Eric, reading one of your replies, I felt really, really old. You saying ‘by the time I was 10, we were on Win95', made me sit and consider which company I was working for when Win95 came out (and that was only 21 years ago). I remember command-line file manipulation, writing your own config.sys and batch files, and…

Now, if we could only stop restaurants from utterly destroying wonderful guacamole by poisoning it to death with Jalapenos and Ghost Peppers, for sake of paint-scorching heat, we’d have it made. Like putting Jalapenos into ice cream, if you ‘like it’, keep it to yourself. Guac is supposed to be sweet, restauranteers.

All of this ‘information’ blatantly contradicts what the U.S. Marine Corps taught us, regarding pull-ups and related strength training. Hate to point that out, but if you look at the actual muscles you are using palm-in, vs palm-out, you see that the latisimus dorsi are the primary muscles used in this exercise,…

Actually, if you look at Fahrenheit’s scale, you see that his ‘arbitrary’ measurement isn’t, at least any more than the Celsius scale is. Fahrenheit did pick the arbitrary point of 32-degrees for freezing, but if you add 180 to this, you get to 212-degrees. As sextigesimal notation was pretty ‘standardized’ in most…

Which, you failed to mention, work just as good as their overpriced contemporaries. I guess, when you have too much money, you MUST find a use for it. Toaster ovens, in my opinion, aren’t one of them.

Which, you failed to mention, work just as good as their overpriced contemporaries. I guess, when you have too much…

I have a $20 Black and Decker Toaster oven that is 11-years old, has been used for hundreds of hours, and is still like-new. Interestingly, the model is still offered (and on Amazon, no less) for $22 today - and IT DIDN’T MAKE THIS SILVER-SPOON LIST?! What gives? I mean, for what I would save on a $200…

I have a $20 Black and Decker Toaster oven that is 11-years old, has been used for hundreds of hours, and is still…

Not really sure how she found out about it, but I’ve already been texted on ‘OMG, I want this!’ from her this afternoon. I replied, ‘it’s not time for new stuff right now, and it’s not in our budget’...she shot back, ‘and WHO just bought the new roller toolbox for their ‘hobby room’, and how dare he think he is in a…

Not really sure how she found out about it, but I’ve already been texted on ‘OMG, I want this!’ from her this…

And that ‘first oil change’? Use the OEM’s schedule on that! Why? Because while you may not see ‘the need in changing the oil after 1,000 miles on a ‘new car’’, in reality, that engine after 1-hour of start-time most-likely has more metal particles and contamination in the oil filter than the next four changes…

Actually, there’s a LOT more ‘don’t do’s’ than this, and they are equally significant. From using ‘synthetic oils’ (if not specified), to avoiding excessive ‘idling’ (like in school parking lots), tons of things can damatically reduce your engine’s life - and most happen in that first 500-1,000 miles of use. Why?…

Wow, either a big oven, or a very high price. You can Amazon a 5-qt for about $39, and a 7-qt for $49 normally. Love to hear it when people buy good cast iron (Lodge is arguably, one of the best casters still in existence), and love it. Like I told someone the other day about a very high priced European stainless…

You are very correct, acidic foods do not impact real cast-iron ‘seasoning’. I haven’t re-seasoned my skillets in over 3-years, and haven’t re-seasoned a single dutch oven I have in over 10. They still look better than anything on a store shelf, even now. Real ‘seasoning’ doesn’t look like a crinkle-coat paintjob, it…

Calling B.S. on this. I’ve got decades of experience cooking on cast iron, and since acid is far less reactive on iron than alkali, you’re saying that you can’t bake in it either (baking is just as alkali as tomatoes are acidic). If acid worked better than alkali breaking up oil, drain cleaner would be sulfuric acid…

I’m really afraid of eating food prepared by the commenters saying “high acid, especially tomato-based foods strip the seasoning off their cast iron ‘pans’”. First off, they are not ‘pans’, they would be ‘dutch ovens’. Secondly, I’ve cooked with cast iron for almost 50-years, and have YET to have a chili, a…

I hope you were referring to the stainless steel alternative. I KNOW you weren’t speaking with experience about good cast-iron cookware. It’s cheaper than stainless, far-easier to clean than stainless, and witchcraft is far over-rated. Cast iron is valued a century after it’s cast. No one is going to buy a stained,…

The same skillet in cast iron costs about $20, is almost ‘stick-proof’ (after curing), can be baked in (beans in the oven, with optional cast-iron-lid), dry-cooked-in (homemade flour tortillas), requires only water to fully clean (worst baked-in, stuck-on mess, simply add warm water, let sit for 5-minutes, take a…

Everytime I see a ‘cast iron cookware’ article, I always have to comment, and this is no different - there is NOTHING better (at any price) than cast iron (no, I do not work for Lodge Logic, but you’d think they financed the cookware acquisitions for my kitchen). It is, without a doubt, the EASIEST to maintain…

Well, technically, downing a hobby drone by hacking it is a violation of Federal wiretap laws. Your drone (assuming you are hinting at multi-channel control frequencies) can also be just as easily dropped out of the sky by jamming your control frequencies (at either 1.4 or 2.8 and 14.5-15.6 Ghz) such that your ‘minor…

Candy Corn is great. The problem with it to most people is when they buy it at the ‘big box store’, and it was made 2-years ago, so it’s like chewing on hard-gravel. Fresh ‘good-quality’ candy corn from a top-name confectioner should be soft. You should be able to bite right through it with minimal effort. It should…

Actually, my first assumption was like a lot of other commenters, ‘NO WAY!’, but after crunching the debt on a 30-year fixed, $200k home at ZERO interest, the number is actually affordable at $50k income a year. The mortgage was only $555 a month. Before ‘scoffers’ jest at a $200k home (no, they are not necessarily…

I think the ‘real threat’ isn’t who wins, but in the ‘Perfect Storm’ that is positioned over America at this time. There are strong divisions along race, ethnic and even socio-economic divides that are reaching national news levels, the banks are strapped (at the world-bank level), we have a debt so great now that…