Contrary to popular belief, noise-cancelling
headphones actually intensify many kinds of
unwanted sounds - as many a passenger has
chagrinfully discovered on donning them to try
to counteract such sounds as a baby's crying.
I've never used them (other than a quick try of Steve's) so couldn't
tell. He got a pair of Bose at Sea-Tac last summer before we flew home
and really liked them.
They do exceedingly well for what they do (get
rid of ambient noise). The problem arises when
they accentuate undesirable nonambient noise.
They seem to cook satisfactorily on the whole.
I still, would rather have gas. (G)
Sure thing, but one does what one can. Out in
the boonies, the more problematic bottled gas is
the alternative to electricity.
We have a 2 burner propane in the camper, a portable 2 burner, a one
burner induction unit and I'm not sure what all else in the camper. The microwave is also a small convection oven but we need power (generator,
if no other power available) to run that.
Sounds like you should have had the echo picnic
right in your camper.
I seldom operated even that way - what I did
depended on what I wanted to do, rather than
what someone told me to do or not do. But it
hever occurred to me to use a wringer washer in
that manner until the prompts came.
I pretty much listened to my parents; the consequences were rather
unpleasant if it I didn't.
I seldom listened to mine, because so often
they were wrong as rain, and when they were,
I didn't care about the consequences. For
normal stuff, where it didn't matter, sure,
why not do as they said, mostly.
And my point is that one should try to avoid
deliberately misusing language; perhaps the
slide is inevitable, but perhaps it can be
stalled or forestalled.
I don't intentionally misuse it; OTOH, I can make an unlogical
thought > sound perfectly logical.
Not saying that many of us do.
Some do it better than others. Not saying I'm great, but I have bum
fuzzled people from time to time.
Perhaps you could have been an attorney, then.
Would you rather clean up a mess on the floor? (G)
I'd rather not use the silicon things in
the first place - strikes me that that was
an invention for which the need never existed.
Good for some things but not baking dishes, and other of the same ilk.
Got it in one.
I figure anything short of 20W is okay for you.
Olive or canola oil and butter are our usual greases.
I use what's available. Lard is high on the
list, but I've found that duck fat is an
excellent and fragrant multipurpose cooking fat.
Butter and olive go without saying.
Duck fat isn't easily available to us, lard is used in small amounts,
We're after all not in France, where you can
buy it in the same refrigerated aisle as the
butter and cheese. Most civilized, I thought.
butter is used a lot. Also have a non hydrogenated solid shortening
(Spectrum brand) that gets used for some things. Oils are the ones
mentioned above, with sometimes a splash of sesame in stir fries.
I've always been irritated by the tonedeaf
way in which many western cooks use sesame
oil - raw cold-pressed is fine for most
things, but folks try to use the toasted
for frying and stuff like that, and the
results are to my taste buds burned and
horrendous. The brown sesame oil is a
flavoring, not a cooking agent, and some
of the self-touting cookery experts have
published the most egregious recipes that
ignore this fact.
Never been one of my favorites; I gravitate to the
chocolate/frosting > ones.
Even for ready-made?
If ready made is the only choice and I want a cookie bad enough. (G)
I'd have to be starving in the gutter
first! or at least hungry on an airplane.
If the heat source is intense enough, that
may be true - that way you can get a good
crust while the inside remains blue rare
the way I like it. A problem arises when
a cold-through steak is expected to become
a warmed-through one, which courts exterior
toughness and all-around inferior taste.
No standards whatsoever. (G)
Or the wrong ones, anyhow.
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
Title: Snickerdoodles
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 54 servings
1 c Butter or margarine 1 3/4 c Flour, all-purpose
3/4 c Brown sugar; packed 2 c Uncooked oats
3/4 c Sugar; +plus+ 2 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Sugar 1 ts Baking soda
2 ea Eggs 1/2 ts Salt; (optional)
Heat oven to 375f. Grease cookie sheet.
In large bowl, beat together butter, brown sugar and 3/4 cup granulated
sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs; mix well. In medium bowl,
combine
flour, oats, 1t cinnamon, soda and salt. Add to sugar mixture; mix well.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet. In small bowl,
combine remaining 1 T sugar and 1 t cinnamon; sprinkle lightly over each
cookie. Bake 8-10 minutes. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to
wire
cooling rack. Source unnown. M is not sure about the oats.
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