It has been a long time since I read Oedipus, but I do not recall him owning a motorcycle.

Oh, and this is not related to sous-vide, but it is related to seafood and it is worth sharing with people who may appreciate it. Here is lunch at one of my favorite Vietnamese restaurants on Saturday — and this is just our side of the table. Plenty of shrimp, squid & crab here. (Including grilled shrimp on sugar…

Calamari is going to win, but I vote for crayfish. I have never had much issue with squid, because I simply avoid overcooking it. But the important point relative to sous-vide is that unlike crustaceans, squid does not release much in the way of juices when it cooks. It does turn rubbery if you overcook it, but it…

I have read mixed results about pressure cookers, but either way, I do not have one. I have been steadily upgrading my kitchen gear this year and may have to get around to adding one.

Yeah, I was hoping for something easy. The ice cube method is not really that tough, but it does involve adding the eggs to boiling water for thirty seconds, then immediately adding a dozen ice cubes to bring the temperature down. That sets the whites right next to the shell to make peeling easier, but slows down the…

I am a PC gamer and do not even own a console, but if two words would ever get me to buy one, they would be “Beat Takeshi.”

Sorry, but that was a trick question. It does not take even a single sentence — you can tell from the sentence fragment in the headline.

Update — just noticed the link to an earlier article ranking sous-vide eggs where it appears that you had equally poor results. I wonder if anyone else has done better?

I made my first ever batch of sous-vide hard boiled eggs last weekend, and despite my supreme confidence that it would result in the best eggs that I have ever made, it did no such thing.

I spent about a year at a local higher-end electronics chain in the Twin Cities market back in the late Nineties, before they were bought out by another chain which ultimately went belly-up. (There is a joke there, for those familiar with the story.)

Surprisingly enough, if you trace all cases of autism back to their source, you will find that the snatch was indeed involved.

My wife cannot even set the time on her watch, but she has turned into a technogeek since we bought the car. She gives me constant updates on how her electric range is doing, and the tricks that she has figured out on her own to extend it. Nothing surprising to anyone who owns the car or has spent any time reading…

Not terribly unique at all. We traded in my wife’s 2009 CTS for a 2013 Volt. Which she loves, by the way.

It is not like they do not clearly describe him as “hoon dad of the year.” Not much ambiguity there.

It is not that simple, though. You would have to do some kind of differential between the 2 point conversion percentage and both the extra point percentage & the percentage chance of winning in overtime. So, you would have to compare that over 50% 2 point chance to a combination of the extra point percentage (let us…

So Cam Newton is working as a college ref now?

Any pics out a video out there? I did not watch the game, but I have been seeing the clips & gifs of Newton getting his brains shaken & stirred over and over again. I was already irritated enough, so I would love to have it raised to the next level by seeing something that the refs actually thought worth throwing a…

Listening to The Current right now, live over the air. Read ‘em and weep.

Great. Now the government is going to have to raise the price of a penny.

Well, and they really had to shoehorn the story that they wanted to tell into the Planescape universe anyway — to say nothing of trying to shoehorn how they wanted to develop the character into the D&D framework (2.5? I cannot remember.)