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My take is that tea towels are linen, muslin or the like, and do a better job of drying dishes whereas hand towels are terry cloth.

Here's the link to the recipe in andie's blog.

I have commented in other threads as to having an incredible variety of supermarkets to choose from within a 5 mile radius of my house. Competition is fierce. There are 2 local chains that wouldn't be on the national ranking, Stater Bors (famous for their meats) and Superior Grocers. I go to Superior Grocers for produce and occasionally meat that is on sale. Those stores marked with ** are within 5 miles of my home, most within 3 miles. There are other local chain supermarkets within the 5 mile radius that I won't shop at. Publix Super Markets: 77% - None around me Wegmans: 77% - None around me Trader Joe’s Market: 75% - TJs doesn't fit how I shop and is out of the way. H-E-B: 69% - None around me ALDI: 68% - I dislike their customer interface model and don't shop there ** Harris Teeter: 66% - None around me Hy-Vee Food Stores: 65% - None around me Costco: 65% - One of my main two stores to shop at, 2nd place ** WinCo Foods: 62% - My go-to market. ** Whole Foods Market: 61% - none close and I don't care, I'm not their target demographic. Fry’s: 58% - None around me Kroger: 57% (Ralphs in my area) Kroger destroyed this store. I buy soda there when they have good sales ** ## Target: 56% - very little ** Winn-Dixie Stores: 54% - None around me ShopRite: 53% - None around me Food Lion: 52% - None around me Albertsons: 49% - Not convenient and I don't know how people afford to shop there. Meijer: 49% - None around me Sam’s Club: 49% - I let our Sams Club membership lapse, just didn't buy enough there to keep it Ginat Food Stores: 43% - None around me Safeway: 39% (Vons in our area) - I buy soda there when it's on a good sale. ** Stop & Shop: 38% - None around me Wal-Mart: 31% - the odd item here and there. I do a lot of shopping at Wal-Mart in general and if I need some minor grocery item I pick it up. ** My DW and I were die-hard Ralphs shoppers for over 3 decades. The changes that Kroger made drove us away. Some of it just weird, like turning off the interior perimeter lights at 10:00 p.m., cheese cases, milk, meat, produce, etc. I found that some of the Kroger house brand stuff wasn't up to the same quality as when it was still a real Ralphs. The biggest thing was the deceptive weekly ads. For example, Oscar Meyer bacon would normally be shelf-tagged at $4.99/lb. They would then put it on sale for $3.99, claiming half off, saying that $7.99/lb was their regular price.

Thanks. Just bought it.

My DW and I didn't attend the FFS last year or this year. I don't recall ever seeing the Japanese knife booth before.

Sounds like San Francisco hotel prices to me. Such an incredibly high cost of living city.

I would like to make sure that one detail is clear. I had no intention of ever using this knife myself. I own a lot of knives for my own kitchen, not to mention the 20 or so I have for my faire kitchens. A new find at a thrift store would have to be rather special for me to buy yet another knife for myself. The last such purchase was a Shun carving knife. On a related note, I am a firm believer in buying tools that work well for my style of cooking. I am not interested in having tools that require me to adapt to how they would like to be used. I am very fond of this quote from Waiting for Godot, "There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."

Way back when my DW was a typesetter for a menu printing company. Menu printing companies also print wine lists. They used to get rush jobs for new wine lists and ended up making a parody wine list, The Super Rush Wine List, based on how easy it is to mess things up if you are rushed. We no longer have a copy but I remember one. Wish I could remember more. Graves - served at tomb temperature.

This is a post about a fail. (Table knife shown for scale) I found this small Sabatier Santoku knife i my favorite thrift shop for finding knives: I paid $2.00 for it. I figured to offer it to my younger DD after I put a new edge on it. I pulled out my trusty EdgePro and had a new edge on it in less than 15 minutes. I do two things when I think I have the edge I want. First, I give it the paper-slicing test a' la the EdgePro video. Not perfect, but reasonable. My second test is slicing up a carrot. That is when I started rapping my knuckles on the cutting board. On the edge to spine axis the handle is not far enough away from the blade edge. I can't chop or slice with it. Fail! I can't think of anyone who I know that could use it. I am far from disconsolate. I have had way to many wins to let this be a deterrent.

Drying dishes? I am assuming that you either don't have or don't use a dishwasher.

12-15. That's all the drawer space allotted to them allow. I use terry towels but should have a few real "tea" towels. They last my DW and myself for years at a time. Some of them, after they get stained, become farie kitchen towels. I HATE microfiber towels.

I'm trying peanut oil this evening.

Threads and Tutorials of interest. Knife Maintenance adn Sharpening https://forums.egullet.org/topic/139988-best-way-to-sharpen-a-knife/ https://forums.egullet.org/topic/104022-knife-sharpening-systems-edgepro-apex/ You can also try googling "egullet sharpening stones"

IMHO if you want to go with a pyrex bowl you will need to go thrift shopping for a while. Bowls where the logo looks like PYREX are desirable, but products with the rounded pyrex lettering, that which is sold today, are made of a different glass. I am not a chocolatier, just someone who wants to help others stay safe.

What weinoo said. I am a die-hard fan of Edge-Pro.

Sweet.

How I respond to under-priced items depends on the store. I regularly shop 14 different Goodwill thrift stores in two different management regions. They quite often put out broken items, like a bowl with a major chip going down the side of the bowl priced as if they were in perfect working order. I know of their claim of being a charitable rehabilitation institution but they have turned into (IMHO) a corrupt big business. For those stores, if I found a $100 gold piece priced for $0.50, I'd give them $0.50.

Sous Vide ribeye, 3 1/4 hours at 131. I will chop up and carmelize an onion and add a can of Ranch Style Beans to it. I know that Ranch Style Beans aren't home made but they are a favorite of my DW and mine. Probably will end up serving fruit of some ilk. There will a Hendrick's gin and tonic a little later. I will will open a red for dinner. I'm a mean grandpa. I won't let my 3 3/4 y/o grandson watch any given movie twice in the same day. I will do something like Toy Story, TS2 and TS3 in the same day. And now that he and his parents have moved out I need to get my own copy of Hotel Transylvania.

I consider this to be a valuable addition to my library as a reference tool.

I noticed something in some of your traditions and menus that is different from ours. For both Thanksgiving and Christmas we do not do nibbles beforehand. Everyone lives reasonably close by so timing can be controlled and we don't generally worry about weather conditions affecting travel here in So Cal.

A very nice in-use kitchen.

Canada's Thanksgiving is separated by almost 3 months, in the U.S. it's roughly a month. that may factor into it. Cheers.

My daughter, who is expecting her second child, is jonesing for some poutine. Are there any decent places to getting, preferably closer to the IE?

@Shel_B Your neck of the woods has been a "Pepsi stronghold" for a long time. In southern California the scales still tip towards Coke products. Easiest way to see that is at fast food places and smaller restaurants. Coke products are found in a majority of them; that influences where we stop to spend our bucks. I noticed when checking something last week that my DW and I have been member since 1994, back when around here they were Price Club.

My DW is very firm on something, and I am okay with it. Turkey is for Thanksgiving and NOT for Christmas.