Please note that increased heat retention while the grill is on means increased heat retention when the grill is off. You'll want to add extra time before you cover your grill or push it against your house, assuming you do those things.

Another good thing about this tip is that it adds a lot of visual interest to an everyday, rather boring food. I would caution that if you do this you probably want to be really careful about overcooking your dogs. Whether your hot dog has a casing or not, it's a sausage and is sealed to prevent the juices from…

Row row grill the powah?

I have the Galaxy Nexus and I can say that it needs a case to protect against scratches around the camera. There's this black textured plastic there that scratched somehow by the second day I had it. Otherwise I'd say it seems about as solid as most cell phones these days.

Yes! Grinding your own meat is really quite easy. There's grinder attachments for other brands of mixers, and standalone grinders that aren't too pricey. It doesn't take long and the results are superior than almost any supermarket ground beef. You always know exactly what cuts went into your grinder.

I have the Ekobrew and it's great. The pluses are that it makes a tasty cup of coffee (and more oils get through the wire mesh filter than the paper in a k-cup), it's easy to keep clean, it's far cheaper than k-cups, and it allows you to use any coffee. The minuses are that the cup is k-cup sized, so it's easy to…

I think it should be mentioned that the Google Authenticator two-factor authentication works with the free LastPass service. I have nothing against paying for LastPass, it's a wonderful service, but you don't have to do so in order to increase your security.

Another alternative is fried pastrami. I've done this before with some delicious results. Kenji details the process in this Burger Lab post:

A couple ideas to maybe improve upon this:

Another thing to factor in is that not all Android phones are equal. I'm a very happy Droid Incredible owner, but I know other people with Android phones from around the same generation that are very unhappy. I think it's best to wait until a phone has been on the market for a month or so to see if owners are…

This is a great theme.

I won't argue that saving time outside of work has value, but my point is that few people can turn that time directly into wages as the graphic proposes. The graphic is making an argument based largely on money, not a holistic economic argument that factors in things like quality of life. If it was it would need to…

There are also other false narratives in this graphic. Notice how the time saved in commute directly translates into wage earned? The assumption there is that having a shorter commute would allow you to work longer hours. In reality many of us have set work hours, or are paid salary (funny that they picked $25/hour…

Could it be coincidence that Microsoft's Forefront just decided Chrome is a virus and removed it from my computer?

Well, it's just oil. It's no more or less natural than butter. Margarine, on the other hand, is often far more processed and may contain unnatural trans-fat which is terrible stuff. The oils they use for movie theater popcorn tend to be much higher in saturated fat than butter is. Saturated fat has long been thought…

For Mac I recently used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drive when I bought a replacement. It worked wonderfully (there were a few hiccups like I had to re-register MS Office). It supports incremental, scheduled and network cloning. Best of all: it's free.

My take on this is that if you need to use a tool like this then you should probably change all your passwords no matter what it says. You shouldn't reuse passwords and you should probably use a password manager. If you don't reuse passwords then your hardly need a site that doesn't even tell you which password to…

Those payment protection plans are scams. They are typically 1% of your balance... per month. That's slightly more than 12% a year! If you have a card with a 10% APR you more than double the interest by signing up for those plans. If you don't carry a balance then you don't need that insurance. If you do carry a…

I'm a happy HTC Incredible owner but I have the opposite opinion on this from you. Friends of mine with iPhones don't seem to ever worry about battery life. I do. So does my wife with her Droid. So do all my other friends with Android phones. Not to say that it's impossible to get better battery life, and I believe…

I found this Bargaineering post, and perhaps more importantly the video within it, to be especially helpful in negotiating with car dealerships. Specifically, the parts about getting the "drive it off the lot" price that includes everything, make them stick to that price and walk away from the deal if they change it.