@Mean_Mr.Mustard Does “e-reader” include non-dedicated reading devices? I read books on my iPhone.
Mostly, I buy my pizza already cut, but in the spirit of the poll, I figured I should answer for when we make pizza. And then I mostly use none of the above, I use an enormous kitchen knife my father gave me. But I decided that was closest to “an ordinary kitchen knife”. It’s ordinary except for being freaking huge. Also, it’s old enough that it’s not made of stainless steel. Gotta wash that puppy immediately after using it. I also use it to cut biscuits when I make them. Those are pretty much its only two uses.
My pizza peel came with a rocker cutter. I frikkin love it. I make a sheetpan pizza with a thick, crunchy crust, and that rocker cutter make cutting it easy.
Second favorite is our USS Enterprise handle cutter, not because it’s easy to use (the nacells make holding it awkward), but because it’s cool, and Mrs Magill and I are nerds.
I use an Ulu knife I got on a trip to Alaska some years ago. It’s similar to a mezzaluna, but shorter. It’s very sharp and fantastic for cutting pizza
Regarding preference for reading books, I like regular paper books, but I can use my iPad to read a book without putting glasses on. That’s a huge advantage to me (I rarely wear my reading glasses).
Yep.
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That’s what I was hoping for in my Kindle. Turns out I’d need about 10 words per page to go glasses-free.
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(Me: I just read a 4,000-page book!)
I love that we all care enough about pizza-cutting to discuss methods at length! I’m in the roller camp, just because I don’t have space for a mezzaluna and using a knife seems overly messy (for some reason, I’m compelled to cut the whole pizza at once and I want to go all the way across).
I cheerfully accept all unsolicited advice as long as it’s not actually insulting. I’ll just as cheerfully ignore it if i don’t think it’s useful.
My preference for books is old-school paper and ink. But in practice, an e-reader is much easier - I can check out and return library books from home, and if (when) I fall asleep while reading, it keeps my place. I also don’t need a separate book light. Reading on my phone drives me nuts, though - the screen is too small and I have trouble iterating the page controls.
I answered “mostly e-reader” because cookbooks should be on paper. Well, except those one-off recipes or videos one googles up.
I used to think that, but a couple of years ago a friend convinced me to try the Paprika recipe manager and now I use it most of the time. It’s easier to set my phone on the counter than to try to work around a whole cookbook taking up all that space.
Paging @Dr_Paprika 
I answered exclusively e-reader, but I sometimes read paper books. For anything in prose form, though, I prefer an e-reader. I recently bought a bunch of paper books at a book store and I haven’t touched them yet, which indicates that I may not like reading paper books any more. I read mostly at night, so lighting is an issue. I also find many books unwieldy in the bathtub, where I also do a lot of reading. Ebooks have caused me to read much longer books than I ordinarily would, because every book looks the same on an e-reader. I have a bit of a Kindle addiction.
Exactly - I constantly make notes on recipes. You can’t do that on a phone or Kindle.
?? I don’t understand that comment. I often edit and/or add notes to my recipes in Paprika.
I like holding books in my hand, hard cover or paperback, but these days most of my “reading” is in the car with audiobooks.
I believed in Santa as a kid, and thought he lived and worked at the real North Pole. Now I know better, more or less.
Definitely would want the dishwasher, microwave and toaster with slots. Those get far more use in our home than any of the other options.
We do laundry once or sometimes twice a week. Never thought of getting paid for not doing it, but I suppose we could make that work!
To me, it sounds like a new menu item at Applebee’s.
We have a pizza axe. No, really.
I much prefer real books.
Homeless v millionaires:
These are both shocking numbers in my opinion, but apparently there are roughly 650,000 homeless, and there are 22 million millionaires.
I’m not surprised. If they’re counting all assets, I’m a multimillionaire between the value of my condo and my retirement account.
I live a pretty ordinary middle middle class life.
Does that mean that if someone has $1 million saved up in their 401k and/or IRA, they are a millionaire? Because I would imagine that’s what many (even middle-class) Americans have reached by age sixty or so.
Or including the value of a house, as Carrps pointed out?
I honestly don’t know how they calculated that number, but the internet consensus as far as I can tell is there are that many millionaires in America today.