I use cornmeal instead of masa, let it cook for 10 minutes or so after adding to the chili (I have many dishes that call for cornmeal, few for masa, so cornmeal is always on hand). That said, this comment is an excuse for me to praise the flurry of helpful articles that arrived beginning late last week — the posting…

I am surprised that an article about knife care doesn’t contain a few words about cleaning and storage, the two most common, detrimental, and easily remedied mistakes I see people making constantly. Is this going to be a separate article?

If you like A-1 on your steak, you don’t like the taste of steak.  You like the taste of A-1.

As someone who lives in snowy country and has an obvious use for ‘snow’ tires, I’d say that winter tires are also much, much better at stopping in icy weather, which I would expect is not uncommon in NEPA.

Thank you for that clarification, I thought it was on all highways. I mentioned construction zones, I knew about school zones too but we were talking freeways.

by law the State Police can’t ticket you until you are at least 10mph over

Eff that. I had a Jeep Wrangler that had no cruise control. My leg would ache on long trips from being locked in one position for so long. I ran a bike shifter cable from the throttle body to a thumb shifter strapped to my gearshift. Less of a cruise control and more of a hand throttle, but it held whatever position I…

I drive 106 miles a day commuting and 95 of them are interstate miles. I whole heartedly concour with your comment. I know exactly who isn't using cruise and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't use it on the highway. 

I used to be that way.  Then I drove a car with adaptive cruise control.  That I will use.   The old school sucks especially on hills with an automatic.  But adaptive makes things so much nicer.

An explanation for the cruise: most of my highway driving is in PA, where the speed limit on interstates is either 65 or 70, by law the State Police can’t ticket you until you are at least 10mph over, and in practice they don’t ticket you until you are 80 or over (other than construction zones, which have no leeway…

Any MPG increase you get from anticipating hills is wiped out by all the back and forth decelerating and accelerating you do the rest of the time.

Unless you’re doing 100 mph in an 80 mph zone, I’m ignoring your blinking. If I’m in the left lane doing 85, it’s because the cars to my right are going slower than that. Live with it.

I’m with you on Cruise Control.  I can get significantly better MPG without it because I have eyes.  By that I mean I can see the upcoming grade and gently increase power instead of matting it like the cruise does the moment I drop below sixty.  

This. I have used cruise control once and never again.

Everyone on the highway hates you.

As long as they don’t rob too much headroom, I too love a sunroof.

There is nothing worse than a long trip without cruise to give the foot a break. I picked up a Volvo 940 in Austin TX and drove it home to FL with no cruise, first thing I did to that car was install the factory cruise kit. It was a dealer-installed option on those cars. All pre-wired for it, but many of them don’t…

Counter point: They’re awesome. My current car doesn’t have one, and I really miss it. After driving for 6 months with the defroster on and windows up, that first day where the sunroof can open and I can put the back windows down is pretty much my favourite day of the year. For the other half of the year where it’s…

It’s worse with a strange vehicle.

Same here, will only use on long highway trips just to make sure I don’t inadvertently go too much above the speed limit, but not I don’t like it.