The advice to participate socially is misplaced, assuming you’re talking about activities outside of work hours. There’s nothing wrong with doing your job well, being a friendly and respectful colleague and then going home. The whole fad of running a company as if it’s summer camp or a dorm makes me cringe. We’re…

Chop the broccoli into florets, removing the stems and slicing them into 1/2-inch coins. Submerge the broccoli in boiling water for one minute, then remove it from the pot and shock it in an ice bath.

I was tempted to sous vide, but wanted to keep the method accessible to those who didn’t have one! But yes, could definitely do a follow up article here :)

As a dental assistant, this is fucking bullshit. I have seen 20 year olds finally loose their last baby tooth and their adult tooth grow in, then the other side of having a 14 year old needing to have their wisdom teeth removed because they were erupting and causing pain. This is fucking bullshit and angers me as a…

Well, it’s both. Once you’re resigned to putting your wallet in your purse, you might as well buy something bigger.

And sometimes they’re not even real. Death to “decorative” pockets.

This would work if women’s pockets weren’t uselessly tiny.

The gender pocket gap is real.

Women’s front pockets are small, sometimes not even real (like it will look like there’s a pocket but it’s fake.)

That’s bullshit. We need pocket equality NOW. Who’s with me?

THIS! Ours actually says pizza boxes are ok along with lids on bottles. They also say you don’t have to rinse out containers of anything that would “boil off”. We typically rinse the most disgusting stuff (sometimes we even throw it in the dishwasher if there’s room) but cans and bottles? Nope.

Make sure to check with your local utility to really get the rules as to recycling. Ours says no to any grease stained cardboard, so any pizza box is right out, but fortunately that’s what the compost bin is for.

Yeah, although on some level I am definitely annoyed by picky eaters, I think on the balance it’s better to let some lunatics say they’re allergic to “crunchy” than to make life more difficult for people with allergies and intolerances. If it’s not possible to modify a particular dish to suit someone’s needs, the…

Another option is to get those plastic closet rod mounts and use them to help alleviate the tension on the rod. They are about $2 at Lowe’s. You can use double sided tape to keep them in place if your putting it above a shower enclosure that has a lip along the top edge and won’t need as much tension to keep the rod…

General rule, ask for one modification. More than that, pick another dish, or prepare to be shot down. I have to ask for modifications all the time, due to allergies. However, I have already looked at the menu before I hit the restaurant, know if they have an allergen menu, and have two choices in mind. I don’t want…

My ying-yang jewelry definitely fell apart. The entire “paint” inside the ying-yang would come out in one fell swoop.

Every sound you hear onscreen that isn’t people talking (and not always - that’s known as ADR or “Looping”) is put in later. Through the process of Foley editing. Bones breaking are often celery. Guns being cocked are actually can openers. Footsteps are various shoes being clipped by hand onto a tile or a cinder block…

Cook the corn in bacon fat and lightly salt. The bacon gives its own natural flavor and no longer needs butter or any other flavoring.

Make salt powder. Put kosher salt in a food processor for several pulses until it is a fine powder. It will then “stick” to the popcorn by getting in all the nooks and crannies. It’s an Alton Brown trick, search for his video on making homemade popcorn.

This is truly some wonderful and inspired work here and many thanks are owed for this, but Kevin, please, please, Please don’t take this as negging your efforts, but how did this not become a Cheddar Bay Chicken AND Waffles recipe? ;-)