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  1. 4??!? Mine does it in half a crank. If I cranked it four times, my house would look like the end of Real Genius but with pepper..
  2. It certainly fits with this. Federal employees got a really spammy looking email to provide their email addresses for some government wide notification system connected to, you guessed it, Elmo. My friend sent it to the IT department to confirm it wasn't spam. No, this spammy looking bullshit that helps build the spam machine is YOUR federal government. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5111199-federal-employees-sue-opm-email/
  3. 3. When they complain, claim sovereign immunity. 4. Grift
  4. Trump, a federal employee, got this letter too, right? I think he should take the deal!
  5. With a job market flooded with federal workers no less.
  6. Friend who is a DOJ attorney said her office just got a slew of these emails. She's like, fuck you, fire me.
  7. Or, it's a smoke screen to distract everyone while he empty's the government's coffers. Or, he believes that rich people should be able to do whatever they want and tearing down a society to build another up that caters to that notion. In any event, the worse he hurts people and causes desperation to set in, the more likely someone with nothing to lose is going to resort to violet retaliation, either against him or the people in power who support him. I'm not saying I support that sort of response. I do not. But I can see how it would happen, and given how brazenly he is going about things, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened sooner rather than later. And, with that, I suppose I should join Brisketexan and others on the ledge.
  8. I subbed a couple of strawberries last night for other available options, and it really did. But I'm not off booze this month.
  9. If you can overcome the resultant sweet tooth syndrome.
  10. If you begin with the assumption that he is an asset/puppet of a antagonistic, foreign power, it all makes more sense.
  11. I took a hard look at that one after you posted it (for those times when I want a consistent grind). Then I realized I already have 3 pepper grinders.
  12. Well, in my case, a little drawer for your ground pepper and positive reflection on times long gone. My smug sense of superiority predates and transcends my spice grinding.
  13. On that blade grinder, is there a minimum amount to get it to blade height, or does the sheer momentum fling the peppercorns into the pulverization zone? Also, that mill I use is largely based on strong, positive associations from growing up with something similar. As I mentioned above, part of what I like about it is a mixed grind, which I realize isn't the consistency most people want. I think it's great though.
  14. When it comes to fresh-ground pepper, and a recipe calls for a teaspoon, it all depends on how coarse or fine the grind is versus what the recipe intended, as written. Same for salt (a teaspoon of table salt vs. sea salt vs. coarse kosher salt just isn't the same). I usually eyeball salt and pepper additions and go by taste. That said, I have this old OXO grinder from a set and it has a rubber cap on it with teaspoon and tablespoon measurements outlined on the inside of the cap. So you grind it a bit, peel off the cap and check. It's interesting, but it's more of a pain than anything and its easier for me to grind onto a plate and eyeball it or pull the drawer on the coffee mill pictured above and use a measuring spoon. On that mill though, I know that a half crank is pretty close to a teaspoon of coarse ground pepper. So there's that.
  15. I've got a couple of Chef's Choice sharpeners with the diamond discs. You can run serrated knives through the honing/polishing discs on those.
  16. I have a requested two-song outro. I've quizzed my wife twice on it during our marriage. So now I have a friend in charge of this with another in reserve.You have to have someone in charge of the playlist for sure.
  17. Yeah. No excuse except that we wanted to eat before 10 and I didn't have extra time or energy to make them.
  18. Fajitas, possibly the best I've made/had and a really solid Spanish rice.
  19. Cross posted from the spice chat in the Stews and Gumbo thread. We had one of these when I was growing up. It's a manual-crank, burr coffee grinder. My dad used it to grind pepper at the table. About 15 years ago, I picked up this Zassenhaus grinder to use solely for black pepper grinding because, despite having traditional pepper grinders, nothing does it quite like this coffee grinder. The grind is like a combination of course and fine, and that slight inconsistency just hits differently.
  20. I have a couple of traditional-looking pepper grinders, but none of them do it like the Zassenhaus manual coffee mill. The grind (even though adjustable) is like a combination of course and fine, and that slight inconsistency just hits differently.
  21. That was my mom's Luby's go-to entree. I'll eat a lot of things, but I just can't do it.
  22. I've always followed the advice of don't spend too much on a bread knife. These Dexter Russel knives are absolute workhorses. https://www.amazon.com/Dexter-Russell-Basics-P94804B-Scalloped-Polypropylene/dp/B004NG9HOW/ref=asc_df_B004NG9HOW?mcid=ec0c4adc6a9f36008ff9a338c3975bdd&hvocijid=2604827628864185596-B004NG9HOW-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2604827628864185596&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027088&hvtargid=pla-2281435177178&psc=1 Or if you need a wooden handle, Victorinox. I doubt it's $45 better at cutting bread than the D/R, but it's a nice looking knife. https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-4-Inch-Bread-Rosewood-Handle/dp/B0019WXBIQ/ref=sr_1_11?crid=2HXZOKZI2J4XM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IBbMVZcQ0yksSefZlHk7oTE2Euh0vaGApMGHp71OKAOSpHjl9FydXDf38blNwIFEXruL03nST2nBZvRZMX9ax2dKnvaag0qT_QL6qa-DCnpohkqkUJe1jeBB0IyWW3iQLSapkzYNmDRbE1Lm2okJx1FPDw2W58jiX7aQHeQ1BjEMru0FT9dc-OvwMZyM8uXc0093ikX-2xwikAOHLaIL2Kj4u5TUOP0SvjDV-0kBe_MnIT-NPvfRs63328-HNAnXwokjTzVO6t3xEHMu_cux5LoWcvJK5wo5zryOhrdE6I8JL2lqeY8jrOoFOIJE1lRNT1jgGL1G1ccUyADYTtY_OMntrprWehzI6dJd1uuQj7nV2ChW4Gr-89XT6e7bblQrWOOS6UPDtsMBSPhgjjybie_hgfGr0lil_W03Kyt4-pIdATCPySFfjP4--IWvuWig.zBQV1wrPFOgblUq2O0K1dKgZhMC1ch-ra_J6igEXnwE&dib_tag=se&keywords=victorinox%2Bbread%2Bknife&qid=1737726695&sprefix=victorinox%2Bbread%2Bknife%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-11&th=1
  23. I've got a Pullman loaf pan from them. It's solid.
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