Many thanks. I'll keep my eyes peeled ... might be worth a few sheckels to try them out.

-Dave

Today was my first use of this blade that comes to us as an off-the-shelf local retailer item. In my favorite razor the final product was silky smooth and baby soft. No complaints, it's a keeper for me. Now to determine how long the edge holds up in everyday use. Let me see if I understand this pro...

It's been awhile since I've posted here. Since my 2015 post, I've been daily shaving with a Bic Sensitive. 2 pass seems to be best for me, as a 3 pass irritates my neck. I did screw the pooch a bit with soap ... I stopped using proper soap and a brush, and about 2 weeks ago I nearly lost my mind wit...

3. Settling on a few shaving setups and sticking with them helps your shaves and wallets. This is, of course, not news to anyone here, but something very few of us can actually follow through on. The simplicity of just a few variables can help the quality and consistency of your shaves so much, it’...

Where did Tim announce this news?

I appeared to have missed it...

-Dave

The pearl sugar wasn't really a big deal ... I ordered some online and it was reasonably inexpensive. Kneading it into the dough was also quite simple. As I mentioned the only problem was that I waited too long after kneading in the pearl sugar ... it mostly dissolved. Other than that, it was rather...

Made some Liege waffles the other day using this recipe. I deviated from the recipe by using some starter instead of commercial yeast. I made a stiff preferment and after it doubled in bulk I scooped out a generous tablespoon full and went forward with the recipe. The bulk fermentation was about 8 h...

CNBC says a lot, much wrong. dorco is right, humans are poor predictors. Do your own homework and check on the success rate of alleged gurus. Those who got ONE right (by luck) will not tell you about the dozens of times they got it wrong. dorco? Is that an insult or a Fruedian slip? :) (actually, i...

Graduate Engineering students know a lot of technical stuff but are befuddled by the simple principle of shoving unburned bits into the coals and adding more wood. Just goes to show you the difference between thinking about it and doing it. Something that seems to be lost on most academics. Ah well...

Beneficial oil ... ?

Don't forget there is no real way to measure the blade quality at the factory before packaging, . . . . Yes there is and yes they do Nic, DE blade manufacturing technology has been around for more than 100 years now and these people are not fools. Perhaps his point is that every attribute of the bl...

normally the standard it very small. on most things the testing rate ends up beinf 1-2%. so basically 10 blades out of 2000 are pulled out for testing. and the funny thing is, they wont be random samples. random samples are almost unheard of. Could you elaborate? Do you think that random sampling i...

Interesting. I'd heard a few bits in other venues but nothing like what RBS has stated. I suppose one should be a bit concerned, but not overly worried. 1. People suck a predicting anything. 2. Various talking heads were predicting the same thing in 2008 ... the economy was bad but not "great depres...

Squire:
A most excellent story. Many thanks for sharing.

-Dave

We too have been fiddling with our bread machine in hopes of replacing store bought Panattone. So many of them are quite terrible, and the better ones cost a small fortune on the Prairies. What recipes have you tried? Have you looked at any of the recipes on The Fresh Loaf? For example, this one lo...

I think I have a copy of my father's mother's cookbook somewhere. Need to dregde that up.

-Dave

Would be interesting to attempt to understand why he thinks a chelator is a "lather improver" Oy vey. The theory behind the use of chelating/sequestering agents, is that without them, hard water (high calcium) may hinder a soap's cleaning/lathering potential. Reference: http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/...

They'd tell stories of using leaf lard because they couldn't afford butter. My dad grew up on a dairy farm in the 1930s. Two stories come to mind. First was about how my grandfather would eat straight lard ... usually with a sprinkle of sugar. The other was about how they would occasionally butcher...

How about lentils cooked using an Indian (as in India Pale Ale ... or Desi) recipe?

-Dave

I assume that he considers chelators like EDTA and pentasodium pentetate to be "lather enhancers". If you add a chelator to a bad soap, you'll have a bad soap that doesn't make soap scum in hard water. If you add it to a good one, you'll have a good soap that doesn't make soap scum. It makes the pe...