JoNorvelleWalker

"Couple"

I said nothing about on the bedroom floor or down the stairs.

I shall never again drop my dinner on the kitchen floor.

Fissler, in the US at least, is having a 25% off mothers day sale on their 2019 Profi cookware collection and a few other pieces. I like the older style better than the current offerings so I succumbed. https://www.fissler.com/us/products/product-list/pots/original-profi-collection-2019/

Only afterward. The method involves placing the pinafore face down on the bed, at which time the straps resolve themselves into alignment. I think that I shall patent it.

I may have developed a determinist method to put on my Rough Linen pinafore. Unfortunately I cannot explain it.

Oh, I do use a backpack. The backpack doesn't hold everything.

Sadly mine does not have a Jasmine setting.

Thanks, but wheels would not work for me. Maybe not even tank treads.

What setting?

Not sure what we will find in the stores next week. I love the idea of reducing plastic waste, but I dread the effect on my getting groceries home. I have canvas bags. But the length of my arms is out of proportion to my height. I suppose you could call that a disability. When I lug canvas bags they drag along the ground. Ever puncture a hole in a gallon of milk? In a library?

That's what I do -- or did. New Jersey is outlawing plastic bags next week.

Whatever else, Port usually helps. I have an open bottle on the table.

Exactly! I can blithely use left and right interchangeably, particularly when giving directions to others. My solution is to point. Edit: back when I was driving regularly, my bane was signs that said "Yield Left".

Bunny chow from Bryant Terry's Vegetable Kingdom. A South African curry dish I understand. I cheated and didn't make the rolls from scratch. The preparation was more work than I should have attempted, but I got to use up a few Rancho Gordo beans. Quite good.

I'm sitting here by the computer with my almonds and mai tai, in my ergonomic chair, nurturing my toe (no peanuts tonight) while my blessed Paragon cooks dinner. I don't know how much longer I can do this, real cooking I mean. I'm usually OK with convenience food, such as last night's frozen fish and fries. Grilling a steak or chop is not much work, nor is a steam broiled chicken thigh. Pair them with a baked potato, sour cream, and 30 second green beans for a fine dinner. But that's not following a real recipe. I've been planning bunny chow from Bryant Terry's Vegetable Kingdom for some days. His vegan take on a South African curry dish. Knowing my limitations I pressure cooked the specified Royal Corona Beans last night. (I have nothing if not Rancho Gordo beans.) Cooled rapidly overnight by the Michael Ruhlman method. I got home from Shoprite about 6:00 pm and started prepping stuff. I posses innumerable pots and bowls, but little place to deploy them. Excruciating pain in my left right foot. Did I mention I suffer from directional aphasia? Investigated and toe was bleeding. Nothing particularly new. Now at 1:02 am the stew is on its final cook. I love my Paragon. Even so I cheated. I did not bake my buns from scratch. I did not peel my Yukon Gold potatoes. I made my persillade with raw garlic.

I tried it once. Did not do much for me. It's not like Persian rice.

In reading up on the new crop of rice cookers, at least Zojirushi, there is one setting my old NP-NVC18 has that is lacking: there is no "scorch" cycle. Odd that they would drop something.

The building is 42 years old. There is now a different rental agent, but I'm not sure the cabinet problem was the rental agent's fault. He may have just told the maintenance staff to change out the cabinets. When something breaks they avoid using new appliances at all costs. Or at least that used to be the case. Things may have gotten better. The last time my stove and dishwasher broke, I was given brand new units.

I wish I could do a blind taste comparison, but that seems infeasible. I spent an hour googling for information but can't say I learned anything. One thing for sure the umami setting cooks for a longer time. Eighty minutes on my model. During that time I can see and hear the pressure cycle high and low. However apparently some non-pressure Zojirushi also have a umami setting. I am thus confused. It may be psychological and all marketing. The variety of rice may matter more. But thinking about a bowl of umami rice makes me salivate like one of Pavlov's dogs. Something can be said for that.

I'd need a vacuum homogenizer.

@FauxPas your kitchen is beautiful. You are so fortunate to have your own home. I live in an apartment. Some years ago my apartment's original kitchen cabinets were starting to fall down. Rather than just rehang the two cabinets that needed it, the rental agent said he would replace the cabinets and the counter tops for me. He did. Some of the replacement cabinets were new. Most had been previously well loved by other tenants (gag me with a spoon). Some were sticky. Don't ask for details, beyond that stuck on rotten onion. I was left with less cabinet space than I had previously. True, the counter tops were new. But the cardboard was not up to the quality of the original. There was nothing wrong with the original countertops. They were attractive. I rather liked them. Not surprisingly the new countertops were not installed properly. When I needed a new dishwasher it didn't fit. What did surprise me is that the rental agent replaced the kitchen floor, for which I am ever grateful. The original flooring had warped and was disgusting.

Could you give more information on the X-bar? I have never heard of such a thing.

I enjoyed the Consumer Reports review. I couldn't help but note the author had a disappointing result trying to make congee. However the NP-GBC05 does not have a congee setting. Not that I would miss the congee feature much, as I've never tried to make congee in my life. What I would miss is the umami setting.

Kerry suggested this to me in the orgeat topic. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/52996-orgeat/?do=findComment&comment=2339245 I didn't have the courage of my convictions and I was afraid that it would make a mess.