'Destiny'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
There's a pretty significant initial investment in equipment
Not necessarily - you can sous vide with a ziplock bag (or plastic wrap), an instant-read thermometer, and a pot of water.
(It's more foolproof with an immersion circulator, but the technique has been around much longer than the technology.)
Jessica! Have you done it? You're also on the Buffista-most-likely-to-have-cooked roster.
Sadly, no. Too much active cooking time for me with little kids running around.
Yeah, I figure kids are one of the big reasons fancy cookers might find themselves unable/unwilling/unenergised to do it any more.
I'd love to try sous-vide, but I don't know if I have the patience to do it without special hardware, and I don't know about the investment otherwise, and I certainly don't have the storage/counter space for it.
Sounds tasty, though.
Sorry, ita, the closest I come to sous vide is making chopped liver in a crockpot. I am weirdly intrigued by the low-tech hot water in a beer cooler approach, though.
I did make soup with magnets yesterday, so that's something.
My dry cleaner knows my last name, or at least the owner does, but I've been using them for 20 years. I was a little unnerved when the guy at the liquor store knew what I drink.
The Hertz rental car people in Spokane know me! They pull my agreement and hand it to me without needing my driver's license even.
...other than that, I've got nothing.
The guys at the corner store give Matilda free shiny pennies from the penny dish, and she has special bathroom privileges not afforded to casual customers.
My dry cleaner knows my last name
Mine, too--I've been going there for ten years, and my sister for 24. Also the guy in the sundries shop closest to my office knows me, because I buy a pint of milk there once or twice a week (to share with a couple folks for coffee/tea doctoring). Once he let me have my milk even though I had no cash.
And the bookstore by my house knows me and my dog very well, of course. She won't pass by without trying to go in, because they always give her treats & pet her.
Unbelievably creepy walking robot:
If I ever encounter one of these in the wild, my first instinct will be KILL IT WITH FIRE. It's like an uncanny valley centipede.