What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

Ozzie_Isaac

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

DoubleEgger said:

A few new tools from Smithey 

What is that cast iron wok looking thing?  That could be an absolutely amazing piece!

It’s a carbon steel roaster pan.

That is pretty sweet!  Looking fwd to seeing you putting it through its paces.

DoubleEgger

Got my butt up early to save a mint on some new Demeyere Atlantis 7 cookware. 

johnmitchell

@DoubleEgger. Good to see you on the forum Mike. Nice looking cookware 👍

DoubleEgger

johnmitchell said:

@DoubleEgger. Good to see you on the forum Mike. Nice looking cookware 👍

Thanks my friend. I hope that you and Deb had a great Thanksgiving. 

lousubcap

@DoubleEgger - you have loaded up on some sweet cooking gear in that pic.  Well done. 

TechsasJim

Another Yeti loadout box.   Things are pretty darn handy.  

dbCooper

Got a bag of Rockwood for half price.

Ace sent me a Black Friday email today, it contained a 50% off coupon.  Good for items priced $30. or less.  In store and online.

JohnInCarolina

One of these calendars:





Christmas gift for the family.

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

One of these calendars:





Christmas gift for the family.

Very good gag gift. 

I’m sure I’ve told this story here before, but we once bought my F-I-L a membership to his most hated political party. Once his membership lapsed, he couldn’t share the solicitations for continued membership. 

Ozzie_Isaac

dbCooper said:

Got a bag of Rockwood for half price.

Ace sent me a Black Friday email today, it contained a 50% off coupon.  Good for items priced $30. or less.  In store and online.

I tried.  My ACE had it discounted $3 and the 50% coupon was only good on regular priced items, so I have a $27 bag of Rockwood.  The ACE has been really good to me, so I just bought it without a fuss.

bubbajack

DoubleEgger said:

A few new tools from Smithey 

Been kinda drooling over those pans!

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

dbCooper said:

Got a bag of Rockwood for half price.

Ace sent me a Black Friday email today, it contained a 50% off coupon.  Good for items priced $30. or less.  In store and online.

I tried.  My ACE had it discounted $3 and the 50% coupon was only good on regular priced items, so I have a $27 bag of Rockwood.  The ACE has been really good to me, so I just bought it without a fuss.

Same here... Cashier couldn't figure out why coupon wasn't working. I informed. I still got 5 bucks off a purchase of 50 or more.

dbCooper

kl8ton said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

dbCooper said:

Got a bag of Rockwood for half price.

Ace sent me a Black Friday email today, it contained a 50% off coupon.  Good for items priced $30. or less.  In store and online.

I tried.  My ACE had it discounted $3 and the 50% coupon was only good on regular priced items, so I have a $27 bag of Rockwood.  The ACE has been really good to me, so I just bought it without a fuss.

Same here... Cashier couldn't figure out why coupon wasn't working. I informed. I still got 5 bucks off a purchase of 50 or more.

@kl8ton - @Ozzie_Isaac - Looks like my coupon was applied first, then they took the $3. off...

WeberWho

I tried to purchase a bag of Rockwood online but since it was on sale it wouldn't give me a discount. You can never have too many tape measures. 

TechsasJim

Oakley half jacket xl with Golf Prizm lenses.    Great for both sun and gloom.    

shtgunal3

@TechsasJim I’ve been thinking about getting a pair of those in clear transitional lenses and having my prescription added. Would be rather expensive in the end.

TechsasJim

shtgunal3 said:

@TechsasJim I’ve been thinking about getting a pair of those in clear transitional lenses and having my prescription added. Would be rather expensive in the end.

Yikes, I’m sure that wouldn’t be cheap but would be a solid setup.   

Ragingirishman2

I bought a new king size mattress today. We’ve had this last one for about 15yrs and it was time for it to go. My OCD wouldn’t let me buy one online without trying it out first. I also couldn’t go with just memory foam as I felt that being a bigger guy I needed the coils for support. We ended up with a Sterns and Foster that was a hybrid of coil and memory foam. It’s getting delivered on Sat. 

DoubleEgger

More Smithey. Doubles as a lid for the #12 skillet. 

Ozzie_Isaac

DoubleEgger said:

More Smithey. Doubles as a lid for the #12 skillet. 

I think we know who won $1.35B Mega-Millions!

Botch

^^^ Any idea the purpose of those two ears on the side of it?  

Botch

 
Something new to experiment with; hand grinder also en-route.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

^^^ Any idea the purpose of those two ears on the side of it?  

Look like little pour spouts.

paqman

@DoubleEgger They all look really nice!

DoubleEgger

Botch said:

^^^ Any idea the purpose of those two ears on the side of it?  

The ears cover the pour spouts on the #12 skillet when used as a lid. 

MasterC

Went grocery shopping with Mrs.C last night at our new Meijers store and  bought these.

I will most likely be grocery shopping with Mrs.C a little more often.

paqman

ColtsFan

GrateEggspectations

There is something novel about seeing the Kirkland-labelled scotch. The 20 year old was great and at an excellent price point. 

Botch

The Man In The Brown Shorts™ delivered this, in the softly-falling snow (brrrr) tonight:
 

 
I posted earlier about making bagels, cream cheese, and novalox from scratch, and will probably update that thread with a bunch of things I've learned since then.  
Making my own cream cheese was particularly interesting, and I did a deep-dive into that on Ewetube.  There's a LOT of conflicting information; if you look up 17 recipes for cream cheese you'll find 17 different recipes.  I also started looking into other homemade cheeses: farmer's, cottage, ricotta, sour cream, mascarponé, etc.  You can start with homogenized milk, whole milk, raw milk, cow's milk, sheep's milk, goat's milk, cream, etc.  You can coagulate it with cider vinegar, white vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, cultured buttermilk, butter, mesozoic mesothelic cultures, rennett, other molds, etc.  You can use room-temperature milk/cream, heat it to 95º F, 140º F, or 190ºF.  You can let it set for an hour, overnight, or three days.  You can strain it in buttercloth, or not.  Compress it, or not.  Sooo many variables!  
 
After reading many amazoid reviews, it sounded like Gianaclis Caldwell's $32 tome "Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking" was the go-to source for making cheese, she's more recently released the above book, which sounded more like my speed.  After leafing thru it tonight, I'm really glad I bought it, it looks like it covers all the bases, and is structured as a "class", starting out basic and advancing your skills thru the book; just what I was hoping for.  
 
And I'll close with a great, easy recipe I stumbled across on FB (I can't even find the original source anymore), supposedly making Mascarponé:  1 pint of heavy/whipping cream, and the juice of 1/2 a lemon, that's it.  Mix together, no heating, leave at room temp, stir it before going to bed, stir it again in the morning, stir one last time before supper (add any salt/garlic powder/chives at this point) and then into the refrigerator, no straining!  It's not as thick as cream cheese (more like mayo) but it's delicious, and so far has lasted two weeks in my frig without going bad; small puddles of whey form in the low spots after a couple days (as it does in commercial sour creams and chip dips), just pour it off when you see it.  Easy-peasy.