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"Wine (9% alcohol) will burn if you pour it into a hot pan near on a gas stove
That's because you're heating the wine up really fast, putting ethanol vapor in the air above the pan, and then lighting that on fire...." [
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3 days ago
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"A good stir fry doesn't use any sauce. The flavor of stir fry is wok hei (the air/breath of the wok). This flavor is produced by extremely high heat reacting with fairly small amounts of oil and the natural sugars and proteins in your food.
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3 days ago
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"For silken tofu:
1. Mapo tofu
2. Soon dubu chigae
3. If you've got really good fresh tofu, just cut it in big cubes and top with thinly sliced scallion and a drop of soy sauce. A little kimchi wouldn't hurt either
For firm tofu:
1. Freeze..." [
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"Do you consume much/any caffeine? It's a simple, convenient, socially acceptable, and probably healthy way to maintain your energy level and suppress your appetite a bit...." [
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"Avocado shake with honey
Thinly sliced over pizza hot from the oven
In spaghetti with eggs and hard cheese (something like carbonara)
In a hard-boiled egg sandwich
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jaltcoh
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"Yes, as several people here have already pointed out, it's all the same auto-tune software that makes everyone who uses it sound exactly the same, hence the joke. The talkbox (keyboard with tube) in the video is a prop.
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2 months ago
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"The collection includes Bacillus anthracis
That's like saying that because you lied about your identity to order 10 pounds of sodium chloride from Sigma, you might as well have lied to order 10 pounds of sodium azide. Yes, ATCC has all sorts of..." [
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2 months ago
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"I read JC in 9th grade and there were no accompanying videos or TV shows or multimedia extravaganzas. And I seem to remember actually enjoying the play itself...." [
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3 months ago
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"Is there a German word that describes how we seem to be continually learning to appreciate worse and worse ex-officials, because the ones they get replaced with are always somehow even worse?..." [
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3 months ago
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"Oh, and Loquacious: the "old trick" you are referring to is the very first DJ skill ever developed, looping the "get down part" a/k/a breakbeat. It's not some way of avoiding beatmatching between different songs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artifice_Eternity
3 months ago
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"i like these even better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvi40ykYyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oq_ViejpZk
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3 months ago
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"1. The reason that there is no real information on the websites is that there are no fixed prices. Cable TV/internet service is one of the few truly price-negotiable products one can buy these days. This means that if you simply call up and say..." [
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5 months ago
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"This time it's from store bought fried chicken, last time it was from a bacon sandwich
How long ago did you eat the chicken? Keep in mind, food poisoning can occur from an item eaten as few as 2 or as many as 48 hours previous...." [
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5 months ago
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"I long for ceremony, ritual, rites of passage.
I like Thanksgiving a lot because everyone likes to eat, and therefore everyone is united by their mutual love of food and the togetherness created by this shared experience. The same goes for other..." [
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6 months ago
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"On Iron Chef America last night, Mario Batali made a cranberry curd which I thought was a rather good idea (being a lemon curd fan myself). I believe the curd was then used to make a zuppa inglese (trifle) with cubes of pannetone.
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7 months ago
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"My thoughts:
1. I understand how scary the side effects of accutane are. It seems worth mentioning again that if you can possibly ever deal with the reasons you don't want to be on accutane, you should try it, because it is far more likely to be..." [
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8 months ago
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"Very hot dutch oven, preheated empty in the oven, salt and oil the chicken (under the skin if you've got time), drop in the hot pot, cook 45-60 minutes, rest 5 minutes out of the oven. 45 minutes and a smaller bird is tastier with a better balance..." [
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8 months ago
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"These answers are wrong. The real answer: cook the applesauce with the lid on, and let it cool with the lid on. Then just put the whole container/pot into the fridge once it's come to room temperature.
Unless you work in food service and are..." [
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8 months ago
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"I remember back in the day "battling" another sixth grader at the ice skating rink in who could rap the first verse of this song the fastest. The kid was Asian, so I won.
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8 months ago
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"Delmoi is wrong, Bletch and 517 are right. This really is like copy-pasting a "new" and "synthetic" organism. Really, it's most similar to what was done in Fred Blattner's lab last year (Science article here). It's a series of..." [
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8 months ago
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"Important other tools for bread: A couche (or a basket lined with a cloth that you've sprayed with oil and then floured); a clay baking dish or a dutch oven with a lid; a narrowish, tall rubbermaid type container that you can use for proofing.
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9 months ago
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"Farecompare allows you to specify departure/arrival cities and then quickly see months' worth of prices (with corresponding airlines, and ticket availability).
Their Getaway Maps feature allows you to specify the departure city, and then view some..." [
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9 months ago
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"I wouldn't recommend keeping kimchi for more than a few weeks. The fresh stuff is fantastic, and the old stuff will become too acidic to eat." [
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10 months ago
