It’s a huge pain in the ass - as you mince the garlic, you angle the knife away from you and rock it to crush the garlic you just minced. Honestly, it’s a good way to ruin your knife edge. If you need to pulverize garlic like that, you may as well just press it. 

If you don’t have a grill, it’s tough to beat sous vide. I used to do the reverse sear exclusively on steaks in my oven, and sous vide blows that away, even if you nail the doneness in the oven.

Neil Marshall doesn’t make good movies, outside of The Descent. 

I bet people get sucked into rabbit holes of conspiracy videos pretty easily, so if the AI recommends conspiracy videos, it results in more time watching videos, which is more ad revenue for Google. 

Man, Allison made a fucked-up, repugnant burger

I dunno, that whole hog bbq with a little of that vinegar sauce on it to cut through the unctuousness of the pork is pretty righteous. 

Meanwhile, South Carolina mustard sauce is abomination. 

Salad thoughts:

Oh man, I put one dried ghost pepper into a batch of chili I made. Holy shit. 

What? Berlin was basically leveled during WWII, so they could have built whatever they wanted. Most major American cities predate widespread automobile adoption. They just tore down parts of the city to build highways through them.

Does the Autobahn run through the heart of fucking Berlin? No. It does not. It goes around it. Like our urban highways should. 

Yeah, that highway has turned huge swaths of Syracuse into ghettos. 

How does having highways that run through the cities mitigate those problems in any way? Typically, if you’re driving to the city, you’re already driving on surface streets. If you’re not, you’re on the highway, driving through the city, to somewhere else. Those people should be routed on new or expanded highways that…

I do if I’m making a bunch, but if I’m just doing a few pieces, I don’t bother firing up the whole oven.

Honestly, if you’re using cast iron for what it’s best at (searing, sauteing, baking cornbread), you can probably just rinse it out with hot water using a spray nozzle. I very rarely need to use soap to get anything off mine. But I basically only use mine for searing proteins, these days.

I’m measuring in dog inches

Ugh, these are formed patties and not pounded out chicken breasts?

Iso Hezonja where you been all my life?

Lol, I know I shouldn’t have posted that.

“..self-fulfilling prophecy.” What you’ve described is a virtuous cycle. Self-fulfilling prophecies are usually bad.