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Just ordered mine; couldn't resist the $218 Amazon price. It arrives Tuesday! I'm totally excited to toast my onion bagels!

Seems a really tough way to make a living.

Anyone watching this season? I'm loving how civilized this show is; not the nasty insults and tough competition I've gotten used to with the shows on the Food Network.

Okay, I'm coming over to the CSO side but before I order I need to know what pan and what size you have for cooking inside. The quarter-sheet pans don't fit, which is what I now have. I kinda need to know the inside dimensions, please.

Nice haul. You're all set for a while. Gotta admit that when you post about your cocktails it makes ME thirsty! I'm such a pushover!

Yes, I have a GE gas top/electric oven range. Been in use for over 10 years now. It does a nice job and has enough BTUs for anything I've ever done. It also has a small second oven on the bottom which I thought would be useful for my bread baking but turned out to be a total waste of space, it is useless as it takes forever to heat up and is to small in height for a bread pan's expansion. This was my first ever gas top and I do like how it cooks. It has the black enamel top with heavy cast iron grates; the enamel does require a bit of attention but I have a tip for those who have this: Buy some Sprayway Stainless Steel cleaner! I used this on my top and it came out looking brand new! Amazing. I also have the stupid ventless micro but have no other option. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the range I have. I would not consider a gas oven.

Applebee's Classic Burger cooked med. rare is very good here. However, we have a little hometown burger place in a town just south of here where they make the best burgers ever. Great beef, cooked to order along with their grilled onions and onion rings! Hoo boy!

Me too, and yours look amazing!

Stop it! You're killing me! I love potatoes and you're making me really, really want a Cuisinart.

A small town just south of where I live has a new restaurant, it's called "Mineshaft Pasty Co.". Their Cornish pasties are absolutely some of the best I've ever had. I made a little trip there a couple days ago and picked up six frozen (unbaked) ones to stock my freezer. The sell breakfast pasties as well and have a couple other varieties I haven't yet tried...I'm hooked on the Cornish type. I keep thinking that the steam oven would be ideal to bake them in. (Or maybe I'm try to enable myself?)

Fresh dill in potato salad is very nice, but don't forget the celery seed and/or celery salt, it adds a lot of flavor.

I always make my Mom's recipe for potato salad; very simple though I do add some sweet pickle relish. Otherwise it's hers and just the way I like it. Once in a while I'll make German potato salad, I'm quite fond of that too. Actually I love just about anything that begins with 'potato'.

I had a very similar experience myself last week. Went looking for Spanish chorizo for a soup recipe I was making. Stores had the Mexican type but knew nothing about a Spanish style. I ended up buying it online - I actually was not surprised that there was none locally, it is a relatively small city.

When we bought this house almost exactly 10 years ago we installed all new appliances. Here's the results: Kenmore Elite fridge: replaced the icemaker and replaced the fan motor. Kenmore Elite d/w: replaced the door springs two times. GE over-the-range m/w: replaced the magnetron GE dual fuel range: no repairs These all are high-end though not commercial grade appliances. Edited to add: I should have also mentioned that the total cost of these combined repairs adds up to well over $1000.

I bought the pre-peeled garlic at Costco about a year or more ago. I'm finding that freezing it causes the cloves to stick together and they're hard to pull apart. Also, they don't seem to have the same intense flavor that fresh has. I've gone back to using fresh.

Please tell me more, I'd love to be able to fry chicken in my PC. Always looking for new ways to make fried chicken.

I am old enough to remember the days when one entered any upscale department store you were besieged by young ladies bearing spray bottles of the latest perfumes; it was hard to get past them without be pressed upon by samples. And in those days those perfumes were quite often very heavy and strong. I stopped wearing colognes of any kind long ago and I'm grateful that they seem to have fallen out of favor mostly (maybe in cities like N.Y. not so much?) It's especially awful to sit next to someone or near someone who's wearing too much scent in a restaurant.

When we were kids, I loved Oreos but my brother's favorite was (of all things) Fig Newtons, which I couldn't stand.

I might eat that lamb with my fingers but the rice? I don't think so.

Much as I love peanut butter, to me the PB filled Oreos are just meh. The plain ones are better.

Here's more information about the differences in yeast and exp. compressed yeast, most interesting! Yeasts

I haven't seen compressed yeast in stores near me for many, many years. My mother used to use it in her homemade breads back in the fifties and I swear that it gave the bread a heavenly, yeasty aroma that you don't get with the dried yeasts of today. I'd love to be able to try it for myself to see if it is true.

I found an unusual use for limes (and lemons too( recently. I am a bit obsessive about my stainless steel sink and like to see it gleam. I discovered that after I clean my sink thoroughly with Barkeepers Friend or the like if I take the used half of a lemon or lime and scrub the surface all around that I end up with a sink that really shines! Now I save all those used rinds!

Where are they? The stores here where I live don't have any other than those that are pre-packaged. I've been looking for almost two weeks now and still don't find any. Is this unique to the area where I live?

I have a number of pressure cooker cookbooks, the one you mention is pretty good but the one that I've found most useful is this one: New Pressure Cooker Cookbook Lorna Sass books are good as is the Cooks Illustrated one.