Lol, you're a twisted one. Have my upvote.
BearOfaTime
joined 1 year ago
No shit, again, tell me how the dishwasher harms my stainless knives? And I could tell you the exact stainless my knives are, as well as my cookware, and my bowls. I've done TONS of research on my kitchen gear. It's also supposedly bad to wash my stainless cookware too, hasn't hurt it yet - the dishwasher runs between 1 and 3 times a day, we cook so much.
I've tested multiple brands (with different stainless, the big difference is the nickel percentage) and none have been affected - they don't even stain.
I've washed my steak knives from the same set that I've had for 10 years now - you can't tell the difference, they get sharpened about 1/4 as often as my chef's knife, because I use it all the time.
Seriously, it's stainless fucking steel, that was forged and tempered at temperatures far beyond the 200 degrees of a dishwasher. What is it exactly about the dishwasher that supposedly fucks up my knives that aren't fucked up from the dishwasher? (And I use cheap-as powder detergent, the cheapest I can find, and my shit comes out clean).
Now I wouldn't run a carbon steel knife through the dishwasher, because it would have a bad reaction with the detergent, and it would rust which I'd then have to cleanup.
Not seeing how a dishwasher dulls knives, unless you're banging them around.
I've heard this for decades, I wash my steak knives all the time, the dishwasher doesn't affect their sharpness at all (and they're proper sharp knives, not those bullshit serrated things).
Mine don't go through the dishwasher only because the plastic in the handles would get fucked up. Otherwise they're stainless, how does a dishwasher harm the stainless in my knives but not my stainless silverware, stainless bowls, stainless utensils, stainless dishwasher?
And I use an electric sharpener. I ain't wasting time with a stone - I did plenty of that 45 years ago. Tech has moved along. Does anyone think Wustoff sharpens their knives by hand?
Yea, wiki says it's from the southeast, maybe NC?
I generally make my own, which is so much better than store bought.
Just wondering if it's that way for OP's bank.
I don't really use the app or the website (maybe to check a balance), so I have no idea what uses there are. Frankly I wouldn't have banking at all if I could avoid those bastards.
Recent research has shown cholesterol levels aren't really caused by dietary fat intake.
It's largely influenced by genetics, and by other things, especially glucose instability.
When blood glucose levels vary wildly - e.g. eating a high carb meal spikes it, which causes the pancreas to release a lot of insulin at once to cope with the sudden glucose increase, which then signals EVERY cell to "use glucose!", including fat cells which are very efficient at storing glucose as fat. Since carbs are metabolized quickly, glucose levels drop quickly because of that initial insulin spike.
Those sudden high blood glucose levels apparently cause vascular injury, and cholesterol is used to basically form a patch on the artery wall so it's protected while it heals. Keep cycling glucose levels, and you'll have high cholesterol levels as the body heals the vascular system. Looking at the last 40 years (starting in the 80's), what's the dietary advice been? Less fat, more carbs. And we wonder why we're seeing more diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
Also, high cholesterol on its own is only a single metric (just like blood pressure - there've been Olympic athletes with high cholesterol and high blood pressure...) - there's lots more going on, and it all needs to be considered. Franky I don't worry about cholesterol, as the single thing we can all do that has major impact to every system in our bodies, is to eat in a way to keep glucose levels stable.
I say this as someone with Type II diabetes in my immediate family, I have hypoglycemia, and Type I in the extended family. I've had to study up a lot over the last 20 years to keep family and myself healthy and safe.
A good intro on these things is a book by Barry Sears called "The Zone", published in about 1994 (ignore all other Zone books, they're marketing garbage). He's a chemist who saw heart disease in relatively young people in his family, and went back to school for a biochemistry doctorate because he didn't want to die young.
They're impressive for what they are: a vehicle engineered at a time of minimum resources and manufacturing/maintenance ability, for a specific goal.
I respect them for that. Otherwise don't care for them at all. Awful to drive (they have the same suspension as a Corvair that dumbass Nader called Dangerous at Any Speed), only with that god-awful front suspension design that has major bump-steer issues. Gutless air-cooled engine, no AC and practically no heat.
But I'm comparing it to anything built after it that didn't have the serious constraints it's designers had to contend with. I would've loved it in 1940 Europe.
I recently discovered the PARA method: the idea that most of what we do falls into one of 4 categories:
Project
Area of Responsibility
Resource
Archive
I've setup a OneNote notebook and a paper planner using this approach, and it's been very helpful with de-chaos-ing so much stuff. Now it hasn't halped much with specific tasks, other than I can more easily record and then find them.
Lately I've been using my shopping list app (Anylist) for my daily to-do's since it syncs with Android and iOS, and I'm in it all the time for other lists on every device (I keep a browser window open just for it on my laptop). Unfortunately it doesn't have reminders.
It's terrifying how effective user tracking is today, and I think most people are really unaware of how extensive it is.
Prof. Jennifer Golbeck explains it well (for non-technical folks) in "Taking Control of Your Personal Data" published by The Teaching Company, ISBN:978-1629978390, likely available at your local library as a DVD or streaming. (I know that sounds like an ad, she just explains things so well I hope more non-technical people will see it).
Hahahahah... Well at least we're not "monsters"!