Yes! You rock. And feh n the author who has still not fixed the error.

I think you’re underestimating reflected radiant heat. It’s one of the reasons a brick oven is domed and achieves 1000 degrees below the dome.

Look in the freezer section. It’s always sold frozen.

Nice.

That seems wrong to me, too. Would be more accurate to call the lower temperature range “cold smoking.” I would call barbecue 200-250°F and would call barbecue a subset of smoking. But it’s semantics.

Takeout chopsticks are in the drawer where I keep glue. Ideal for applying glue. Use as is, or break in half to make a sharp point if you need a more precise applicator.

There’s abundant proof that eating more slowly leads to eating less, so this makes sense.

If $95 for a kitchen thermometer seems crazy, get one of the $25-40 ones the same company sells. Almost as good and anything from them is dead accurate.

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Any way to apply EQ settings to other apps? In particular, would love my podcast app to use this EQ.

I do the same thing but use a brown beer bottle. At 12 oz, it’s the right size and the color blocks light.

Good point. They’re not perfect but they consistently use their buying power to enforce standards. They understand that “brand” is not about colors, slogans, and logos; it’s about trust.

It’s never happened to me. However, I have a rule: Any time I buy or sell online, I ask myself, “if worse comes to worse and you don’t get paid or don’t get the goods at all, can you live with that?” If the answer is “yes,” then I proceed, knowing that the very worst that could happen is no big deal. I am ready to…

Need to distinguish between the usual definition of repair (pay someone to repair it) and the DIY definition (fix it yourself). You may find it takes less knowledge than you think.

See a recent Cook’s Illustrated where they found that brown rice is best cooked via the “pasta method — simmer in a lot more water than you need and drain. About 25 minutes rather than the 45 or so you need via the traditional method and the rice nicely absorbs what it needs. This does not work well for white rice.

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@JimD: California passed a rule regulating how many chickens can be kept in a cage, which increased the price of eggs. They used to be about $2.50 a dozen in SF Bay Area grocery stores, now roughly a dollar more. Some say that will lower as more producers compete. Affects all stores — warehouse or not. Anyway, even…

Right. I should have noted that the prices I cited are for our location (California) and YMMV.

For those who didn’t click over to the original article, the Kiplinger article is comparing grocery stores’ sale prices. You would have to be a fairly careful shopper to save much following the advice in the article.

Even the smallest package (2-dozen) is cheaper at Costco ($5 for two dozen) unless the eggs are on sale at the grocery.

Love America’s Test Kitchen (and reviewer Lisa McManus, despite her new 1960 troll doll hair-do — is she trying for a part in a Harry Potter movie?). But in this video, they looked down on the sharpening steel, because most people don’t know how to use them. True enough but that doesn’t mean you should not get one.…

I don’t think it would matter. As he said, you’re polishing bacteria and tartar off the teeth and loose scunge on the floss would probably be no hindrance.