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Cast Iron Do's and Don'ts
You can definitely cook eggs on high heat. I do it every time. Heat up your pan on high adding about a teaspoon of water when you think it's hot enough. If the water fizzles and evaporates the pan is too cold. Once you add water and the water balls up and skates across the surface of the pan... -
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easiest food to grow in the summer.? in the southern usa?
Jerusalem Artichokes are native to North America, grow in all soil types, and typically will resow without any extra effort from your part. Also provide more produce per acre than potatoes. It also doesn't look like a typical food crop, so you can just plant them and forget about them until you... -
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Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned
They will eventually break down into dirt. I have used cracked pecan shells in the bottom part of my potted plants to help with drainage. Eventually it decomposes. -
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Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned
If you have a grinder you can turn them into abrasive tumbling media for polishing rifle and pistol brass. -
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im a robot!
If you know how to touch type on the keyboard, a simple way to make a very difficult to crack password is to shift your hands one letter to the right and then do a normal password you're comfortable with. So as an example the word "password" after shifting your fingers to the right would be... -
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Celluar phone photography-boon or bane?
Speaking of, did anyone see or hear about the scandal where Samsung had photo software that replaced a round orb at night (some people did it will a street lamp) with a high resolution picture of the moon? The guy in this article displayed a highly blurry picture of the moon on his computer... -
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Celluar phone photography-boon or bane?
It all comes down to what is convenient. I have an older Canon EOS digital camera and even though it has less megapixels than my phone it takes beautiful pictures because of the size of the photoreceptor. Lens choice will also play a large part in the quality. With an adjustable focus lens you... -
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Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned
If you want crystal clear ice for mixed drinks, etc. Get yourself an insulated coffee cup or small insulated container and fill it 2/3 with tap water. Let it freeze until it's about half ice/half water, take it out of the freezer and let it thaw until it slides out of the cup/container easily... -
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Interesting Video Finds Part 4
She just confirmed that conspiracy theorists can spot patterns better than other people. With all the conspiracies that have been proven true, she's not really helping her portrayal. She picked the really wacky conspiracy theories like flat earth and aliens. (I didn't see any references to the... -
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i love the dark!!!!! anyone else?
Being overweight affects your sleep negatively, and having bad sleep affects your weight. It's a vicious cycle. Pretty much only thing to fix it is starve yourself until your body converts it all into fuel. World record fast was a guy that went over 1 year without eating... -
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i love the dark!!!!! anyone else?
I don't like having artificial lights in the background when I go to sleep. I've slept enough when it's light out that sleeping in the dark is a nice luxury for me. It's also natural. We didn't have light at night unless it was firelight or candle light for the last couple thousands of years... -
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What was your Good deed for the day?
Jesus told his disciples to do good deeds in secret, for their rewards are in heaven. Whenever he did good he always told the person He helped "Tell no one." He said all the people who tell of their good deeds have already got it from mens respect and admiration. I'm far from perfect, so when... -
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How dependant are we on the grid to get our drinking water?
There's quite a few ways of making water safe to drink. You can filter it all you want, but to sterilize it you should use either bleach or ammonia, or boil it. Most municipal water treatment uses ammonia gas to sterilize water because it costs less than bleach. However you can buy a 50lb bag of... -
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#1 CAUSE OF BLACKOUTS
Whenever I've had an internet outage, I'm always waiting on hold with the pre-recorded voice and elevator music telling me that "a lot of problems can be solved faster with blahblahblah automated help at our website". Um...I'm on the phone waiting to talk to someone, because....there's no... -
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Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned
If you want to find a leak in your cars hvac system after it has no refrigerant in it, get a low side R-134 quick connector and use epoxy to mate it up with an air line quick connector. The threads are very similar and the epoxy is just like pipe dope to fill in any gaps between the threads...
