The 2 gal. bags are awesome for marinading large objects, like pork shoulders or whole briskets.

• What condiment is totally worth making yourself? Fry sauce. Mayo, garlic, chipole in adobo, salt.

Have at it. But I’m still judging you.

I know they are worth money, but the idea of used airpods—any product that goes in your ear, really—is conceptually pretty revolting to me.

Hating the prior patchy text threads on my phone and ipad, I enabled this. But for whatever reason, the threads aren’t sync’d up. Both have the right iOS update—on both I can go to Settings > My Picture > iCloud and enable “Messages.” I also have both set to back up to iCloud. And clearly the devices have downloaded…

That’s kind of how economics works. If you are good, you can seek out employment at higher end restaurants where the food costs more and tips are commensurately higher. Changing to a non-tip economy wouldn’t alter that—restaurant prices would likely go up on a percentage basis, and that amount would fund payments to…

Button mushrooms? Really? The tasteless, white things?

I had a friend who liked the beach because, in her words, it was “enforced boredom” (which sounds like the same theory being espoused here). But I have so much stuff that I want to do and can’t get to at any given time that I hate it.

I have a stainless sink. Every night after I finish putting things in the dishwasher and doing the handwash, I take 30 seconds to use the scrubber pad + dishsoap I’ve been using and give the sink a once over. Then rinse. This makes my sink shiny and nice. But it does not prevent the other denizens of my household (or,…

Kenji did a fair bit of research on sugaring, salting and letting it rest. His recipe has worked well for me. But I still prefer a Germanic vinegar-based slaw.

I beg to differ. ;)

Following his discharge, Skipper now works for United Airlines.

Not really relevant, except my love/hate relationship with fish sauce. I’ve always used the stuff in recipes where it was blended in with a lot of other stuff—I know it is funky straight out of the bottle, but recently... wow. I was recently doing Melissa Clark’s Vietnamese Caramel Salmon for the Instant Pot (really…

I’ve never wanted to choke the shit out of someone as much as the lady who told me that God must have had a reason for the loss of my son. If someone isn’t a devout member of your church and leading all your fucking prayer breakfasts, don’t bring up God. Best friend heard about it, jumped in a car, drove 30 miles, and…

Those gigantic spiral sliced hams in vacuum sealed bags do well in sous vide too. I, like Mario’s, go from freezer to sous vide all the time. For things like chicken breast/thighs for chicken salad, I’ll just vacuum seal portions from the big grocery store flat packs and freeze. I also reheat things like stews,…

Wasabi doesn’t have capsaicin in it.

It feels like there is a difference between a bouquet of flowers and the coffee thing—you don’t generally buy a bouquet (or splurge on the bottle of wine at the fancy restaurant) every day, but the “buy the coffee” crowd seems to have a daily habit. That means $6 for flowers once a month is $6/mo., but a $4 coffee…

I’m with you on the bins. I do this for beach and car camping-type trips and it makes things really easy. Also allows me to bring a collection of kitchen gear to rentals so I don’t have to use crappy knives and other things. Bonus is that covered bins can also be thrown in the back of the pickup truck and won’t get…

I know, I know... I’m not supposed to be looking at her head. But now that I’ve noticed how massive her head is, I just can’t see anything else.

While I’ll probably concede that Alton is the best at educational cooking shows and that we all owe a debt of gratitude to Julia for making cooking a thing in the U.S., what got me off my ass to cook was, oddly, Yan Can Cook. And I think it is also fair to blame modern food media on Emeril, although the two celebrity…