Battra92's Profile

See I'd be hoping for a no. I abstain for religious and personal reasons and I'm not even sure if I dig 1% alcohol. By my calculations 12oz of soda equals about a tsp of alcohol (.12oz) One shot of Vodka contains around .6 so it's a quarter of a shot. Yeah, too much booze for this old Teetotaler to stomach!

Cooked vegetables and I will never, ever get together. There isn't enough money on earth to get me to eat peas, cooked broccoli,

I eat raw veggies just every day (usually a salad) so I'm surviving just fine.

Onions are the bane of my existence. I'm allergic and they are in every single recipe ever. I can't imagine choosing to not like them (though they do taste pretty sulfer-y and nasty anyway)

It's just a saying that rhymes, dude.

I pray to God that the US never, EVER goes Metric. I know some people have said my distaste for the Metric system is misguided and that the whole broken clock that was the French Revolution could have maybe once have been right about one tiny part out of the whole Cult of the Supreme Being thing. To me, it makes as much sense in the kitchen as the French Revolution's calendar system.

Good measuring cups (different ones for liquid and dry) plus a good set of spoons are relatively inexpensive and the right ones should last you a lifetime of careful use. Many scales probably have the button to switch from US to French already (I know mine does) so you can use handy things like "A Pint's a pound the world around" and other nifty conversions.

I'm sure there are some really groovy decorative charts out there but most good cookbooks should have this in the Appendix or in the inside cover of the book.

Tip 5: Live in California where all the food is grown.

Also Tip #3 seems to be in direct conflict with the point of this article. Maybe the title should be amended with "On a a regular basis."

I don't have a problem with Soda-lime glass and quite frankly I've never had any Pyrex shatter on me. The only Pyrex I've witnessed breaking was an old borosilicate one that my mother poured cold water into when it was in the oven. Termal shock is bad, mmkay.

While I appreciate the geek-chic of these, where they fail for me is the fact that they are only in Metric. Now I know I'm set in my ways (cursive writing, film cameras etc.) I really despise metric, especially in the kitchen. 100% of my recipes are in US Customary units and exactly one cookbook in my house (a cookie one my wife bought) is only in US Customary units.

I think I'll eat French food that day since a year later the French came back and installed a puppet government in Mexico thus rendering the whole battle a minor footnote in history. I also don't drink alcohol so it's very easy to skip these fake holidays that marketing types want us to celebrate.

We've used wire shelving in our previous apartment. When we moved to our current house we had enough cabinet space that the small wire shelf we kept ended up on our sun porch for other uses.

I never thought to hang pots and pans off one. Not a bad idea, though!

I've been collecting the Complete Peanuts collections for the last few years and it surprises me as to how many downright depressing joke-less strips (e.g. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fwcJtjvP8qA/TcRTWz3rnRI/AAAAAAAAAno/t9abz9BX1R4/s1600/2-1-1954.gif ) It kind of makes the "Snoopy and Woodstock doing silly things" strips appear in another world entirely.

Pretty amazing work, though!

We've reduced our plastic wrap use considerably and now really only use it for things like wrapping meat for the freezer. Most leftovers go in Rubbermaid or Pyrex containers. When covering a bowl I usually just do what my grandmother did: use a plate or a tea towel.

If only I could break my wife of her plastic bag addiction. :-P