My cat absolutely loves popcorn. As soon as he hears the popping in the microwave, he'll come running and start yelling to get some. Then if you're sitting on the couch with the bowl/bag, he'll sit on the arm and try to steal pieces from you.
I boil beets all the time and it never takes more than 1-1.5h, 4 hours seems like you might want to re-visit your technique.
Or a hot enough pan, which is super difficult if you don't have a gas range. Electric often doesn't get hot enough
For me, brisket is more of an event than a meal. Usually I'll make it when we have friends staying with us for the weekend, and it's an excuse for us to have beers at 6am once the meat is in the smoker. We all take turns watching temps and fuel, and having the extra hands helps with wrapping and stuff.
Another option is smoked top sirloin roast aka picanha. It has a thick fat cap and lots of marbling into the meat. Traditionally, it's cut into steaks and grilled on a skewer, but i also like to smoke it whole and sear off the fat cap at the end. Prep is fairly simple, remove some of the fat cap (down to about 1/2") score the rest almost to the meat, season the whole thing with salt and pepper, then in the smoker at 250F. I will then take the fat trimmings and cut them down into small pieces and put them in the smoker to render into tallow. After about an hour or when the meat is 130F, I'll wrap in pink butcher paper using the tallow that I just rendered. From there, I just watch until it hits about 155F. At that point, you can let it rest and eat, but I like to throw it on a hot grill fat side down to get a good crispy sear on it. Slice it in thin strips like brisket, it melts in your mouth.
Wine also. White is more subtle, red will give it a sort of balsamic vinegar type aftertaste.
Frankly I already “dumbed it down” quite considerably
r/iamverysmart in a nutshell here
I live in a city that has 'good' transit by North American standards. It's 25km from my house to the office, and takes about half an hour to drive. If I were to take the supposedly 'good' transit, it would take 2 hours each way. That would mean that both my spouse and I would leave home before our kids even wake up, so they would have to manage getting themselves out of bed, fed, and off to school with no parent in the house, we would get home far too late to take them to any extracurricular activities, never mind making sure they eat healthy home cooked meals. I could move closer to the office, but then my COL would increase by 2-3X, meaning that all the good stuff I can afford for them now would become too expensive.
So sure, I have transit, but it's fucking useless.
Sci-fi spaceships often have the ability to dump solar-system levels of energy into propulsion, so they really only follow orbital mechanics when they're parked at a planet. Consider if you could get from Earth to Mars in a few seconds, you'd pretty much just point yourself at it and go.
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