That’s so interesting Ray,
My husband’s Grandmother swore by an electric can opener as the best invention ever (due to her arthritis).
So when we were first married, my husband surprised me with one and it never opened a can ever.
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I watched the video in my second link after I posted it, and I think it’s very poor. I wouldn’t touch those sausages, they’re raw! Anyway, no, it’s never going to be as good as a charcoal grill, but it’s almost smokeless and perfectly acceptable for everyday steaks, burgers, BBQ rubbed chicken etc. There aren’t prominent grill marks, but the meat does get a little charred without steaming at all.
ordinary soda lime glass degrades and gets cloudy if washed in the dishwasher. I own a whole bunch of vintage glassware that got damaged that way before i wised up. The Pyrex glass is a strengthened version and does not seem to present this problem. https://pyrex.cmog.org/faq#:~:text=While%20Pyrex%20glass%20bakeware%20was,and%20now%20by%20Corelle%20Brands.
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Agree. I don’t put any glass that will cost much to replace in the dishwasher.
Ordinary water glasses, I don’t care if the bleach frosts them up, because they’re cheap to replace.
I don’t put more expensive pieces in the DW. Not to mention, the casseroles are big enough that they don’t fit well on top, and block some of the water flow if on the bottom (yes, I have a very crappy DW).
Edit for clarity - DW is dishwasher, not Dear Wife.
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Jeez! use your hands.
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Seemed everyone had one when I was a kid, including my family. Then I tried a manual and fell in love…with a can opener. I can be odd at times.
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When I started baking, I decided to make my own puff pastry, and the first application was Pithiviers, the classic French pastry consisting of two rounds of puff pastry sandwiching a frangipane filling. My baking sheet was blue steel. 10 minutes after it went into the oven I heard a “TWANG”, which was the sheet buckling; this separated the two rounds of pastry, and the filling was flung out onto the baking sheet. Same results when I tried it with a black steel sheet.
The cheap aluminum baking sheet I then used did not buckle.
Add the black and blue steel sheets to the bad purchases.
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When we moved into our current house there were 14 crystal wine glasses that my guys kept putting in the dishwasher, of course they broke. When I finally screamed about it there were two left. Now there’s one. a few years back I happened to see the brand at the bottom of the glass at the stem. Lenox.
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Half-moon steel rocker with holes purportedly to crush garlic. I think it would require Schwarzenegger muscles to get it to work. Returned to Amazon.
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If you’d kept it instead, and crushed a few thousand cloves with it, you might have Become Schwarzenegger Muscle Guy.
How I wish! I have a rare autoimmune disease that hit my muscles. I used to be a prolific baker, and used to post lots of pictures of my baking on CH. No more!
I don’t know if it’s the worst purchase we’ve ever made, but the worst in recent memory is a KA citrus juicer attachment. After juicing three or four oranges, I noticed that metal filings/shavings coming from the juicer. I figured we’d gotten a dud, so I got a replacement from KA, and it did the same thing. No idea where they came from, but I sure didn’t want to be drinking those metallic bits, so we returned it.
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Yuck!
I bought one of those too! I think I goodwilled it. Totally useless.
I thought it was a fried egg with pepper. Then I read the post. OMG 
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