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by John Cole|  September 11, 20106:30 pm| 80 Comments

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Had my hands full with things all day, and am finally going to settle down on the couch after taking a cold shower and have a nice mojito. Because I can.

Got a real score at the town yard sale today. Bought a brand new, never used Breville electric wok for 25 bucks that someone had been given for Christmas, but the lid was broken. Breville just sent them an entire replacement unit, so they sold the other one. Went to the Breville website, and for 20 bucks bought a replacement lid. So- 100 dollar wok for 45 bucks. Not bad!

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  1. 1.

    c u n d gulag

    September 11, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    John, Dude, I hate to tell ya, but when cooking with a wok, I don’t think I’ve ever used the lid in 20 years. Not once.
    Sorry….
    Love ya, though!!!

  2. 2.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 11, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    I dunno — two different-diameter round cake racks, and you’re in the dim-sum game….

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    Electric wok? WTF?

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    September 11, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    It is 3:41 in the afternoon and I’m still in my bathrobe. I did at least shower.

    It was just that kind of week.

  5. 5.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Any of you nerds help me? I have a netgear wireless router and it will not allow me to connect to BJ. When I hit my neighbors wireless or connect directly to the cable modem I can connect. Any swell ideas?

  6. 6.

    Comrade Mary

    September 11, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    YOU’RE HERE! I’ve been chasing you all over the place.

    Did you already restart the router? I had to restart my modem, then restart the router to get back here.

    Can you get to the admin panel of your router?

  7. 7.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    September 11, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    Had my hands full with things all day, and am finally going to settle down on the couch after taking a cold shower

    T.M.I.

  8. 8.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:48 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Yea, I’ve restarted numerous times, called Charter tech support to figure out I could connect from the cable modem but they weren’t any help with the wireless. Oh, the admin panel, I think so, I have a link on my pc laptop that seems to take the there.

  9. 9.

    Violet

    September 11, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    I’m patching walls in preparation for painting. Got a couple of damn metal anchors for drywall screws that simply won’t come out. I’m about to take a sledgehammer to them. This is taking far more time than I had expected and I think I’ve emptied half the garage in search of various tools that might work for this job.

    Taking a breather and I think I might have a cup of coffee before heading back to it.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Mary

    September 11, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    When you run ipconfig from cmd, it should give you the IP address for your default gateway. Putting this in your browser at http://, followed by the IP address, should give you access to your router admin panel, if you can remember the username and password or find the right placeholder values.

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    @Comrade Mary: my email is markann at google mail dot com

  12. 12.

    General Stuck

    September 11, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    stuckinred

    I been locked out too. Called Comcast tech support out west here, and they were locked out as well and said the problem was with the source website server or platform. I have no router just a direct broadband connection. So the siege seems to be nationwide. Finally, just out of curiosity, I brought up the cache of bj, which was a lesson in patience itself, and read a comment that proxy servers work, so this comment is over a proxy server. Anyways, I got nothing else to say other than the peace is growing on me and politics be damned. GO Reds!!

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    @stuckinred: There is a little round hole in the back of the netgear router; using a paperclip or pencil press the button inside the hole and hold it down for at least 15 seconds. It should reset the modem. When you reconnect, it should give you a new IP and Bob’s your uncle. I have the same equipment and it worked for me about an hour or two ago. Otherwise, use a proxy for a while.

  14. 14.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    @General Stuck: That’s interesting because Charter Tech Support couldn’t get in either.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Mary

    September 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    ARGH! I don’t think I can take you much further as I can’t remember my password to my router, so I can’t remember what settings to tell you to look for.

    Can you try a proxy server, as Stuck did?

  16. 16.

    Nylund

    September 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    Serious question: What can one do with an electric wok that one cannot do with a “normal” wok?

  17. 17.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: how do you do dat? (The proxy not the reset)

  18. 18.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    @Nylund: Plug it in.

  19. 19.

    SteveinSC

    September 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Cold shower? Mine’s small enough without THAT! Brrrr.

  20. 20.

    Violet

    September 11, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    @stuckinred:
    Have you cleared your cache recently? From here:

    A Web site or other server was offline when you last visited it (hopefully a rare occurence) but since has come back online. The cache will normally keep a record that the server is offline for 5 minutes afer your last visit. You may need to clear your cache to access the server sooner.

    Maybe you tried to visit BJ during that virus incident and your cached copy is corrupted?

  21. 21.

    General Stuck

    September 11, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    I refreshed my ip address, had Comcast reset my modem, and nothing worked. so here is the proxy link I used.

    http://www.goproxing.com/

  22. 22.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    95 yard td for the stinky Irish against the stinky Wolverines!

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    @General Stuck: That site name is making me giggle for no good apparent reason.

  24. 24.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    @Violet: Yea, I did that several times on my PC. thx

  25. 25.

    geg6

    September 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    Good deal on the wok, Cole, but I’m afraid you wasted your money on the lid. I have never once used my wok lid and am pretty sure I tossed it years ago when the ex and I broke up and I moved to a smaller abode with less storage space.

    As for my own personal Wingnut Christmas celebration, my John and I decided that the best way to mark the holiday was to prepare and eat some FRENCH food. And to cleanse my palate of the terrible taste of wingnuts fapping all over the country today, I pulled out my copy of “Undaunted Courage” to re-read. It’s nice read about truly brave Americans who had a reverence for science (such as it was at the time), had intellectual curiosity, and who were able to meet, live among, and even befriend the “Other” without violence and with respect. And a little dollop of Thomas Jefferson on top.

  26. 26.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    I use the lid on my hand hammered wok.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    @stuckinred: Google ip proxies. Or use Stuck’s link. I had never used proxies before this but I found that hidemyass.com worked reasonably well.

  28. 28.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: k

  29. 29.

    General Stuck

    September 11, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    with this proxy, I have no formatting tabs, reply button, or edit feature. Plus I don’t feel all that comfy using a proxy server, never know where it’s been.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    @geg6: I will be going with Mexican; homemade burritos.

  31. 31.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    It works

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:08 pm

    @stuckinred: Which thing is working?

  33. 33.

    Ross Hershberger

    September 11, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    A wok? What kind of multicultural liberal elitists are you?

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    @geg6:

    my John and I decided that the best way to mark the holiday was to prepare and eat some FRENCH food

    My favoritest French dish evah: Poulet aux Quarante Gousses d’Ail. My favorite version is of course by the lady I wish was my Jewish aunt. Unfortunately she’s no relation.

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I will be going with Mexican; homemade burritos.

    Kitchen duty while wifey crunches numbers?

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    @General Stuck: Hidemyass.com gave me reasonable access to features on the site. The reset of my router brought me all the way back. I am not particularly comfortable with the idea of proxies either.

  36. 36.

    Ross Hershberger

    September 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    Real Americans use a frying pan. A cast iron one.

  37. 37.

    El Tiburon

    September 11, 2010 at 7:13 pm

    If serious about a wok, you must get a hand hammered wok. Otherwise younger just a pretender.

  38. 38.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    @Yutsano: I do most of the cooking anyway. She does baking sometimes but that’s about it.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    @Ross Hershberger: The wok-using kind, obviously.

  40. 40.

    Mnemosyne

    September 11, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    @Nylund:

    IIRC, Alton Brown’s claim is that you can control the temperature more closely than you can with a pan on the stove, but I can’t remember if that was only for an electric skillet.

  41. 41.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    @El Tiburon: This.

    @Omnes Omnibus: My mom makes really good homemade burritos really fast with just hamburger meat and refried beans. The secret is in the chili powder. She has that ratio down to a science.

  42. 42.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: hidemyass, I reset the router, zipola!

  43. 43.

    batgirl

    September 11, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Go Blue! Michigan just beat Notre Dame!

  44. 44.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    Hand hammered wok’s allow you to hold ingredients up on the side while stir-frying additional stuff. A lid allows you to immerse partially cooked stuff like chicken breast in sauce to complete the cooking.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    @Yutsano: Grilled chicken and Spanish rice.

  46. 46.

    jeffreyw

    September 11, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    @stuckinred: I’m afraid yer gonna haf ta nuke it from space, dude.

  47. 47.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 11, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    @stuckinred: Cool.

  48. 48.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    @Mnemosyne: with a wok on the stove you can just move it off the burner to stop the heat.

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Electric woks just don’t get hot enough to do the high temperatures necessary for a proper stir-fry. If they could get that hot they would be terribly unsafe. As far as I can tell JC just bought himself a conical parabolic (h/t stuckinred, may that light change for you soon!) shaped electric skillet.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yum!

  50. 50.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    @jeffreyw: no chit!

  51. 51.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    @Yutsano: el parabolic!

  52. 52.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    September 11, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    Me and the kids have a 9/11 tradition where we play Jenga, two towers simultaneously.

  53. 53.

    Commish

    September 11, 2010 at 7:26 pm

    My wife, who’s Chinese, uses the lid on her wok a lot. Every time she does a vegetable with any thickness to the stem, like broccoli, for one. Stir fry in almost-smoking garlicky oil for a minute or so, then add a few tablespoons of stock and cover to steam through.

    But…..an electric wok? I can’t imagine it.

    The easiest way for many Murricans to get the feel of real wokking is to get a decent iron or carbon steel wok 19″ or larger ($20 or so at the restaurant supply. Preferably one that caters to Asian restaurants…..if you have Chinese restaurants around you probably have one of these somewhere, too.)

    Set your wok outside on one of those freestanding, outdoor, gas-fired burners that people use for turkey fryers, chili cookoffs and etc. They’ll be on sale all over the place in coming weeks for Thanksgiving. Season the wok as you would a cast iron skillet, then crank the gas up to full and wok away!

    The hint of charred taste you get from well-wokked food comes from what Chinese cooks call “the breath of the dragon,” which translates roughly as “BTUs muchos.”

  54. 54.

    Ross Hershberger

    September 11, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    Real Americans make foreigners cook foreign food for them. I had sushi for lunch. In Michigan this involves 5 or 6 vast laminated sheets of color pictures. You point at stuff and two guys with very sharp implements prepare it while calling you names you’ll never understand.

  55. 55.

    Psychobroad

    September 11, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    I use the lid on my wok, too, especially if I’ve got carrots/broccoli in the stir-fry–I put a little water in the lid, upend the lid over the wok & put the lid on for a few minutes. Gets longer–cooking veggies there quicker.

  56. 56.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    @Ross Hershberger: Oh mah kah say oh neh guy shee mass. Say that the next time you’re in there. If they’re Japanese anyway. If they’re Korean head for the exits because the cleavers might start flying.

  57. 57.

    robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles

    September 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    Go Blue! Beat -Notre- Overrated Dame!

  58. 58.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    @Ross Hershberger: I don’t know if this is everywhere but Kroger and Publix here in Georgia use Asian folks in their little “sushi” booths. Pretty stupid and it must violate some kind of law??

  59. 59.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    @Yutsano: Any-ha-say-oh!

  60. 60.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    @stuckinred: Sumimasen, demo kango ga hanashiemasen.

  61. 61.

    Comrade Mary

    September 11, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Ahn-Nyeong Hah-Seh-Yo to you too, sweetie. (I worked for a lovely Korean family in my teens, but that’s about all I can remember of the language.)

    Wish I knew the Korean for “Give up and buy a cheap new router from Craigslist.”

  62. 62.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    @Yutsano: Ah, you know it’s been 43 years since my 13 months in the Land of the Morning Calm. Most of the stuff I recall would bring out the cleavers.

  63. 63.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Com-sum-dee-dah adashee?

  64. 64.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    @Yutsano: This is Japanese?

  65. 65.

    Betsy

    September 11, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    @geg6:
    I stayed with my all-American elitist cuisine: amazing sandwich of fresh crusty bread, local cheddar, St. Nicholas peppers, and sundried tomato tapanade. All but the latter were bought at a DFH farmer’s market this morning; the tapenade was from pseudo-DFH Whole Foods.

    Funny how wholesome, salt-of-the-earth farmers turn into DFH’s when they reach the farmer’s market.

  66. 66.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    @Comrade Mary: netgear upso?

  67. 67.

    burnspbesq

    September 11, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    @Yutsano:

    eego-ga dekimaska?

  68. 68.

    mr. whipple

    September 11, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    Bama rolling over Penn State.

  69. 69.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    Galen Hall is the O coordinator for PSU?????

  70. 70.

    Violet

    September 11, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    @stuckinred:
    Have you tried unplugging the router and leaving it unplugged for a longer time, like overnight or a weekend while you’re gone or something?

  71. 71.

    Yutsano

    September 11, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    @burnspbesq: Demo…

    Chotto…

    Sigh.

    Fine.

    At least it wasn’t French. Although a few folks on here would smoke me there.

  72. 72.

    Anne Laurie

    September 11, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    Apropos of Korea (and open thread), we are watching a fansubbed version of Emperor of the Sea, and now I totally understand why Korean historical dramas / soap operas are so popular elsewhere. Imagine a 900AD Robin-Hood-Sir-Francis-Drake saga, with an Arthurian love triangle in the middle, plus ninjas. Lovingly detailed, high-budget all the way, although the character actors run rings around the “star” cast in the first half. (Total of 51 ‘hour-long’ episodes, we’re up through #30.)

  73. 73.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    @Violet: I would if I ever went anywhere!

  74. 74.

    Comrade Mary

    September 11, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    @stuckinred: Ha! That sounds about right.

  75. 75.

    stuckinred

    September 11, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    @Anne Laurie: You ever watch “Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?: A Zen Fable “?

  76. 76.

    roly

    September 11, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    So I’m playing golf with this guy. He’s not very good (neither am I), but he’s enthusiastic. I notice he’s got this Scotty Cameron Studio putter (About $300). I say, Geez, that’s a nice putter. He says, Yeah, I got it at a yard sale last week for $10. I wept for the remainder of the round.

  77. 77.

    roly

    September 11, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    Heh. I went to the Emperor of The Sea wiki page and found, at the bottom:

    Emperor of The Sea Official Iranian Fans link.

  78. 78.

    Violet

    September 11, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    @stuckinred:
    Well, you could try unplugging it at night unless you need to keep it on for some reason. If you haven’t tried it, might be worth a shot.

    I think it’s got something to do with your IP address(es). If you can get the modem and/or router to re-set the IP address you’ll probably be okay.

  79. 79.

    New Yorker

    September 11, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    Went for a walk around Manhattan today for no particular reason except that the weather was fantastic. It’s so completely normal in New York on this day, which makes me happy. It takes loons and charlatans from other parts of the country to come here and fuck with stuff that’s not their business.

  80. 80.

    Anne Laurie

    September 12, 2010 at 12:36 am

    @stuckinred: Not yet, but I just added it to my Netflix queue — thanks!

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