Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

My Instant Pot just came off Delay to start the sequence to cook my Galumkis stuffed cabbage).

My parents got a small Litton microwave in the 60’s for there take out restaurant. Had the old fashion spring dial timer you twisted to desired minutes, no other options and not very large either. Didn’t get my own first micro until about 85, Amanda Radarrange and I can remember my wife says it was a frivolous purchase. When we moved to Germany the next year we sold it to her sister who used it for years. Have had 4 in this house (3 in last year) because they don’t appear to like my generator power.
Our gas range is a commercial model, no fancy dodads, nothing electric. Salesman made a point to tell wife it was a roasting, not baking oven. She just looked at him and remarked, “So? I wasn’t planning on using it anyway”. She does use the toaster oven more than me.
I suggest our TBN masterpiece include a section on leftovers as I suspect we properly represent the “Waste not, want not” crowd. Just bothers the heck out of me the way some people waste food one one hand and bemoan the financial status on the other. As the oldest of 8 kids and wife in middle of 6, food was not something wasted when growing up, not is it today.

 

[sodamo]

Think I got the fence patched where my white four legged escape artist was finding his way to visit the neighbor cows. Hard to believe he would choose to slither between the hog wire and the lower strand of barbed wire. Of course it would have helped to actually see where instead of guessing where.

 

[lostcreekranch]

My Instant Pot just came off Delay to start the sequence to cook my Galumkis stuffed cabbage).

My parents got a small Litton microwave in the 60’s for there take out restaurant. Had the old fashion spring dial timer you twisted to desired minutes, no other options and not very large either. Didn’t get my own first micro until about 85, Amanda Radarrange and I can remember my wife says it was a frivolous purchase. When we moved to Germany the next year we sold it to her sister who used it for years. Have had 4 in this house (3 in last year) because they don’t appear to like my generator power.
Our gas range is a commercial model, no fancy dodads, nothing electric. Salesman made a point to tell wife it was a roasting, not baking oven. She just looked at him and remarked, “So? I wasn’t planning on using it anyway”. She does use the toaster oven more than me.
I suggest our TBN masterpiece include a section on leftovers as I suspect we properly represent the “Waste not, want not” crowd. Just bothers the heck out of me the way some people waste food one one hand and bemoan the financial status on the other. As the oldest of 8 kids and wife in middle of 6, food was not something wasted when growing up, not is it today.

I’m like RNG, I cook seriously once or twice a week to purposely create leftovers. I’ve found several recipes that are pretty good. We had prime rib, leftover from New Years, and made beef stroganoff.

 

[toppop52]

Yep but ...... we saw thru that a long time ago.

I don’t think we have any gene pool bottom feeders in this thread.

 

[toppop52]

I am about to replace the generator that burned last summer, it was an 8600w steady, 10000w start up, but I’m going either home standby or whole house, auto start. Any info would be helpful, I’m getting mixed signals from suppliers. 16 kw would be minimum and require some diligent use of certain things in cooling season. 27 kw would be comfortable overkill, but with transfer and install, near $15k. We are rarely without power more than 2-8 hours, usually more like 2. I’m thinking 18-22 Home back up style with transfer switch, either LPG or diesel. I think a full whole house set up is wasted money here.


EDIT: $11000 not 15 as I’d stated.

 

[txdon]

$1900 more for forester premium. Or spend 10k less for an elantra...
So many decisions..

If your roads good and if you don't need AWD or a SUV I'd be temped to go with the Elantra. But the Forester is good on slippery roads, might want to check out the safety numbers.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I知 seriously thinking about a Roomba or similar. ... How well do they transition between surfaces and rooms?

Floors here are half laminate, the other half porcelain tile. Lots of throw rugs, some really thick Persian rugs, along with doormat sized ones in front of each of the many sliding glass doors. The Roomba doesn't have any trouble with the mouldings across the room thresholds or in front of the sliding glass doors, and didn't run into any problems with the rugs until it hit the master bedroom. One of the thicker rugs runs between a bookcase and the bed, with a three legged coat rack in the corner. The Roomba somehow managed to get up onto the rug, and off it at the other end, then under the coat rack. But when it tried to get back up onto the rug, the front bumpers were tripped and it backed up under the coat rack again. I watched it for a few minutes and it stopped, beeping and sending a message to my phone that it was stuck. I swapped that rug for a thinner one, and I'm hoping the new location for the thick one will work out, and the thinner one will let the Roomba out from under the coat rack. I'll find out tomorrow I guess.

The other place it got stuck was in front of a sliding glass door. It would bump into the frame of the door, stop, then do little quarter turns searching for a way through. I think the camera on the thing was telling it that there was a way through because it couldn't see the glass, but the front bumper told it otherwise. This went on for another few minutes before it stopped and sent a message, this time telling me it was perched on the edge of a cliff and need rescuing. :laughing: I haven't searched the web for solutions yet, but I'm sure I'm not the first one to run into this, and there are probably ten ways around it. We'll see.

The Roomba came with a pair of light towers that can function as a wall or an isolation circle. Even came with two pairs of Duracell AA batteries to power them. I put them in circle mode and dropped them at either end of the movers blanket I'm using to protect the fuel tank and body parts of the old BMW, and the Roomba stopped right where it was supposed to and didn't disturb anything.

Cleaning wise, it's filled up several bins so far, with no signs of wearing out (or getting around the whole house, for that matter). It didn't like the bark and wood chips that had accumulated around the woodburning stove, picking some of them up but pushing others around until it decided to go another direction. It wasn't very good at sucking the grit and sawdust up next to the threshold moulding between the laminate and tile in front of the stove, either. The rotating corner brush would kick it out into the middle of the room, but it didn't seem to get back there to clean it up. It was still doing better than I was doing, though, but then I hadn't gotten to that spot for several weeks.:laughing: It did a good job on the dust that had accumulated on the floor of the seldom used guest room, and every bin was chock full of both dust and carpet fuzz. The place is a LOT cleaner than before it started, and I hope as it learns the rooms it'll get more efficient in the cleaning process. But that's another wait'n'see proposition. I haven't decided to send it back yet, but I haven't decided to keep it yet, either. Still have 28 days to decide (Amazon Prime, which by the way shipped for free and charged no sales tax).

 

[toppop52]

Floors here are half laminate, the other half porcelain tile. Lots of throw rugs, some really thick Persian rugs, along with doormat sized ones in front of each of the many sliding glass doors. The Roomba doesn't have any trouble with the mouldings across the room thresholds or in front of the sliding glass doors, and didn't run into any problems with the rugs until it hit the master bedroom. One of the thicker rugs runs between a bookcase and the bed, with a three legged coat rack in the corner. The Roomba somehow managed to get up onto the rug, and off it at the other end, then under the coat rack. But when it tried to get back up onto the rug, the front bumpers were tripped and it backed up under the coat rack again. I watched it for a few minutes and it stopped, beeping and sending a message to my phone that it was stuck. I swapped that rug for a thinner one, and I'm hoping the new location for the thick one will work out, and the thinner one will let the Roomba out from under the coat rack. I'll find out tomorrow I guess.

The other place it got stuck was in front of a sliding glass door. It would bump into the frame of the door, stop, then do little quarter turns searching for a way through. I think the camera on the thing was telling it that there was a way through because it couldn't see the glass, but the front bumper told it otherwise. This went on for another few minutes before it stopped and sent a message, this time telling me it was perched on the edge of a cliff and need rescuing. :laughing: I haven't searched the web for solutions yet, but I'm sure I'm not the first one to run into this, and there are probably ten ways around it. We'll see.

The Roomba came with a pair of light towers that can function as a wall or an isolation circle. Even came with two pairs of Duracell AA batteries to power them. I put them in circle mode and dropped them at either end of the movers blanket I'm using to protect the fuel tank and body parts of the old BMW, and the Roomba stopped right where it was supposed to and didn't disturb anything.

Cleaning wise, it's filled up several bins so far, with no signs of wearing out (or getting around the whole house, for that matter). It didn't like the bark and wood chips that had accumulated around the woodburning stove, picking some of them up but pushing others around until it decided to go another direction. It wasn't very good at sucking the grit and sawdust up next to the threshold moulding between the laminate and tile in front of the stove, either. The rotating corner brush would kick it out into the middle of the room, but it didn't seem to get back there to clean it up. It was still doing better than I was doing, though, but then I hadn't gotten to that spot for several weeks.:laughing: It did a good job on the dust that had accumulated on the floor of the seldom used guest room, and every bin was chock full of both dust and carpet fuzz. The place is a LOT cleaner than before it started, and I hope as it learns the rooms it'll get more efficient in the cleaning process. But that's another wait'n'see proposition. I haven't decided to send it back yet, but I haven't decided to keep it yet, either. Still have 28 days to decide (Amazon Prime, which by the way shipped for free and charged no sales tax).

My biggest issues are cat litter in the utility and kitchen. And cat hair on carpet everywhere else.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

We had prime rib, leftover from New Years, and made beef stroganoff.

Dang, Rick, I just had to wipe my chin! As far as I'm concerned, that beef was wasted using it for prime rib, and in stroganoff has found its true calling!:laughing:

 

[jbrumberg]

Indubitably...... I had to look that word up. Now I will lay awake tonight to figure out how and where I can use it in some polysyllabically worded, loosely associated, and thematically convoluted way (but not here :wink.

We too cook meals that can last almost forever as leftovers as long as one keeps adding additional water (+ mushrooms, etc,) to the melding glop.

It appears to me that everyone who posts here also likes "good eats" opcorn:opcorn: In addition to a cookbook, we could develop this to become a Channel TV Food Network series.