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Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2025

Kitchen Puzzles


Well, I don't have too much to share today. This was the best moment. It wasn't quite truly a LOL moment, but I was so surprised I did grunt and say, "Ha!"

Om bought some chicken salad that was so sloppy with sauce he didn't even want to eat it. We pushed it through this strainer and got it reduced to a much better texture. When I turned it over (not sure why I did this- just to expose that side to water to clean it, I guess), this design became evident. It just tickled me because it was a surprise. Doesn't take much to entertain me, right? It looks like some kind of game maze.

Ignore dirty dishes behind it.


The other kitchen puzzle is that we got a cheap air fryer. We weren't sure, still aren't, how much we'll use it, so we didn't want to spend a lot for features that we don't care about.

I've used it about 5 times so far- trying to get better at understanding it. Pictured on the plate is a low-calorie cinnamon roll. I made a small pan to see if they were edible enough to have for Christmas. As mentioned before, Om and I are both attempting to not turn into blimps over the holidays. And I baked the pan in the new toy. New recipe and new appliance is a real puzzle. Could have been a total disaster.

Anyway, they aren't like wheat flour bread, but they are OK, so we'll have them for Christmas breakfast.


In other news- I worked at all the usual things.

See A New Kitchen Toy

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

One Thing Fixed

 Well, I've been working on not being discouraged at the number of large projects there are to do here right now. Forget the small ones I was hoping to do. Gotta go with the crises. One of them is taken care of.

Our lovely on-demand water heater has to be flushed every year. They said that when it was installed, but I didn't quite appreciate what that meant. A little too complicated for me to do just from watching videos. Way too expensive to have done professionally every year. Anyway, it's flushed.

Notice the dirty water. He did two buckets like that. Now the hot water flows great again.
flushing a water heater


They gave us a "deal" because they installed it. Some deal. This is way to big a yearly expense for us. I will have to learn how to do it. I made extensive notes, but there are a lot of things to get right and valves to deal with, and...o

I am increasingly feeling like I am too old to try to take care of the upkeep on a house. The big projects keep pushing the small ones out of focus, and small things add up to crumbling infrastructure.

Other than that, I worked on the program I'm giving at the NCT Celebration and tried to get ready for this weekend at the Wild Blueberry Festival in the UP. I need to finish that because I'm being picked up at 8:30 in the morning.

See Hot Water