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I can't add anything to the OP's question, I don't care for what I see in stores/on websites for the price range. We'll be leaving California when our new house to retire in is finished (California is butt-ugly expensive to retire in). I will be having a 30" open burner Blue Star RCS installed in our kitchen. I've waited a long time to own this stove. Since the open burner version doesn't have the broiler in the oven, we purchased an Oster French Door Toaster et al oven. We put it into immediate use in our current kitchen. We don't actually use a broiler all that often but still wanted one for when we do want a broiler.

@Duvel I've eaten at a 5 Guys near us a couple of times when we took our daughter, SIL and their children. I don't understand the draw. It wasn't bad; for me it was just a burger.

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I bought a bottle today and sampled it. It won't be added to my condiments collection.

@Smithy My local WalMart and the Ralphs(Kroger) in the next town over have some. I've never heard of it before.

Yay and thank you. I look forward to your travels and the foods you and your darling eat.

I'm really enjoying "going along" on this trip. Thank you. Are 5 Guys Burgers common in urban German areas?

A while back I bought an off-brand vacuum sealer that I was very happy with - until I ran out of the roll of bag material. I had plenty of FoodSaver bags and rolls and so I grabbed one of them. The sealer wouldn't seal them. FoodSaver has thicker sides. So ... Santa came a bit early this year and I purchased this: I'm happy with it. Tonight's pork chops are in a sous vide bath. I've put some boneless beef short ribs in another back. When the pork is done I'll bring the temperature down in on my circulator and let them go for at least 16 hours.

A point of interest to me is that the kitchens that had AGAs had other ranges as well.

It's not currently available for streaming. The last time I was able to watch it was season 1 on Amazon Prime. It's on our watch list should they ever bring it back. I would buy it on disc in heart beat but I don't have high hopes for ever finding it.

Seeing them used on several episodes of Lords and Ladles it appeared that you had to learn how the stove would tell you how to cook instead of you telling your range to operate to your ways of cooking/baking. Lords and Ladles was filmed in great estate homes.

If I were invited to Bobby Flay's house to eat I would decline, not because of the animals, but because Bobby Flay would be there.

I'm so glad my Sweetie picked out the no-touch faucet. I just love washing my hands, waving at the sensor to turn it off, then drying my hands. I've got a thing about turning on a faucet with dirty hands, washing said hands, then touching the faucet that I just touched with dirty hands. In public restrooms. I wash the faucet with my soaped-up hands, wash my hands, then drip water onto the faucet to rinse it off as I rinse my hands off. I would not say that I am germaphobic but I do believe in avoiding what I consider to be cross-contamination, or whatever the proper term is.

Update. We took our grandson up to "the Lake" for an loong weekend of fishing. My Sweetie ran in to Schatz to pick up a couple of things, and she picked up a loaf of Vollkorbnbrot. It was the loaf we would expect. Our best guess is that on the previous trip we purchased a loaf mistakenly labeled as Vollkorbnbrot. Yay for getting the real deal again.

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@Duvel I am appreciating your travel blog more that words can express. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am also loving that your shortest one already likes lamb so much. The KOA campgrounds chain here in the US offers both simple cabins that provide beds but no other inside amenities, and cabins with full amenities, as well as tent camping and RV camping spaces. My sister and her husband quite liked to use the basic cabins when they traveled. We've never tried them but then we've never done a lot of car-trip traveling; retirement will be changing that.

As a diabetic I balance the choice of having a cocktail with keeping the sugar content down. My Sweetie also prefers Diet Schweppes. Alcohol side comment: some evenings I have a nightcap of rum and caffeine free Diet Coke. I can hear some random members twitching from here ...

Everyday gin: Tanqueray Gin to pay attention to: Hendrick's For variety: Hendrick's Summer Solstice. My Sweetie used to be a Bombay Sapphire but now it's Hendrick's all the way. She first had Hendrick's in the lounge at the Carthay Circle in Disney California Adventure. As is typical, I finished it for her and voile two new converts. Give us Schweppes Diet Tonic. Accept no substitutes..

Happy Birthday! My computer is arguing with eG. The photo doesn't want to show the correct orientation.

Thank you, @Toliver, for continuing this posts. Had to buy the AB book. Adds to my pile of digital books for vacations and such. It will probably get read while in the eastern Sierras later this month.

That's never been a problem for me.

@orbisvicis Never been a problem for me.

I've used these 12 qt pots from Bed, Bath & Beyond in my ren faire kitchens for years, same pot but they used a different "brand" name for them when I bought them. They hold up well. I've made countless soups in them. I've used them on regular stoves and 30k BTU camp stoves, they can take it. I have both the pot above and the ones with the pasta insert. The pasta insert works very well for steaming large amounts of veggies, hard cooking 5 dozen eggs, etc.

@liuzhou They don't say how the customers are prepared.

Regarding the question of Hot German Potato Salad being an actual German dish, yes it is. I checked in a cookbook written in Germany and it lists 4 regional variations. I mentioned this to my wife and she reminded me of when we served my MIL's recipe for HGPS to our friend Geli years ago, and Geli said it was was an authentic dish. Our friendship with her and her husband was such that she would not have said so just out of politeness.