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These nuts are really good. They're described as "maple spiced" but the primary flavors are rosemary, red/black pepper, and brown sugar which is an interesting and surprisingly good flavor combination. I think they just make one run of them this season so they sell out quickly though. As with some other seasonal trader joes products I wish they weren't marketed as a seasonal item so they would make them all year round. I don't know if I really trust wirecutter these days. Since they make their money from affiliate links, I also wonder if that affects the products they choose to include in their ratings, but maybe the bigger problem with all products reviews is that companies make so many new models of their products all the time that 1) the reviews tend to be out of date by the time you actually go to purchase something anyway and 2) if they are reviewing the latest models, I doubt whether wirecutter/atk/consumer reports is actually able to use them long enough to test their reliability adequately.

Interesting. I was eyeing that cream cheese at the store, but I couldn't think of what to eat it with so I didn't end up buying it.

I'm using a My Weigh ultraship scale I bought 15 years ago (great except that it uses C batteries and doesn't seem to turn off automatically) in combination with a cheap, tiny .1 gram scale for small amounts. I don't really see the point in having them integrated if they are still two separate pads on the scale. Edit: it just occurred to me that the ultraship scale must have an optional auto off more so I googled the manual and sure enough. I'm not sure why I didn't do that earlier.

It's honey that's made spicy by simmering it with peppers or something like that. It seems to be trendy now.

It sounds like in their clarification they're saying exactly that

Between this and the oleato it seems like Starbucks is really trying to use strange novelty drinks to generate free publicity.

Could I ask for the recipe for this, or if you don't have one handy, just a description of how you prepare the sweet potatoes?

I don't think there's any routine testing of foods for heavy metal contamination, so I'm not sure the FDA could really enforce that in practice, even if they wanted to. Maybe they'll do something after this report but I don't think that has happened after similar reports about other foods, and I suspect they don't have the resources to do that. I believe they have actually attempted to enforce limits on heavy metals in baby food, but I think that might be the only product category where they have done so. I do agree that spices might not actually be that big a concern for adults compared to other foods because of the quantities typically being used. Stuff like cocoa and chocolate (which was also recently reported to have a major problem with heavy metal contamination) where you would typically be using a larger quantity is probably more of a concern.

I guess that would be useful if you only have worn nonstick pans available for whatever reason. Personally I agree with AlaMoi that if you're going to use nonstick pans, it makes the most sense to just buy a cheap one and plan on replacing it as soon as it starts to wear out.

Even if you could theoretically somehow season a nonstick pan, wouldn't that defeat the purpose because the resulting surface would only be as nonstick as a cast iron pan, which is less nonstick than PTFE?