I like to fire roast my peppers and use smoked paprika to get that smokey taste.

I'm a big Heinz guy, but that does sound delicious.

Definitely agreed. Good balsamic is sweet and sour and good enough to eat alone. Bad balsamic smells and tastes like dirty feet.

Absolutely amazing on roasted Brussels sprouts.

I always try to keep a few fancy sauces, mostly the ones I eat raw. Good olive oil, good soy sauce, maple syrup, mustard, etc. If it’s going on the stove with other ingredients anyway, I go the cheaper route.

I have the opposite problem of being a chef and good at grilling, but politely bitting my tongue when I see incompetent grillers... In my head, you should have lit the grill hours ago, yes you used too much lighter fluid, yes the flame is too hot and everything is burning...

Like a tortilla press, you can put the fruit in slightly offset, too.

Not crunchy, not soggy, not overly sticky, and salted. It’s hard to put into words exactly, but you’ll know when the rice is good, and when it’s just mediocre, and when it’s outright bad.

There are a few dead signs of how good the cooks of a restaurant are; in the vein of this article, how they handle their garlic is one. I can’t stand when I can taste that burnt garlic flavor.

I learned to swim so young that I don’t remember it, but in Annapolis public schools in the 90's at least, they had a week long “Drownproofing” class where they taught kids basic swimming skills like treading water, sculling, floating on their backs, inflating their clothes, etc.

Oh, here’s where I learned this one:

You can make a really good vegan demi glace out of deeply roasted root veggies.

“If you have to go outside high, just remember that no one knows your high but you.”

Yeah, when I was in college I would smoke and then hit the gym, but it wasn’t about focus; it was about forgetting that I was working out, usually just getting lost in whatever music I was listening to.

Yeah, I was surprised when I learned that about Florida a few months back. I have family in Indiana and Kansas. My totally unscientific guess would be that being a peninsula in major bodies of water, Florida has been eroded so flat over the millenia.

“Most people will guess that Kansas is the flattest state among the 50, but it’s not. The flattest is Florida, and Kansas isn’t even among the five flattest."

Lol, the highest elevation in the flatest state.

Or a plastic bottle if your piece fits through the mouth. Gatorade bottles are good for this.

Not gonna lie, I use my Instant Pot Ultra on the reg, but the only things I use it for are slow cooking, pressure cooking, and sous vide.

There's only one good person to go to a museum with; yourself.