I’ve had a Baking Steel—the original purveyors of the concept—that is also a steel stovetop griddle. I love the thing for both uses. It sits across my front and back burner and is awesome for smashed burgers, pancakes, hash browns... anything you would do on a flat top. In the oven, it is great for pizza, although you…

I’ve had a Baking Steel—the original purveyors of the concept—that is also a steel stovetop griddle. I love the…

Still better than cutting up habaneros and then going to take a leak without washing your hands.

Anyone tried just packing the flash frozen guys into a vacuum bag with some flavor stuff and going straight to the sous vide?

• What’s the most expensive piece of equipment in your kitchen? Has it made your life better? Aside from actual appliances, my Minipack MVS-20 chamber vacuum sealer. I love this thing. If my kitchen were destroyed tomorrow, it would be one of the things on the top of my list—I use it to fast marinade, quick pickle, prep…

I don’t get Swedish massages, because they don’t tend to have any lasting effects for me, but I swear by deep tissue. I work a very stressful job with long hours and a lot of staring at a computer—during intense periods of work I can feel my back tightening up and causing pain—as well as muscle twinges. Deep tissue,…

Our son will occasionally come into our bedroom after having bad dreams, but the rule is that he doesn’t wake us up and he sleeps in a chaise that is in the room (we tend to leave a blanket on it anyway). That, and some good praise for staying in his own room, seems to work pretty well. We tend to find there are…

I store my parm in parchment paper loosely rolled with a rubber band around it. For other non-soft cheeses, tho’, I tend to vacuum seal them. Which is the way a lot of them come. Does that violate the rules?

Can people really sleep with these things on? I bought one of the Cabeau things and tried it on a recent flight—I found it totally uncomfortable. Not Cabeau-specific uncomfortable, I think I’d have the same issue with any of these. Nothing around your neck like that really supports your head... At least I couldn’t…

Can people really sleep with these things on? I bought one of the Cabeau things and tried it on a recent flight—I…

I’m simply telling you how the post came off sounding to the casual reader on the off chance you weren’t spoiling for a fight and honestly wanted to know why this thread developed the way it did. The fact that you want to make that about my “biases” and the fact that you are arguing with me about how I interpreted the…

I didn’t, by the way, say that other commenters weren’t being condescending asshats, but I’ll also point out that others’ behavior is irrelevant to the point of whether you were being condescending, and you were the one who started the thread. You were proselytizing a modernist approach to a traditional dish in what…

As a former climber, it isn’t referred to as a “carabiner clip”—it is a “carabiner.” Hearing “carabiner clip” makes me shiver like you are running your nails across a blackboard.

This will probably be lost on you, but telling people they can’t knock it ‘til they have tried it then telling people who have tried it that they are lying seems silly. Erecting an artificial distinction between results and method for food is equally silly. And, yes, reading through the thread in one go, you have…

• Do you have assigned seating or do you let the human chips fall where they may? I sit in the chair closest to the kitchen. Everyone else can figure it out.

Could be worse, I started on a PDP-11 and learned assembly language on a Univac 1104 with punchcards.

I just downloaded Sublime Text and I can’t get it to do something I find simple in Notepad++, which is getting rid of stray “\r”s that my source files have in them. They tend to get treated as <EOL>, which fucks up my database. In Notepad++, I can do a search-and-replace on “\r\n“, turning it to, say, “***”, then…

I was using sed on Vax machines running BSD in the mid-80s when I was typing away on my VT100 terminal. So yeah, I know sed. I just am not up for the challenge of convincing an IT department for a large company to let me run gnuwin32 or cygwin on a locked-down company-owned machine. I’ve always been able to convince…

If I could edit my response to say I don’t use it for coding, I would. I use it to fix badly formatted text files because it can handle really large files and has excellent search and replace capabilities. Besides, it seems to be the one app that even restrictive IT policies allow to be installed on my work machines.

I mainly use it b/c I have to deal with some large fucked up pipe-delimited files and the search-and-replace works flawlessly. Will atom or sublime text allow you to edit a 1GB+ file that has no end-of-lines in it?

Notepad++

No, I don’t think that is the point, and you are perpetuating the strange entitlement I was talking about. Eating at a restaurant is a right. In most jurisdictions, it is unlawful for a restaurant to refuse to serve a patron on any number of protected grounds, including race, religion, gender. And most courts won’t…