The sides and low height of most dish drying racks make a very unstable combination, requiring that cutting boards be placed vertically with little support. The open ends of a filing rack allow cutting boards to be placed horizontally, and the high sides offer better support. You seem to have found one of the…

Whatever route you decide, don't forget to consider the age of the battery when making your decision. If it's already on its last legs, tack on another $100 or so.

Barkeeper's Friend is works magic on stainless steel. Worth the couple bucks when a deep clean is needed, IMHO.

I don't remember where I read it. I'd start at the citations in the Wikipedia article: [en.wikipedia.org]...

Serious question: are ingested antimicrobial compounds in foods beneficial? I understand their potential benefit in preserving food, but when ingested, do they do anything? They're going to be at very low levels, which at best may be marginally effective and at worst may favor the growth of resistant strains. And…

"cocoa powder (as long as you get unsweetened, non-alkalized cocoa) can add fiber, potassium, and magnesium"

Lentil. See the source: [www.flickr.com]

Just cook some bacon and save the fat. You only need a thin coating—the rendered fat from one pound of bacon should be more than sufficient.

Or store it submerged in Listerine when you're sick?

It's in the source article at Delta Dental.

If you brush for 2 min 2x per day, a powered toothbrush and a manual toothbrush are equivalent (neither provides quantitatively cleaner teeth). Powered toothbrushes tend to have higher compliance rates, however, meaning that it's more likely that a powered toothbrush user will fulfill the 2x2min recommendations and…

From the guidelines: "Remember always to replace your toothbrush after an illness."

It might brown a tiny bit, but it's not going to go up in flames (don't tell UL, but I use it in the toaster oven without issue).

McGee approves. He also suggests adding the pasta when the milk/water is cold to minimize sticking (maybe the linked recipe does too, but it's been Lifehacker'd). [www.nytimes.com]

Depends on the dosage. The tests were about 20 days. They say it should be capable of 365 days.

But onions stored in the fridge do. So store your onions in the closet, but cool them down for use!

Hard to say. Waxed paper carton need wax and energy to process trees. They also waste more product because they're not as durable as plastic containers. Glass is heavy and therefore takes more energy to transport, and now you're talking two-way transport. I don't know what the net effect is, but when you consider…

This process can use any carbon source, including waste biomass from food production (e.g., corn stalks, etc). Also, since high-quality crops aren't needed, low-quality land can be used for growing crops for hydrocarbon feedstocks without displacing food farmland.

Well that blows (no wonder the LB-1 project seems dead). When I first saw the LB-1, I though that if they could put a servo in to control the wand and add flow control, you could make an insane little device. Your roaster or coffeeshop has a "master" LB-1 that can record the barista's movements and flow rates,…

Yeah, this is all about drip/press coffee. Part of the reason for this is that the cost of equipment is a LOT lower to make pro-quality drip coffee (a kettle, a thermometer, a scale, and a cone is all you need, and the lot of it can be had for $100 or less). To come anywhere close to the product of a pro-quality…