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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Argh! Well FWIW this place had Pella windows and it was right off a busy street, but it might as well have been a recording studio on the inside. Get the borough to pay for replacements!
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I know a guy who does custom work for Pella if you really want to squeeze your fellow taxpayers.
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I can hear my ears
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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Fantastic kayaking yesterday. Weather wasn't too hot, water wasn't too cold... the kids are old and capable enough at this point that I don't worry the whole time. In fact the boy is ready to graduate from his kid boat into my old Dagger.
First of many trips down the river this year. Yay! Vid1 Vid2
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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For you girls that use makeup primer, like Smashbox's photofinish, which can be very expensive: look for anti-chafing gel with dimethicone in your drugstore--same thing, and far less expensive!
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Where's the BurnedLikeJesus sockpuppet?
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Do any of you guys drain the fat out of cooked ground beef by pouring it through a pasta strainer?
Mr. Clod does this, and it baffles and disgusts me. |
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I hear them call the tide
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Well yes but we just have strainers of various different gauges. They don't have specific names or purposes, we just use which ever one is clean and best fits the purpose. Only exception being the fine plastic sieve for flour. It would be nasty if either pasta or beef was strained through that.
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Because... because it's a pasta strainer. It would be like cutting your steak with a cheese slicer, it's just not right. But that's just the baffling part. The disgusting part is the fat clogs the mesh and is a pain in the ass to clean out again.
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line the colander with paper towels first. The fat still drains, but is soaked up by the paper towels, which you can then just discard.
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I just use the lid. Easier to clean.
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the lid of what? oh, by holding the lid of the pain over and pouring it out?
Hot. and awkward. but as long as you're not pouring the fat down the drain, it's okay. I actually have a strainer that's meant to be held over a pot like that. It's flat, and moon shaped sorta, and has a handle. That works, but I still think my paper towel idea is best, because you get rid of more fat like that.
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Why use a colander at all if you don't intend to pour the fat anywhere? Also, from my experience with this method, I'd say the meat's going to stick to the paper towel and all that paper's not very environmentally friendly.... But if you wanted to use this method I'd suggest putting the towel under the colander so it can soak up the fat without touching the meat.
Maybe the difference in perceived best approach comes from quantities involved. I'm cooking for 5 -that's a whole load of fat to soak up..... It's OK to pour fat down your waste disposer.
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I just tilt the pan and scoop the meat upward to serve. The fat collects in the bottom while the meat gets pushed uphill. Then you have a pan full of nothing but grease, and you can either pour it down the garbage disposal, or pour it into an airtight container and save this freshly-rendered lard for other purposes. (I don't really do this, I'm just saying you could, if you wanted to go all Civil War Granny.)
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