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| Cooking funI remember trying a stainless steel pan at home, after watching lots of Food Network and seeing that professionals prefer stainless. I've found that on stainless, I have to un-learn many of the habits I have developed using non-stick cookware (Circulon).
The basic recommendation on stainless is to pre-heat before adding oil, cook with high heat, and not flip too soon. Otherwise, foods like eggs and salmon will separate when you try to flip, with one side stuck to the pot. With a little bit of faith, the Maillard Reaction, which governs the behavior of many foods including meats and eggs, will occur, and the food will naturally separate.
Apparently, stainless steel by itself is a poor conductor of heat, but many stainless-steel pots have an inner conducting layer. So cooking tips for stainless depends on which subtype of stinaless steel pots you use.
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| sad lossdavid foster wallace dead
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| TV seasonShows considering watching:
Mad Men. critically acclaimed. plot sounds amazing.
Going to keep up with:
The office, heroes, the sarah conner chronicles, burn notice
Watching intermittently on Hulu:
Cops, family guy, daily show. more for fun than following a story.
Used to watch, demoted to reading episode recaps periodically:
prison break, lost, battlestar galactica
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| BIC penI have always wondered what "med/moy" means. It is text found on the side of your average BIC pen. With some internet sleuthing, I have figured it out:
med/moy
"med" short for medium
"moy" short for moyenne (medium in French)
both refer to the tip.
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| Fantastic ContraptionFantastic Contraption is a fun flash game similar to "Magic Crayon." Unlike Magic Crayon, which relies on gravity & timing to beat the game, this game has the added option of spinning wheels. You can use them as gears to make various contraptions: cars, tanks, conveyer belts, and catapults. While the gears feature makes the game easier, the levels are made more challenging by various restrictions and obstacles.
While I spent more than an hour going through the 20 levels, this person demonstrates beating the game in 4 minutes on youtube. Very elegant solutions.
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