JoNorvelleWalker

First cake I've baked since my health difficulties began. The recipe is Rose Levy Beranbaum's All-Occasion Downy Yellow Butter Cake, perhaps my all time favorite. The batter was baked as a single layer in a 10x3 inch aluminum pan I needed to evaluate for Amazon. Because of the pan size, baking time was an hour and fifteen minutes, twice what the recipe calls for. And the crumbs are excellent.

I stand corrected. I checked the product listing and my new spatula is "Midnight Blue". Sure looks black to me though.

My mystery press has reappeared on Amazon with more information and a different ASIN: (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

I had a Whole Foods 365 egg roll night before last. It was OK, perhaps nothing to write home about.

I received a black plastic spatula tonight.

The more things change the more they stay the same. The first article relates that at its introduction the Toshiba rice cooker cost about a third of the typical Japanese monthly salary. Now -- after almost seventy years of progress -- my Zojirushi model is selling on Amazon for about one third my monthly salary.

I shall never again... A bit of backstory: for weeks I have suffered a plague of fruit flies. Not even in the old days of end-of-tomato season have I seen the like. The flies are biblical. I've been searching for a source without success. Today a phone company technician came. He needed access to the corner of my bedroom closet that has not seen the light of day in years. I shall never again.

I figure 500ml is about the right size for the press, does that sound right?

Thank you @liuzhou! The press you linked is exactly the same as mine. Strangely I note only one of the Alibaba product pictures shows a beaker, such as the beaker in the video. Would it be common for Chinese kitchens to have metal beakers to use with the press? I have beakers, but my beakers are glass. As always, I love eGullet!

No tube and no place to affix a tube. No room in the (plain unmarked) box for a tube to have been. The plunger has teeth, though said teeth are not sharp.

Any guesses as to what this is? There are no wrong answers because I have no idea. Actually I have some idea, it is a kind of press. It was sold as a citrus press. A citrus press it clearly is not. There is no place for juice to drain. Height is 15 inches in the lowered position. It is heavy. It works as a nut smasher if you are fond of shell fragments. The asking price was $158. The device has since been removed from Amazon. The fact remains someone designed it for something.

I've been known to use my hand.

I received my new Cake Bible copy two days ago. Fortunately the binding seems more sturdy than on the first edition!

I've been reading it. I'd say it is their best book so far.

I've done the same.