Recent content by Ray J.

I dispose my used car fluids at my local Autozone or O'Rileys for free.

I am the opposite, I will do my own auto maintenance until I can no longer can drive. I learned to do maintenance from my Dad, although I work as an Electrical Engineer, maintenance will always be in my blood. I had a discussion at work 40 years ago with a co-worker who questioned why I bother...

It's not dumb if you were able to learn from your mistake(s). I consider dumb if one made the same mistake more than once.

With a cost of only $2.50 to charge your EV, would make it difficult to justify investing in a solar system to charge your car. It's a matter of time before Illinois jacks up the cost of EV plates. I work in the power plant industry and they like to see the sales of EV's, more electricity to sell.

My cold water experience may have come from laying on my front porch unconscious in a short sleeve shirt in 18 Deg. F weather for an undetermined amount of time. I suspect that I my have been unconscious for 40 minutes, unfortunately your brain looses track of time when unconscious...

I have no plans on doing a Polar Plunge anytime soon.🐻‍❄️ Shoveling the snow in a short sleeve shirt/no gloves in sub zero weather was a test to determine how my brain would react to freezing weather conditions. Knowing that my brain can detect the symptoms of extreem cold (numbness of my...

I was wondering the same, I was in Houston in Feburary for work but it snowed 3" so I haven't experienced hot weather yet. I also "react" to touching a hot pan that was on the stove. I do "feel" the cold weather as I can tell by breathing in the cold air and my arms/hands feel like they have...

Early this year I slipped and fell (due to ice) on my front porch which caused me to sustain a concusion. Afterwards I am no longer effected by cold weather, I don't shiver or have goose bumps when outside in sub zero weather in a short sleeve shirt. My fingers do start to go numb after about 5...

I wonder if they couldn't tell the difference between a blade grinder and a burr grinder. Chefs often use a blade grinder to grind spices, choloate, etc. Perhaps they were watching a cooking show and saw them grinding chocolate with a blade grinder and thought "why not".

Maybe experiment with a more robust coffee bean? I don't usually drink drip coffee but I am fond of United Airlines drip coffee which they use Illy coffee beans. Pricy but it beats cheap diner coffee.

It's been a tradition in our family as my mom gifted my wife with the K45SS for our wedding shower (almost 40 years ago) and my wife did the same for our daughter in law. The grand daughters come over on occassion to help my wife bake during the holidays. My professional 600 has been less...

I have the K45SS model. Good to know about getting a smaller bowl for the 6qt mixer but then I would need new mixer attachments.

We have both a 4.5qt Hobart tilt head mixer and a 6qt Professional 600 lift mixer. When my wife makes macaroon's she uses the 4.5qt mixer as she says that it whips up the batter better due to the smaller bowl.

My intent was not to convert anyone over to cold brew, I was expressing my experience with OXO being well designed and built cold brew maker.

Agree that using hot water it is no longer cold brew. I was making a correlation using a mason jar with hot water to eliminate a drip coffee maker as it was mentioned using a mason jar with cold water to eliminate a cold brew coffee maker.