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JStew: You can call it an unfair advantage if you want, but I worked in the restaurant business for a good portion of my adult life before radio. Even during radio when I was just a wee part-timer. In restaurants, you definitely would generally never have the time of the space to cook bacon anywhere but the oven. At home, I ve tried cooking bacon in all manner of pans on the stove top, but because I ve always found the oven to be faster, cleaner, and made time for me to do other things simultaneously.
Here s my trick. Preheat to 425 degrees. Cover your pan completely in foil, even over the edges. Layout the bacon and cook for 10-12 minutes (depending on thickness) and then drain the fat. I save it in a can by the stove for future uses. Pop it back in for 3-5 more minutes, and done! Use these same tricks for convection ovens or air fryers as well. And when you re done, roll up the foil, and chuck it in the recycling bin! No mess!
Some of our favorite smells can transform our moods instantly when they hit our nostrils.
Take the smell of coffee, for instance, or the smell of something delicious baking in an oven. With one whiff we can go from having the worst day ever to the best moment of the day.
Conversely, there are just some smells that can spoil everything. Take, for example, the smell of mildew. As someone who has lived through a flood, when I smell mildew, I just about start to cry from anxiety. I know, from experience, that that smell can mean not only that something might be ruined or destroyed, but that it s going to be a process to clean up one that takes time and energy and my mood is instantly brought down.
For our Throwback Thursday topic of the day, we asked you: What TV shows you used to watch when you got home after school?
For me, I would get off the bus, come into the house and do my chores, finish my homework, eat my snack and then watch one or more of the following: MacGyver, A-Team, Magnum P.I., Fraggle Rock and Mister Rogers. (Totally explains so much about my personality, right!?!)
Despite still being on vacation, JStew did end up chiming in on this one (as I thought he would.)
Jason Stewart My obsession with MASH started in grade school when it was on every afternoon on channel 7 from 4-5, right after my sister got done watching General Hospital.