no worries -it does last the three years and is well worth it at the price. We could have easily kept ours going longer if we had to.... but the 3yr warranty was like $30.....

...and you've witnessed first hand just how filthy our kids are.....

it's a great choice. Our first steam vac here was a dirt devil like we had in the UK. total failure

All Dirt Devils are failures. Worst. Vaccuums/Cleaners. EVAR.

Me? I've had my Hoover SteamVac for about seven years now. Got a warranty through Sears (didn't need it really; it's always done a great job) and had it serviced for the first time last year. Runs even better than I remembered. :)

Hoover vacuum cleaners are pretty awesome, as well. Mine is at least 10 years old and still working like a charm.

Dirt Devils we had in the UK were fine.

The Goldilocks tequila. Not too expensive, not too cheap. Plenty shootable.

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I do the same thing with a straw.

Seriously.

I guess, but I would not want to such the same air as raw meat.:greenface

I've been doing it for years...no problems.

It's just the American ... Ummmmm... corporate way

It slices, it dices, it mices, it rices, it spices, it splices, and entices; not once or twice but thrice. It's nice.
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I tried to buy one of those pineapple things the other day at Williams Sonoma, but they don't carry them in the store. Only online.

I got a very generous WS gift card for Xmas. I got an immersion blender, a lettuce spinner, and a food scale. Already had two delicious soups made with the immersion blender. It's so much easier than pouring batches of hot soup into a regular blender.

Only used it twice, but I feel like I should endorse it now.

The cheaper consumer grade Bamix immersion blender is awesome. Plenty of power, quiet, and feels high quality in your hand.

Ive been meaning to get one of those.

Speaking of dead dentists, when I got my caps done Doc said I should just take normal precautions, even though eating corn on the cob should be fine, why risk it.

I mentioned I had one of these, and he said they should give one out to everyone who gets new caps. It's easier than slitting your wrists trying to use a regular knife while holding the cob still.

When you eat corn on the cob, it doesn't seem like whole lot of corn, but then when you cut it off the cob, and it's sitting there in a pile, it's like enough for a family of four.

That has a very Jack Handy ring to it.

I got our pineapple corer thingy at our local supermarket, next to the pineapples. It was about $5.

I love love love fresh pineapple. I always forget about it too. I think it might be because the fruit you buy looks so different from the fruit that you are eating. When I walk by the pineapples, they don't call out to me. Unless they are super ripe and I can smell them when I'm standing next to them.

My friend uses fresh pineapple for the chicken kebabs (my recipe, she perfected it.) Approx inch square of chicken, wrapped in bacon, dip one half in chili powder, the other half in brown sugar. Kebab it. Add favorite noms. Grill it.

I don't care for mushrooms and peppers and the like, but when they grill out she makes a couple for me with just the chicken and fresh pineapple. Is there anything better than kebabbed fresh pineapple on the grill? I think not.

edit: is it summer yet?

Im gonna fire up the grill tonight to make those! I dont care how cold it is outside.

I love my immersion blender. Use it every single day.

What do you use it for, Clod? Im afraid that if I buy one, I will put it in the drawer and forget that I have it.

They're so tasty. I cut the slices of bacon in half, you want it to get a bit crispy so you don't want to over-bacon. There is something about the chili powder and the glaze the brown sugar makes that is the yum!

Smoothies, mostly. The kids' "juice" is actually a puree of butternut squash, cauliflower, peaches, and pears, so I do huge batches of that. For me it's standard strawberry and banana. It's nice for soups too, but I only use it for those maybe once a month.

Did you try them?

If not, do it soon, you'll love 'em.

I lied, I didnt really mean tonight...I meant I wanted to tonight, which is a whole other issue when it comes to me. (plus, it was snowing, so in my defense...:D) But Im gonna in the next few days. I have go to the store first, though...need bell peppers, onions, and stuff to finish off the kebabs. Its sounds sooooo good.

I got the recipe from my ex who heard it from someone else. I took them to a cookout once and they lasted like 5 minutes. Now about half the people I know make them.

Glad you're going to try them!

That sounds mighty righteous. will try asap. We should be getting a warm snap in a week or two, we just left a 40 degree spell and when the next one arrives I will fire up the grill. IT's just too dusty with all the charcoal ash to grill indoors, plus it makes us all get very flushed in the face.

Would the broiler work just as well, do you think?

Yes, I've made them under the broiler too. Messy, though. Still, grill is better.

If you take a couple of Motrin before you fire it up, it helps with the headaches.

:D

These pretzels are making me thirsty ... er I mean this thread is making me hungry! :p:

:lol2:

The entire Cellar is on a roll today!

We say that at my family get togethers all the time, about the pretzels.

$5.99 version probably doesn't work exactly as well

Oooh, I think those are hard to use. When I waitressed at the country club I used the regular "key" for opening wine. Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling. I'd have to sit on the floor and hold the bottle with my feet as I tried to disengage the cork. When said cork came free I'd probably fly across the room.

(Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling.) Oh my, that doesn't sound very professional. :D

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Oh God, me too!

I use one of those cork screws with the arms that are up in the air and then you pull down on them to lever the cork out. It might take 2 extra seconds, but no brute force needed. Very civilized.

That one is my saving grace, too.

Those are really easy to use, and I used them at the neighborhood bar, but we weren't allowed to use them at the Cuntry Club. Not dignified enough, I guess. They like grunting and pulling from their servants. :p:

I stopped using the grunting kind of corkscrew after learning from a mistake in my teenage years.

I was soaking a bunch of wine bottles to get the labels off of them. I was saving all these labels as souvenirs of our time in Germany and all the wines we drank. Somebody had put the cork back into one of the bottles, and it wouldn't sink into the bathroom sink. It just floated at the top.

So I got a regular corkscrew and started pulling the cork out. When you are pulling a cork out, you have one arm pulling on the bottle and the other arm pulling on the cork. They cancel each other out until the cork breaks free. If you aren't bracing the bottle against something, it swings suddenly down and smashes apart the porcelain sink. And the cork is just fine, safely contained on the corkscrew in your hand. Your parent's aren't too happy with you, because they have a hard enough time in a foreign country ordering cold cuts at the supermarket, let alone finding a plumbing supply place and finding the exact model of sink needed to match the other sink in the two sink bathroom.

You're lucky you didn't cut your arm off! :lol:

Great story.

AH-SO Cork Puller - the name sounds like a Chinese insulting.

Actually, I have the cheap one. I aspire to the Williams Sonoma version. But I have to break the cheap one first.

Simplest cork puller ever to use, never breaks the cork. Rock in, twist out.

They're actually very easy. We got one when we visited a winery in WA when we lived there.

The trick is to push straight in. Then twist slightly while pulling out.

Yes, I'm still talking about the corkscrew.

Works like a champ and no flakes in the wine.

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I can't endorse this exactly, because I haven't tried it, but it looks fun.... (maybe NSFW but not much)




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AND it doesn't stick! but what about the mess it leaves?

I believe the whole point is that the whitish fluid is contained....

HEY! don't forget about the two um....the two um....uhhhh....ummmm. damn. now that's some erectile dysfunction right there! errr....oh nvm.

Funny, but serious biology fail. :)

I snapped up a pair of my favorite model skis off ebay. The are a might longer than I usually ski but it'll be nice to have wood under me again.

Lap dance?

:headshake

Brings back memories of pine tar, torches, and wax.

What ever happened to my skis and snowshoes? Three moves is as good as a fire...

:eyebrow:

I enjoy the process.
Quit it you.

We went skiing Weds, and the skis got SHORT!

and rounded on both ends! I was skiing backwards ffs!

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Even the CC people are going shorter skis. I can see it for woods skiing or skate skiing.