The salad spinner isn’t a unitasker, at least not according to Kenji.

Have you tried a silicon bake pan? It doesn’t transfer heat the way metal pans do. Combine that with previous advise to use a round pan and I think that’s as good as it’ll get.

Consumer Reports looked into sharing credentials earlier this year. Their take seemed to be that it is ethically sketchy and legally hazy but that streaming providers have simply acknowledge it as a known problem. The full thing is probably worth a read: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2…

I have the Hamilton Beach slow cooker that Kenji, of Serious Eats, recommends here. We use it a few times a month and it always performs admirably. Though I think we'd have been better served by the 4qt version recommended in this article because these 6qt ones are pretty huge for a family of 3.

I'm not sure if anguish and sacrifice is quite right. I struggled with it. I had to choose whether to share this thing with my child that I enjoyed so much when I was his age, or if I should stick to some ideal that my child should learn reality from fiction at a very young age. Ultimately the former, as well as the…

I'm an Atheist who grew up in a Baptist family. We celebrated Christmas, and church was a part of our lives. But since I've grown older, I've come to believe that there is no God. My wife, raised a devout Catholic, is now an Atheist as well. For her, Santa was never a question, she has fond memories of Christmas and…

Uses definitely vary. One thing I should note is that I don't have Facebook installed. If you wait until the end of the day and check Settings / Power / Battery usage history it should show you which apps used the most battery. You can also select History in the Power settings and it will show the timeline of battery…

I've had mine for 4 months now and I get great battery life out of it. In fact, by enabling the ext saver mode at night, I normally get more than two days out of every charge. It can easily last a full day of heavy use. Even if I forget to charge it, the ext saver mode switches on automatically when I have 10% battery…

In my opinion, yes it is worth it. Every time. There have been incidents where children died purely because their parent was not able to hold on. Why anyone would risk that nightmare is beyond me. If you put your child in a car seat on the plane they have the best chance for survival and if something were to still…

"I got nine crayon-sized fries for $3.29."

"Restricting" the children has the least impact on society. If I keep my child out of dangerous traffic situations then it only affects my child and me, whereas if we impose changes to motor vehicles and their regulations it affects everyone who drives. You're also overlooking the other option: to require pedestrian…

There's 80 million children in this country, assuming the number kidnapped by strangers hasn't significantly changed the odds are closer to 1 in 400,000.

Someone would have to study it. Maybe they've tracked statistics well enough that a meta-analysis could show whether parenting trends have a positive influence on mortality, but if not then they would have to look it up. The flip side is that helicopter parenting has been shown to be bad for kids. That is, if you…

We should not worry if there is more danger (real or imagined) but whether child mortality and injury rates have gone up or down related to unsupervised activities. Now, I still don't think those stats are readily available, but I can say that the overall child mortality rate in the US has halved in the last 30 years.…

I answered "yes" but I feel that requires some caveats. Yes, my son (6) is allowed to play in our yard alone. But no, he's not allowed to walk around the neighborhood alone yet. Did I walk around my neighborhood when I was his age? Yes. The big difference: My childhood neighborhood had proper sidewalks and crosswalks,…

I think there is harm in this because it [potentially unfairly] demonizes the behavior of a generation. It says, "your way of interacting is wrong, but mine is right because that's how it was before." What businesses should be doing, rather than finding social scapegoats, is to adjust to their customers' needs and…

My father always pronounced it "jif", dating back to around '89. So in my mind it will forever be pronounced "jif". But I would like to call a truce. Please, if you are reading this and you are a linguistics pedant insistent on pronouncing GIF with a hard 'g' feel free to do so, but leave me alone when I pronounce it…

I never implied that it did, and stated that it wasn't perfect. Though I happen to work in the IT department and know exactly how little my company monitors, so for me this solution is at worst overkill.

There's some interesting grey area when you buy and rip a DVD. Stripping a DVD of CSS is against the DMCA, but the resulting file is one that you own legally as a result of fair use. You are allowed to make copies for your own use for transformative and backup purposes. Ripping a CD involves no illegal acts, for…

The mixing skills involved here are also useful in dealing with various dry family events, like Grandma's barbecue. You just can't set your drink down if there's kids around.