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Yeah, in general basting seems unnecessary to me. Like Alton Brown says, skin was invented to keep water out. If the meat has skin on it, pouring juice over it isn't going to do much for the meat inside.

Basting won't do much to keep meat moist, but if the goal is to keep the meat well-sauced (cf, barbeque), then that's a whole other story. Slather that sauce on all you want, and definitely keep the oven door closed.


Technique: How To Baste | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn
1/26/10 10:24 AM

Joan- I don't think this program saves an image of the barcode to your phone, just the text information. iPhones have at least 4gb of memory, which is more than enough to hold the information for thousands of books.

Besides, you'd only have the information on the phone temporarily. Once you'd scanned your books and emailed the list to yourself, you could delete the list from your phone to free up space. So even if you do somehow have so many books that your phone can't hold information for them all at once, you could simply scan them in batches, send yourself multiple lists, and combine them into one master list in Excel.


How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone | Apartment Therapy Chicago
11/17/09 10:24 AM

Some of you seem to be missing the point that non-dishes don't get washed with the dishes.

You put dirty dishes in the dishwasher. The dishwasher blasts said dishes with scalding water and detergent. Dishes, along with the dish rack and the entire interior of dishwasher, are now clean.

You put non-dishes in the dishwasher, repeat, and once again both the non-dishes and the entire interior of the dishwasher are clean.

Then you put dirty dishes in, repeat, and finally you have clean dishes yet again. So, in order for germs or dirt to transfer from the nondishes to the dishes, they would have to survive two cycles in the dishwasher. If your dishwasher can't clean things in two full cycles, then you shouldn't be washing things in it in the first place.


17 Items That Can Be Washed In Your Dishwasher Real Simple | Apartment Therapy Los Angeles
11/10/09 5:38 PM

It's a difficult balance to strike, because as the host one does feel an obligation to chat and entertain guests. Personally, if it's just a small dinner party, I don't mind talking to guests in the kitchen while I finish up. But for huge undertakings like Thanksgiving, there's simply too much to do to chit-chat (something I'd hope most guests would realize).

Anyway, I can think of two graceful ways to keep the chit-chat out of a busy kitchen. One is if you have a significant other or friend who's helping you host, they can shuttle food from the kitchen to the guest are, and in the process try to police the entryway and keep people out. Most guests won't willfully stand in the middle of traffic flow.

The other is to put guests in the kitchen to work outside the kitchen. Give them a tray of appetizers to carry around, for example. After all, anybody standing in a kitchen is an open target to be put to work.

If all else fails, tell them that you're about to be pulling things out of the oven and moving lots of hot things, and ask them to move outside so you don't burn them.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Proper Etiquette: Can You Kick Guests Out of the Kitchen?
11/4/09 11:49 AM

"What are all these books good for?"

In a week full of collections on this blog, why are books suddenly the things that have to have a "purpose" outside of themselves?

I love books. I love reading them, obviously, but I also like just having them. I like perusing the titles on my shelves, remembering the ones I've read, anticipating the ones I haven't read. And heck, I just like how a wall full of books looks. It's beautiful. I like wandering through book stores and libraries, not only to read, but simply because I enjoy the presence of books.

Oh, and they smell good, too.

I can't imagine only having 30 books. My books are my favorite possessions, bar none. I don't keep them to show off (though obviously some people do), I keep them because I enjoy having them.

Besides, it's like Nassim Nicholas Taleb says- "...a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones."


Apartment Therapy DC | Rooms Brimming with Book Collections
9/25/09 5:38 PM