The first 4/5 of Friday rank among some of Heinlein’s best ever. The ending is pure garbage. I always got the sense he started writing and put each page on a scale until he hit a certain weight and then wrapped it up as fast (and inelegantly as possible.) If I didn’t know better, I’d think the last chapter or so was…

We love ours, and it’s become our standard wedding gift, too. Even if you only use it for rice, the ease and reliability, not to mention the simplicity of being able to simply toss things in to achieve amazing flavor is worth it.

Or you could spend a couple of bucks on a hairbrush cleaner. Combine this with the shampoo idea, and it’s effortless to clean your brush.

I have no idea why, but the equally classic <i>Rosie,</i> costarring Sandra Dee and people like Leslie Nielson and Audrey Meadows never shows up in reruns or on video, but if you get a chance, add it to your must see list!

Or you could put a lid on the pan for about the same amount of time.

My first Cuisinart is still going strong since I bought it in the mid 1980's.

As someone who came to rice cookers late in life, I’ll also add that it makes adding in things like stock, spices, dried fruits, or other add-ins similarly foolproof and effortless. Sure, again, you can do that on a stove, but those things always change the cooking time and chances of scorching things since you can’t…

You can keep it in the freezer, too.

This is doubleplusgood!

Baked Alaska has a pastry or cake base, but the ice cream isn’t usually entirely wrapped in it. Just in the meringue.

What individual places might do, I won’t try to defend.

You could spoon browned butter over it.

Absolutely! Add the tarragon and shallots (or even just -*gasp* - onion powder) for Béarnaise.

You might want to try the same idea with something with more wire bristles, like a hairbrush cleaner

Our frying pans’ instructions made it clear that the non-stick coating was fine in the dishwasher, but that we could expect the exposed surface of the outside sides and bottoms to discolor if we did so. Since we didn’t care, we dishwash them all the time, and they’re doing fine. Non-stick coatings eventually break…

My parents were in the Army, and I was in the Navy. We got GOOD at moving!

For anyone else not already convinced, an additional feature is that the lids all snap together and snap to both the top and bottom of the containers. We nest the containers and keep the lids snapped together in a pile, so not only are there fewer individual kinds of lids to sort through, they are effortless to keep…

For anyone else not already convinced, an additional feature is that the lids all snap together and snap to both the…

When we moved in to our new home (it was a foreclosure), there was a note on the door from a car rental agency explaining that they had reported (name - NOT any previous owner) to the FBI for grand theft for never returning the car. 10 years later, we still occasionally get calls trying to track her down, for a truly…

Personally I always use salted butter - lazy, I guess. The reason I’ve always heard is that you can control the precise amount of salt you use if you add it yourself. Otherwise, you’re at the mercy of whatever the dairy put in it.