JoNorvelleWalker

Count your blessings. I have Shoprite.

Long ago I learned to trust Burpee to ship my plants at more or less the right time.

I've never been in a Walmart, but then I've only been in WF twice. Whole Foods was pretty. I bought a lovely feather duster that I've used often for years. And bulk chocolate that was inedible.

Yet it looks like poached chicken?

White mai tai while waiting for my liter of methode rotuts to carbonate.

Ask @nathanm

Eschew modernist carrot soup -- at least modernist carrot soup slavishly following the preparation pictures in the book. No one in their right mind with all their digits slices carrots lengthwise. Once my thumb had healed I devised a safer method of coring carrots. And since this is the cooking forum I shall share: wash and/or peel carrots according to your preference. Then with a vegetable peeler remove strips (of carrot not of thumb) till you reach the core. Discard core. Proceed with soup.

Mine was simpler: bib lettuce, avocado, can of tuna, Hellman's. Lime juice and bread.

For hand towels I prefer cotton. Fortunately, here the bathroom is right next to the kitchen.

Sorry if I don't have a tea towel to prove it, but according to 23andme.com I am 4% Neanderthal. The good news is I am 96% human. And for what it's worth my kitchen towels are linen.

I'd love to hear how well the steam function works...and I wish they offered a less expensive model without the microwave. What is the maximum temperature the Panasonic can cook with steam? (For those who don't know the CSO can steam bake at 450 deg F, 232 deg C.)

Facing the prospect of an avocado myself for dinner, I cannot envision exactly what this is? Google took me to the restaurant. My plan is avocado and tuna, which sort of looks like what this is.

Yet the specifications claim "Simultaneous Combination Cooking".

Seems Best Buy Canada doesn't ship to the US. Otherwise I think my friend would have gone for it. My other friend who recently bought her CSO from Canada complains that wonderful though it is the CSO is too small. Another reason the Panasonic might be nice if it were not vaporware.

Japanese curry... Previously unused picture from the same batch a few nights ago. Sorry. Found a bottle of sake in the refrigerator. Yes, I know it is coothless to serve sake with rice, but I claim my right as a barbarian. Besides, I have a seldom used sake cup (old picture):

I think the variability of the CSO is because amazon itself is out of stock. I expect things shall soon return to normal.

What is expensive? At the moment the CSO is going for $553.65 on amazon US*. (Last week it was $220.) *with free shipping!!

Have you tested with a quarter sheet pan?

I was using a funnel. But not a funnel three feet across.

Do you have a floor or bed?

I shall never again express smug satisfaction from frying my potatoes without mess or muss...the spill came this afternoon when I attempted to pour the spent oil from the kettle back into the empty bottle. (Note to self: maybe try a ladle next time.)

The iPad should be able to install and run the iPhone app.

What is the technical reason it does not work with an iPad?

Why would it not work with an iPad?

Tonight: salad and Peruvian chicken... French fries a la Kenji... I have not had better fries. (Next best were from a Belgian restaurant in NYC.) Served with aji amarillo sauce. But wait! I lied. The chicken was last night's chicken mechouii. (Reheated in the CSO.) Remarkably the method and ingredients are the same except for the use of C. baccatum in place of C. annuum. Could you tell the difference? Really? I have a friend who is Bolivian and her husband is Moroccan. I should try the experiment on them. Sadly I have neither the kitchen space nor strength nor energy to cook rotisserie chicken and real French fries at the same time. Washed down with a glass of Bolivian Singani.