Culinary March 22, 2024 Returning My KitchenAid Double Oven Gas Range (Model KFGD500ESS) TL;DR The broiler routinely turns itself off. I’ve owned the KitchenAid Double Oven Gas Range for about 30 days. Each day, I’ve cooked two meals. Some went off without a hitch. Every time I turned on the broiler, though, disaster struck. Last night’s salmon dinner was the final straw. I’m returning the double oven. Its ...
Culinary March 22, 2024 Two Things I Didn’t Like About The KitchenAid Double Oven’s Design (Model KFGD500ESS) I didn’t Like the Grates The first thing I noticed about the KitchenAid Double Oven on display in the store was that its stainless-steel top was scratched to hell near all contact points of the grates. I immediately suspected the grate was, in some crucial way, difficult to handle. Hell yes it is! The range ...
Books, Pigeons April 7, 2023 The Origin of the Old Canard that Pigeons Spread Disease At this very moment, somewhere in some derelict, tax-burdened, crime-ridden metropolitan hell-hole, an adorable little grey bird totters across a sidewalk. A man (or woman) swings his (or her) leg toward the innocent creature. Though the ill-timed kick badly misses the bird, it opens its wings and does a little flutter-hop to get away. “Filthy, ...
Culinary March 10, 2023 Tips for Sharpening Old Damaged Knives With the Chef’s Choice Sharpening Station In 2015 I purchased my Chef’s Choice sharpening station. The manual was full of information, much of it baffling to a person ignorant of knives. I’d thought of the electric sharpener as a way out of learning sharpening stones, but, of course, one must learn the machine’s operation. This was clear when I’d allow family ...
Books, Reviews February 18, 2023 Gutbliss by Robynne Chutkan I’ve read mainstream doctor authors (Hyman, Gundry, Mercola, Perlmutter, etc.) and more than a handful of books about food, the microbiome, and digestion. Gutbliss showed me how little I actually knew about the workings of our guts. Celebrity cardiologists and neurologists write much about diet, but they’re not gastroenterologists. Their books never explain how or ...
Books, Reviews February 17, 2023 Land Without Justice: An Autobiography of His Youth by Milovan Djilas Last October on our trip to Kansas City to see the Bills play the Chiefs, I was lucky to find Land Without Justice at Steel’s Used Books. Mr. Steel sold us a goodly pile of interesting books at a reasonable price. We were sorry to hear that in the years prior, he’d been forced to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Star Wars Battlefront II: Review EA's Lootbox-Free Battlefront Game Is Part Shooter, Part Fighter, And Completely Mesmerizing If a time traveler visited me when I was in college and told me that in the year 2020, I would be eating Star Wars “Rebel Crunch” yogurt while wearing my favorite Chewbacca shirt, I would have called him a liar and a lunatic. In those days, my favorite movies were Stalker, Yojimbo, Santa Sangre, ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Controller Wars: Xbox Elite 2 Versus Scuf Vantage 1 Versus Xbox Elite 1 Microsoft's Elite 2 is a Serious Upgrade Over the Elite 1. Both Elite Controllers Blow the Scuf Vantage Out of the Water Since the time we wrote our last Scuf Vantage versus Xbox Elite review, we’ve purchased both a Scuf Vantage 1 and the new Xbox Elite 2. We bought the new Elite because John’s old Elite broke; details about what went wrong are below. We never wanted another Scuf until we discovered Star Wars Battlefront 2’s ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Lost in Code Vein Getting Lost was One of the Defining Features of Code Vein. We Wanted to Find Out Why “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear: so bitter-death is hardly more severe! ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Five Reasons We Uninstalled Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Breakpoint Is Not the Game We Thought We Bought, but We Couldn't Get Into What it Is, Either This year at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we spent the dog days of summer playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands. We loved that game. We never wanted to stop playing it. We even played its DLCs. You can imagine how hotly we anticipated Breakpoint’s release. In fact, we dreamt of playing Ghost Recon indefinitely. We wanted to ...