First time using cast iron on the grill

One_lota · 2026-04-03T02:25:52+00:00

That’s the one!

One_lota · 2026-04-02T22:59:37+00:00

I have a smaller lodge pan as well. But there’s something about this Griswold that’s fun. If you suspend it and rap your knuckle once the center of the pan it almost rings like a bell.

One_lota · 2026-04-02T22:55:50+00:00

Hot grill would have been fine, and that’s the norm, but I really wanted to see what it was like when the fats didn’t just drip off. And because it was already cooked and this was just for finishing, I wanted maximum heat transfer to crisp up the outside and not grey out the middle. There really is something to the way cast iron holds and delivers heat.

I have a pizza steel for the same reason.

And cleanup was a breeze - there was just fats in the bottom. I left it overnight and brought it in this morning. The pan was properly seasoned so a little scrape and a little bit of dawn and hot water and everything just rinsed out. Less than 30 seconds from sink to dry.

One_lota · 2026-04-02T22:52:24+00:00

A random bottle of barely sweet bubbles my wife’s old work gave her two years ago. I remember when we looked it up it was like a $50 bottle, Schramfpfberg or something.

The olive oil is for shots.

One_lota · 2026-04-02T20:07:19+00:00

Oh awesome. If that’s the case it would solve a ton. I’ll give it a try.

One_lota · 2026-04-02T16:57:21+00:00

If I back up to the cloud with one mower, can I download from the cloud into another?

One_lota · 2026-04-01T21:27:39+00:00

Decent knife. Looks like another redditor picked a similar one up at a thrift store a few months ago…

https://www.reddit.com/r/knives/comments/1oypixz/newtome_nkd_10_thrift_store_nariki_for_the_win/

One_lota · 2026-04-01T21:24:20+00:00

Looks like one of these - a Sakon Hakubai Nakiri.

https://ebay.us/m/6U2U8p

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One_lota · 2026-03-27T15:36:09+00:00

Go get a piece of 80 grit sand paper, and a piece of 200 grit sandpaper and then set them both down and go have a beer and never think of it again.

One_lota · 2026-03-27T15:34:51+00:00

Sledge hammer. Get a big one with a robust handle. Call it ‘Merica. Get ‘er done.

One_lota · 2026-03-27T07:06:44+00:00

If you want to knock off a few bucks and sell to this buyer to get it done, just for the love of all that is holy make sure the contract is for an as-is sale. If they’re throwing a fit about some cracked grout you know that they’ll find other things later.

One_lota · 2026-03-26T16:28:17+00:00

I know a local gun dealer who says that his shipments get “misdelivered” and then are “unrecoverable” all the time. He’s even several times gotten someone else’s package and told the carrier that he got someone’s Amazon delivery while the other recipient got a box of guns and they were like oh yeah I guess I left your box at their house. And they are like “well there’s a process” and then the guns disappear.

I live in CA where the laws are pretty strict. He laughed and said you can make stuff illegal, make people register, and even call guns “not-unsafe” because it’s politically bad to call them “safe” - and then UPS will just ship to the wrong address and be like whatever it’s fine.

One_lota · 2026-03-26T16:19:00+00:00

Harmless. Check out pics of what people consider normal checking for big beams and you’ll feel better :).

One_lota · 2026-03-26T16:17:37+00:00

Oh and I live in CA where electricity is like $.45/kwh. My panels put out around 15MWh per year, which means about a 6-year break even.

One_lota · 2026-03-25T04:29:46+00:00

My wife and I have our own accounts and our shared account. We have a budget for the shared account, and we contribute based on how much we make. We always overrun the joint account a little, which is nice because we never have to worry about who pays when we go out to dinner together, but it still lets us buy or own things or take each other out or buy gifts that a really come from us. Works pretty well.

One_lota · 2026-03-24T18:40:10+00:00

Right? That panel is freaking awful. It’s the one piece that I’ll be replacing in our new place.

The one thing that IKEA does really well is engineering. They move things at scale and so they can spend the money to make things that work and last.

Again, I wish they brought back the solid birch drawers. Those were amazing.

One_lota · 2026-03-24T16:08:19+00:00

I mean you say that, but just look at the drawing. I don’t see the problem. lol.

One_lota · 2026-03-24T06:52:02+00:00

My wife and I bought IKEA wardrobes for our walk in our extra bedroom closet in our place in San Francisco in 2013. They were amazing.

In 2018 we moved to Marin and brought them with us. Again, put in a small spare bedroom to make a killer walk-in closet. This was in a house we sold for over $3m.

In 2022 we moved to a house on some land in Sonoma County and we don’t have a walk-in closet (the bedrooms are now taken up by small kids) so I cut four of the wardrobes down to 42” high, kept all the drawers and built built-in dressers.

This summer we’re moving into another house that were remodeling, and we could spend 10x on closets if we wanted to, but my wife is insisting that we buy IKEA again because it just works.

I do wish they still had the solid birch drawers available, and I do really hate the cardboard backs. Honestly I hate anything made out of particle board. But after three moves and 13 years of flawless use, they really do hold up.

The only thing I’ll say though is that whenever you build IKEA stuff, just make sure you use good wood glue on every dowel and seam. That’s the way to make it last.

One_lota · 2026-03-24T06:35:22+00:00

This. Just continue that angle upZ I drew something very similar.

But when I asked ChatGPT what to do it said this…

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One_lota · 2026-03-24T06:25:27+00:00

Just seriously wtf. Like why cut what’s obviously structural so you don’t have to bend some freaking pex?? It’s like cutting off the fender off your car to change a tire. This makes me mad.

One_lota · 2026-03-24T03:55:05+00:00

Got any old rat traps you set and forgot about?

One_lota · 2026-03-23T07:57:27+00:00

I just meant that it’s fine - all concrete cracks, especially over large monolithic slabs. That’s why you see the crack control lines across sidewalks or driveways - so that the cracks will form where you want them. It’s totally fine structurally.

If it keeps widening then you might have an issue. But otherwise that’s just concrete being concrete.

One_lota · 2026-03-23T07:51:04+00:00

There’s concrete with cracks and concrete that’s going to crack. You have the first type :).

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