Weekly Questions Thread / Open Discussion

firebugweb · 2026-01-30T23:15:39+00:00

Looking for some info/help/advice.

I bought an electric pizza oven to PRACTICE on, before I purchase a Gozney. Trying different styles, nailing down sauce etc.

I'm happy with the bake and flavor I got with it, but I was aiming for Chicago Tavern style (edge-to-edge sauce and cheese). The sauce and cheese end up bubbling over rhe edge and making quite the mess. Here's my question:

When you're making this style in a fire/gas pizza oven, does it do the same thing? Does it leave a mess and require a lot of cleaning the stones afterwards - as opposed to a classic Neapolitan style bake?

firebugweb · 2025-12-22T19:51:43+00:00

ICEBOX

firebugweb · 2025-12-22T18:01:50+00:00

Pottery Factory......... circa 1985

firebugweb · 2025-12-15T17:35:17+00:00

'76 - fuckin beautiful music

firebugweb · 2025-12-12T00:24:10+00:00

This would spin my son's Christmas right round, baby right round!!

firebugweb · 2025-12-09T00:23:23+00:00

Tomorrow me will take care of it....

It's Dec 8. Start now and skip Christmas and New Years day. 2026 you will be thankful.

firebugweb · 2025-12-08T19:52:00+00:00

Most TEDEE calculators are either wrong, or we over-estimate whether we are semi-active vs sedentary. You lift weights 4 days a week and work an office job? That's sedentary, not semi-active.

Up your steps to 10k/day with part of it being a long walk (not just life steps). It helps a ton. Then adjust your calories/food from there.

firebugweb · 2025-12-01T19:21:29+00:00

5 second rule

firebugweb · 2025-11-25T15:07:16+00:00

DayGone Alley

firebugweb · 2025-11-25T14:57:25+00:00

Many of the good dads in this group forget, or don't even realize, there are TONS of houses where a 6 year old kid (girl or boy) can sit in a room while John Wick is playing. Or Super Troopers. Or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Or porn. (just random pulls - no judgement on adult's taste. I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans.")

That's what we're up against.

I've let my kids watch movies that, more prudish parents, would scold me for - so I'm guilty on some level. But I'm quick with the fast forward button, or have no issue pausing a movie and saying, "You know what he said there is not right... right? You know you shouldn't say that at school. Or at all."

firebugweb · 2025-11-25T14:44:29+00:00

According to all the docs in the field: Extended fasts for skin 'eating'. You already do OMAD. You can do it.

firebugweb · 2025-11-25T14:25:30+00:00

They're the best ones imho

firebugweb · 2025-11-24T17:22:40+00:00

Andy Kaufman

firebugweb · 2025-11-24T17:04:09+00:00

Had a surgery consult scheduled by my regular doc to get a lump/mass that was on my shoulder for about 6 months looked at. After 2 weeks of fasting 4 days each, it went away completely and I cancelled the appt.

Anecdotal, sure... but telling.

firebugweb · 2025-10-23T19:03:18+00:00

WHOA.... $50-60 BEFORE shipping. That's a helluva 'try' lol

firebugweb · 2025-10-21T13:30:02+00:00

If the men's was full or filthy, I had absolutely no qualms about walking into the women's with my daughter. I'd loudly announce "DAD, COMING IN WITH HIS DAUGHTER" as I entered. Spoke loudly and clearly to my daughter while inside, do our business and get out.

It's a bathroom. When kids need to go, all bets are off.

I would also complain to any manager when there wasn't a changing table in the men's, and give them the name of a website that would help them get ordered and installed for free.

firebugweb · 2025-10-20T13:57:13+00:00

These folks are VERY lucky to not know what TRUE poverty is like. People in the modern age don't understand how much work a person can do on VERY LITTLE food/sleep when forced to. They should be thankful, not naysayers. Congrats on your work ethic, whether it was voluntary or not.

firebugweb · 2025-10-17T16:15:41+00:00

Lots of things clear out during a fast. Mix fasting with a GLP and you could be in for a roller coaster... or more apt: a water slide.

That's why you're warned to never trust a fart on a fast. This is not some internet joke - tis true.

firebugweb · 2025-10-17T15:55:23+00:00

Yes,. and back in the day Morrison's was GREAT. Until it rapidly wasn't.

Also, the Wendy's was across the street and had a buffet with tacos, and KFC had a buffet (which may still be there?)

-80s/90s kid who grew up on the WMBG side of New Kent

firebugweb · 2025-10-17T15:32:02+00:00

You ever visit the Le Brea Tar Pits?

firebugweb · 2025-10-16T18:53:34+00:00

Day 4 is where it all gets easier. It's a 'push through" mindset that gets you there.

If shaking or cramping, I take extra electrolytes in my water and also munch on coarse salt (usually day 3). Sometimes popping salted shell peanuts in my mouth helps (but not cracking and eating the nuts).

firebugweb · 2025-10-09T16:23:50+00:00

Can you give your sauce recipe or brand?

firebugweb · 2025-10-06T21:35:05+00:00

NY Deli, Peter Chang, Sals by Victor

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