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[–] disguy_ovahea 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The universal sign for “I may not be done with this yet.”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you use the same knife every day then at best the butter residues on it are just one day old and you can keep using the same knife for the rest of your life without ever washing it.

You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And yet change that to a cast iron pan and people fawn over it.

[–] Zorque 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you typically heat your butter knives to several hundred degrees?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where do you think the phrase "like a hot knife through butter" came from?

[–] Zorque 1 points 1 month ago

I think the intent is to soften the butter, not caramelize it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how on earth do you get through life without baking butter knives?

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 1 month ago

I’m not saying it’s never happened to me (it hasn’t, but that’s neither here nor there, I measure the effectiveness of adhd treatment by rate of cooking fires so it may just be my recipes here), but how is it happening so often it’s a regular occurrence to a degree you think of it as universally regular?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

First, you can totally clean cast iron with soap and it's not an issue. The "seasoning" is oil that has polymerized. It's not coming off without scraping, assuming you're using a modern soap that doesn't have lye.

Second, your cast iron shouldn't need to be cleaned as frequently because it's being heated to the point any bacteria should die. Is your food cooked enough that you won't get sick? The pan was hotter for longer.

[–] RizzRustbolt 16 points 1 month ago

Then you go to grab it and you knock it in to the sink.

[–] rockhstrongo 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have some small magnets stuck to the underside of my stove's range hood.

When I need a place to put that spoon that "I'll probably need later", I stick it to one of the magnets. Just let it dangle away.

[–] univers3man 4 points 1 month ago

Holy shit. That is genius!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Balance on the top of the spread jar/container or go home.

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 1 month ago

I just make mine hover in midair

[–] flicker 3 points 1 month ago

Butter comes in sticks so this would be difficult.

If there's sufficiently less stick in the butter dish, I'll cover the usable part of the knife and also the butter.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I take umbrage with "couple bits of toast"

Surely it should be "couple bits toast"?

You can't lazily leave out one "of" and not the other

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Except couple bits toast doesn't roll off the tongue nearly as well as couple bits of toast.

Edit: that being said, I'm not a caveman - they're fucking slices of toast. You want me to make some toast and tear off a couple bits for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just make me a couple toasts. Feels easier as a non native speaker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can understand why it might make more sense, but that just isn't how it's used in common parlance.

You can say that, if it is easier for you to communicate that way. Just understand that you might throw some people off.

Edit: I would like to clarify, I'm not at liberty to give anyone permission to use any word. I meant that it's perfectly acceptable usage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You mean not English [simplified]?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what other "of" you were talking about, "couple of bits of toast" looks so clunky to me

granted, i pronounce it as "cup'la bit'sa toast"