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NOOOOOOOOEOEEE NOT THE CHEMEX

Is that thing actually any good? I got close to one once and it seemed kind of cheesy

Also, congrats for making dishwasher decisions almost as dumb the ones I do! I still have no idea how I keep tossing Ikea wine glasses in the lower rack and they survive.

CAST IRON NEVER IN DISHWASHER!!!

sorry about the coffee machine, though..

you fools do not even deserve dishwashers!

ps please give me a dishwasher

seriously yeah why was the cast iron in the dishwasher wtf

why the hell are you even washing cast iron?????? you're not even supposed to use soap, you fool!

xp

uh, not true gbx

all the skillets i've ever used: hot water, and a wipe down. the hardcore use coarse sea salt as an abrasive, apparently, and just wipe, no water.

washing LIDs, not skillets

we have a fancy dishwasher w/ a POTS and PANS setting, but we only do the POTS in it

i want fancy dishwasher
washing dishes in the winter makes my hands all dry

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Information/CastIronPans.htm

A lot of people disagree with using dishwashing soap and water to wash cast-iron pans. A chef told me that if a health inspector ever found a pan that had not been washed with soap and water in his kitchen, he would be in trouble. Plus the grease that is left behind will eventually become rancid. You do not want rancid oil in your foods and body.

I've been putting culinary institure of america-branded cookware in the dishwasher lately due to extreme laziness

you have to be reallllllllllllly lazy to put pots in the dishwasher

i am lazy enough to have dishes in the sink from this weekend still ;_;

I like how my $15 wok is abused beyond belief, though, that thing is going to outlast the next ice age

in my house the person who cooks (the old lady usually) does not have to do the dishes (usually me) but i am very glad we have a dishwasher.

there are cases when cheap grocery store bought cookware work better then my expensive stuff.

Yeah, like for emptying beer bottles into the morning after a party.

Yeah, like for emptying beer bottles into the morning after a party.

-- Laurel, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sometimes living in a loft is fun where u can hurl empties into dumpsters

my old-lady-to-be drinks about 8 cups of tea a day and uses different teacups each time. and then she leaves them all around the house (one in the bathroom next to the tub, one on the nightstand, one at the foot of the nightstand, one one each side of the couch, one on the kitchen table, one on the kitchen counter). and she leaves the teabags in them and uses them to put her old gum in them (we both have ORBIT and TRIDENT addictions from quitting smoking).

by the time i've gathered the teacups and fished out the teabags and cups i'm too tired to do dishes. =(

teabags and gum, i mean

tell me about this coffeemaker please

yeah, I've never seen this coffeemaker! how does it work? is there some convenient way to get rid of the grounds?

You buy conical filters for it! It drips via gravity! Slow-ish but rly good.

you put a sheet of real filter paper in the top - not a coffee filter, a sheet of honest-to-god folded-in-quarters filter paper that you might use in a chemistry lab. then you put in the grounds on top (ground on 7). you pour hot water (190-210F) over the grounds. when you're done you just lift out the filter paper w/ the hot grounds in it (you can throw it away) and then you pour out the coffee (the wood shields your hands from the hot glass)

i love it because you're basically doing a real simple organic extraction (chemistry teacher shtick)

the biggest problem other than buying chemex brand filter paper is that the glass lets heat off really fast, so by the time i get it into my mug and add cream it's not steaming-hot anymore. you can keep the thing on a hot stove but i worry about the coffee burning, and then you really end up w/ a big piece of hot glass in the kitchen so it's a bit of a hassle.

basically i really enjoy standing over the thing for 20 minutes in the morning, repeatedly boiling water in a kettle, pouring it over the grounds, and watching gravity pull the water through the grounds. gotta do it about 3 times to get 16 ounces out.

You can get a diffuser thingy for putting on the burner so the flame doesn't go directly on the glass.

as i am moving more than a block away from my beloved café for the first time in 7 years i need some alternatives

i am used to an espresso in the morning

makes great coffee..but oh the time