I’m still wary of this. I don’t have time to watch the documentary, but I’m also guessing the documentary doesn’t actually cite any papers. The blurb states “Dr. Cade made the players imbibe his special electrolyte-rich liquid, with claims that it could enter the system 12 times faster than pure water.” I’ve never…

Thanks. I’m really surprised there isn’t some easy to access paper on this somewhere. Or maybe my google-fu sucks. But you would have thought there was a peer reviewed document with controls that measures electrolyte uptake with water versus gatorade. Sigh.

So, that put me on the track of looking at the efficacy of pedialyte for diarrhea, and I found this: (http://www.webmd.com/children/news/…), which seems to allude to a study (but not link to it). So, seems like these do contribute to ‘lyte replenishment over an extended timeframe. Still not sure if it helps during…

I use Plan to Eat, which is a recipe file/planner/shopping list app that I can use on my desktop or on my smartphone. They have a recipe scraper I’ll use at my work desktop PC as I see interesting recipes on RSS feeds. I use my desktop PC at home to drag recipes to a calendar for planning, then allow it to build a…

The question I’m asking is whether there is any scientific evidence that drinking a liquid fortified with sodium and potassium actually results in those being absorbed into the body in a meaningful way or whether they just get peed out. And, although slightly less relevant here than in the context of using these…

I’ve always wondered about the claims of Gatorade et al. when it comes to recovery, and this sort of revives my issue. You say these electrolyte supplements are a way to “to stay hydrated and replenish nutrients” when food might be scarce. I suppose, if a electrolyte drink is fortified with vitamins, you might get…

The 130 lb rating may seem OK, but think about the leverage you can put on the hinge at the edge of the shelf—the shelf is a 30” prybar. If I’m remembering my second order levers and am calculating correctly, it only takes 52 lbs of force at the edge of the “shelf” to create a downward force of 130 lbs at the edge of…

That’s actually pretty close to what I built, except my cabinets are drawers/doors and I was lucky enough to find a cheap Maya Posi-stop fence on craigslist. Of course it isn’t very portable.

I built “shop cabinets” for my woodshop out of 18mm baltic birch w/eucalyptus face frames (all glued, domino’ed and pocket screwed) and with a double layer of 3/4” MDF as a top. My Festool Kapex miter saw is bolted to the top of a short cabinet designed so that the bed is flush with the adjacent 12’ run of base…

Gah. I know Ana White is a favorite around here, but I still think her talents lie in self-promotion rather than design. She’s gotten better over the years, but even with this, I’m seeing a 30” shelf supported by a two 12” shelf brackets rated at 130 lbs for the pair. If you took the kind of wood I typically cut up on…

Agree with others that the numbers are a little strange to contemplate. I went back to the report and found out this is based on “ticket taxes and airport charges, hotel price index, purchasing power parity and fuel prices.” I was actually wondering if the study was saying more about who goes to certain…

I would also vote for canonization, but on the basis of his Hasselback Potato Gratin (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/1…). Or his creamy coleslaw (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/0…), classic potato salad (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/0…), or easy pie dough (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes…

I did this last weekend. I still scraped the corn after it cooled a bit, just because it seemed like you were throwing away a lot of corn-infused liquids and solids (plus, well, habit). After using a stick blender on it, the texture sort of reminded me of the potato/leek base you make for vichysoisse, so I actually…

Having done it both ways, I find it is easier to just mount a spacer at the bottom of the cabinet (to keep it co-planar with the wall) and use some molding/end panel to cover up the gap (one side is usually flush to a wall anyway, and since I usually do face frames, it is easy to do a side panel that doesn’t look…

Cocaine.

This seems like a huge generality. I know C level types that work from waking up at 5AM to when they go to bed at 2AM—even their entertainment and meals all seem to involve business meetings—and yet they remain sharp as a tack. For my part, I bill by the hour. So my productivity is the time I work, and a loss of…

This is one instance where I’ve bought shit from Harbor Freight and been OK with the result—I’ve got their retractable air hose in my garage. I think I bought my retractable power cord from Grizzly.com, however. At least with respect to the air hose, it is pretty heavy and you occasionally have to pull on it hard—you…

They are kind of critical if you want good results smoking or roasting meat as well.

Chamber Vacuum Sealer. If everything in my kitchen were stolen and I had to repurchase everything, there’s an awful lot I’d never buy again (I don’t really need 90% of my knife collection). But one thing I’d absolutely rush out and buy tomorrow is my Minipack MVS20. Horribly expensive. Loud. Eyesore. But absolutely…

Microplane Grater. No substitute in my book for microplane—the smaller size is great for everything from hard parmiggiano to grating garlic or ginger.