There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
If you accidentally cook too hot and you burn the bottom, it's easy to get it off by heating up some white vinegar while stirring up the black fond as it boils off. May even work with plain water, but the acid in vinegar (or wine, or fruit juice, etc.) works faster.
You might be surprised how dark fond can get and still be a delicious sauce base. Keep some cheap (but drinkable) white wine (Aldi grocery store's White White Owl?) handy by the stove just in case! Anything before very dark brown might be salvageable.