And I’m going to say you probably just got lucky. What I wrote is that it is unlikely to prevent the split from expanding “if that is what the wood wants to do.” Not all splits will continue to lengthen—the internal stresses may have been relieved.

I actually like peeling them by hand, nothing fancy. It leaves your fingers slightly sticky—a strange stickiness that adheres to the papery coating of garlic but not the clove itself. So if you sequence your cooking so prepping garlic comes right after peeling tomatillos, you’re golden. Like god intended them to go…

I can’t understand how people can hurt themselves with an immersion blender. I would think that if one’s IQ is greater than the average houseplant, they would understand that you shouldn’t touch the spinning blade. Other than that... what can go wrong?

Mashed potatoes? That seems strange... You like them really liquidy? Otherwise I think the blade would just cavitate. (Spoken as someone who makes mashed potatoes with a ricer and a silicone spoontula).

Huh? How did you do that? Every immersion blender I’ve ever seen has a guard that prevents the blade from coming into contact with the sides/bottom of what you are blending in?

For small natural cracks, you can see if you can close the gap with clamping force—if you can, you can inject glue along the crack and clamp the living $%*% out of it. For addressing larger cracks in slabs, I actually prefer going the other way—highlighting them with contrasting butterfly dovetail inlays a la…

I would hazard a guess that any one of the graduates of North Bennet Street School (or any other of the fine woodworking schools) can cut dovetails without any noticeable gaps—that is precisely why the exposed dovetail is a bespoke signature for many high-end handcrafted pieces. So I’m going to say “the best”…

I’ve got an Braun immersion blender, a Hamilton Beach Drink Mixer, a Blendtec commercial in-counter blender, and a full size Cuisinart. My quick observations:

In this instance, it is the thickness of the divider boards that provides your fingers room to grab the battery you want. You make the boards really thin, it may become a PITA to actually get what you want out of the tray.

Yeah, but that should apply to all Alaskans too... Besides, I thought that was under $5K...

Er, something is wrong here. Says 146% of median income, but graphic doesn’t correspond... (edit: the entry for Anchorage... People really make that much in Anchorage?)

Thank you — that is exactly what I was hoping to see. The Harvard note was illuminating, and seems to refute claims regarding hyponatremia (sp?). Oddly, when I’m skiing or biking, notwithstanding my skepticism, I do tend to carry a 2l hydration pack, and I’ll usually mix in a little bit of gatorade powder, but it is…

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.