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Somebody Feed Phil (and “I’ll Have What Phil Is Having”) are awesome. I think he’s said “this is the best thing I’ve ever put in my mouth” every episode, which would normally annoy me, but he does it with the unabashed delight of a 3 year old, which totally makes it OK.

You are absolutely right. Bad memory. I looked at the recommended tracking force for the cartridge I use and it is 2.0g.

I think the point is that the produce was originally washed—pre-bagging—in an environment that had done those steps. The point being that unless you adhere to those same standards of commercial sanitation, you can only do harm.

Their specs say 2g tracking force, but someone measured it to be 2.3g. Way heavy as far as I’m concerned, but gimmicky things like this will appeal to people who don’t care about potentially damaging their vinyl or having only a limited selection of replacement cartridges. If you want a laugh, read the technical

That looks pretty gimmicky. You’re going to need relatively high tracking force when the platter orientation is vertical, which is going to severely limit your choice in cartridges and isn’t going to be particularly great for your records—there is a reason for the conventional horizontal design of turntables. I would

I’m going to go ahead and point out that you should understand the connectivity options. A turntable, in a classic sense, doesn’t have either a phono pre-amp in it (applies RIAA equalization curves and brings sound levels up to line level) or an amp in it. Buying a turntable and plugging it into a receiver that just

CI had a really great carnitas recipe. You need:

  • What is the best way to cook bacon? I’ve come around to using the Lekue microwave tray. Cooks crisp, grease pours off easily, and you can throw it in the dishwasher.

This kind of works the other way too... I got pulled over in Italy, and pretty much did what the article says—pulled over to the side of the road, unrolled my window. I think I became obvious very early from my very confused expression as the rapid fire Italian clearly went over my head that there were a lot better

“Certainly,” it is a local issue when Sessions, presumably at Trump’s behest, has tried to dismantle DOJ’s role in policing the conduct of local police and sheriffs and elevating “local” law enforcement over civil rights.

My dad always used to buy organic PB and, predictably, no one ever used to really mix it in a way that would homogenize the entire jar. That invariably meant that the bottom of the jar was an unspreadable solid of sorts. That pretty much ended the enjoyment of PB for my lifetime.

There are reviews on welding fora that cover the Chinese imports... Having read some of them, they seem to convey the overall impression that they are OK for light use hobbyists, but aren’t machines constructed in a way that they are likely to last. None of them made me regret my decision to go blue for my welding

There are reviews on welding fora that cover the Chinese imports... Having read some of them, they seem to convey

I remembered watching this episode and thinking “hey, that’s what I do with grilled cheese” (or, actually more often, egg sandwiches with cheese). I just put a bunch of cheese in the pan, put a slice of bread on it, and then cook ‘til cheese is crispy. I don’t have a problem with “the flip,” since I use a nonstick

Coffee is a strange one. I drank a *lot* of coffee starting back in college, since it helped me concentrate throughout those years and grad school. We are talking 3+ pots a day. As I became a professional, I became slightly obsessed with creating it—specialty/local roasters, high end espresso machine, dosing burr

Every time I hit downtime while cooking, I do dishes. Partly it is because my wife does the dishes after dinner and I secretly don’t think she does a super job with the hand washing, but I appreciate that she is trying to help. I’m also anal-retentive about loading a dishwasher, but have managed to let that go in the

I was forced to eat what was purported to be the world’s best hot dog in Reykjavik. It was, manifestly, not the best hot dog in the world. But they put crispy onions on hot dogs, which is quite nice. Not enough to overcome the use of mayonnaise, but nice.

Upon further review of the article, I’m also now confused by the “sedating the lobster by dipping it into saltwater” line—don’t lobsters live in salt water?