Yup. I don’t drink coffee but I have the same coffee grinder for just that purpose. I made a recipe yesterday that called for grating whole dried shiitake mushrooms on a microplaner to flavor and thicken a stew. I couldn’t find whole ones so I just used the coffee grinder to turn sliced ones to powder.  Took about 15… Read more

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The man dumped urine on himself; the man removed his urine-soaked pants. Unfortunately, the pantsless man then decided to take a spin through a Chicken Express drive-thru. Read more

something, something, grab the brass ring...I dunno. I feel a little off today in the penis joke department. Sorry, I’ll do better in the future.
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The most surprising thing about this entire situation is that a Fire Captain of all people, in Texas of all places, wasn’t in a raised truck so tall that the drive-thru worker would have needed a ladder to see this guy’s lap. Read more

This move is what’s known as the “Plano Salutation”. Read more

Just go home, clean up and go back out.. if this was in fact the truth..  Read more

Because *everything* is bigger in Texas!  :)
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All I wanted was a Pepsi!!! Read more

The story was really good, but the sidebar asking me if I wanted email alerts for new stories about Urine, Anatomy, Biology or Excretion was just brilliant. Read more

That quite literally looks like what my various animals have retched up before. Read more

My absolute worst meal (Alter, Wynwood Miami) was a similar experience in the fact that ~70% of the dishes were some sort of foam and at a higher price than this, which almost was traumatizing Read more

As someone who cannot draw a horse, I think anyone who can properly draw a man on a horse is absolutely an artist. Read more

‘...a viewing of the original Black Christmas.’  The ‘74 Bob Clark original, and not either of the two execrable remakes? Read more

Thank you for the skeptical notes scattered through this, because so much supposed food history is just awful. Read more

And then chefs wonder why nobody takes “molecular gastronomy” seriously.

NOBODY wants to eat foam that tastes like eel farts. If I want to eat an Eggs Benedict, the classic is just fine. I don’t need to have powdered egg, on English Muffin foam with frozen chunks of Hollandaise.
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I hope there is a McDonald’s next door so I can grab a McRib after that Michelin “meal.” Read more

The food was terrible, and such small portions Read more

Maybe something was lost in translation and they ordered the 27 curse meal. Read more

I don’t really fully understand the butter tip - nearly every cookie recipe says to start with softened butter to cream it with your sugar.  Read more