JoNorvelleWalker

I also have a large (as well as a small) KitchenAid. Modernist Bread has a short discussion of the Ankasrum in the section on types of mixers.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/159886-ankarsrum-mixer-of-many-names/

You may not remember the old Popeye cartoon where Popeye is selling refrigerators to Inuit. As always things were saved by spinach. The phrase "like selling iceboxes to Eskimos" means something not likely to work.

It is indeed a paper bag. Nowhere in the GripStic literature that I've found does it say GripStic clips don't work with paper bags. The replacement clips that came today work with paper bags.

Seriously, doesn't that get flour all over your books?

Sadly, Lasagne-Style soup was one of the few Progresso varieties I really did not care for. At least I shall not starve till morning.

It was all I could muster, but a most welcome can of Progresso Lasagne-Style soup.

USB? I thought having a spring was high tech.

Ordered. We shall see.

I can report the nuts.com jumbo Virginia peanuts are much improved tonight. My mai tai is not bad either. I fear some of the drugs I'm taking may be messing with my sense of taste. The pills certainly give me a dry mouth.

These are the clips I have on order... (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

Could you share a link to what you mean? The zip lock bags I think of are much smaller.

I bought the GripStic clips specifically for that bag of Xochitl corn chips. For most bags I use clips I get from King Arthur.

I wanted to like the GripStics, I really did. Employing all my strength I couldn't get this one on any further than an inch or so. GripStics are going back. Another brand of clips are on their way from amazon.

I've read reviews, I've watched videos.

This afternoon I took delivery of a set of GripStic bag clips. I could be stupid and don't know how to use them, but at the moment I am profoundly disappointed. Not to mention I now have a bag of smashed up broken corn chips.

I like Planter's well enough, or at least I used to. I stopped buying Planter's peanuts after I complained a jar was rancid, and the rep pointed out the best by date had expired. It is true the best buy date had expired, but only by a week or two.

No Bluetooth on my APO, nor I'm pretty sure on anyone's.

Peanuts were not all that great. Switched to almonds.

I noticed this afternoon that Cooks Illustrated gave their award to the APO. A chicken thigh is cooking in my APO at the moment.

With my mai tai, a treat I've not had for months...peanuts.

I apologize, this would be funnier with a photograph. Today I received a shipment from one of my favorite vendors, nuts.com. In addition to the free bag of cashews, there was a mysterious inflated plastic bag taking up space in the shipping box. The label reads "Invisible Peanuts, ingredients: air". It broke me up.

I too lurked. I found eGullet posts kept turning up on google searches.

Last night I cooked up a mess of Rancho Gordo Mayocoba beans. My poor Fissler was audibly venting more steam than I expected, which is why I took the valve apart to clean it, and to run the lid through the dishwasher. When I visited the Fissler USA site just now I saw only one applicable valve. I would love to get a higher pressure replacement.

Mine says 60, which would be 8.7 PSI. Not sure what to believe.