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Since I bought this wok and have been cooking delicious spicy dishes and curries and all sorts of wonderful stuff, I have lost my taste for other foods. I had a nice steak last night with smashed potatoes and broccoli and beets and goat cheese and when I finished all I could think was “BORING.”

I mean why eat that when you can have spicy shrimp with vegetables or thai chicken and cabbage noodles or all that good stuff that is healthier?

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  2. 2.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    You should’ve added mustard, Cole. That would’ve spiced it right up ; )

  4. 4.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I agree…I have really upped my wok game this past year.

    Here’s a delicious Asian flavored steak. Super fast and easy too!  I make it with pan carmelized brussel sprouts tossed with Thai sweet chile sauce. I cook the steak either on a griddle or in a carbon steel pan.

    1 ½ teaspoons canola oil
    1 ½ teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
    1 ½ tablespoons maple syrup
    1 ½ tablespoons red-wine vinegar
    1 ½ teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    ½ teaspoon minced garlic in oil
    12 ounces boneless sirloin steak, 3/4 inch thick
    PREPARATION
    YIELD 2 servings
    TIME 15 minutes
    Step 1
    Combine oil, soy sauce, maple syrup, vinegar, ginger and garlic.
    Step 2
    Trim the external fat from the beef and cut into slices 3/4 inch thick.
    Marinate beef in mixture until it is time to cook it.
    Step 3
    Remove steaks from marinade and reserve the marinade. Prepare
    stove-top grill or preheat broiler.
    Step 4
    Grill or broil beef about 5 minutes, turning once or twice and brushing
    with marinade each time.

  5. 5.

    Pete Mack

    Broccoli is boring, no argument. Broccoli rabe is much, much better. But mashed potatoes is good with the right mix-ins (garlic and olive oil, maybe some medium heat red pepper.)

  6. 6.

    Tim in SF

    You can cut part of a steak into strips, stir them around the pan for a couple minutes with some sesame hot oil. When it’s almost done to your liking, throw some fresh ginger on top of it, stir it around for a few more seconds, then put it on top of your stir fry.

    That’s a better use of steak.

  7. 7.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Get yourself some nice nuoc mam (Vietnamese fish sauce).  Red Boat is a good product.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    Maybe keep the spicy stuff to sometimes food?  Like Cookie Monster only sometimes eats an entire cookie truck – literally.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: A good friend of mine kept eating spicy food all the time and it got to the point that he couldn’t taste/feel the heat anymore.

    Who knew you could build up a tolerance to spicy food?

  16. 16.

    RandomMonster

    Asian food (broadly) was my focus when I first started learning to cook. I even started delivering food for a Chinese restaurant I would frequent (the chef and I were friendly), just so I could learn some things.

  20. 20.

    Steve in the ATL

    I haven’t mentioned this before because I am afraid of the implications, but my wife lost a brand new bottle of mustard earlier this month.  [shutters]

  21. 21.

    RandomMonster

    @WaterGirl: Who knew you could build up a tolerance to spicy food?

    RandomMrs and I learned that when we tried cooking Asian food for her family. We have to really dial it back in the heat department.

  23. 23.

    trollhattan

    Things one sees. Was perusing customer reviews for a fancypants flashlight and encountered this, from Mike of Whittier, CA.

    I am part of an armed security team at my church. We are comprised mostly of several law enforcement/x-military personnel. Next to a firearm, a flashlight is my “go to” piece of equipment.

    Church has really changed since I drifted off the ranch.

    A couple things about Whittier:

    -Small (fewer than 100k)
    -White (very)
    -Affluent (rather)
    -Quakers started it and have a college there.
    -Richard Nixon country
    So to sum up, Mike of Whittier and his buddies pack heat and fancypants flashlights to protect their very vulnerable church, a Quaker church?, from…Antifa? I’m truly at a loss here unless he drives a hundred miles to the Charles Manson Desert Congregation of Gun Humpers out in Mojave County.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    After being raised on a diet of generic American dishes and all the wrong ways to fix vegetables (plus massive amounts of fast food and ‘industrial Italian’), all I really want to eat for the rest of my life is Thai, Indian, and Chinese food.

    Plus the occasional batch of homemade chili, but you get what I’m saying.  ;)

  27. 27.

    Anon

    Last year, during the peak lockdown, I bought a cast iron wok. Paired with my natural gas cooktop, it stays scorching hot , as close as you can get to restaurant stir fry without a special wok burner

  31. 31.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Really? It says in this LA Times article that he died at his daughter’s house in Virginia:

    Liddy died Tuesday at his daugher’s house in Virginia, his son Thomas P. Liddy told the Washington Post. He did not give a cause of death

    Also, didn’t know this loser had his own syndicated radio show until 2012. Or that Carter commuted his sentence. Why did he do that?

  32. 32.

    HumboldtBlue

    G Gordon Liddy died, the fucking traitor.

    I’ve been eating the hell out of the best Sicilian pesto I’ve ever had, that’s all I got on the food front.

  33. 33.

    karen marie

    @Anon:  I am so jealous. I lived in Massachusetts for 25 years – gas stoves everywhere I lived. I now live in the gas-stove-free zone of Arizona. Cooking on an electric stove in a rented apartment is barely a step up from cooking over an uncontrolled open flame, without the flavor benefit.

  36. 36.

    namekarB

    @karen marie:   Cooking on an electric stove in a rented apartment is barely a step up from cooking over an uncontrolled open flame,

    Have you ever considered an Induction Cook Top? It is electric but the magnetic coils heats just as fast as gas plus the stove top remains unheated. Direct transfer of heat from the coils to your pans. Disclaimer: Does not work with aluminum or ceramic pans

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    Just be careful choosing the YouTube cooking videos you watch:

    For years, a mafia fugitive hid from police. Then they spotted his Italian cooking videos on YouTube

    Marc Feren Claude Biart was always careful to hide his face in his Italian cooking tutorials, filming the YouTube videos while laying low from police on a sandy beach in the Caribbean.

    But Biart, an alleged member of southern Italy’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, had failed to obscure his tattoos on tape — a clue authorities say they used to track down the mobster in the Dominican Republic.

    Biart fled to Costa Rica and then more than five years ago to Boca Chica, a beach town in the Dominican Republic known for its white sand and clear blue waters, police said. Although the town is a popular destination for Italian tourists, Biart and his wife kept their distance from their countrymen.

    In their free time, however, they appeared to have uploaded several cooking tutorials for Italian recipes to YouTube, including ones where Biart’s tattoos were visible.

    It is unclear if he has retained a lawyer or if his videos are still online. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The Washington Post.

  39. 39.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Shit, this earache is bugging me so much, I’m thinking of reaching for the leftover lortab.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Wikipedia said place of death was the Watergate. They’ve now changed it to Fairfax, VA. Sorry to have inadvertently spread a falsehood — but it was a nice one while it lasted.

  47. 47.

    KrackenJack

    @WaterGirl: There is poultine, of course. It never did anything for me, but I think the idea is that extra grease makes up for the loss of crunch.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @Doc Sardonic: I didn’t catch the reference, so I googled, and that was a trip.

    People also ask:

    Is Iocane powder a real poison?

    What is Iocane powder?

    What you do not smell is Iocane powder?

    What does Westley challenge Vizzini to?

    Why did Westley leave Buttercup?

    What are the 3 classic blunders?

    What is the last line of The Princess Bride movie?

    What is the classic blunder?

    What does Miracle Max say?

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @SiubhanDuinne: Wikipedia said place of death was the Watergate. They’ve now changed it to Fairfax, VA. Sorry to have inadvertently spread a falsehood — but it was a nice one while it lasted.

    I suspect Liddy would have said: Print the legend.

  60. 60.

    Jeffro

    @namekarB:

    @mrmoshpotato:

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Since we put in solar panels 18 months ago, we haven’t had an electric bill and I’m wondering if we should switch our gas (propane) range over to an electric one.  As much as I cook, I’m thinking it would save us several hundred a year minimum.  Has anyone else here done something like that?  I’m not even sure who to call to have that done.

  61. 61.

    Ksmiami

    @Jeffro: in every fine dining establishment across America, the cooks are eating spicy Mexican or African or Asian food, while sending out the high end boring stuff to patrons…

    try indonesian Nasi Goreng.. omfg

  64. 64.

    Mary G

    @trollhattan:
    Whittier hasn’t been very white white for years:

    2010 census per Wikipedia:
    The racial makeup of Whittier was 55,117 (64.6%) White (28.3% Non-Hispanic White, 36.3% White Hispanic),[4] 1,092 (1.3%) African American, 1,093 (1.3%) Native American, 3,262 (3.8%) Asian, 123 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 20,848 (24.4%) from other races, and 3,796 (4.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 56,081 persons (65.7%).

    Your guy could easily be a conservative Hispanic person, I know a bunch there that I used to work with. Their parents may have worked their way up from East LA to Montebello to Whittier and be that type that thinks because they could do it, anyone could.

  65. 65.

    dmsilev

    @Jeffro: An electrician to run a higher-wattage circuit from your panel to the kitchen. Maybe a plumber, to cap off the now-unused gas line.

  66. 66.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jeffro:

    I don’t have any personal experience with that, but it sounds like a great idea to me. Do you live in an area that gets a lot of sunny days? I assume so if you haven’t had to pay an electric bill in a while

  67. 67.

    Sister Golden Bear

    OT: Matt Gaetz’s got a real problem and his “son” Nestor is gonna be pissed.

    NYT: Matt Gaetz Target Of DOJ Underage Sex Probe (not a FTFNYT link)

    Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter.

    Investigators are examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws, the people said. A variety of federal statutes make it illegal to induce someone under 18 to travel over state lines to engage in sex in exchange for money or something of value. The Justice Department regularly prosecutes such cases, and offenders often receive severe sentences.

    The investigation was opened in the final months of Trump admin under Barr.

    Also, too:

    In 2017, Mr. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against a law
    that gave the federal government more power and money to fight human
    trafficking.

  68. 68.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro:

    Since we put in solar panels 18 months ago, we haven’t had an electric bill and I’m wondering if we should switch our gas (propane) range over to an electric one.

    Surprised you didn’t do that when you no longer had to pay for electricity.

  69. 69.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    In 2017, Mr. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against a law
    that gave the federal government more power and money to fight human
    trafficking.

    Eww. He’s definitely guilty. I hope this ends his political career. Couldn’t happen to a bigger douchebag

  72. 72.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Sister Golden Bear: and under the vaulted ceiling of the great room in a 12,000 square foot log cabin in Jackson, WY, Lynn and Dick Cheneys’ eyes meet, the barest traces of a smile on each of their faces, they silently toast one another, Louis XIII in baccarat snifters

  74. 74.

    namekarB

    @Jeffro: Since we put in solar panels 18 months ago, we haven’t had an electric bill and I’m wondering if we should switch our gas (propane) range over to an electric one.

    An Induction Cooktop is 220V AC so it will jack up your electric use. On the other hand, heating a pan of water only takes a few minutes and you really have to calculate how much you are cooking each day to get a handle on how much juice you are pulling in to cook.

    In short, if I was semi self sufficient and using solar with battery banks using 12v DC for lighting, I would have a propane stove. But if you already have electric stove, it is an easy choice to upgrade to induction. There might be additional outlays as we discovered when a few of our pans wouldn’t work on the induction stove top. Any stainless steel, steel or iron pan is good to go.

  77. 77.

    dnfree

    @karen marie: I have always had electric ranges for decades.  The new place has gas and I just hate it.  There’s the smell when it comes on, and it has wrecked the bottom of the Farberware pans I have had also for decades.  Plus it’s supposed to be worse environmentally.  It’s going to cost apparently nearly $1000 to run an electric line from the service box to the kitchen, and I’m going to pay it.

  79. 79.

    NotMax

    Heh. Accuradio now includes a selection of what they call combo channels. Merging playlists of two or more individual genres. One of them is a mix of banjo and ukulele channels.

  81. 81.

    Gravenstone

    @Delk: Reminds me of the surprise I got from a local Chinese place that gave me a container of mashed potatoes to go with an order that included broccoli and beef. It proved to be a winning combination, especially with a splash of soy sauce.

  87. 87.

    raven

    @Raven: Sorry, it was this

     

    Heads vs. Feds — Debate about the Legalization of Marijuana

    High Times Magazine isn’t a guide to first-class airfare, but it does advocate the one thing that can send you floating above cloud nine without an airplane. It’s green, illegal and has had a major impact on the history of rock’n’roll. It’s most commonly known as marijuana, pot, weed or Mary Jane. The debate to legalize it just won’t go away.

    High Times editor Steve Hager will go head-to-head with Drug Enforcement officer Robert Stutman, who spent his years cleaning up the streets of New York and has been called “the most famous narc in America” by New York Magazine. Stutman has delivered his anti-drug campaign on shows like “60 Minutes” and “Good Morning America,” but now he’ll engage in fervent debate with a marijuana enthusiast.

    Don’t miss this highly-anticipated debate to see if marijuana laws will soon go up in smoke.

  88. 88.

    Brachiator

    Reading the thread and bobbing around the web and an interesting recipe for spicy Hunan Beef pops up

    Hunan Beef is made of thinly sliced beef, loaded with colorful veggies and tossed in a hot and spicy sauce. Not only is it addictive, it’s also made in one pan!

    Wok it up!

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    @Gravenstone

    Sam Choy (local celebrity chef) has eponymous restaurants. One he opened on Maui, which didn’t last long, for whatever reason seemed to serve a mound of mashed potatoes with everything. Friend and I ate there and we both ordered the bouillabaisse. Which arrived with a Close Encounters of the Third Kind mountain of mashed potatoes smack in the middle of the bowl.

    Neither of us was adventurous enough to discover if the same held true with desserts.

  90. 90.

    Jeffro

    @raven: dunno but will look into it!

    @dmsilev: thanks – great point!

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): well, we do and we’re kind of blessed with an almost perfectly south-facing back of the house, plus almost all of that side of the roof is covered in panels.  I paid $12 for electricity last year.  (Granted, the house is really energy-efficient in other ways too).  Kind of tempted to do electric EVERYTHING at this point…

    @mrmoshpotato: we knew the system would probably eliminate our electric bills but didn’t really think of the additional possibilities here.  Now I’m like, hmm…maybe replace the gas fireplace too, if we can find an electric one that puts out a good amount of heat and looks nice!

  91. 91.

    Honus

    @Jeffro: I can’t believe a propane range uses hundreds of dollars of propane. I had a 100lb tank that mainly ran our cooktop and on demand water heater and we had two teenage sons so we cooked a lot. I got it filled about once every year and a half.

  94. 94.

    namekarB

    Okay, a little railroad cooking story. While working on a long road trip, the crew in the locomotive (Engineer and Brakeman) had a variety of ways to get a hot meal enroute. Method 1 was using the sidewall heater that was on the floor against the wall about 6 inches high and 6 inches deep. Perfect for laying an aluminum foil wrapped burrito or other goodie. Method 2 was to go out the back door, open a door to the actual engine and place your dinner on the engine manifold. Of course sidewall heaters were wintertime only and manifold cooking was a summertime affair. There were many “sidewall heater recipes” that railroaders used to (still do I guess) circulate and share but some of my best meals were when I’d stop at a local Chinese Beanery (railroad for restaurant) and ask them to put my to-go food in an aluminum foil container so I could heat it up on a cold winter day plowing snow over “The Mountain” (Donner route over the Sierras). I remember one engineer who placed a can of something on the engine manifold but forgot to vent the top of the can. Yeah, exploded beans cooking all over the manifold. Fun times.

  95. 95.

    SFAW

    John –

    I don’t think it’s amenable to being cooked in a wok, but have you tried Tire Rims and Anthrax? Somebody whose opinion I value mentioned it awhile back. I can’t find a link, unfortunately.

     

    It’s probably not BORING.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    Finally got around to updating to Firefox 87. Took an hour to tweak it back to the way I prefer things, including delving into cobwebby recesses of memory for which about:config settings to change.

  98. 98.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Honus: We have a Thermador 6-burner range (pretty high-output) with gas oven that runs on propane, and I pay about a hundred bucks a year for the gas.

  100. 100.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro:

    Now I’m like, hmm…maybe replace the gas fireplace too, if we can find an electric one that puts out a good amount of heat and looks nice! 

    Do it. :)

  101. 101.

    Jeffro

    @Honus: it isn’t just the range…we also have the on-demand water heater, a gas fireplace, and for what it’s worth, our outdoor grill is also connected to the propane (although I’m sure that’s .5% of our usage).

    I’ll double-check my last 18 months’ worth of propane bills, see what an electric range would cost, etc etc.  The thing is, almost no matter what a conversion costs, I’ll be saving a fair amount of money each year since the electricity will be free for the next two decades or more.

  102. 102.

    Fair Economist

    @dnfree: At present cooking with gas is better environmentally unless you have a solar powered house. In 20 years it will be worse because metered electricity will mostly be emissions-free.

  104. 104.

    Honus

    @Gin & Tonic: yeah, that sounds about right. I have a Wolf cooktop and I even ran a line to my outdoor gas grill so I didn’t have to fool with cylinders snd still hardly ever had to fill that 100lb cylinder.

  105. 105.

    The Dangerman

    Thankfully I don’t bet sports (blackjack is a weakness however) as SC didn’t bother to show up tonight. Dogs. Actually thats an insult to dogs.

  106. 106.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Just marinate that sh*t in some fish sauce and problem solved.  Seriously.  Despite the name, fish sauce works great with steaks

  108. 108.

    Honus

    @Jeffro: see G&T at 98.  In my experience cooking and my Rinnai water heat use minimal propane. I’m guessing your gas fireplace uses by far the most. They are notoriously inefficient, even the unvented ones.

  112. 112.

    NotMax

    @Jeffro

    While there are certainly pricier and fancier electric ranges, have been quite happy with the more affordable, basic electric glass top Amana gotten several years back to replace the decrepit old avocado green open coil fire hazard.

    Usually good sales on stoves at Xmas and Mother’s Day times of year.

  113. 113.

    Chris Johnson

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): 
    It gets better. He was on the Tucker Carlson show, saying “Of course there’s more than one of us on this screen who’ve been falsely accused of sex crimes” :D

    I didn’t watch the clip, but oooooh boy. Apparently Carlson got rid of him as fast as he could, and was all like ‘WOW THAT WAS WEIRD’. Uhhhh, yup, sure it was. Sounds like business as usual to me, when you’re blackmailing a TV host to ask you nicer questions and cover for your crimes.

    Gaetz was so bad it was Bill Barr who started investigating him. But that shouldn’t be that surprising: all these people will have been scheming against each other, this whole time.

  116. 116.

    geg6

    Send me all your steaks and goat cheese and beets then.

    I don’t understand how anyone eats that meal and finds it boring. I also do not and will not ever understand how anyone eats anything with curry. I find it just as disgusting as anything with cilantro. Perhaps even more so. Thus why I cannot stomach Thai food. Double disgusting.

  117. 117.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Chris Johnson:

    all these people will have been scheming against each other, this whole time. 

    What’s the saying – No honor among sentient shitstains?

  119. 119.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @mrmoshpotato: Well, there’s potential costs.

    I’m switching from gas to an induction range — but that means I need to run a new 220V line to the kitchen.

    I’m willing to do so because it’s good for the environment, and I’m planning to live here a long time, but it definitely increased the amortization time.

    @namekarB: A plus side to upgrading to induction-capable cookware is that, even with my existing natural gas range, they heat much better. So much so that I had to relearn my cooking temperatures.

  120. 120.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Chris Johnson:

    southpaw @nycsouthpaw
    “You and I went to dinner… I brought a friend of mine. You’ll remember her.”

    Tucker: Um… I don’t remember that, actually….

    Elizabeth Nolan Brown @ENBrown 1h
    Gaetz on Tucker names person he claims is extorting his family, claims it’s a former DOJ official named David McGee

    Now a lawyer in private practice, which firm Gaetz also names. Tucker looks genuinely baffled, maybe wondering about his own liability.

  122. 122.

    Emma

    @M31: always fun to see a bonfire in someone’s wok, right ;) Chinese Cooking Demystified also has a very enlightening video from a year ago or so about the CIA’s (yeah, the other CIA) textbook’s recipe for mapo tofu. Basically, the CIA has no idea what the fundamentals of Chinese cooking are :D

  124. 124.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Aaron Rupar watched it all, so we don’t have to

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar
    Full video thread of Matt Gaetz’s bonkers appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight — one Carlson described as among “the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted.”

  126. 126.

    geg6

    @mrmoshpotato:

    My sister has had solar for 7 or 8 years at two different houses.  You will have to pry her gas cooktop from her cold, dead hands.  Ditto for all my other friends with solar.  No electric stove, induction or not, can measure up to a gas cooktop.

  129. 129.

    Martin

    Virtually every home in my city above the median home price has a separate wok kitchen. We have a very large asian community, and they are not poor.

  130. 130.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @mrmoshpotato: Agreed. When mine is installed the meter will actually run backwards, since I’m buying enough the solar panels to help power the electric car I plan on buying in the next year or two. They’ll cover about half the mileage I used to do in the Before Times.

  131. 131.

    J R in WV

    @Jeffro: ​

    I’m wondering if we should switch our gas (propane) range over to an electric one. As much as I cook, I’m thinking it would save us several hundred a year minimum.

    Don’t do it — we have solar in AZ, and I put in a propane tank in order to have a gas stove. Cooking with an electric stove is terrible — no control, slow to heat, can’t fry anything.
    Don’t do it!! Terrible idea, if you can afford the propane at all…​​
     

    ETA: My mom had a traditional electric stove, which I used at home until I went away to college. Once we had a gas range, there was no going back.

    Perhaps an induction range would be OK, but it takes a whole lot of electric power…

  133. 133.

    Jeffro

    @Chris Johnson: Carlson gulped so loudly I could hear it through the intertubes, lol!

    “um…er…well…THAT was weird…”

    Yes sir it sure was, ol’ Tuck m’man!  Be sure to follow up on this case tomorrow night and every night until you get to the um, er, well, bottom of it if you would.

  135. 135.

    Jeffro

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:Tucker looks genuinely baffled, maybe wondering about his own liability.

    Good!  Maybe these Fox and Newsmax and OANN slimeballs could do a little research before they just cavalierly book RWNJ Guest Of The Day to spout potentially liable nonsense.

    Wait…that would involve doing actual work.  Never mind…

  136. 136.

    Martin

    @geg6: My dad’s friend community is made up of professional chefs. They say induction is superior in every way. Better temperature control, faster heating, faster removal of heat. Induction can also heat higher. Gas maxes out around 450. Induction normally goes to 650. There’s not even a debate among the group.

    I’ll also say that induction wok cooktops are preferred here in wok kitchens because of the higher heat.

  138. 138.

    Jeffro

    @J R in WV: ok, noted.  Will look into these induction ranges and the appropriate cookware.

    This is what it must be like to live in Iceland, right?  With all that free geothermic-generated power?  It’s not enough that it dries my laundry for free…can I get it to SORT my laundry, too??  ;)

  139. 139.

    Martin

    @J R in WV: Induction should take less power. It’s substantially more efficient than a traditional electric resistive coil cooktop. About double because all the heat is being generated in the cookware so there are no transmission losses from heating the cooktop.

    One of the downsides of gas cooking is that it’s incredibly energy inefficient – usually around 6%. So while you can deliver a lot of BTUs via gas through the pipe, 94% of it is going into heating your kitchen and not your food.

  140. 140.

    Martin

    @Sister Golden Bear: We’re replacing all of our gas appliances as they reach their end of life. Did water heater last year. Dryer will be next. Range probably not for another 5-10 years – it’s fairly new. Not exactly efficient to replace still well-functioning appliances.

    We’ll switch to induction as well when the time comes. Keeping the furnace gas because, shit, it hardly ever runs here.

  141. 141.

    Suzanne

    Maybe you’re not adequately flavoring your food. Of course, I say this, being one of those people who dumps garlic, harissa, Dijon mustard, chili, whatever on pretty much everything,

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    Dan B

    @namekarB: For a retal apartment there are individual Induction hotplates that are great.  I’m planning to get one as my honey believes gas is evil.  (I want a new gas stove since it should add to house resale value instead of detracting like our 30 year old terminalky encrusted stove.  Induction hotplate is to soften him up.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Haven’t had one for years.  My parents replaced their olive green range about 20 years ago, and both of my places have had electric sparkers on the ranges.

  151. 151.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @mrmoshpotato: Got two pilot lights on the range and one for the oven.  It’s nice and toasty in there on 100℉+ days.

    ETA: From what I can tell, this stove dates from the beginning of Bill Clinton’s second term.

    ETA2: There’s a pilot light on the furace too, but I can turn that off.  If the pilot light on the range or stove goes out, gas still comes out.

  154. 154.

    dmsilev

    @Martin: I replaced my gas dryer with an electric unit last year. Miele makes a heat-pump based unit that works off a regular 120V outlet, so I didn’t even need to get an electrician to run a 220V circuit. I’m very happy with it.

  155. 155.

    Jeffro

    Tomorrow I’ll try to work on the right sequence of calls to make (as well as things to look into myself, like types of electric induction ranges and electric fireplaces).

    I guess the first thing is to call my HVAC guys and say, “I’m thinking of switching over as much as I can to electric…”?

  157. 157.

    patrick II

    I hope the people at SNL were watching that Gaetz/Carlson interview.  That could be one of the greatest opening skits ever.

  159. 159.

    guachi

    Induction is the bees knees. I visit my mother or in-laws with terrible electric cook tops and I can’t fathom how they still use them.

    I’ll take induction over gas or traditional electric any day.

  161. 161.

    dnfree

    We bought our first stove in 1971. We went to Marshall Fields in downtown Chicago. My husband came from a gas stove family and I came from an electric stove family, so we were at an impasse. We asked the salesman for his opinion, and he told us about a whole family that had come in to buy electric stoves from him because the matriarch of the family had suffered severe burns when the sleeve of her robe caught fire from the gas stove. Hence I won the debate. But I still think about that with the open flame—even if I would accidentally hit the flame with a potholder or something like that.

  162. 162.

    something fabulous

    @Sister Golden Bear:  I’ve been wondering since this broke: all the stories about TFG having listening devices at M-a-L and then blackmailing people/getting angry wives to engage in revenge sex (!?!) and so on, it seems to be a go-to of his. And Gaetz went from a Bush supporter to the most rabid of TFG supporters, pretty abruptly. So: what did TFG know about this, and when did he know it???

  164. 164.

    karen marie

    @namekarB: I rent – and poor – so buying my own stove is not feasible.  Plus, I have Farberware pots and pans I bought in 1975 that I will not give up.  I’m hoping someone in my family older than me will die and leave me enough money to get back to the east coast. Yes, I’m a bad person.

  165. 165.

    Amir Khalid

    @something fabulous:
    Really? Maybe Palm Beach PD should get a search warrant and scour Mar-a-Lago for illegal surveillance devices. It would be so, so sweet if Trump went down for blackmailing his paying guests.

  173. 173.

    karen marie

    @dnfree: How long have you been cooking with gas?  It can take time getting used to a change. I like the finer control of gas. When it’s off, it’s off, and you can see the size of the flame. I find electric to be a crap shoot. The element cycles on and off, and how hot high, medium and low are varies wildly from electric stove to electric stove.  I cooked with gas for most of my life and was never bothered by the smell. It smells like home.

  178. 178.

    The Dangerman

    Haven’t really followed UCLA ball too much of late; didn’t like Howland and realllllly didn’t like Alford…

    …but this team has heart. Gotta give it up and play Rover over and over (it’s a traditional ending song for a win or at least used to be).

    Has UCLA played Gonzaga in the Dance since 2006? I am not recalling it. 2006 was a miracle game (forBruin fans; disastrous for Zags).

  180. 180.

    Irony Abounds

    I dunno, I did brisket on the Traeger for the first time this weekend and it was pretty damn tasty. Oh, and curry is yucky.

  181. 181.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @karen marie: i agree. I’ve known a couple of people who rave about induction cooking but I have enough problems without having to worry about only using certain pans for a cooktop. I am also scared shitless about gas. My mom had two relatively  minor kitchen fires when I was younger(nothing to do with gas.) I’ll stick to electric.

  182. 182.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Irony Abounds: you can’t really say ‘curry’ is yucky because there are a ton of different curries. Each little Indian subgroup has its own version of ‘curry’ base and there’s a different spin on different kinds of food and what goes with it.

  185. 185.

    something fabulous

    @Amir Khalid: Lemme see if I can find a story about it; brb:

    aha! I think I was mooshing together two different kinds of stories, both creepy tho! Imagine him having a whole compliant DOJ to work with. Ugh.

  186. 186.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: No, I transferred in just in time for Farmer. I think it was Farmer all the way through my years (although I remember being in the Morgan Center when they introduced Hazzard, not sure if I was already graduated or the timing of that hire, I stood right next to Mike Warren, who goes way back in the Wooden years).

    Speaking of Wooden, I met him in El Segundo circa 1990. What do you say when you are in the presence of greatness and one of your heroes? I think I said something unintelligible and unintelligent but he was very gracious (of course) and signed some stuff for me.

  187. 187.

    MisterForkbeard

    @mrmoshpotato: What’s nuts is that he doesn’t need to step down, not really.

    If all he did was say “I’ve dated a lot of girls, and I tried to be a good boyfriend. I paid for some airline tickets when they took trips with me.” followed by “I didn’t date anyone underage, how dare you”.

    His base would completely back him up. He’d be okay. Instead he’s panicking.

  188. 188.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @The Dangerman: I used to see Coach when I was working downtown, he was giving motivational speeches to one of the firms in the building I worked in.  I worked in the basement(computer server room), one day I got on the elevator to head upstairs and it stopped at one of the parking levels and Coach and this young woman(I guess from the firm) got on the elevator.  She was talking a mile a minute and I just looked over at Coach and smiled and he smiled back.

    ETA: I was there for the Cunningham, Brown, and the first year of Farmer.

  189. 189.

    Amir Khalid

    @Irony Abounds:
    Ask any jackal of Indian heritage: they’ll tell you that the statement “curry is yucky” is meaningless. The term encompasses a wide variety of spicy dishes, not all of them from the Indian subcontinent, many of them not even called curries in their native countries, and none of them yucky when done right. That curry you didn’t like was probably botched by the cook.

  190. 190.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @NotMax:

    If you previously used the backspace key for page navigation, you’ll need to change that setting. Details upon request.

  191. 191.

    sab

    @Amir Khalid: And you never met my mother. Otherwise an excellent cook. American of Scottish ancestry. Never met an Asian recipe she couldn’t tame. Ditto Italian. Wouldn’t even try Mexican.

    ETA her curries  were bland beyond belief. Utterly tasteless. She just didn’t believe in spices. They ruined the meat.

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