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When I cook potatoes in a pressure cooker for mashing later, I cut them in 4 or 6 pieces each and put them on top of the steam rack. Then a cup or so of water (whatever the minimum amount is to produce steam) and just steam them. They are ready in 10-15 minutes of pressure at the most, usually...

Well, I wish you good luck then! I have in fact heard of people who fought the mold and mildew, and to be honest, I'm not exactly sure what causes it and what cures it -- I've never had the trouble myself and I've switched from top-loaders to front-loaders back and forth depending on where I...

John: Why not take the opportunity, particularly if your set is just two months old, to either see if the store you got them from will accept a return and you get a f/l set, or you sell them to people who think they won't be happy with the new SQ t/l and want something more traditional like you...

Screw that article and the people who wrote it. When T-day is in my home, we make whatever we *want* to make and feel like having. If you like sweet potato casserole with marshmallow topping, by all means. You know who I think is boring? The people who wrote the article you read... ;-) "Too...

John (Johnrk) said: "What I never understood was why gas refrigerators lost popularity, since the fridge eats to much electricity, even in its present state. I've never seen one of those either in a home, though I have in hospitals." We need to decouple several concepts here, particularly...

If one just visits my home and doesn't ask any questions, one might be forgiven for thinking that I love ironing -- there's certainly more than enough equipment to suggest so. Some people really love ironing, they find it relaxing -- I say, more power to them. I really don't like ironing at...

I'm very sorry to heat that -- may he rest in peace.

"One of the many reasons why vintage washing machines are better." Why is that, or how is that true? Balancing rings are nothing new, apparently the first patent on them was for a Thor washer that wasn't even fully automatic.

I believe there were also two cases in Texas and another one in Arizona and at least one Maytag Maxima (Duet sibling) that exploded. But I don't have enough details about them, just news like the above case.

I will second Launderess above. A small thing I'd like to add: a lot of places like Cook's Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen and even the Culinary Institute of America strongly suggest that one should measure at the very least the flour by *weight* not volume. Once you have an accurate scale...

Thank you both Pat and Richard. I think that one of the greatest things about the internet is that we can make more friends -- I have yet to meet anyone that thinks or feels that they have too many friends. With time and just a tiny little bit of effort, places like AW become like this really...

The Bendix Economat was a very simple machine -- in fact, the agitator was just lowered in place, no screws or anything. One could lift it up, remove the filter underneath and rinse it, and just put it all back in a matter of seconds, the longest operation was rinsing out the filter. In fact, it...

Autism/Aspergers Richard: Not that it matters or that it should change your view of me one way or another (I believe only time and experience can do that, and I *am* willing to wait for you to have enough experience interacting with me). I *do* have friends who have kids on the...

ROFLMAO!!! Patrick, that is low even for you. No one *accused* anyone of Asbergers[sic]. What I *said* is that there are people in this very thread who are on the Asperger's spectrum, it's obvious to anyone who cares, it's more than clear that they are having a very hard time with this stupid...

"I disagree- think about long lines where the water has chilled. Transferring that heat over does save something." And conversely, in the many other cases when the water heater is close by and you cool down the next fill by warming up the water you are about to dump? Oh, sure, we can put...

Yup, that's right. That's why I discarded two toilets that used to clog all the time despite the fact they used 1.6 gal/flush, and I replaced them with two Toto toilets that use aaall of 1.2 gal/flush and, in the 4 years or so they've been there, they have *never* failed to flush and have never...

I am unlikely to respond further in this thread, because this has already turned into a political discussion, which is properly done in the private forums, and anyone who wants to discuss this further is welcome to start one there, because no matter what, I will be repeating there what I've said...

That example with the dishwasher works very well in countries where the dishwasher is expected to heat its own water. It will fail miserably in countries where the machine has only a hot fill. Like USA.

Well, you do realize that you are singing my tune, right? I don't have a copyright on it, being that's it's so old it's not even *my* tune. It's just the tune of people linked to engineering in any way, shape or form. And no, I don't know everything, but I do live in Boston, which, while not...

Wow, there is a *ton* of misconceptions and weird thinking, just to keep it short in here. One could write a novel about it and I could write an entire encyclopedia. But in the interests of keeping it on the short-ish side: 1) the fight about water usage is not that water is leaving the planet...