Also works beautifully for making vinegar-based pickles, yogurt, and as a double boiler with rock-solid temperature for cheesemaking.

The best ciders use a mix of apple varieties to get the profile they want, including several of what we’d call “crabapples” today. The bitterness, tartness, and the tannins all contribute to a complex flavour.

Google Bookmark. Yes, it exists as its own page, but I miss the days when it integrated with the Google Toolbar, and I could quickly find any of my hundreds of bookmarks. Some of the functionality is in Chrome and the omnibar search, but it’s never been developed to the extent that Bookmark and the Toolbar were.

Add the port towards the end of the reduction to keep some of the brightness. To edge it even further toward “expensive aged balsamic” territory, use slightly caramelized sugar. Skillet and Serious Eats showed how. 

Bottles of pills are often opened and checked. My one-week pill minder has never been checked in the 10+ years I’ve been using it. I’ve had a prescription bottle with 10 pills confiscated and my one-week pill minder with 18 (two weeks and a couple extras) wasn’t given a second glance.

We would wake the urchins up a couple of hours before we land and keep them active all day. We made sure they get plenty of sunlight to reinforce that it’s “day.” Hydration helps, so we pumped them full of water and the occasional caffeinated soda before 1 p.m.. We would have a fairly early supper, 5pm or so, and…

Wow, now you can inflict the Myspace experience on people without having to actually use Myspace.

As a frequent flyer of long flights, my Bose QuietComfort headphones are near and dear to me. The loss of the headphone jack truly is a dealbreaker. As soon as explosion-free Note 7s are readily available, I’m switching. I was ready to move iPhones from my 5S to the new 7, but I’m prepared to repurchase some apps…

My wife and I found two such accounts while applying for a mortgage with Wells Fargo. She and I both had a credit card opened just under a year ago while we were doing a review. We thought we had simply changed credit card programs and were sold a story about how the accounts would appear on our statement for a few…

It’s grand to see folks frothing at the mouth over Pokémon. I’m old enough to have had kids of the right age when the card game came out, and have been able to follow their evolution across platforms. Witnessed a few rage issues, but nothing to the extent that GO is creating. I assume the frustration for the basement…

By default, browsers report the location based on your ISP. If you’re VPN’d somewhere, it will think that’s the location. This site has information how to manually set the physical location your browser reports:

I feel the same way. I really don’t want to see a 30 second ad just before a 30 second video, particularly when I’m on the road and your add is buff e rrrrr

Not so much. I tried rings and found ties will crush together a bit where the ring curves. Ties do better hanging over something straight from side-to-side.

Great idea! Lots of rings still have the occasional rough bit from the molds, and the yarn will prevent the scarves from catching on them. I’m just draping scarves over a felt covered hanger at the moment, but this is far more elegant.

Yes, Vaseline is originally a brand of petroleum jelly, though the name’s applied to a few skin care products now, too.

I’ve used petroleum jelly on work boots (hey, it’s what I had in the shop), and cannot endorse this. Petroleum jelly will darken most leathers and tends to attract dirt and dust.

Most frozen fry manufacturers have already parboiled and/or parfried the potatoes. They're pretty much at this stage already. I'd also suggest baking on a pre-heated pizza stone, or a heavy cast-iron baking sheet.

You can get good looking cotton handkerchiefs for a couple of bucks. A quick ironing and they work well as a pocket square (though they can kinda slouch down). Bonus points if somebody's crying or spills and you grab it and offer it for their use.

No doubts that poor parenting can generate anger, but IED (Really? Couldn't be arsed to come up with a better name?) has a lot of causes, some likely chemical. We have four kids. Three were "normal" while the youngest had fits of rage. He's otherwise a great guy. I had the same thing as a kid, started at about 8,…

As a kid, I didn't sound like the rest of the kids. My father was Scots by way of a short stop in Nova Scotia, my mom's Dutch (but raised in Indonesia). As a result my pronunciation was wrong to my father, disappointing to my mother, and laughed at by my schoolmates. College girls thought it was sexy, though. …