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I use it to thaw pizza slices prior to the Breville. To precook diced potatoes before the skillet. Mostly for warming plates. That's it. Hate the space it takes up, but I do not live alone.

You rent one?

To me, the strength of grilled corn is the caramelization. I always shuck and grill naked (corn).

I agree with you, Blether. The joys of wagyu/kobe are lost on me. Just feels greasy in the mouth and not very beefy tasting. I wouldn't eat it if it were cheap.

You clearly are not aware of what you are saying. Minimum wage in NYC is $8.00/hour. Save the rhetoric and get your facts straight. And lets keep the conversation civil, OK pal?

Lets think through what a server might make at a diner. 8 hours x $2.13 = $17.04 in salary lets say he/she served 30 customers ( a low number, I think for 8 hours) who had an average check of $20 (also low) and they all tipped 15% that's $90 tips plus salary for 107 for 8 hours or $13.38/hour. And I bet I've way-underestimated things. Might be half again or twice as much.

Well, it must be enough money for them to keep at the job because observation indicates that the servers are there and working. Unless its just a hobby for them. Would they like to do better? Sure. Is the current system stupid? Absolutely.

I'm no defender of the US tipping policy, but Moyers (as usual) only gives half of the story. Certainly the minimum wage for servers is crazy low...and tipping is variable, but the fact that there actually are servers working in restaurants indicates that they are making enough money to stay in that job.

Made a few explosions myself back then. Gunpowder...ammonium tri-iodide..calcium carbide in a bottle. Good times.

Too bad I've already had dinner. I want to grill something NOW.

Mine arrived today too!

Those plastic jobs that you can twist to pop out ice are least suckfull. We have an icemaker that breaks down about yearly and takes up a ton of freezer space in exchange for the convenience of getting a handful of ice in one motion instead of two. Not sure its worth it.

Might be something to this. A scrawny girl won the hideous Wing Bowl this year.

Krugerrand for me.

I recall an article somewhere that said that WF was competitive on staples, but high-priced on luxury items.

Actually, none of us gets to determine reality even for ourselves. Reality is not a matter of opinion or preference. It just is.

You are discussing an interesting moral dilemma for city-folk. Whole Foods and serious "Farmer's Markets" are more or less urban things. For most of the country one or two (shitty) supermarket chains, Costco and Wal*Mart are all the grocery store that we have. I'm not really in the sticks, but the nearest Whole Foods is 45 minutes away at best. The nearest farmer's market worth the drive is an hour away and only open three days a week. H-Mart? Forget about it. CSAs are in the area, but who wants a bushel of veg that somebody else picks out for you? WTF am I going to do with all this frigging eggplant?

Except for meats and dairy, expiration dates are mostly arbitrary, I think. Some things lose flavor if too old, like coke or beer, but they don't become dangerous. Someone in my household (who will go unnamed) threw out a bunch of just-expired condiments without replacing them last year. The "for better or for worse" clause needed to be invoked.

Gilbert gottfreid has an excellent piece on the outrage epidemic in a recent playboy magazine. I'd link to it but the PC nazis at GoGo inflight internet keep blocking the link as inappropriate. The irony. I'm outraged! You can google it anyway. The F word will turn up in it so don't be outraged.

In Florida for a few days. Restaurant food followed by a big jug of G&T on the beach with fireworks and cigars.

Right on that. The PC mafia regularly uses twitter for lynchings.

Really? I would be careful not to inhale in there.

I had to look up Nick Searcy and then the twitter rant. My goodness, what a lot of noise from a group of nobodies! But back to Adam Richman. Any publicity is good publicity, I guess. Unless one is molesting Airedales.

can you scrape them without screwing up the surface?

Celebs and athletes ought never to have a twitter account that they manage themselves. Oy.