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For effective stone polishing/repairs you need these: 1. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Diamond-Polishing-Pads-7-inch-Wet-Dry-28-1-Piece-Granite-Stone-Concrete-Marble-/221957874621?hash=item33adb863bd:g:D-8AAOSwkZhWSZ3S 2. An angle grinder. For deep cuts/chips, polishing will not work. Get granite & marble acrylic kit/compound (ebay, Amazon). Yes, money! but you will need to do this again and again and again in the future. dcarch

There are so much misinformation in the thread, I would not base my decision on that thread. For instance in just one reply: A. The maximum capacity for the MiniPro is 4 qts (1 gallon), so at 6 to 8 qts you'll be stretching it. If purchasing one of the more powerful models isn't an option, for optimal performance you should cut the larger batch sizes in half. Meaningless, capacity has nothing to do with the machine. You can stick the blender in Atlantic Ocean and the machine will perform exactly the same as in one gallon of water. As for wattage, the other brands don't rate their motors real-world (under load) and so that gives them a higher wattage result but it's inaccurate, misleading and in actual use doesn't mean anything. You can't rate a freewheeling universal type of brushed motor. The less load on the motor, the less wattage it will read. In addition to power, for a blender, you really need high RPM. 10000 RPM is very slow for a hand blender. A Vitamix is higher than 30,000 RPM. Hand blenders don't tell you about their RPMs. dcarch

Part of leg bones. Some call them pig wings dcarch

Nothing wrong with using your bathtub and shower, If you don't have a hose in your garden. dcarch

Without Missing A Beet Playing with using beets. I believe beets have great health benefits. ( Beet Benefits: Aphrodisiac, Brain Booster & More --------) dcarch Squid in pickled beet juice Roasted pork using beet juice instead of red dye Bass, beets and mustard green

Trying out a new technique. A typical convection oven fan does not circulate hot air that much. So I put an electric fan inside my convection oven to really move the air. The chicken was first washed with boiling seasoned water inside and outside, kind of like making Peking duck, After the chicken.was seasoned, I set the oven temperature to 185F with the fan on. Once the internal temperature reached 150F, the heat was lowered to 170F. About 5 hours later, the chicken was removed from the oven and into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. The electric fan was removed and the oven was preheated to 450F. The chicken was roasted for about 25 minutes. Because the chicken had been forced air cooked, the skin was completely dried out and the high temperature roasting made the skin very crispy. dcarch

Is it safe to sous vide freshwater fish at low temperature? dcarch

Because you can't apply equal/even cutting pressure on all the rolling cutters. dcarch

You can cut the time to just a few hours instead of days by putting a small fan in the refrigerator. I did the turkey that way, and I am doing a chicken now. dcarch

Runny egg yolk is not common in Chinese cooking. dcarch

"Form follows function" Which kitchen do you think turns out tastier food? if the function of a kitchen is for cooking and for a feeling of comfort, relaxation with family and friends. Julia's kitchen: https://dustandwanderlust.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/julias-kitchen-3.jpg dcarch

I bet it is very antagonistic to the principles of "Feng Shui" interior design. Too many hostile edges and funeral related colors. dcarch

Not true. People who have a kitchen like this use the kitchen all the time. They have hired home cooks, and house cleaners. dcarch

I like two things in that "kitchen" The wood cutting board. The wood "breakfast" table. Everything else I would immediately demolish and renovate to make it into a real kitchen. dcarch

Not that I don't trust their team. But for me I will wait. In their design, there are several materials in close contact with each other. Each with a different thermal expansion coefficient. In repeated heating and cooling, who knows how they will behave. If the thin pottery glaze develops a crack (what? cracks in pottery glaze?) you will have high voltage in direct contact with water. Perhaps they have safety built in. A normal heating coil has the heating element in thick ceramic jacket and the jacket is sealed in electrically grounded stainless steel tube. dcarch

I am not sure it's that new a concept in metal film heating. If you have one of those glass heating plates, you will find a thin metal film deposited on glass to do the heating. dcarch

CK's formal training is a degree in Primitive Art. Other than he had taken a few courses in cooking, he does not have much background in the food business, prior to ATK. dcarch

Actually, it is very patriotic to destroy money. Every dollar you destroy, the government is one dollar richer. For those of you who are interested in making penny tiles. Google penny tile template. dcarch

Check out "Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code" dcarch :-)

Buy some Twinwall plastic sheet and make your own. You can actually use packing tape to assemble in minutes and disassemble in minutes. Very strong against wind. Here is my bigger one which I have been using for many years. dcarch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDqDBw_F54

That is to be expected. I would not call a corer a cutting tool. It is so dull that the act of coring basically crushes the cells, not cuts thru the cells. dcarch

In the presence of water, electrolysis will occur between two dissimilar metals. In other words, you are actually making a battery, and one of the two metals will be corroded. By the way,almost all domestic water supply goes through copper piping. No problem with toxicity. dcarch

May be it's not beef? dcarch

Try this: Before you do anything rub a thin coat of cooking oil on your skin. dcarch

Propane does not have a smell. For safety reasons, the smell is artificially added to propane. dcarch