I haven’t done it yet, but my understanding is you do a slow pressure release (aka NPR-natural pressure release) at the end of the cooking cycle. It takes longer, but you won’t get the foaming, or so I’ve been told...

awwww! I have to stay home for my cattledog (he’s ran away because of fireworks in the past)...sadly, I can’t find anything that works for him (I think he has a fast metabolism; nothing seems to work for more than an hour, even Benadryl). So, starting just before midnight, I’ll have 45# of trembling dog on my lap, for…

sharp cheddar, butter the bread, and TOAST it under the broiler.

I used to get trouble calls as an FAA tech from air traffic controllers who could smell something funny—it was the equipment (the air circulation on the control floor would ‘push’ the air over the equipment and toward where they sat). I was amazed when they told me they’d never smelled it before, even at home.

I’m an electronics tech, and yeah, I can totally smell that ozone/warm electronics smell around equipment—I find it somewhat comforting, actually. And friends of mine who grew up in the Midwest can smell when a thunderstorm is coming.

I know! My local indie cinema is scheduling it (soonish, I think?)

I really dig the 1960s AIP(American International Pictures)/Hammer Studios/Roger Corman vibe she captured.

Just...DAYUM.

Here in the States I’ve been able to find Lurpak at some higher-end grocery stores; not sure if we get President. My local supermarket carried Calon Wen exactly ONCE—they never re-ordered it, alas! It was wonderful.

I usually buy my Kerrygold at Costco...

That’s how I refer to English muffins and crumpets. Butter-delivery devices.

I have been known to scrape a bit of butter off to eat straight up. Especially if it’s Kerrygold...

Yup. Sounds like the sociopathic ex-husband of a friend of mine...”I cheated, therefore she MUST HAVE. Let me hack her email to prove it...”

DAMN. Yeah, gorgeous.

OMG I now have serious SNL-induced envy! I would LOVE to be at a taping...even now.

I’ve been itching for YEARS to slap a #2 guard on some clippers and go to town on that mess...

Yeah, I don’t get it. He’s got twenty years on me and (allegedly) a prestigious education (I didn’t go to college, I went in the Navy). And I’ve known as long as I can remember that referring to someone as an “Uncle Tom” was NOT GOOD.

Then again, I’m not rich, so...

SabyneAmberle—found the HBO doc: Hitler Youth

Wow. That’s incredible testimony. I’ve actually seen him interviewed in (I think) several documentaries on the Third Reich...<—history nerd; goes in search of his book...

Actually, Rolling Stone did publish Nastasia Kinski’s bare nipple back in the early 80s...

There used to be one of those down in Oklahoma City. I think it was part of a chain?

Same here. I didn’t hear about it until a couple of weeks ago, when I saw the trailer before Star Trek.