Aww geez Mom, you never let me have any fun 
My grandparents used to pour the hamburger grease over dog kibble, and give that to the dogs. The dogs loved it.
Oh, you wanted to have fun? Of course it’s fun! You know what else is fun? Mopping the floor. Have at it, boyo! :dubious: 
Yep, I’ll tell you the same thing I tell the kids I gave birth to: “I know; I suck”. 
I find that the dishwashing soap bottle quickly develops a crust of gummy soap on the top. When I need to just wash a few single items, I pop the dish washing brush down on top of the dishwashing soap bottle. It picks up a few crumbs of gummy soap, just enough to wash the few items under running hot water. No need to fill a sink!
You’re welcome.
I just break the bundle in half before it goes into the pot. But do it sloooooowly, over a bowl or dish you’re going to eat off of, so little bits don’t go flying all over the place.
My parents used to do the same with bacon grease. Pour over while still hot, allow to cool, give to dog. Dog considered it The Best Day Ever.
Keeps their coats shiny, donchaknow.
Hell, we don’t give the bacon grease to the animals. The grandparents (all four of them) considered this to be the best cooking grease available for certain foods.
You all are making me sound gross, but I don’t generally bother cleaning my cast irons or tongs that have been soaked a bit in boiling water.
Just ask ol’ Jack Burton is my motto. Check’s in the mail.
Bananas are disgusting, so I don’t have them, but being in the produce industry, I’ve picked up some tricks along the way. When it comes to bananas, toss them in the fridge when the get to your preferred ripeness. After a while they’ll get a slightly gray tinge to them (this may or may not take a ‘trained eye’ to notice, I know I can spot it). At that point you can leave them in or take them out and put them back on your counter. Either way, they’ll never ripen any further. I’d imagine after a while they might rot, but they won’t ripen any more.
You know how once in a while you buy some green bananas from the store and two weeks later they’re still bright green, typically that means somewhere along the line they were improperly handled, either not gassed correctly or chilled. Sometimes it meant they were shipped on a reefer truck and not properly protected, could mean they spent too long outside in winter or even that a moron with a pallet jack stuck them in the cooler for a few hours before someone noticed.
Roughly how long in the fridge are we talking?
Honestly, I never timed it. I think most people just leave them in there. The skin will turn ugly, but they inside should stay fine.
Try it with one next time and see if it works.
OK.
My mother used to keep bananas in the fridge when I was a kid, but I really prefer to eat them at room temp, so I would want to take them out as soon as possible.
You could certainly take them out an hour or two before you wanted them.
I’m fairly certain you could stick them in there for a few hours and then take them back out, but as a non-banana eater, it’s not something I’ve experimented with. As a producer seller, it’s just something I’ve run across in a “Shit, these bananas aren’t ripening, they must have been chilled somewhere along the line” Usually it happens to an entire pallet of them and we end up having to throw them all out and attempt to get credit on them from our wholesaler if it wasn’t our fault.
If you use a sponge for cleaning dishes or the counter, stick it in the microwave after you’re done with it for ~30 seconds. (make sure it’s wet and all the soap is rinsed off.) This kills the germs that are in there and it will last a lot longer before it gets that stinky, old-sponge, smell.
I wonder if that works with old people?
You’d have to at least double the cooking time.
Really? They’re pretty small.
How do you keep the the food from skipping all around the cutting board? We’ve got a rocking knife (it’s got two handles so you can’t use it one-handed :mad: ) and I stopped using it (and we basically only used it for nuts and chocolate chips)
I understand what you have, but having never heard of an ulu, I looked it up. It appears to used with one hand.. From the looks of it, I’d think your wrist would get tired very quickly and it seems like it be difficult to chop anything that offered any kind of resistance.
