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Why, why, WHY? I mean, I know why, but still, WHY?!?!

If you bite a tiny bit of both ends off one, you can suck your coffee through it like a straw. A chocolatey cookie straw.

If there is a food that I could eat myself to death with, it would be the kouign amann. If I could make them with any success I feel confident that I would be eating one instead of writing this reply.

Not in mainland China, but my wife and I went to a Chinese wedding banquet in San Francisco many years ago. I have never experienced anything like it before or since, and I feel like at least a few of the bullet points in @liuzhou's post are very close to the truth in our case, but the evening left my memory just a little bit fuzzy.

"On the next episode of Good Eats..."

Yeah I noticed this trend recently too, especially scrolling down the front page now you'll see something that looks interesting only to be met with a "sponsored by" heading for the "article". It sometimes feels like the whole world is going in this direction, where some outside influence helps decide what you ingest online in the name of sending some $$$ their way.

Ugh I hope this doesn't change the site, I really like Serious Eats for it's balance of useful information without a lot of BS, and lots of great food personalities sharing their knowledge.

I just take the gasket off and throw it in the dishwasher when I am done cooking, and unless I cooked something super funky it rarely holds onto any odors. Not sure if this is right or wrong, but being silicone it should be fine in there and it still works perfectly after a couple of years now.

So like, "Pardon me good sir, knowest thou where one might find a rest stop for my carriage, I have a need to beef"?

The Amazon listing specifically says indoor and outdoor, whatever that means in reality anyway. Edit: Also, is that the best name they could come up with? The Beefer? Am I the only one who has ever heard of the word beef used as a verb before?

Wasn't starting a gyro vs schwarma dance off here, I get the AB is not authentic, but you should still put it in your mouth and eat it.

I may have said this before elsewhere, but Alton Brown's gyro meat recipe is really good, maybe not the most authentic but has that yummy sort of "fast food gyro" taste to it and even my 76 year-old Greek dad loves it. I buy lamb shoulder meat at Costco to grind and get a couple of recipes out of the roughly 5lb cuts. I have tried it once or twice using the loaf pan/brick/oven method he presents, and it is OK, but it really shines if you can do it on a rotisserie, that crispy outside crust that forms is the best. I do add a little more salt than he recommends, comes out a bit bland to me with the 2 teaspoons. The tzatziki is good too, but again more tzatziki you'd get from say a really great food truck than what Yia Yia serves with the lamb on Easter Sunday. https://altonbrown.com/recipes/gyro-meat-with-tzatziki-sauce/

This unfortunately is not reflected in the price tag when given a choice between a smart and non-smart piece of equipment. I remember when I bought the Anova One, and just a few weeks later they let loose the v2 with bluetooth at I think $100 more than the original, which was released just a year before. And I also remember the complaining that went on about the quirks of the app you had to use and people wishing they had a choice between v1 and v2. To be honest I am very happy to spend good money on something with a more long term view. I think deep down though, I'm just one of those weirdos that wants to be less connected to the internet of things. I cook and spend time in the kitchen to get away from the outside world, with the constant stream of texts emails news weather alerts etc etc etc. The last thing I want to do is pick up a phone to "help" me throw something in the oven.

Yes, I do believe this is the case, I just don't want to pay extra for these kinds of smart features I would never use.

I have thought about the Anova, but I am personally always hesitant to buy appliances that include a phone app middleman, so to speak. I understand I can just not use that feature, but I feel you pay a premium for those kinds of things so the money seems wasted for my application/needs. I have nothing against technology or anything, have grown up watching it evolve and love a lot of it, really it's that I like to buy for longevity whenever I can, and technology changes so fast anymore that I don't want to end up with something that ends up being primitive in a relatively short period time. We sort of giggle now when we watch movies with older cellphone tech in them, for example, because of how backwards and clunky they now seem, and I can't help but feel the same is coming for a lot of the stuff we dive into (myself included) because of the lightning speed of change we are seeing in technology as we learn more. How many iPhone generations has even my basic KitchenAid stand mixer lasted? And how many more are ahead of it? These are the things I think about when I am out shopping for something new.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but am I right to assume that the CSO-300 has been discontinued and there is not a replacement model for it? Was all set to get one of these only to be shot down searching online. If the Cuisinart doesn't exist anymore, are there any worthwhile alternatives to look at? I see that F. Blumlein one talked about quite a bit, but it seems a little bigger than I want on my countertop and I am a little leery about this heretofore unknown manufacturer.

I believe this is by design.

Step 1: Join cooking forum Step 2: Use this amazing resource to write a screed about a meal or three you didn't like. From decades ago. Step 3: ?????? I can hardly think of anything I haven't forgiven of this world after 20 years, much less a meal I didn't enjoy/have the palate for. And I'm an effin' Greek for god's sake, like Anonymous, we do not forget, we do not forgive. For some reason, maybe it's the retsina, I dunno 🤷‍♀️

Trauma is probably way too strong a word, especially in this time of COVID etc. This is more the wife complaining "I don't really want to use that gas station bathroom on this road trip", only we aren't driving anywhere and are now living in the gas station. Maybe I can put a lock on the door and attach the key to a hub cap or bowling ball or something to make getting in there more of a pain.

Maybe this isn't the right place, but I don't know WTF I was thinking when I told the contractor redoing our kitchen that he could use our bathroom while he's here. Now it feels like I have to call one of those crime scene/natural disaster clean-up services to make things right again.

I love lavender but this made me laugh, there is a very fine line for sure. When it's right, to my taste at least, I like it to be more of a "Mmm is that lavender?" vs "There is lavender in that", if that makes any sense. My family though is right there with you and the soap 🧼

Miso also works great as a substitute too.

Welcome @Susanwusan so much to learn here and the people are my favorite on the Internet, always willing to help and share ideas.

Not really a traditional recipe, but the Kale Caesar Salad which is in the Food Lab cookbook is one of the best salad recipes I've tried, and I feel one of the best recipes in that entire book. I was super skeptical the first time I made it, kale can be so so for me, but it works perfectly in this application. It is the only salad recipe the rest of the family bugs me to make with any regularity, despite none of them really liking kale or anchovies a whole lot. There are 4 of us, and that entire recipe for 6 - 8 gets completely devoured every time.

Out here outside of Sacramento we have been able to buy the frozen Chicken Bakes for at least 15 years, we've been in this house around that long and I have never cooked one here. I remember having them often in our last place as we were far from civilization and they were one of those "stock up in case we get desperate" kind of things.