Anybody else wondering why the camera was framed the way it was? Or am I just too cynical?

I get a weird Corey Feldman vibe from that picture...

Something you did that corrects an issue I didn’t like about the OP is using a beefier corner bracket. While he did go ahead an drill a mounting hole outside the leg to strengthen things, those zinc-coated corners are just plain awful—I can bend them bare handed. Where the leg sits outside of the corner, like in the…

A subfloor is intended to do something completely different than flooring. And the issue really is denting. In a shop, who cares? But with a shiny coat of poly on it, you’ll see every single dent and indentation. That, and the softness/denting is likely to crack the finish, which provides an opportunity for…

Good hardwood-faced plywood strikes me as being way too soft for flooring. The center cores are usually softwoods, so I’d worry about dents. Before you try it, I’d get a friend with high heels to walk across a section and see how it fares.

I think the issue is that the sodium citrate has to be dissolved in something, not necessarily an interaction with tomato. The idea with most cheese sauces—whether for MnC or queso, is that you are suspending fat in a liquid. If the sodium citrate is in powder form and gets dropped directly into the solid cheese, I’m…

Now that you have some sodium citrate, you can also use it to make your own melty cheese slices out of any cheese you want. Think about the melting properties of American cheese for burgers, but made with a nice aged gouda or a gorgonzola.

Technically you can do this with a whisk. But sodium citrate isn’t the fastest dissolving substance on the planet.

Having tried god only knows how many mac ‘n cheese recipes, I will recommend this one without qualification: http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-…

I think the truth is probably somewhere in between. Even with the overall right environment, if you don’t create the time to sit down and engage your kids on a regular basis, I don’t think your outcomes will be as good. I believe there have been studies directed specifically at the effect of a family mealtime that…

So your defense is that your original comment was irrelevant to the article at hand (which is about beginner cookbooks) and to start getting all snide? You’re still saying the book is appropriate for beginners. I’m saying there are a lot better options in terms of bang for your buck if you are starting out. Just…

It is a good reference. But it isn’t a starter cookbook, and if you think that book is the functional equivalent of IKEA instructions, I think you’re delusional. And, yes, while safe food handling practices are good to learn, virtually no home kitchen in the US could pass a health inspection, so the level of detail is…

Yup, me too. Always bothered me, but always worked. Go figure.

I sort of do something like this for my own library as well—I wouldn’t limit this to streaming. While there is a large collection that is always on my phone (4 and 5 star tracks and 5 star albums), I also have a smart playlist that keeps 3, 4 and 5 star tracks that are less than 6 months old and tracks with any rating…

Perhaps I’ll get taken apart by the commentariat for saying this, but I’m not sure that dining with friends is the equivalent in importance of “family meals” if you are a parent. I’m not denigrating having dinner regularly with friends, or saying that friends don’t take the place of family for many people, or that…

I’m going to disagree on this one. This is basically a textbook. I’ve read large chunks of it, and it is about the last book I’d recommend as a starter cookbook—it would drive most beginning cooks to order delivery for the rest of their lives. It starts, if I’m recalling correctly, with sanitation considerations…

My sense is that a lot of the LH community is still in the early professional years rather than family rearing years, which changes the structure of your life a lot. I’ve got a kid, and dinner time is one of the only times where we get to sit down and consciously talk to one another about what is going on with each…

The old version of this is one of the first cookbooks I got, and it is still in my kitchen. I’ve got hundreds of cookbooks, but very few retain a spot on the short shelf in the actual kitchen because space is limited—this is one. It is amazingly complete. However, I still have a love/hate relationship with it. While…

Festool tools use Tanos systainers. The tools are hideously expensive, but I swear by them. And, because they are modular and snap together, I can quickly snap together a rack for about any task—put on a rolling base and I’m highly portable with what I need. They also have empty ones and ones with drawers if you want…

I agree. Make them task specific—plumbing, electrical, drywall, picture/shelf hanging... Really easy to create an immoveable object if you put all your tools in a big box, especially since you don’t need 99% of it 99% of the time.