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  1. On 6/15/2019 at 8:47 PM, Neonmoon said:

    Interesting, didn’t know they had a brisket knife. I still want the Cleaver to complete my current set. I think the most useless knife I have is the Ultimate Utility. I really like Classic Utility and Fillet knife a lot. 

     

    On 6/16/2019 at 8:31 AM, VABuckeye said:

    Japanese knives are for slicing.  German knives are for chopping.  Japanese knives will chip if used for chopping and heavier duty work.  They're made of harder steel and are thinner and thus more brittle.

     

    what VA said.  don't buy a shun cleaver.  they chip easily and they're not good for meat.  i've had two.  both had chips after less than a month.  they're just built to withstand the occasional piece of gristle or bone you encounter in a chop or chicken carcass.  instead, go to your local chinese supermarket and grab one of their heavy cleavers.  make sure you buy one where the metal's been finished on the entire knife.  believe it or not they sell ones where the metal has been left unpolished on most of the blade.  and that works well if you're going to be taking care of it everyday, but for the avg home cook it's not a good choice. 

     

     

    20 hours ago, wood said:

    Cutco's steak knives are amazingly sharp. Re: the poster farther uo that was worried about collateral damage from a sharp knife ... you're more likely to accidentally cut yourself with a dull or crappy knife than with a good, sharp knife.

     

    cutco makes the best steak knife i've ever used.  takes no effort to cut through things.  it's magnificent.

     

    19 hours ago, midtown said:

    A steel rod does not sharpen knives it simply hones them and helps them stay sharp.  Once a knife is dull you will need to sharpen it.  Using a stone isnt as hard as you'd think.  Tons of youtube videos out there.   Practice on an older cheaper knife

     

    if you think of a knife edge like a comb (that you use on your hair), a sharpener forms the shape of the bristles-  it creates the edges so they taper to a nice narrow point at the tip on both sides.  

    but just like a plastic comb where the bristles will bend, flex, and get out of line over time as you use it, so will the fine grains of your knife edge (yes your knife's edge is made up of many many tiny grains) as they cut through meat and vegetables, and come in contact with your cutting surface.  honing is what gets those bristles back in to a straight line so they can cut through things instead of tearing through them like sawteeth.  so hone your knife everytime.  before you start cutting.

     

  2. 5 hours ago, TexArcher said:

     

     

     

    Well, first of all, you can hear thunder from at least 20 miles away and probably a lot more.  The fact that you're hearing thunder does not necessarily mean you're close enough to be struck by lightning.  That's absurd.

    And the hunker-down-in-the-shower-with-bike-helmets stuff would have been alarmist even for the people in Taylor at that moment, not to mention the other 98% of the viewing area.  This overacting chick sounded like the apocalypse had come for us all.  I've heard cooler heads during actual hurricanes in Houston.

    gotcha.

     

    the funny thing is we just had that conversation with our kids (between 2 and 8 years old) and those two points were touched on.  they remembered a tornado episode where we had to go to the inner most room with bike helmets on and then they wondered how far lightning could strike and why their soccer games had to be cancelled when they couldn't see lightning.  

  3. 54 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    Had to have a place with a veggie burger option and I was facing a hunger mutiny.  Nobody wanted to eat there and I suggested just waiting until we got home.  We were just outside of Brenham in Chappel Hill? so not a lot of options.  Car was unanimous-"never again".

    i've always wanted to try chapell hill cafe.  we're always travelling with the dogs though so we've never gotten the chance.

  4. Never listened to the weather lady on the Spectrum News channel before.  My god, what a moron.  She's said twice that if you can hear thunder, you're close enough to get hit by lightning.  She also recommended that people put on their bicycle helmets and get to a safe place inside their homes.  No shit.
    Alright skewer me if deserved, but what's wrong with what she said?
  5. How do you guys not get burnt out?

    My oldest is 8. He plays select soccer and baseball. He's currently better at soccer but I can tell he's going to be pretty good at baseball. I played select growing up and have coached enough to where even though I haven't officially coached in the past few years I still get roped in to help out. I thought if we managed our time it would be ok for him doubling up in the fall seasons. He's done it two years and I've had enough.

    Then I have my middle two who are also both playing soccer and baseball and I think they'll be better than their oldest brother. I'm about ready to pull the plug on all select ball.

    How do you guys stay sane?

  6. 7 minutes ago, F250 said:

    I believe the MLB teams own the players and coaches contracts. The name, stadium, concessions, etc belong to the minor league franchise. If you control the players and coaches, you essentially own the team.

    probably splitting hairs, but they don't own the team in that they don't have any vested interest in the profitability of the team.  that was the point i was speaking to when someone gave the hypothetical of MLB clubs shouldn't care about MiLB records because they're development leagues for the big league club.

  7. 6 minutes ago, pied said:

    1.  I am, but no several who pay a reduced amount and am aware of several who pay nothing. (again, not out of line with the top AAU programs, and my kid's team is not an elite level team)

    2.  Games go from Aug-Dec, Jan -Apr, tournaments the other months w/futsal in the summer (indoor in Dec/Jan).  

    Traninig 2X/week, plus keeper training 1x/week, total 3/week for the entire year outside holiday weeks/weather issues, but I'd say at least 2x/week for 48 weeks of the year.

     

    3.  45 minute halves, unlimited subs, but my kid is a keeper.  

    are you in austin?

  8. 13 minutes ago, williemackgarza said:


    Or Reinforcing steel supply if in austin. U can get tubs of it if too which are cheaper and you pour it out.
    Just make sure you fill in the joint first with backer rod or dirt/backfill or sand leaving a few inches of open joint beneath the top of concrete. U dont want to fill any voids under the slab as it pours out very “liquidy”. That could be why yall are using so much. The sealer will bond to the concrete.

    which self-levelling product would you recommend?  and are all backer rods made the same?

  9. On 6/8/2019 at 10:09 PM, youdunnf'dup said:

    But he tried to pick a fight with the smallest guy on the team. Classic move of someone who doesn’t really want to fight anyone. He just happened to pick a fight with someone that would actually fight him. Maybe the only dude on the team that would actually fight him. No way Bautista slides like that if he knows that about Odor.

    there's a reason he didn't charge the mound.  matt bush was in prison for 3+ years before he joined the rangers.  i wish the benches would've cleared.  would love to see how bush/keone kela would have reacted.

  10. who do you guys want in the draft?  i've been holding out hope the other luka goes unnoticed but at this point that doesn't look like it's going to happen.  the atlantic did a write up on 3 C targets in our range today and the center from maryland, bruno fernando, is the most intriguing.  i've never watched him play though so i don't have an opinion past that.

  11. 6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    They were consuming with the gluttony of brand new money.  It was so overwhelming in the shop that my wife looked at me and said "I can't be in here with this, let's go."  It was consumption for the sake of consumption -- they weren't looking at a fur coat that they really liked, deciding to buy it, then carefully packing it for travel back home.  They were literally grabbing armfuls of coats off of racks and shoving them into crates quickly - it almost looked like some sort of game show prize of "you get to keep all the shit you can cram in a box in 90 seconds."

     

     

    believe it or not there's actually a rather large industry in purchasing luxury goods abroad in any quantity allowed and shipping it back to china (to reproduce and then to upsell).  they'll pay (or more often conscript) people already going overseas into buying store allowed limits at prada, LV, gucci, etc and then bringing them back to the mainland.  been going on for decades.  the first time i personally encountered anyone in the industry was the early 2000s.  still happens today.

  12. 2 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    I don't know anything about inflatable kayaks.  Would it not be possible to get out of it on the lake and then just hold onto it and use it as flotation until the waves took you to shore?  As others have pointed out, that lake doesn't look very big. 

    i'm guessing the wind flipped the kayak and it knocked her either unconscious or senseless and she wasn't able to react. 

  13. 28 minutes ago, Lerka Lerka said:

    I've been stuck out in the bay while wade fishing when a huge red blob pops up.  Serious pucker factor and would not recommend.  But wouldn't these people be able to see this storm coming?  At least enough fair warning with ominous black storm brewing in the north?  Would have thought there would have been ample time to paddle back to shore before the storm/wind hit, even if they were out in the dead middle of that little lake?  

    i dunno.  granted we were driving, but that storm came up quick.  

  14. 2 hours ago, ATLLonghorn said:

    I was thinking about this today, with the current crop of utterly shitty MLS players on the USMNT roster Klinsmann was kind of a genius for scouring the globe to find players with US heritage to join the roster, but also his biggest failure was not demanding better youth development at the MLS level. It was putting a band-aid on a hatchet wound. I wouldn't expect his predecessors to put a premium on youth development at the domestic league level because they were MLS guys, but a guy who came from Europe you'd think would understand the necessity for youth development in domestic leagues

    that was actually one of JK's top priorities and a sticking point as to why we didn't hire him 4 years before we did (sunil did not want to give him complete control of the youth program).  

  15. 5 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    it's a funny edit. i wonder what GOT scene would elicit such jubilation. Arya getting laid? 

     

    5 hours ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

    People will think this is real but it’s GOT premiere watch party

     

    5 hours ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

    It was literally the opening credits. The excitement is pretty tragic considering the season was complete trash

     

    no that's not a game of thrones watch party.  the video first came to light when GoT premiered this season but it was edited from an England national team football match.  

  16. oh there's a lake pflugerville complete with rock beach.  it's disgusting.  the water is pretty much stagnant.  the worst is july 4th when the hordes descend on the lake and there's an oil slick of sunblock just sitting on the surface and there are no waves so everything just stays in place on top of the water.  spit, snot, hot dog buns... everything. 

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