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Chef designed? I don't think chefs can design any machine. Good sales pitch. Have you noticed that all quality cordless power tools are now powered by brushless motors? I believe very soon blenders will follow. I want a blender with a small but powerful motor that runs super fast and very quiet, also long lasting. That would be a brushless motor powered blender. I want a blender with better blade steel that can stay sharp. I want a blender that can have supercapacitors built in to give incredible burst of instant power beyond the power limit of 1800 watts of your typical outlet. I want a blender with a variable speed control from 0 to max RPM. (40,000 RPM would be nice, reversible would be nice, ) I do not want an "Intelligent" machine! Not until I get some strange brain deceased that causes most of my brain cells to die off. dcarch

In NYC, apartment buildings will not allow access to roof tops due to insurance and liability issues. Office building roof tops are expensive real estates for cooling towers, elevator machine rooms, window cleaning rigs, exhaust fans, generators, etc. dcarch

Malabar spinach is a wonderful vegetable. It is also a very beautiful decorative plant in your garden. dcarch

Kind of like my goji berry plant. dcarch

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Bees forage 2 to 6 miles from hives. Bees can also make honey from sugar water. They will not operate for too long. They will be sued for $$$ if someone is allergic to bee stings. Liability lawyers love situations like this. dcarch

Difficult to say what's behind this ridiculous action: "---------------However it seems possible that cheese ban is itself a tit-for-tat response to an earlier move by the UK. On April 30, the day before British cheese exports to China were blocked, the UK adopted an EU law that bans the sale of unlicensed herbal products, in particular those used for Chinese herbal medicine.------" dcarch

May have nothing to do with bacteria and science. perhaps international economic politics? trade negotiations/deals? Like "If you buy my cooked chickens, I will buy your beef"? dcarch

Happened today. Working in my garden, I get all kinds of bug bites. Two days ago I found a rash near my ankle. It is a ring like rash. I googled and the rash kind of looks like Lyme tick bite manifestation. I immediately made an appointment to see a lyme disease specialist. Doctor, " Yeah, interesting rash, but it does not look like a lyme tick bite. But have you other unusual symptoms, headache? fever? fatigue?---" Me, trying to be funny, "No doctor; but I suddenly have this craving for Key Lyme pie." Doctor, "That can be worrisome. I will have to give you a Key Lyme blood test to make sure." dcarch

Based on the law of Newtonian physics, it is impossible to pull noodles successfully. Unless you can achieve 100 % purity, 100% uniformity of dough diameter, which is not possible, the weakest link in the thread of noodles will always fail much quicker and break immediately. However, it is interesting that the Chinese pulled noodles technique has created a non-newtonian condition with dough/water mixture and the dough can behave in a very strange way. Check out youtube about other non-Newtonian videos. That is the key, I believe, to the whole puzzlement why you fail to pull noodles successfully after a hundred experiments. dcarch

Artichokes and tomatoes can be perennials in LA, but not in NY. I think all edible weeds in NY are perennials. You can never get rid of them. :-( dcarch

In LA? Everything is perennial. Amaranth is semi-perennial. It comes back every year from self-seeding. dcarch

Indians use red dye to make their Tandoori chickens red. Chinese use red dye to make their roasted pork red. dcarch

And who would want to eat Patagonian toothfish? dcarch

A knife is of not much use without a cutting board. :-) When I was in college, a can opener. :-) If you are Chinese, chopsticks. :-) There are cultures, bow and arrow. :-) dcarch

350 watts and 22,000rpm would be a fun tool in the kitchen. You can really do a lot with that kind of power and RPM. Do consider this: A stick blender typically uses what is known as a universal motor. A universal motor needs a lot of ventilation to dissipate heat build up. The physics law of energy conservation applies. 1 watt = 3.412 BTUs. Unlike most other mechanical devices, a stick blender cannot ventilate heat buildup because it needs to be water proof. So 300 watts, at full load (blending thick stuff) 300 x 3.412 = 1023 btus of heat. It can get pretty hot to hold on to. dcarch

Bamix is a relatively low powered and low speed blender, at 140 Watts and 8,000 rpm. Many blenders work at 200 watts to over 300 watts, and up to 20,000 rpm. That does not mean Bamix is not a good blender. It depends on your preference. dcarch

I understand that dim sum is always with tea for the Chinese. As a matter of fact they don't even say "let's do dim sum", they say "let's go have tea". dcarch

Something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crown-375-377-Scraper-Burnisher-and-2-Piece-Crown-Cabinet-Scraper-Set-/322626712518?hash=item4b1e0cf3c6:g:rkMAAOSwnSxZf5kj It comes with a burnishing tool to sharpen it's edges. The scarper gives a "mirror" smooth surface. dcarch

Regardless of what kind of cutting board you use, it will get lots of grooves from cutting, some deep ones and some shallow ones. I recommend getting a set of cabinet maker's scraper for scraping the surface. The scraper will remove many shallow grooves, and keep the surface cleaner. dcarch

Please! Please don't tell the world about neck bones. Keep it a secret between you and me. The next thing you know neck bones will be $$$$$$$$$$$$$!!! dcarch

Now that USA can ship beef to China, ---------- If you think beef is expensive now! 1.379 billion mouths can eat in one month all the oxtails USA produces in one year. dcarch

Actualy, there are still other options. Look on ebay, dental adhesives. dcarch l

Rubber bands. dcarch

If the stuff is good tasting, inexpensive and healthy why should it be considered disgusting? That is because they called it "Meat"? They should call it "Neat" the other New protein. dcarch