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@Shelby I'll bet you a scrap metal place would give you a few Imperfect boxes worth of cash for those. I think we are officially done with Misfits — ultimately because of their shipping. Our last box was delivered by LaserShip, who I've rarely had good luck with. It was a day late and looked like it had been turned upside down quite a few times. Only one thing was completely ruined, but several things were damaged in transit — bruised fruit and whatnot. And the herbs were rotten by the time they arrived. Misfits customer service is great, and they of course refunded the damaged items — but ultimately we have better options. Imperfect has better selection (including a couple of non-produce items that we've really grown to love), and I'm willing to order stuff from them that I wouldn't from Misfits because I'm more confident that they'll arrive intact. And the local vendor I mentioned upthread has actually been super reliable and cheaper than either of these two.

My theory is that multiple boxes were damaged and some delivery person shoved the bars that fell out of another box into your open box so they didn't have to deal with the paperwork for loose items.

Depends if you want the steel to fully render -- 2800F if you do, a little lower if you want a more toothsome texture.

Thanks for all the replies. They are all sealed up so we might just end up donating them — I had thought of that but figured the bags would be too big. But as @Margaret Pilgrim suggests it might be just the thing for a soup kitchen or similar. We *also* have a huge bag of old fashioned oats that I think most of these suggestions would work just as well for 🙂 I did see some mention that quick cooking oats are steamed for significantly longer than other oats — apparently they don't work well in oat milk recipes for that reason. So it might make them a poor choice for oat flour used as flour (though probably fine in the breadcrumb use case).

Oh boy. I have somehow found myself with ten pounds of quick oats. I bought a huge package by accident six months ago — my partner uses lots of rolled oats to make granola, and I hit the wrong button on Amazon. Oh well, I'll figure out something to do with them, I said. Well, apparently I clicked "Subscribe and Save," because another 80oz box just showed up. Normally we are steel cut oat people for normal eating — the texture of instant or quick oats cooked "normally" is not exactly our favorite. I would love to find some recipes that we can make regularly to use these up. I know I can put them into cookies and the like, but by my math this would make 400 cookies, and we really don't need to be eating 400 cookies right now 🤣 Healthy breakfasts would be especially great, but totally open to just about anything — sweet, savory, breads, whatever.

I have no useful feedback to the OP, but you're all making me lean even more heavily towards passing up gas when we redo our kitchen.

They're still for sale — for $175 (!!)

Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques — US Kindle edition $2.99 today (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

This company is interesting -- they seem to only sell vacuum sealers, and the ones they have are all very similar to other popular models on the market. They make three models of suction sealers, and most of them are very close in appearance to models from Cabelas, Weston, and Nesco. They also have a couple of affordable chamber sealers.

Carbon steel is pretty much a worst case scenario for even heating on any source — it doesn't have the thermal transfer of aluminum or copper, nor does it have the mass of cast iron to hold heat. I think you can expect to always get some hot spots unless the coil size is the same size as the pan or larger. Most countertop units have a somewhat small coil by necessity. Based on the teardown photo in this image I would guess the Breville has a coil somewhere between 20-25cm in diameter?

I noticed when browsing appliances recently that the new GE induction ranges offer a very familiar looking, optional bluetooth cooking probe. They also appear to support Hestan Cue pans.

A *minimum* 2 inch insertion depth is going to rule out a number of applications.

I had a very similar issue with my full-size KA food processor. Interlock mechanism on the work bowl broke. They sold them for probably 15 years, but there are almost no replacement work bowls available. I finally found one with the wrong color handle after searching for ages. I don't think KA actually manufactures anything but its stand mixers in house. *Those* seem to have great parts availability -- everything else, not so much. I'm pretty sure the issue with my FP was that they switched manufacturers -- I bought this one because it was made in France, but the new ones haven't been for ages.

@ElsieD Also poke around on various sites under different brand names for just "stainless baking sheets" or "stainless baking tray" — these seem to be a generic import from China, and at least on US Amazon, you can find *identical* pans under a dozen brands. I bought some larger pans of a similar style recently for my weird size wall oven, and ended up with "HUSHIDA" instead of "TeamFar." Every detail of the pans appears identical. The selection seems to be less on amazon.ca but there are a few -- e.g., this "Raynag" pan for $18: hopefully eGullet-friendly amazon.ca link

Agreed on Thermoworks being a joy to work with — their shipping fulfillment is also top notch. They almost always have stuff out the door and to the post office in a matter of hours after I hit the order button. I actually have a new Signals sitting in the box — I accidentally destroyed one of my Pops by leaving it on the grill and somehow used that to justify the bigger model. Overkill for now, but I'm hoping to acquire some smoking apparatuses in the future.

+1 on the small TeamFar pans. I have this slightly larger one (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) and it fits as well (though only in one orientation, and only in certain rack positions).

@rotuts Rechargeables do produce a bit less voltage than a new alkaline battery — most of them are nickel metal hydride (NiMH) which produces 1.2v at full charge. A *new* alkaline will produce 1.5v, and gradually taper off to 1.0v over time. 9V batteries are made up of multiple internal cells in series — which has the effect of multiplying the voltage difference. A 9v alkaline is typically 6x 1.5v cells. 9v NiMH rechargeables can be 6, 7, or 8 cells internally — leading to voltages of 7.2v, 8.4v, or 9.6v. (There are also some lithium ones that are 7.2v — two 3.6v cells internally). If you could find one of the 7- or 8-cell NiMH rechargeables it *might* work, but it's probably not worth the effort.

No -- though it's interesting that your Imperfect boxes come via FedEx. In our area they're delivered by Imperfect's own drivers. Or at least they were at our old place — this week will be our first box from either service since we moved in April. (I did have that happen to a Target box recently, though — in their case, it seemed like their systems were programmed to automatically refund anything with that status. So it must happen pretty often.)

Interesting new rice container from Yamazaki Home popped up in my feed: It's divided vertically into twelve pre-measured chambers that each hold one rice cooker cup of rice. You simply slide the lid open on the right number of openings, and pour. Sounds convenient but I wonder if it would be a pain to fill.

Did you use the same method as the SE article you linked, with the first cook basically a confit?

Hey, it's a Christmas pudding, you're just early for December 😀

Thanks for all the replies to this! A lot of good options. We will be redoing most of the house over the next couple of years so I suspect installing a more central filter at that point is a great idea. @AlaMoi, do you happen to know the make and model of yours? In the meantime, we may be able to fit one of the smaller models above under our sink.

You might be able to just replace the hinges — you can get wider-opening concealed face frame hinges, up to at least 170°: E.g. (not sure if these are the right size): Blum 170 degree face frame hinges They are more expensive than the 90° ones but if you just need them on the pantry doors, it wouldn't be a huge investment.

Does anyone here have an under-sink water filter they really like? We had an in-fridge water filter for years; we just moved, and replacing the fridge isn't in the cards for various reasons. I'd much rather go with an under sink filter (the kind with a little faucet) but I can't seem to find a review of a unit people are actually happy with. I just want something that provides basic filtration for taste and won't leak, something we had with the fridge filter for ages. Seems like it shouldn't be so hard to find...

Coincidentally, I saw this thread pop up in the forum, and came here to say almost exactly the same thing. We had to replace a leaking faucet when moving into our new place, and also ended up with a Delta Touch2O. Have been very happy with it (I have some minor quibbles with the spray head, but that is unrelated to the touch tech). I tried this years ago (using a purpose-built extension kit), and could never get the soap pump to actually pull soap up from the bottle. Was there any trick in priming the pump to get it to work the first time?