I almost always use sirloin also. My wife prefers it, and I love it as well so it’s always a win. I recently bought a few pounds of the in-house ground trimmin’s from a butcher for something else but used a bit of it to make a couple burgers. They were surprisingly awesome. Higher in fat that I’d like but amazing…

JUST FOR A BURGER?! Blasphemy. Yeah, it’s a bit of time, but it is so freakin’ good it’s worth it now and then.

After reading through the comments, I think one thing is clear, everyone likes something different. There are about 100 ways listed by people here that are “the only way.” Absolutely DO THIS or DON’T DO THIS! Seriously, if the burger you’re eating is exactly what you want, it’s perfect. Try them all because you never…

You can also use a food processor if you have one. Chill the cubed meat in the freezer for 25-ish minutes to firm it up, then toss it in the processor and grind it just before use. Try making your burger from brisket if you can grind it yourself. That’s what Jacque Pepin does, and it’s pretty outstanding.

These aren’t mutually exclusive. You can do a redneck sous vide (low and slow in the oven) with the burger and then put a crisp sear on it using the cast iron skillet heating up while the meat is in the oven. One of many options that can all produce knock-out burgers.

I’m glad to see this is coming back. I had to use the add-on EasyBib, which isn’t bad honestly, because the previous incarnation of scholar disappeared from my Docs. I still don’t have the new tool. EasyBib does a better job of formatting the references, but the native Google version does a FAR better job at…

You seem to want a show with no depth at all. Go to war, move, fight walkers, go to war, move... That is a terrible idea. Investing in the characters, developing the world in which they live, perhaps familiarizing us with all the players that may eventually band together to go to war against The Saviors? Well, now…

Okay, this cracked me up, here in the south, we use the word “fix” as a synonym for “prepare.” As in, hey dad, what are you fixin’ for dinner? So when I saw the title Best Ways to Fix Thin Gravy, my first reaction was, why would anyone want to fix (prepare) a thin gravy? In my continuing Thanksgiving stupor, it took…

Part of our problem here in the US is that for such a long time we’ve been anti-butter. It’s been the villain in every diet lesson for 50 years. Margarine and low fat butters (hold for gag reflex recovery) have dominated that we’d forgotten what butter should taste like...much like our recent rediscovery of actual…

I KNOW! My reaction to his chat was first to wonder why he wasn’t home working on getting me that third novel.

This is a great point to make about these apps/systems. I’ve discovered that it doesn’t matter which system I use as long as I stick with it long enough to get a trend on what my personal baseline is for that particular approach. I typically keep a separate spreadsheet as well to figure out my BMR. It’s a huge pain in…

I can never find whole dry milk. The only thing I ever see in the store is non-fat. Maybe I should check in the specialty / health / gluten-phobic / whatever aisle. I guess Amazon has it, but where do you find yours?

Unwanted carnage is a small price when it comes to vermin. I hate to be heartless, but when I spot rodents (or birds) inside my house, I turn into Al Capone from The Untouchables, “I want him DEAD. I want his family DEAD. I want his house burned to the ground, and I want to piss on the ashes.” I’ll weep for the baby…

That sounds awful! Glad you’ve been able stave off the invasion. It takes a village to eliminate rats I suppose.

I just recently discovered mice were in my attic--I heard them in the walls one night, checked the attic the next day, and there was the proof. I called a professional immediately. We have a new house in a country setting and fall is approaching. This problem was not going to be easy to handle on my own.

One of my great loves is making pizza dough. It’s easy enough to do, and I tinker with it in little ways just for fun. The one thing I’ve never gotten from my dough is enough twang. I’ve never done a sour dough because my wife doesn’t care for it, and it’s too much of a pain for pizza. I typically make my dough the…

The Inner Light! Yes! A thousand recommends.

YES! And the story where O’Brian goes through his imprisonment was phenomenal. It fundamentally changed his character and was such a powerful statement about incarceration.

Sasha...I do too.

That was my first thought as well, but they’re not putting the pressurized canister in the boiling water. They’re putting the poured out contents. And they tried it with other, similar contents, which didn’t explode so it’s actually a little more interesting than just a pressurized can exploding.