Same question, plus another:  Will these freeze well?  Pumpkin pie custard on demand sounds nice.

Pull through sharpeners (manual or electric) are garbage. They’ll never get your knife as sharp as a pro can, and, as someone else pointed out, they destroy knives with glee.

Sharpening with a whetstone is more of a skilled art than this article lets on. It’s not easy. There are systems (Lansky, etc...) that make it…

Serrations help cut anything with a crust/skin. Tomatoes are known for being difficult to slice cleanly because the skin has such soft flesh underneath.

But you’re right, any sharp knife can tackle a tomato. The problem is that people don’t keep their knives sharp.

Protip:  those automatic sharpeners do NOT sharpen…

Economic disaster is my biggest worry.

But, honestly, we shouldn’t worry about things we can’t control.  Instead, prepare for them as best we can.

If you have a car with a high compression engine that needs higher octane fuel, can’t you just keep a bottle or two of octane booster for those occasions when, for whatever reason, you put 87 octane fuel in the tank?

The internet wasn’t created as a research system.  It was created to be a communications network that would be difficult/impossible to cripple.

You can also buy a small DC air compressor for a few bucks and keep it in the trunk of your car and never have to worry about whether or not you’re near a free air pump.  You can find them as cheap as $5, but the ones with good reviews seem to be $20-25.

Where do you put the $1000 worth of frozen food while you’re on vacation?

And, of course, when I say free, I mean included in the cost you already paid.  Ain’t nothing in life that’s free...

Yeah, I think the conclusion should be that nitrogen is better, but MAY not be worth the additional cost. If it’s free when you buy a car or tires, it would be foolish to turn it down.

If you have nitrogen filled tires, you can always top off with regular air when needed, and then have that air purged later with…

There was a time in my life that I had that sort of optimism.

Yeah, I’m actually south of Ft. Worth.  I just liked the alliteration for my name.  Chisolm Trail and 183 Express are the only toll roads that would help me normally, and they simply don’t shave off enough time to be worth it to pay for.  Pay $5 or leave 5 minutes earlier?  Easy decision for me.

This is the kind of article that made me bookmark Lifehacker all those years ago. Thanks for sharing this great idea!

Sure, but that’s likely your normal commute, during rush hour, so you don’t need help navigating except to avoid accidents, construction, etc...

I’m just saying most people would specifically want the option to avoid toll roads.  I’m not saying that there aren’t people that specifically would want to use toll roads.

Oh, I totally see how it would be incredibly useful for people surrounded by toll roads, but writer’s should exercise some perspective and realize that most people in the world don’t even know what a turnpike is, much less know what it’s like to drive on one.  “Most circumstances” was the wrong choice of words.

Well, yeah, but that’s a niche situation, not “most circumstances.” Thankfully, toll roads are not terribly common in most of the country.

Why in the world wouldn’t you want to avoid tolls in most circumstances?

That’s not in the danger zone?

I’ve cut into and eaten thousands and thousands (literally. Not the new definition of literally, but the literal definition of literally.) of avocados over my lifetime, and I’ve never run across one that was ripe on one end but not the other end.

I’m a big fan of the glasses that basically have the profile of a martini glass, but then there’s a lip that angles in to control the sloshing. I think it’s still a coupe, but the angles make it give off a martini glass vibe. I can’t find a picture of a regular round one, but here’s a fancy diamond faceted one: