In general, garlicky and creamy things go well with tomatoey things, so after my initial reaction to the headline of “that’s weird,” I actually didn’t think it sounded that bad. Sure, the term “ranch” evokes a “trash” response from lot of people, but really adding a bit of ranch isn’t much different than making a…

I do love the mixing (and garlic bread dipping), so I usually toss alls the noodles with a couple ladles of sauce and a few ounces of pasta water and the heap a big ladle on top of each serving.

I’m more concerned you’re not tossing your noodles in the sauce. 

Yeah! And quit pissing around with these tiny toy motors and batteries. I have an 82v battery operated lawn mower and that damn thing is powerful enough to make pretty easy work of my relatively large lawn. I want that kind of power in a vacuum.

Yeah! And quit pissing around with these tiny toy motors and batteries. I have an 82v battery operated lawn mower…

I wish more companies would make cordless/battery vacuums that aren’t that Dyson stick-type clones. I hate that design and would prefer a more traditional stand-up vacuum form factor.

I wish more companies would make cordless/battery vacuums that aren’t that Dyson stick-type clones. I hate that…

Not a proper statistician, but work next to them and have built a few regression models. 

It’s pretty insidious since lay people are pretty bad at understanding statistics and risk. A lot of people would see these findings and think that somehow processed meat increases their changes by 44 percentage points to get dementia. 

Statistics are statistics for good or ill. It’s the incentivization of negative practices in the research and media systems that lead to this type of BS getting press releases.

Increased absolute risk is often absolutely underwhelming.

Yeah. I imagine they plugged a bunch of dichotomous categorical variables into a multivariate regression model and a lot of these confounding/interacting independent variables were cut off at relatively arbitrary points (e.g., 25g of processed meat) and the processed meat variable happened to be one in twenty that popp…

One of the biggest issues not mentioned here is relative risk. About 3000 in 500,000 (about 0.6%) developed dementia. Processed meat eaters saw a relative increase of dementia of 44%, so the real increased risk for study participants was (at most) about one-third of a percentage point, but that sounds a lot less scary…

Yep. See my comment to somedouche. I love sous vide as a “cheat” to long meat cooks (smoking, confit, etc). 

Sure. I don’t do too many NY strips, and I’ve had success doing strips reverse sear (especially the strip roast beef I do for Christmas every year), but I get ya. My most done meats in sousvide are long-cook + smoke. I do turkey wings confit for thanksgiving, pastrami around St Paddy’s day (just picked up 5 cheap…

I have an immersion circulator. I love it as a tool, but never use it for steaks because I like the reverse sear method so much better. Easier, and I think tastier. I aim for pulling out the oven between 110° and 115°F.

Agreed on the awesomeness of nuts, but are you saying 20g of protein per 100 calories or grams? For most nuts, I’ve seen about 6g per oz which works out to about 20g protein per 100g of nuts (which should work out to about to about 20g/500 calories).

Roasted/salted soy nuts are delicious and a great source of complete protein (11g per oz). Great hiking snack. 

The struggle’s real. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon

Go to a library or book store. 

Nice view of Mars right off of Orion’s bow last night.