By the Numbers
Since starting at Jane, Colin has answered this many calls.
What is 1,925?
This ingredient makes bread dough rise by producing carbon dioxide
What is yeast?
This joint compound is commonly used to seal seams between sheets of drywall.
What is spackle?
This grape varietal is the most widely planted in the world.
What is Cabernet Sauvignon?
This handheld device is the first line of defense against small fires.
What is a fire extinguisher?
On February 9th, Colin set a record by taking this many calls in one day.
What is 74?
This French sauce, made from butter, egg yolks, and lemon juice, is one of the five ‘mother sauces
What is Hollandaise?
This tool uses a bubble inside liquid to check if something is perfectly horizontal or vertical.
What is a level?
The ‘legs’ or ‘tears’ you see on the inside of a wine glass are caused by this.
What is alcohol content / evaporation?
Class K fires involve this substance, making them especially dangerous in kitchens.
What is cooking oil/grease?
Over his career so far, Colin has spent this many hours on the phone in total
What is 330 hours?
This Italian dessert’s name means ‘cooked cream’ in English.
What is panna cotta?
This kind of saw, often mounted on a stand, is best for making precise angled cuts
What is a miter saw?
This fortified wine from Portugal is often enjoyed as a dessert wine.
What is Port?
This phenomenon occurs when a fire rapidly consumes all oxygen in a room, then explodes when air rushes back in
What is a backdraft?
Colin’s longest single call lasted this amount of time.
What is 2 hours, 41 minutes, and 6 seconds?
This French term means preparing ingredients before cooking — literally ‘putting in place
What is mise en place?
This unit of measurement equals 144 square inches and is often used to measure flooring or tile.
What is a square foot?
Though not wine at all, this drink often shows up in conversations about what Colin has a lot of.
What is Modelo?
This technique for fighting wildfires involves deliberately setting smaller controlled fires to burn away fuel.
What is backburning or a controlled burn?
If you add up Colin’s total talk time, it’s equivalent of talking nonstop for this many days
What is about 13.75 days?
The Maillard reaction, which gives foods their browned crust, occurs when these two molecules interact under heat.
What are amino acids and sugars?
When tiling, professionals often use this ‘backer board’ instead of drywall to provide a moisture-resistant surface.
What is cement board?
This New Zealand region is world-famous for its Sauvignon Blanc.
What is Marlborough?
Firefighters use this principle — removing one leg of the ‘fire triangle’ — to extinguish flames.
What is removing heat, fuel, or oxygen?