“Fuck you, I got mine.” - The Baby Boomer’s mantra.
Reply Guy is AKA Mediocre White Guy. MWG has been told his opinions, points and ideas are valuable his whole life simply by virtue of the fact that he is white and male. therefore he spews his garbage all over the internet at the detriment of people older and more experienced than him, women, and minorities, he often…
No, the job of the Twitter user is not to reply back to every single Tweet. Moderation in all things is the right way to go.
Mustard greens are amazing. Tons of flavor. If you have a good Asian market nearby, look for Ong Choi, Pea Shoots, Kai Lan (which weirdly shows up at WalMart now), or any of the dozen sizes and varieties of Bok Choy.
The whiskey stones one is basically a public service announcement - where were you back when I got them...and was disappointed by them?
Mix yourself a cocktail once a week; say, every Saturday night. Try a different one every week. Soon enough you’ll get the hang of it.
Since I figured out how to pasteurize eggs with the Anova, I’ve gotten back to drinking perhaps the most iconic of shaken cocktails: the silver gin fizz. Back in the heydey of that drink, popular establishments in New Orleans would have whole teams of people just to shake the drink- since you want to denature the egg…
1) A vacuum does not influence the final temperature of the drink. Rather, a colder drink means colder air in the shaker, which means that the volume of air shrinks, pulling a vacuum. It is a symptom, not a cause.
2) Shaking a drink chills it down faster because it creates more convective heat transfer from the drink…
Needs to be pointed out that you should not stir if all of your cocktail ingredients are clear/transparent. Why? Because those air bubbles will make your drink cloudy!
So, Martinis and Manhattans should be stirred.
I have about 10 pair of regular scissors I use in the kitchen routinely, as in 2-5 times a day. I open them and put them in the silverware holder in the dishwasher. Come out clean as a whistle.
That’s a huge generalization and oversimplification in the first place, but there’s a great book that addresses your point. It’s a really eye-opening read: Scarcity: why having too little means so much. It discusses decision-making (and other behaviors) when you have limited resources (both time and money). Side note:…
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