Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 01, 2020

Yikes! There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight!

Well, there went $65. And to think, for that much money, they could’ve just gotten carry out.

Look at it this way Luann set everyone taste buds on fire and they can’t tell how bad it is.

John Mitzewich of YouTube’s “Food Wishes” — who likes to add cayenne to most of his recipes — would be appalled by that much cayenne Luann’s accidentally putting in.

Jack , I hope you like Cajun Stew. Your reward is going to be ‘hot’!

You should be able to skim most of that out if you are very careful.

The way Caroll Shelby used to make it!

Ooooh! Been there!

as a close friend of mine would say WHOOPSIE!

Maybe Jack can fix the problem with EZ stew by asking Luann to order a pizza.

Can Puddles smell the disaster with the EZ stew?

Puddles is going to be eating good tonight.

I like Luann’s 3 different necklace

Nothin that 10 pounds of rice won’t cure.

Well, they’ll certainly taste the cayenne!

According to cook sites, the cayenne pepper stew can be dilute with more water, soup stock, tomato, tomato paste, rice, vinegar, sugar or honey.

Just went from E – Z Stew to SneE – Zy Stew.

Look, a whole five-gallon bottle of water used up accompanying this dinner!

My motto, if your not sweating, your not eating!

First, quickly scrape it off the top before it’s totally absorbed. Then, toss in some bland potato flakes as if they actually belonged there.

Kefir can reduce the spiciness of the stew, being a dairy ingredient. If Jack saves the stew, maybe Luann will give him a kiss.

Do I detect a dining theme? Dinner for Luann and Jack, and maybe “breakfast” for Bets and Gunther?

Well that ought to melt the spoons!

Puddles was sniffing the delicious stew (note the bracket above the nose) and then the bracket disappeared in the 3rd panel. Puddles said he was no longer interested in the stew.

You should’ve just tried making a stew, instead of…whatever the heck _ this_ stuff is supposed to be. You know, like stew meat, potatoes, and carrots? Instead of filet mignon and seven herbs and spices?

Taco Bell, here we come.

And this is why you are supposed to shake the spice onto your hand, not straight into the pot.

OK, brace yourselves, because the germs are coming

Yup, I can totally relate to Luann

If she acts quickly and carefully, she can scoop most of that out.

Cayenne pepper isn’t that hot. Its only 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville Units. Now if you want hot, try the Carolina Reaper from the Puckerbutt Pepper Co. at 2,200,000 Scoville Units (currently verified by Guinness as the hottest, but the Dragons Breath – 2,483,584 Scoville Units hasn’t been verified yet by Guinness nor Pepper X – 3,180,000 Scoville Units). Even the habañero, used in many hot sauces, is not that hot, only 100,000-350,000 on the Scoville scale. Those Tien Tsin peppers (little red peppers used in Chinese food) are only 50,000-75,000 Scoville Units.

How about Jack just buys them all dinner at the fuse?

How about Frank treating them at the Fuse with Nancy serving non alcoholic beverages.

Ah the modus operandi, sweet, doofus Luann’s savior Jack. This is not the same thing totally but it does remind me of how Brad and Toni got together. He rescued her from Dirk, nearly risking their lives, but they got together because while he was being doofus he was stealing Toni’s heart, and you all know how that ended up.

Anyone who eats that will run like the Porsche with the same name…! :D

That is the right amount

Happened to my son once…top came off the black pepper into the spaghetti sauce.

I have a hunch that Jack should have done the cooking.

That’s a mighty small pot of stew for $65 and so many ingredients. And she expects to feed Jack with it, too? Good thing she put so much cayenne in it — it will certainly encourage portion control.

Oooo, this is goin’a be a hot one.

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Oops!

We all learn, she won’t do it again. I guess tonight is pizza night

I don’t know if that much Cayenne Pepper can be fixed, but adding rice and turning it into a rice dish can cut it by a lot, and even (possibly) make it particularly good. Butter helps, too.

But that pot is for three people? They spent $63 on one medium pot of food?

Luann’s ready for a job as a cook at Heimlich’s Diner.

Luann’s expression in the middle frame suggests she is not thinking of the stew on the stove.

I hate when that happens. But hey, better with pepper than with salt (at least in my opinion) and finally they started cooking together♡♡♡.

So, is anyone else getting Jack’s increasing resemblance to Clark Kent/Superman? Look, Luann, it’s your own real hero! ❤️

And once again our fair lass looks more like Miss Takeout. But it’s probably just a setup for tomorrow’s; a) panic meal prep school or b) Jack coming to the rescue somehow once again!

How many times is Jack going to have to be a White Knight before Luann gives him a chance? Ask GnK.

I’m doing something different this summer. I’m growing my own cyenne peppers (as well as habaneros, jalapeño and Anaheim). I’ll be able to use fresh cyenne peppers to spice up my meals.

This is one reason why you do mise en place.

Cayenne Pepper. That would be a terrific stage name for a stripper.

The old cap falls off trick.

I always measure spices into my hand. Because of that. FWIW

Burning question of the day: Where’s Mordy?

Mordock999 where are youuuuuu???

DO NOT try to save it-throw it out. Besides you likely need new spices anyhow.

Now it’s Texas chili.

Hello? Domino’s?

Nice, Luann’s taken E-Z stew and added a little Texas flavoring to it making it chili (another version of stew). I might add a few beans (the traditional side of me) but then if it was me I’d add buffalo or elk burger to it and if I’d planned it rabbit instead (btw, all are delicious).

All you do is skim the top and get it out. Then measure it again… CAREFULLY! Easy-peasy!

That will teach her to make a stew with kefir! Kefir is mostly used cold, and if it can indeed be used for some cream soups, boiling it isn’t its primary use and it could give a sour taste. There are so many other ways to make beef stew!

Pizza night!!! YEA!!!

Wow, I thought she would have done a good job like her dad. She’s gonna be cremating everyone from the inside out.

Can you say…. “FLAMETHROWER?”

Luann will screw up her relationship with Jack just as she ruined every other relationship. Luann is not mature in any way.

So invite Justin Wilson over for dinner. He’ll love it, I Gar On Tee.

Hello? Domino’s?

Back when I was first married I was at work and my wife was home cooking a stew for dinner. I had a bag of crushed chilis in the cupboard because I would add a few to a plate of spaghetti to add a little heat as I enjoy spicy food. There was close to half a cup in the bag. She didn’t know what it was. She put the entire bag in the stew. We were struggling and couldn’t afford to throw the stew out and it was too hot for her to eat, heck it was too hot for me to eat if I was sane, but money didn’t grow on trees so I ate it for three days as it had been intended for a couple meals for both of us. My wife had soup or something else, but I sweated through eating that stew. It brought out the sweat on my forehead, and burned my mouth as I ate it, and burned twice as much coming out the other end.

Rule #1: Never measure over the pot.

I’ve seen recipes that have misprinted T instead of t.

pepper floats at least initially; scoop it out fast and make more of the sauce component.

Almost right. Just needs some corn bread.

Cayenne ain’t black

Been there, done that! 8-o

Somewhere chef John is smiling.

Perfect! LOL

Well we now know she’s no cook

Whoopsie! Leave it to Luann.

sending out for pizza is looking better and better.

WTH is Kefir? …never mind, I’ll look it up.

She should try The Born Loser’s recipe today! :-D

Luann chose this recipe, you would think, because she could anticipate how it would taste, i.e. she knows the ingredients. I’m sure she doesn’t. e.g. the yogurt (kefir), a live food, should be stirred in at the very end. and If she bought a flavored kefir (e.g. vanilla) by mistake (I could see her doing it) that would definitely make it taste weird.

Sadly, the only thing hot in this strip is the cayenne. I mean, two good looking young people and no chemistry. And it’s Friday already.

MY kind of meal!!!

I used to add a little tabasco sauce to my chili for flavor. Once someone unscrewed the top and left it that way, so it all came out in a GLOP. I had already paid my $1 so I had to eat it to get my money’s worth. After that, I usually put in about that much. Tears of joy went running down my face each time. (That was the cause of the tears, wasn’t it?)

Sometimes I like to chew peppers for snacks. Not sure they will like it, though. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

and to absolutely no one’s surprise tomorrow’s strip involves a poor innocent partaking from today’s not yet discarded witches brew.

I suspect superman jack is going to save the dinner.

Scoop out the meat and veggies and redo the broth. The pepper hasn’t been in there long enough to affect the meat or veggies. You could probably even use a fine mesh strainer to get most of the pepper out of the broth if you are using cayenne pepper flakes and not cayenne powder. Since the pepper flakes are dried they haven’t been in the broth long enough to affect the flavor too much. You just have to work fast.

Luann trying out for Man vs Food? cause with that much cayenne she bout to get some HEAT

who can afford to lose $65 worth of food these days??

That’s going to leave a mark…

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

Since this is a comedy…I assume Luann will just mix the cayenne in and hope for the best.

Quick! Run back to the store and get a Stouffers family size lasagna!

Looks like an episode of “Hot Ones.”

Surely Greg knows that cayenne pepper is red!

Murphy’s law…

Okay, now that I’ve read everyone’s posts, I have something to say:

What with all the solutions everyone’s offered to solve Luann’s mishap with the cayenne pepper, I will predict that between today’s last panel and tomorrow’s first panel, the problem will have been completely rectified.

Been there, done that.

Throw the whole lot into a colander, strain it and rinse it. Then make another broth. It CAN be saved. I think.

You know, with all this talk about “beef stew recipe”, I decided I wanted to make it! Yesterday I did a Trader Joe’s run and got some red wine, beef bone broth and sourdough bread. They didn’t have the el-cheapo cuts of beef, so I went to the Asian market and got a pound and a half of “beef round shank” because it was the cheapest stuff they had aside from ground beef.

The rest was stuff sitting around in the pantry. Tiny potatoes that wouldn’t last too much longer. Baby carrot sticks that I bought last month. Celery almost on its last laps. 3/4 of an onion in the fridge. Whatever seasonings are on-hand. Beef brat from last month’s grocery run. Don’t have any thyme, so I substituted fresh rosemary from the bush in the back yard. No leeks, so green onions on top will do. Don’t have any kefir, so should I use a bit of brie or cream cheese on top when I’m ready to serve?

Cayenne is red.

Add enough cayenne pepper to fry your taste-buds.

Or just quickly spoon most of it off the top instead of stirring it in.

Luann is a perfect example for the term “dumb blonde”

That’s what you get for buying the Cheap Cayenne in the Cheap shaker.

Way to go, Chef Luann. I hope you like your beef-and-leeks stew spicy!

HAH HAH HAH! Classic humor!