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...and green bell peppers. Maybe raisins.

I got mine in a random kitchen-stuff grab bag at Value Village for $1.99 or something like that, along with some other random things which elude my recollection at the moment.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/super-stinky-durian-fruit-could-charge-your-cell-phone-someday/ I suppose some would argue that non-culinary use represents a step forward...

Sounds pretty good.

Lots of interesting items in the "similar products" on that Amazon page. This one seems pretty well rounded, but the "vertical toaster oven" is just odd.

I was going to pipe up in protest, because I like them a lot, but then remembered that I *am* over 50 and have been for some years now.

I don't know if it's generational or cultural/geographic, but I don't grasp the use of string in laundry (unless perhaps as an emergency DIY clothesline).

LOL I misread that at first, and thought the beer went with the fried egg and the onion-and-cheese bread. Threw me for a moment...I know you enjoy a libation well enough, but hadn't figured you for a beer at breakfast person.

You can also get popup outlets now that fit neatly into the middle of the oversized islands that are currently popular. It leaves your space free when they're not in use, but means you don't have to confine appliances to the ends of the island.

I've had a couple over the years that ran significantly hot. I took to using a small wire heat diffuser, the kind people used to put under their coffee pot, under the insert (or sometimes, two of them). That made a definite difference.

Yup. My GF did without one quite happily until a couple of years before we got together (though in her case, it was because she'd believed someone's tale of them being a radiation hazard). Mine gets used every morning to heat my oatmeal, and through the day to reheat my morning pot of tea one cup at a time. Also for thawing/reheating food as well, though not as consistently. Never really found a use-case for a CSO in my own kitchen, though doubtless if I tripped across a working specimen on a buy-sell site for a suitable price (which in my case means $50-$60 CDN) I'd splurge. It would be a dull old world if we all had the same preferences and predilections. Edited to clarify: I make a large batch of steel-cut oats and then reheat it one portion at a time over a period of days. I'm not talking about the (shudder) instant kind.

Having seared, scalded or outright ignited various portions of my clothing and anatomy over the years, I'm averse to reaching over the stove for anything. As always, though, it's useful to hear opposed views.

I'm kind of curious about this, so I'm going to ask for clarification. Is it your current microwave that you're specifically attached to, or the general notion of an over-range microwave? I've always considered an over-the-range microwave to be the sort of thing one does from stark necessity, when there's no other practical place to have one. If there are specific advantages to such an arrangement I'd be curious to hear them.

Beet greens are my very favorite. But really, I like all of the greens.

One of the amusing things about all of this is that an executive at Giphy, the GIF-creation site, is cited as an authority for the hard-g pronunciation. All along I'd thought the whole point of the site's name was to be pronounced "Jiffy."

There's a TQ-equivalent recipe here, and probably on many other similar forums: https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/tender-quick-substitute-with-prague-powder.261212/

Jif and its natural-brand counterpart Adams have recently been pitching "dark roast" peanut butter, with a darker hue (which turned out to be due, at least in part, to molasses) and an allegedly deeper peanut flavor. I bought a jar for curiosity's sake, and found it to be...peanut butter. It did taste slightly more peanutty and less sweet than my previous jar, but that wasn't Jif so it isn't a direct comparison.

Ars Technica weighed in a few days ago, as well. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/a-peanut-butter-brand-has-put-its-spoon-into-the-gif-pronunciation-debate/

Aqua Okeano/Seven Baskets fish balls, possibly national (at least On/Que), because of botulism. https://www.inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-02-25/eng/1582678216429/1582678216779?utm_source=r_listserv

I can guarantee that's exactly what it is, because I regularly get paid (by lesser sites, alas) to create exactly that type of article.

Didn't Ruhlman have a story in The Making Of a Chef about a Chinese-American instructor at the CIA taking a chicken from live to cooked and plated in something ridiculous like 30 seconds? (Only a small portion of the chicken, one would presume)

Sadly, some guards - to misappropriate Orwell - are more equal than others.

...and also, fried rice. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/georgia-tech-physicists-unlock-the-secret-to-perfect-wok-tossed-fried-rice/