Ever tried using a microplane for garlic? I wouldn’t use anything else, frankly, for ginger (just freeze it beforehand—stores longer, works with the same potency).

You can say the same about any unitasker—while you can probably cook anything with limited equipment and enough time and ingenuity, tasks that are repetitive or you perform a lot may benefit from specialized tools. I’m with you on the fruit thing—never felt a need to switch from my knife and Y peeler—but I have no…

Huh? My salad spinner inside looks like a colander and is removable... Just a standard OXO salad spinner. It isn’t a fine mesh colander, but I don’t think a fine mesh colander would work really well in the spinning application. I use mine to make Kenji’s Cole Slaw recipe all the time, which requires…

Set apple on cutting board fat (top) end down. Make a slice like you are cutting it in half, but just to the near side of the core. Then make another parallel slice on the other side of the core. Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Essentially coring out the center of the apple as a square. So fast. So easy. Yeah…

D.C. list seems to have been done by people who don’t really know D.C., considering that both &pizza and Taylor Gourmet are chains (and wildly overrated to boot). And Ray’s is in Arlington (and more fine dining than Outback), A&J’s in Annandale/Bethesda, Mark’s in Falls Church, Mandalay in Bethesda, and Paci’s and…

Wow. Our dog was an essential part of child rearing. She maintained an utterly clean floor for us during that messy childseat-spoon-and-hands-only-mush-and-cheerios-for-meals phase. I personally would have let the dog clean the seat and tray as well, but wife insisted on disinfectants and stuff. Then again, did…

I’m not talking about people who want to stretch their legs.

I’ve always understood that rule number 1 is to look outside—car sickness is typically the product of your rational brain thinking you aren’t moving coupled with sensory data that says you are. If you look outside, you tend to resolve that conflict better—anticipate turns, etc. So corollary to rule number 1 is no…

Having to stop and visit a drug store seems like a PITA. I’ve never had issues getting my toiletry supplies through TSA.

I wasn’t actually talking about the Ard’time—I noted, in fact, that it wasn’t available in the US, so, shockingly, I had read the article. I was actually talking about the references in this thread to soda siphons on Amazon being made of plastic (except for one for $175) and cartridges made of plastic. I’m not seeing…

Where are people seeing plastic? The brand she was using doesn’t seem to be sold in the US (at least not on Amazon US), and the only comparable ones I can see are the iSi ones. I’ve owned two of their whipped cream dispensers and iSi’s soda siphon, and all of them have been metal—as well as the NO2 and CO2…

Having grown up south of the Mason Dixon line (just south, MD), I was stunned at the racist stuff I saw when I went to MI—both passive and active. Things that would have caused heads to roll at U of MD were ignored at U of MI.

Agreed. My 9yo probably has averaged a half dozen round trips a year for his entire life. For him it is just normal to fly—he knows he gets some treats (we also like gummy bears) and he gets more screen time and an occasional new app. I do get the “is the plane going to crash?” right before take-off, but I just say…

You might wanna try this: Hasselback Potato Gratin... From Kenji Alt-Lopez and Serious Eats...

I’m being completely pedantic, but you’re triggering a pet peeve of mine... Fried potatoes will not “increase your risk of death.” You have a 100% risk of death, and your risk cannot increase above that. Fried potatoes, on the other hand, may increase your risk of untimely death.

Excel is usually open on my desktop, so it is handy. If I put periods of particular dress as rows (e.g., air travel, client meeting, workout, conference) and then all the various clothing bits as columns (shoes, socks, pants, boxers, t-shirts, belt, shirt, tie, jacket), it makes it pretty easy to fill in the matrix…

I guess there are those that do the whole “visit the in-laws every Thanksgiving” or whatever. Hadn’t thought about that. And maybe there are sales people who have a regular loop or destinations, but that doesn’t seem like it is the norm. Other than that, I really don’t understand. Heck, even when I return to…

Who are all you people that can extrapolate one trip from the next? What I pack depends upon the activities I’m engaged in where I’m going (business? conference? skiing? climbing? camping? relatives? fine dining? hiking? shopping? sightseeing?), the geographic location I’m headed, the time of year... Feels like I…

How “super witty.”

Heavens forbid you read a few sentences. Instead, you should doggedly cling to your ignorance. Your mother must be proud.