Hey! I agree with this too! I’m actually a huge proponent of giant plastic cutting boards you see in restaurants. I got a massive yellow one for 20 dollars. I will often put charcuterie on it to rail against the expensive Boos types.

If traffic is stopped/backed up at the merge, then the open lane is already at capacity and anyone attempting to cut in is just slowing the whole line down.

No, she was talking about cases where a driver was deliberately riding between the ending lane and the lane being merged into, specifically to prevent people from doing a proper zipper merge.

I agree with the article completely... and do the zipper merge whenever it’s appropriate.

If you want to practice pan flipping, you can get a feel for solid things by flipping a slice of bread in a dry, cold pan. You can get a feel for liquids and chunky things (like pasta) by flipping dry rice. They’re subtly different motions, and practicing makes you better at them without covering yourself in hot…

Counterpoint: they are really very easy to clean (I mean, soap and water is as easy as it gets), and maintenance is super simple and easy as well. Just because it’s not “no maintenance” hardly means it is a lot of work. It isn’t. Oiling once a month followed by board cream. That’s it.

This is all good but I’ve seen more people get hurt by burns than knife cuts. A lot of hot stuff in a professional kitchen but there are plenty of opportunities for accidents in a home kitchen. I always keep some 4x4 pads of Water-Jel Burn Dressing. They come in a small pack and can really reduce the degree of burn…

I learned to cook at an Outback Steakhouse (over 2-3 years in the kitchen and served the rest of the time there) and while the food was mostly shitty I learned so damn much about cooking meats and how grills (flat top and open flame) worked.  I also learned a bunch about how to treat people while serving.  I think…

This brings back memories.  I cooked in a smattering of restaurants from age 16-22 and met quite the assortment of folks/ coworkers.  Wholesome school teachers, retireees, cracked out juggalos, crazy old guy that lived in a van and made homes for racoons behind the dumpsters... I could go on!  But the skills I learned…

“Once I told a therapist that I thought restaurant jobs stunted me socially, to which she responded “interesting.””

This is like reading Kitchen Confidential the first time again. Good stuff. I can never work in the restaurant business because of the ass-backwards hours, but all the misery sure sounds like fun.

“spent the last year hoarding vaccines.”

I forgot, cooler also had fruit, meat, and cheese that we got at a grocery store the first night. 

look at you with your contingency plan. I just make sure my cellphone is charged for when disaster strikes.

We had a collapsible cooler with some drinks, but new drinks/snacks get purchased at like every other fuel stop, so carrying a lot made no point.

My wife and I did an epic 20+ state mostly camping road trip in my lowered and modded 2003 Z4 and were extremely comfortable the whole time. We had a nice tent, inflatable mattress, bedding as well as cooking utensils, toiletries and enough outfits to look good for the whole time on the road. The trick was to use…

Yeah I did a double take at the article, read your comment, scrolled back up... ohhh... that was confusing. I was gonna suggest putting a car cover on...

They are all lawyers who have made it to the Supreme Court. All went to law school at Harvard or Yale, except for Barrett (Notre Dame). All have been Federal Court judges, except for Kagan, who had clerked for federal judges, had worked in the Clinton White House, been professor and dean at Harvard Law, and then U. S.…

Any change to the system will likely require a constitutional amendment so it’s not likely to happen, but I do have what I think is a pretty reasonable proposal.

I met Justice Breyer once and asked him how he manages to have a civil relationship with Clarence Thomas. And he said “you need to understand where Justice Thomas came from” and I said, “you need to understand what he’s actually doing to people.” And then the conversation ended. Breyer is a good Justice in the sense…