This morning was snowing dust, fine, fine stuff. Now it’s worked up to mid-sized flakes.
It’s so nice to have the snow. Along with it will come one day of ‘blowing snow’ and 3 degree temperatures…but still, I got that wonderful convection-thingie, and it does brown. We ordered an extra pizza two days before Christmas, froze one, and the frozen pizza (medium thin crust) fit the rack (it has 2) and cooked up crispy and sizzling without burning. This is auspicious. I’m thinking of other things I haven’t cooked in ages because firing up the big oven for 2 people seems so much—
Hamilton Beach 31103A Countertop Oven with Convection and Rotisserie is the one we got, and the price was in the range of a moderate microwave, cheaper than I would have thought.
Oh, thinking of recipes I haven’t done in years. Twice baked potatoes. Real mac and cheese. Nachos. Mmm.
Fly me to your food,
and let me play among your cars!
Let me see what snow is like
While we trawl Seattle’s bars!
*aims a snowball at Tommie from atop Haleakala*
Wait! Was that a piece of aa in the middle, or just a piece of ice?
Is winter starting to take it’s toll? Please, no ice in the snow balls! Chondrite, I am loving thinking of you in the snow! Is it still there?
CJ, I predict that many more people are going to be buying ovens when they read how much you like yours! I have three friends who bought one after seeing mine. The bonus is that you use less electricity! Enjoy!
Even on top of Haleakala, the snow rarely lasts for more than a day or two before either melting or sublimating. Crunchy mud. The Big Island did have a blizzard warning earlier this week; the rain we had at lower altitudes was snow and gusty winds on top of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Poor astronomers!
Well, I think I am going to have to put on actual shoes instead of muffies and get out there and haul in the rest of the groceries from before Christmas, because there’s liquid out there,and we’re due for real low temperatures.
This involves shoveling a way to the garage. We’ve been borderline freezing even with the snow, but not quite enough to impact stuff in the car in the garage—but now they’re muttering things about 3 degrees. Time to go get it.
It’s chilly here in LA, but not that chilly. (Your weather reminds me of living in west Texas, where it hardly ever gets much below zero F.)
Tomorrow I take may car in because I ran over ‘debris in lanes’ (as the traffic reports put it) and banded up the transmission pan. That’s a part that runs nearly $400. Plus fluids…for the car. The dealer has a decent waiting room: TV – on ABC last time – plus a hot-drink machine. It will produce hot water, so I may use a tea-bag instead of drinking their chai tea latte (which had unfortunate effects on me, as good as it tasted).
And there was frost on the car this morning (well – frozen dew, judging by the droplets at the edges).
Car fixed and retrieved. Service guy says they’ve replaced some of the rechargeables on Priuses, but most have gotten upwards of 200,000 miles first. This is reassuring.
same here, temperature was 18 F, frosty morning, got up to about 33 or so.
Checking the reports, locally it was actually down to ‘frozen’. It was up to 39 at a quarter to 7 yesterday morning, according to the car, but I don’t believe that, since I needed to use the defroster. Warmer today, but we’re expecting possible rain.
I did some research on toaster ovens several years ago, just before I moved to this house. Based on Consumer Reports ratings, I picked up an Oster Model TSSTTVMNDG at WalMart for about $80. When I hooked it up, and let it go for a few days, I noticed that the clock did not keep proper time, and was slowly falling behind the rest of the clocks in the house. I sent a note to Oster, and let them know the problem. Instead of having me send the defective toaster oven back, they sent me a whole new oven. I asked them what I should do with the first oven, and they said I could discard it if I didn’t want it. Well, no, I don’t think I’ll do that….so I gave it to my brother, letting him know the clock did run slow. The one they sent to me has worked quite well, it’s also a convection oven, but no rotisserie.
“There is no such thing as an uninsured risk.”
Some may self-insure, but I rather suspect manufacturers have insurance for an estimated failure rate, the cost of the insurance being folded into the sales price. The insurance companies share data to make sure you’re not running a scam, but other than that, there’s no reason to care what you do with it.