Posts by DaveB

We've been brining supermarket turkeys for some time now. However, my wife has arranged for a fresh-kiiled free-range turkey from a local farm for Thanksgiving. WIll this bird need/benefit from brining?

Well, I finally stripped the plastic gears on my 4.5 qt. mixer. Does anyone know where to get replacement gears or have the thing repaired?

It does, doesn't it. Wierd part is, my wife's family were upper-class Viennese.

My wife's family has their own specialty: hard-boiled eggs mashed up and mixed with the leftover salt water and horseradish -- served when other people would have gefülte fish. Anyone else do this?

Back when my wife was selling to hospitals, it was a standing joke that you could always identify the chief dietician -- he/she was the fattst person in the place!

Considering how much I've learned just from reading your posts here, your future students are very lucky. Congratulations. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Not only that, but this disgusting hole is where the kitchen staff wash their hands! :eek:

I'm Soooo tired of lifting my steak off the piled-up mshed potatoes and scraping the potatoes to one side of the plate so that I can cut the steak. I've started to insist on baked potatoes. It's harder to pile the meat on top of...

Vegans pose a major problem when entertaining at home. It's not just that they don't eat meat. They believe that eating meat is morally WRONG! Moreover quite a few vegans are outspoken in their critique of meat-eating. Serving meat...

I can tell exactly how many times I've ignored basic knife safety -- I just count the scars!