There is also a downside to contacts and cooking. If you cut up jalapenos or other hot peppers you should be sure to wash your hands really, really well before removing your lenses. Ask me how I know...

I work in DC and, for the last two years or so, I can confirm that MAGA hats in this city are almost exclusively worn by middle and high school boys on field trips. They seem to be the only ones stupid and bold enough to not realize that it’s basically a sign that says, “I’m a racist asshole. “

Plastics.

No, because it’s those tiny percentages that really matter in terms of risk. It’s not about making the data pretty, it’s about how close we are to the herd immunity thresholds for various vaccines, which are in the 90's.

I use my Instant Pot to do it. Couldn’t be any easier. The shell just falls off. I can do 2 dozen at a time. 5 minutes on high pressure, let it natural release and then put in cold water.

Instant Pot is the only correct answer.

I’ve lost a kid, too. I hear you, and I know. <3

Similar story: when my ex and I lost our daughter, one of her students (she was teaching middle school) said “I heard your daughter died. That sucks.” It was so honest and true and better than the bullshit “Everything happens for a reason” and “God must have needed an angel” crap we got from so many others (note: if…

I’ve taken to separating out meat into sous vide-ready bags and then tossing them in the freezer immediately after coming back from the store, then putting them directly from the freezer to the sous vide pot. So far I’ve done it with several cuts of steak, pork chops, even breakfast sausages. It works perfectly well,…

We tend to take 3-4 week vacations (just the two of us) in our minivan, so we have plenty of room. We did use laundry baskets a couple of times, but found that plastic storage bins of roughly the same size are a better option because they have lids. Now that means anything in there won’t air out as well, but the trade…

Grillin’ & Chillin’ was the Bobby Flay & overalls guy show. Bobby Flay sucks

Amazing! I hadn’t seen this before.

You make some good points but 2.3 grams of tracking force is not “way heavy.” There are many very fine cartridges designed to track at 2 grams and that extra .3 is by no means an issue. Also, this is the part where I remind you that too little tracking force can easily cause just as much damage as too much. The advent…

Over one hundred Facebook followers? That doesn’t sound a lot. Then again, one million followers does qualify “over one hundred”

Uh-uh. Stash Your Keys Under On Top of Important Items so You Don’t Leave Them Behind. Take it from a certified scatterbrain: it works better.

Eggs? Milk? What’s that about? Traditional sweet pie crust is flour, butter, salt, water, little bit of sugar. If you’re feeling like Chris Kimball, maybe split the water into a 50/50 water/vodka mixture. Let’s you have a wetter dough, but the alcohol evaporates and reduces gluten build-up. Dough is easy to handle.

I can’t think of a single reason I’d need these over plastic zip ties, but I still feel like I should buy them...

I can’t think of a single reason I’d need these over plastic zip ties, but I still feel like I should buy them...

I came to post this. For those of you who don’t use a scale, it’s 1 lb macaroni, 1 lb cheese, 2 cups milk, 4 tsp sodium citrate. You can use any cheese, even stuff that doesn’t melt well (like feta). Since there is no starch and half as much milk as a lot of recipes, the sauce is intensely cheesy- super-sharp cheddar…

Boulderers tend to just boulder, not climb. Many climbers warm up on bouldering, but mostly climb. Look for boulderers that don’t have those giant over-sized chalkbags, and have a harness with their chalk, and you’ll have more luck.

So I’ll go a bit more into hydrogenation:

All fats come in a form called “triglycerides.” These molecules have a glycerol backbone and 3 fatty acid chains. Fatty acid chains are long molecules that are essentially big carbon chains. Now, if every carbon on this chain has the maximum possible number of hydrogen atoms…