I am flying a domestic flight today, heading to Atlanta to give an advanced cooking techniques lecture. I will be checking my baggage, which contains pretty much all I need.
I have no “carry on” bag, but I want to bring my new, state of the art pressure cooker with me. It is within allowable size dimensions. Can I carry it on?
Is this in the Pit because it’s a parody? Or a disguised rant? Or the manic ravings of a diseased mind? It’s pretty hard to know what to make of this.
Yes, but you’ll need to put the black powder in quart-sized plastic bags and take them out to be x-rayed separately.
You’re welcome.
I’ve carried on (at the same time) an omelette pan and a cast iron masa grinder. Mind you, I did confuse the TSA agent and she had to check with her supervisor. You may find them not so fond of chefs who stock their pressure cookers with BBs, though.
You don’t mention what the dimensions of your pressure cooker are. It’ll fit inside your checked luggage? Why would there be a problem beyond that?
You say first it’ll be checked (“it contains all I need”), then you ask if you can carry it on. Confusion ensues.
Disguised rant. I am packing for a short (5 day) trip to NOLA for JazzFest. To save some time/money my gf suggested we just each take a carry-on. She was vetting my bag and told me I couldn’t take a bunch of totally harmless stuff.
My toothpaste tube is too large. My grooming kit contains nose hair scissors that might not pass, and a fingernail clipper she said I should play it safe with and leave behind.
Fuck security theater.
Finally, someone else who’s nose hairs and fingernails grow at astonishing rates when we listen to Jazz. My brother!
http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/prohibited-items
All of the items your GF is concerned about are fine, except for the toothpaste. My travel cosmetics kit has sample/travel sized versions of liquids and gels - it’s pretty easy to manage.
OK, my gf gave me the same kinda comments. Hangnails? Removing wired-on price tags from a hat I purchase? Come on.
Oh, and while it’s called JazzFest, it is really just a music festival. We usually hang out at the zydeco stage.
Zydeco? Why didn’t you say so? This’ll keep your fingernails in check and TSA at bay.
Well, there’s also my sunscreen. I have vitiligo and use the max SPF I can find. And a bunch of other stuff.
Fingernail clippers are OK? My gf is insisting she has seen them not allowed on carry-on in the last month when she flew on business trips.
That is fucking awesome. When my son was about six years old, I got him into a over-21 show. Terrence Simien was playing and we share a few mutual friends. He talked to the venue owners and all was good.
So, my son got to see the band and they brought him onstage and fit him with a scrub board. They taught him a few fundamentals and his rhythm sense was good enough that he played well!
After he played a few songs on stage he came back down and a few women asked for dances with him.
When I took him home he told his mom all about his experience. (We are now divorced. Coincidentally)
Go to the store and pick up a set of Goo Tubes. Most drugstores and Walmarts/Targets carry them. Put your sunscreen/shampoo/whatever liquid inside the Goo Tube, label it, and you’re good to go! Unless you’re going to be at your end destination for a few weeks (in which case you’ll need to do some shopping anyway), a Goo Tube will hold more than enough of your products for a trip.
And those free sample toothpastes dentists give out after a dental visit are great for travel. With a little luck, you may also find a travel-sized toothpaste tube at the pharmacy as well. Anyway, toothpaste is one of the easiest things to pick up at your end destination.
Nail clippers, small nail scissors (blade less than 2" long), and safety razors with disposable cartridges are all fine in carry-on luggage.
Once you’ve traveled carry-on only, you’ll find it hard to go back to checking a bag!
If the fingernail clipper is just a fingernail clipper, it’s OK. Some fingernail clippers, though, have an attached file with a pointed end, which some TSA agents may be regarding as a knife blade; since knives of all sorts are still prohibited as far as I know (the new regulations allowing small pocketknives have not yet gone into effect), those combination clippers with nail file might be at a slight risk of confiscation by the TSA.
The odds are, though, that the TSA won’t inspect anything in your grooming kit, much less confiscate it. So I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
On a recent trip, my girlfriend wanted to bring a bottle of hot sauce as a gift for her dad. The bottle was clearly larger than 3 oz. (I’d guess about 5), but it was a small batch, locally produced, not intended for resale bottle, so it didn’t have any size on it. I told her I didn’t think they’d let it through, but I had an idea; I took a mini-sharpie and wrote “3 oz.” on the bottom corner of the label.
We get to security. They run her bag several times. Pull it out. One TSA agent pulls the bottle out, beckons another TSA agent.
First TSA: “This bottle looks too big to me.”
Second TSA: <reads bottle. shrugs> “Says three ounces.”
Success!
No one has ever accused the TSA of being bright. 
You laugh, but last year, on a trip to Mexico, the airlines misplaced one of my checked suitcases. When they delivered it the resort the next day, they had secured the zippers with braided steel wire. Guess what was inside the suitcase - the multi-tool I needed to cut the wire.
I was able to cut the wire using a pair of fingernail clippers that were in the suitcase that they didn’t lose. It ruined the cutting edge on the clippers, but it worked.
I guess the moral of the story is, don’t put all of you dangerous weapons in the same suitcase.
$9.50 for an empty 3-oz bottle? What the hell are they made from, unicorn pelts?
Think I’d rather just buy $2 worth of cheapo lotion, squirt it out and refill the tube. Sure, the toothpaste might taste a little weird, but think of the savings!
Drug stores have bags or half a dozen 3-oz bottles for $1.99, no need to get anything fancy.
Would have been funnier if it was a gallon bucket.
