I just picked up a top of the line, non-functioning, wine fridge from Craigslist’s Free section. Two $45 circuit boards and half an hour later, fully functioning wine fridge!

For Celsius, I use a poem:

I would add, unless there are issues with access to kitchen equipment, avoid cereal. Per pound, it can be as expensive as meat. For traditional American breakfast, consider:

Something missing here: “Find a cheap store”. I live in Seattle, close to its southern edge, and have nearby options for expensive stores like Whole Foods as well as very inexpensive markets that sell deeply discounted products. Cheap stuff includes surplus and generic items as well as less-desirable produce. On…

If you drive a lot and a Costco is nearby, you can make your $60 back on gas.

Also:

Added bonus: you get a real conversation piece on your counter.

Many, many years ago when I was working as a full-time AutoCAD user, I didn’t do bitmap editing all that often so the full Photoshop package was out of my price range. However, I did have to edit bitmaps now and again, and then I got a free copy of Photoshop LE with a new hard drive. It was so useful and worked so…

Yeah! It’s pretty great if you like high-concept sci-fi.

I’m really excited for Them! A good friend of mine has a minor role in it and has said that he thinks the show will be really good.

I knew the difference between broth and stock, but once “bone broth” caught on and a lot of people started talking authoritatively but wrongly about it, I began to doubt myself. Glad to know I was right after all!

Dad was an International Food Ingredient Marketer, and for most of my life, he worked for a chicken products manufacturer. There are various “grades” of product within any category, and that includes stock or broth. Their company manufactured dehydrated chicken BROTH of various grades. I had Herb Ox bullion cubes in…

Pre Covid Story:

“Bone broth” went commercial because that’s the term paleo adherents invented for it as part of their dumb origin story. It started to become a marketing label once paleo went mainstream, and stopped just being a way for gender-anxious dudes to go on a weight-loss diet while assuring themselves they weren’t a bunch of…

Back in the days when I was a prep cook, our chicken “base” was a broth/stock combo.

Great way to add some extra eggy-goodness to your ramen. As an aside, I’ve been playing with ramen lately, here are some ramen egg cups that worked out pretty well.

Use the minimum amount of water necessary to boil the noodles, and put the flavor packet in straight away.r