I was making a sweet potato hash for pizza topping the other night, and tried to fry the first batch in a non-stick pan. The hash never crisped up and was soggy, so I ended up mashing it instead. The next batch I fried in my seasoned cast iron, and it crisped up like a good hash.

Does anyone know why this happened? To me, it doesn't make a lot of sense if both the pans were equivalently hot with the same amount of oil to fry in. The hash in the non-stick pan also seemed to absorb more oil, but again, not sure why. 


Details:


I used a similar amount of bacon fat to fry both batches in
The hash was seasoned with garlic, salt and various spices (no onion)
Similar heating levels, preheated both pans
No lids were used
The non-stick pan is a nice Teflon coated Calphalon, and has pretty good heat retention; I use it for stir fry successfully



Question: Wordpress - Custom taxonomy page of custom post type listing by terms
Answer: Hey manon1165 , I actually just accomplished this. Was a huge pain, hopefully my code snippet will help!

I made a custom page template. And did something along the lines of

&lt;?php $categories = get_terms('taxonomy-name', 'orderby=name&amp;hide_empty=0'); $cats = object_to_array($categories); ?&gt;


Now, just print_r($cats) and you will see the array of the categories.

You will need to convert the object to an array, I did so with.

function object_to_array($data) 
{
  if(is_array($data) || is_object($data))
  {
    $result = array(); 
    foreach($data as $key =&gt; $value)
    { 
      $result[$key] = object_to_array($value); 
    }
    return $result;
  }
  return $data;
}


I did

&lt;ul id="cat-list"&gt;
&lt;?php foreach($cats as $cat) { ?&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/taxonomy-name/&lt;?php echo $cat['slug']; ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php echo $cat['name']; ?&gt; (&lt;?php echo $cat['count']; ?&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;?php echo $cat['description']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php } ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


Hope that helps!