Right? Nothing quite like being 1 hour into a 6 hour outing and realizing not only do you not have any spark at all, you barely like each other.

As far as pictures, this is tough. Pictures should do 2 things, show me what you look like as well as show me some of your interests. Shots where i can’t see your face or of something that is not you don’t help.

Do: Plan a short first date, with time open after. The idea of a huge first date in online dating is dead. Keep it simple, time-boxed and if things go well simply ask if they’d like to keep going or change locations. If things go poorly, you’ve only committed 20 mins and a single drink.

Obviously, I’m voting for my idea! If I can get something out before Superbowl that would be awesome!

Right? as a follow up to the cheese experiment above I was thinking about wrapping different things in hot cheese or something. A burger with cheese inside or complete covered in cheese could be really interesting. Probably messy as hell though, but I’m willing to make sacrifcies

Oh man, and super thick cheeseburgers. Yes...... Ok now I’m hungry.

Agreed with SavvyPerson! This has me intrigued.

I’m planning to Sous Vide a prime rib roast for NYE, so consider me interested in that!

I did Bacon already, some seriously thick cut stuff. It was underwhelming and not worth the effort.

Flying on Thursday, I’ll give these a try!

The thanksgiving sides sound good, just being selfish and wondering how much work you can get done ahead of time or during the cooking of the turkey. Could be a logistics improvement!

This is timely, I’m sitting on a lot of money in my checking (because I hit that threshold to get a better interest rate) and am on the fence about whether other alternatives would be better. I think my biggest hurdle is deciding how much money I need on hand, for example I just had to drop nearly 2k on my lawn…

And here I was just about to chime in say I don’t know anyone who hasn’t already formed an opinion and refused to budge on it.

Forgive my ignorance on this, but how does beef tongue cook or prepare differently than another cut of beef?

Well, you make a good point. I don’t think the steak was actually better tasting per se, but cooked correctly without a lot of graded cooking going to center. So in that case, yes, I can consistently not only get a perfectly cooked medium rare steak, but also medium rare THROUGHOUT the steak and not brown then red.

It’s funny because as soon as I mentioned the amount of effort, it wasn’t really that bad. Just waiting really.

Exactly, butcher and vacuum sealed!

My vote is for Flan or any other type of pudding!

I did the bacon this week. Picked up some seriously thick slices from the butcher. It was good (maybe even great), but I felt like I’d get similar value from just using an oven.

Seconded for cheesecake