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A couple of weeks ago I received this lovely PAM® Cooking Spray in the mail. I was eager to try it and see if it really was better than the generic brand I have been buying for years.
If you follow this blog regularly, you may have noticed my favorite generic brand hanging out in a lot of my tutorial pictures. I buy it because it’s cheap, and I go through it like crazy with all of the cooking and baking that I do. Spending the extra money to buy the name brand PAM Cooking Spray always seemed luxurious and unneeded.
Until I tried the spray.
It’s better. A LOT better than the generic brand I am used to. PAM Cooking Spray has recently been improved and is said to now be 70% better than the generic brand.
It is, my friends.
I have been using PAM Spray for all of my cooking needs this past week and I am seriously amazed at how much better it works. My scrambled eggs don’t fasten themselves to the pan with a vengeance. Cookies slide off the pan with ease.
I baked a batch of French Bread too long, and it left a crispy mess all over my pans. Once I got the dirty caked-on pans in the sink I grabbed my pick ax (ok, it was really just my scrub brush) and readied myself to get rid of the mess. Much to my surprise, the mess came off of the pan with ease and took much less time to clean than usual. Which freed up my schedule so I could bury my pick ax in the back yard.
Why use a pick ax when you can use PAM Cooking Spray, right?
Besides making clean up much easier, PAM Cooking Spray comes with a great nozzle that sprays evenly and well. I have been frustrated in the past with my generic spray nozzle backing up and then breaking off before I had used the entire can.
Why I didn’t try PAM Cooking Spray before now is a mystery. 🙂
Another recipe I made this week using PAM Cooking Spray was Stuffed Jumbo Shells. I have experienced treacherous clean up with this recipe in the past and was eager to see how PAM would handle this circumstance. I sprayed the pan well, assembled the ingredients, let it bake, and then we enjoyed this yummy recipe for dinner. It tasted great and the clean up was seriously a breeze.
No pick ax necessary.
Which is lucky since I buried the thing in the back yard.
PAM Cooking Spray, ladies and gentlemen.
I highly recommend it.
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I use Pam a lot in fact I just made a banana cake frosted with cream cheese frosting yesterday and I made sure to use Pam.
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My favorite use for Pam is when I use my bundt pan…nothing else works well enough to keep the cake in one piece.
I’ve been trying to find a place to leave the fiollwong information:Since VSFTPD supports client certificates for FTP-S communications (2.0.7) there is this z/OS issue. In the man page of vsftpd.conf the solution is actually disabling client certificate request and verification (set ssl_request_cert to NO).The z/OS issue is actually caused by the fiollwong. The z/OS ftp-s client expects at least one certificate_authority as part of the certificate request made by the server. In the VSFTPD implementation there is no way to give it any. By that VSFTPD is compliant with RFC’s for TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2, which allow a request without a certificate_authority. However there are still versions of z/OS in the field that use TLS v1.0. For TLS v1.0 at least one certificate_authority must be present in the certificate request from the server causing the problem mentioned earlier. And there might be other cases where one want to be able to provide certificate_authorities as part of the request.There is an easy solution for this, with the fiollwong change in the ssl.c file VSFTPD will sent certificate_authorities as part of the certificate request:ssl.c:125: if (verify_option) { SSL_CTX_set_verify(p_ctx, verify_option, ssl_verify_callback); if (tunable_ca_certs_file) { if (!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(p_ctx, tunable_ca_certs_file, NULL)) { die(“SSL: could not load verify file”); } /* * Following line will add the CA’s inside the file configured with ca_cert_file * to the certificate_authorities list inside the certificate request sent from the * VSFTPD server to the client: */ SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(p_ctx,SSL_load_client_CA_file(tunable_ca_certs_file)); } } p_sess->p_ssl_ctx = p_ctx; ssl_inited = 1; }In this case the vsftpd.conf option ca_certs_file is used for keeping the CA’s to be sent as part of the certificate request.To show you the result of this (a curl trace on the client side):Without this change:== Info: SSLv3, TLS handshake, Request CERT (13):<= Recv SSL data, 9 bytes (0x9)0000: 0d 00 00 05 02 01 02 00 00 ………With this change:== Info: SSLv3, TLS handshake, Request CERT (13):<= Recv SSL data, 98 bytes (0x62)0000: 0d 00 00 5e 02 01 02 00 59 00 57 30 55 31 0b 30 …^….Y.W0U1.00010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000030: CO NT EN TS RE MO VE D ON PU RP OS E 00 00 00 000040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000060: 43 41 CAHope you'll consider a change like this inside vsftpd.
Anything I bake, for the crock pot, and “baby eggs”(my kids love to make these, spray a bowl, break an egg inside, season it or scramble it with a fork, then pop it in the microwave for 30-60 seconds).
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I love using Pam in the morning when I'm making fried eggs for my family. Pam keeps the eggs from sticking and I can even flip them with the pan without a spatula. My kids think I'm a pro from the Food Network when I do it and it adds a little early morning entertainment. Thanks Pam!!!
It's an absolute necessity for my “Ooey Gooey Bundt Cake” I'd end up throwing out the Bundt pan if I didn't.
I tweeted!
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Use pam when I grill my buffalo chicken wraps!!
I use Pam for making Brown Sugar Chicken!
I use it all the time, but of course you have to have it for BROWNIES! mmmm 🙂
Pam is a must for my Chocolate Chocolate-chip Bundt cake. The cake always come out of the pan!!
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