Here is a complete list of who you can trust on Tik Tok:

Me too. I also use it for defrosting and (occasionally) for boiling liquids, melting butter, and decrystalizing honey.

Factory seconds are generally fine. I have lots of Le Creuset from the outlet store that are seconds. I can’t find any problems and some of them are decades old. While you can save a little money on Lodge seconds, you can save A LOT of money with Le Creuset.

You can wash cast iron with soap and water. You can even use nylon scouring pads. None of that will take off the seasoning or make it rust. My cast iron is a few years old, I use them once a month or so on the range top and in the oven, and we clean them with soap and water, occasionally a nylon scrubby, dry them by…

Soaking definitely removes starch. I make fries out of russets and I always soak overnight in ice water. You have to for decent fries. But canning involves pressure too (and maybe some heat?), that’s why I thought it would be different.

I’m not the biggest fan of the microwave, but as you pointed out, this is basically steaming the fish and steaming is a perfectly cromulent way to cook salmon or other fish.

I was today years old when I learned canned potatoes existed. I had no idea. My mother was not adverse to canned vegetables, but I don’t think she ever bought potatoes that way.  I must have seen them in the supermarket. Maybe my eye just skated right over them, unbelieving. Don’t they get waterlogged?

Counterpoint: touching them harms them if it is done too much and he is not entitled to special treatment just because he is a cool movie star.

Rosé is fine and goes with a lot of food very well. There are excellent rosés. Most White Zinfandel is a crime against alcohol, should be wiped from the earth, and should not be confused with rosé. Although there are decent rosés made with Zinfandel grapes.

Two articles in a row about not trusting Tik Tok. You guys might be on to something heretofore only known to 98% of the population.

They think the government of Oceania were the good guys.

I’m generally not in favor of it, probably for the same reasons you are not. I just think that in this instance it has worked as a partnership, has benefitted both the company and the municipality, and if somebody wants to end it, they should consider the short and long term implications of that very carefully.

Pretty much every high rise office building I walk into has their own security force and if the RCID ceased to exist, I’m sure Disney would continue to employ a security force just as large as they do now.  They just would stop paying the local cities and counties for backup when they needed the police to come on…

They don’t really “own” a city. They have been granted a unique level of autonomy over an area and it benefits them and the municipalities that granted it. They still pay property taxes, but pay for their own road, utilitiy, and infrastructure improvements, and contract with the surrounding cities and counties for…

Disney still pays a ton in property taxes, but pays for their own roads and infrastructure, and contracts with the local municipalities for things like police services. If this goes through, those local municipalities will have to provide all those services JUST for the property taxes. It would end up costing them…

Reservations fill up fast. It's a tough table to get.

I might have missed it. I was surprised Claire would leave it out.

Not to mention the fact that most of the takes are pretty bad.

The story behind his Nebula award was the sort of joke you see coming but was still hilarious.

Hard water and slow drying are the two biggest culprits causing glasses to spot. If you can get a water softener or dry with a towel instead of air drying that will prevent a lot of spots. Our fancy Bosch dishwasher has a neat feature they call “crystal dry” where the last of the water gets adsorbed by zeolite…