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The one video about RMH I have watched was by a guy who built one on his back porch, because he planned to eventually cover the porch and make it a year-round room. I think the name of the Youtube channel is "Suburban Biology". It was a good video, but I don't remember if it answered the question I posed in my comment above.

When the timer expires for my boiled eggs, I dump the water, add cold tap water, dump that, repeat once more, then usually after a minute the eggs are just cool enough to handle. That's when I peel them--not because I'm trying to eliminate steps but because I'm impatient and I don't have the foresight to prepare boiled eggs further in advance than about 15 minutes.

However, I have not found that this makes them any easier (or harder) to peel than if I am peeling one from out of the fridge that was boiled a day ago, or one that was boiled an hour ago and left on the counter, or whatever.

In fact my luck with peeling eggs seems completely random. I have no idea what conditions produce an easy-to-peel egg.

I do believe I have noticed that eggs have gotten harder to peel. Even when they peel easily it's not like it used to be years ago when I could sometimes get half the shell off in one piece, and the rest off in just a few more pieces, without tearing out any white with it.

Maybe it's because of the eggs I buy? I buy the cheap grocery store eggs, usually. Occasionally I buy the one-step-up nicer brown ones when the price difference is less than about 75 cents. But I don't think I notice a difference in ease of peeling then, either.

r ransom wrote:We used that specific thread for some staff training and review after it was taken down.  We wanted to see if it could be cleaned and put back.  I bet some of the people reviewing it added some likes.  It becomes automatic to like posts we enjoy.  

I didn't know they still showed in the bell after the thread is removed.  That's good to know.

Oh, interesting! That solves the mystery, thanks.

Is it okay to post on this thread if I have a question that fits the thread title?

For days I would log onto Permies and see in the upper right corner multiple notifications, under the “bell” icon, that someone liked a specific comment I made. Usually if I click on that bell, and then on the notification, it takes me to my comment.

But for the particular comment in question, if I clicked on the notification I got a playfully-worded message telling me the page didn’t exist. The first time this happened I presumed it was a bug or something. After the second, or maybe third or fourth time, I got curious and tried navigating to my comment the old fashioned way, only to discover the whole thread had disappeared. How had people been liking it if it had been removed? (I checked Cider Press too.)

The original thread was about cars that park themselves, though my comment was responding to something someone else had written further down about door handles. I guess I could see why that thread might get moved to Cider Press (it was sort of complaining about something without offering anything practical), but I’m not clear why it had to be taken down entirely.

Out of pure curiosity, I’m wondering why that thread was removed (that information would help elucidate the moderation guidelines), and how I was able to receive notifications that people were thumbs-upping it if it had disappeared (was it a technical glitch?).

Mardell Bontrager wrote:My favorite weed is the dandelion.   I have made salads, cookies, dandy burgers (no meat) and fried them. When fried, they taste like fried mushrooms. No kidding.

I'm fond of my dandelions. Apart from enjoying looking at them and at the wildlife they attract, I love eating them. I only ever eat them raw (I call this "lawn salad" because I wander around my lawn, stooping down, plucking the choicest dandelion leaves as I come across them, and eating them on the spot, preferably while neighbors watch in confusion); I am aware they can be made into tea, and I once learned about how confederate soldiers would make the roots into a rather poor coffee substitute...

...but I have never heard of "dandy burgers". How do you make them into burgers, and what should my expectations be as someone who likes actual burgers (made of dead cows) as well as black bean burgers (made of dead legumes, rice, and other veggies)?

I use Tortex 1.14mm Jazz III picks. I like their rigidity and size, but have found they lose their points after a while. I'd switch to a bone pick if it held up better than plastic.

Could a bone pick be easily dyed a neon color so it's harder to lose?

Reminds me of this advice about editing we got in film school:

When we got our projects (short films or whatever) to the "final cut" where we liked it and we couldn't think of any more changes to make, call in a classmate to view the cut. You sit at the editing station and they sit behind you, watching the playback window.

Inevitably, you will discover a whole slew of mistakes and ways you could tighten up your project, even if the classmate sits there and says nothing. You write them down and then when the classmate leaves, you implement those changes (in addition to any suggestions the classmate gave that you agree with).

The same advice works for music.