Aug 2005 21:26:55 -0700, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
A used surface plate just showed up on my doorstep...amazing what
follows me home sometimes. :)
This surface plate is a Rahn 34" x 36" black granite with two ledges.
So, how does one decide if a surface plate is "good"?
If it is "bad", how do you decide whether or not it is worth
refurbishing? How much does it cost to refurbish a surface plate and
how do they do it?
And if it is not worth refurbishing, what have you used an old surface
plate for? I've already got a gravestone. ;)
Thanks for any suggestions, comments or wisecracks.
TMT
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