Here’s a great life-hack: store your milk in glass, it tastes fresher longer! I’m not saying you should spend $7 per 1/2 gallon every week. Just buy a 1/2 gallon glass milk jug and reuse it forever! Pour 1/2 of your gallon jug into the glass bottle and when it comes time to use the second half of your milk in a few days, it will smell fresh and unspoiled!
I guarantee you’ll notice a big difference very first time you try it. Does the milk actually last longer? I’m not sure but after 3 minutes of googling for it, everybody agrees that glass stores better. Drink month-old fresh-tasting milk at your own peril! ;-)
And if you aren’t happy, just return the glass bottle for deposit and go on your way, having spent a whole extra $3 on the experiment!
Megan discovered this life hack! She noticed that in the supermarket, milk in glass had the longest Sell-by dates. Cardboard 1/2 gallons had shorter Sell-by dates and plastic milk gallon jugs had shortest Sell-by dates. It’s ironic that the largest containers have the shortest dates, eh? She did a little research and it turns out exactly the way you think… glass preserves best! Plastic is pretty good but lets some gases in and out, spoiling your milk sooner!
I can’t believe I’ve lived my whole life without knowing this one!
I’ve been doing the Stronglifts workout. I’ve been going to Planet Fitness since it’s close to home, inexpensive, and clean. I was initially really annoyed that their 4 squat racks are always busy in the morning and evening. I got over that by going at 6:30am, which has been more tolerable than I thought it would be :-).
I was more annoyed that their squat racks aren’t squat racks! They only have Smith machines. A Smith machine is a squat rack where the barbell is trapped… (the one pictured isn’t the exact model but you get the idea). And I just figured out that the bar… well… I just came back from my local Planet Fitness, bathroom scale in-hand. I weighed myself while using the Smith Machine and found out something weird and interesting! Their pulley system gives the bar variable weight! At the bottom of the stroke, the bar weighs 13 pounds and at the top, 24 pounds!
I can imagine some reasons why they reasoned that was a good idea: easier on the back at the start, less crashing at the top, smoother feel… It makes keeping track of my workout a little weird. I’ll just call it a 20 lb bar, I guess!
I’ve been going back to the gym for the last few weeks and I like it. I’ve got more energy, I’ve been automatically getting up earlier (waking up near my alarm at 6:15 instead of loathing to move at 7:15, feeling a bit more “in my body”, decreasing my body aches a bit, and starting to look a little better in the mirror. Hurray!
Schuyler showed me the Stronglifts 5×5 workout (Thanks Schuyler!). The promise is to get me in and out of the gym in 30 minutes 3 times per week and it’s working!
My workout is very simple:
Stretch, run 5 minutes at 6.5 mph for warmup.
All lifts are 5 sets of 5 lifts, add 5 pounds at every workout session;
except deadlifts are just 1 set of 5 lifts, add 10 pounds at every workout.
It is a marvel that there are parts of the human gross anatomy that are still being discovered! The anterolateral ligament, a ligament near the ACL (of “I tore my ACL playing basketball” fame) was only recently re-discovered. The notion of this particular ligament was first made by French surgeon Paul Segond in 1879 but it has evaded definitive surgical classification until 2013 or so! Understanding it is starting to help surgeons repair knee injuries better!
I checked my Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy 6th Edition and Clinically Oriented Anatomy 7th Edition and came up empty!
I have good speech-to-text software and a very good noise-cancelling microphone. How do I tell the software, “Please only transcribe text from me, the loudest voice, and not anyone else in the room.” All the software is so eager to transcribe everything, it is useless unless I (or my students) am in a quiet room.
Details: I’ve got Read&Write for Google, and Dragon Naturally Speaking and neither are any help. I’ve contacted Nuance (the Dragon people) and they were less than useless, redirecting me to different business units. I contacted The Read&Write people were no help either. I’ve googled my fingers off and come up with very little. Maybe “noise gate” software could mute the microphone below a threshold volume.
I’m trying to make this speech-to-text system work for some of my occupational therapy students who have great ideas but can’t type or handwrite.
I just got a document notarized and the notary lady insisted that I write the year as “2020” instead of just “20”. It would be easy for a bad person to change “20” to “2019” or “2018” or whatever! Good point!
I want food storage like so: some big ones, some small ones, some plastic, some glass. It’s not hard. Big ones hold meals, small ones hold leftovers, and Abigail-size portions. Plastic is light enough to carry and it’s hard to break. Glass is sturdy, doesn’t stain, and is less likely to give me cancer or synthetic estrogen or however plastic is killing us these days.
I want stackable, I want snap-lids that stay on, I want one or two sizes of tops for the whole set.
It’s a big big big big world. Why can’t someone offer this for sale?
I started getting close… Snapware says their “Total Solution” food storage tops fit both their plastic and glass containers! But then I can’t actually find them for sale. Grrr!
Please tell me you have a solution! Help me Interwebs, please!
12-29-19 Update:
My friend Megan S wrote: I think I saw something like this at ikea. They sell each container and lid separately but I think the lids fit whether you get the plastic or glass. I saw it awhile ago, and don’t really remember what they had but it might be worth a visit!
My friend Sarah K wrote: The 99 Ranch Market in Richmond has great Tupperware for good prices. I got a bunch of different sizes of glass containers with snap on plastic lids that create a seal capable of keeping liquid in. They also make a plastic version, not sure of the brand though.
Lisa K wrote Love our Rubbermaid Brilliance containers.
I replied: Lisa, the Rubbermaid Brilliance certainly come highly recommended! And I see that the “triton” plastic it’s made with has been thoroughly tested to be safe (https://www.eastman.com/Markets/Tritan_Safe/Pages/FAQs.aspx). I might still have to pass on safety fears. I’ll call it more “fears” than “concerns” but I just don’t trust putting plastic containers in a microwave oven with it’s sometimes very hot hot-spots. I joke around the house about “being turned into a girl” by plastic but I wouldn’t joke about it if I wasn’t worried about it…
Thanks for the pointer, it looks like a really good food storage product!
Update 1-9-20: I got the Ikea storage containers and they rock. 1 lid for plastic, glass, small, and large containers!
Update 1-25-20: We’ve been using the Ikea “365+” containers for a month and we’re very happy with them! We have several 34 ounce clear containers in glass and plastic (polypropylene) and a few 61 ounce containers also in glass and plastic. It’s wonderful that they ALL use the same lid! I got some different colored seals for variety and they are a welcome splash of color!
It would be nice if there were some dividers for the 34 ounce containers so I could put a few different types of leftovers / items in one container; I see that Ikea has dividers! (here!) Though I didn’t see them at the Emeryville store. They may be in our future.
Megan mentioned the other day something like, “You know, I -do- like having more evenly rectangular shapes in the fridge. Megan Sadou, thanks for pointing me in the right direction and to everyone else who commented!!
For reference, here is info about the 34 ounce size container from the Ikea website.
34 ounce: 8″ x 6″ x 3″ Hmm, the plastic one says its 21 x 15 x 6 cm which is 8 1/4 x 6 x 2 1/4″. But it’s the same lids :-/
61 ounce: 8″ x 6″ x 5″
There’s a larger one that uses the same lid but I can’t find it right now.
892.690.71
The snap-and-lock lid prevents leakage and protects the contents from frost damage, making it ideal for both transporting food and storing leftovers.
The food container is made of oven-safe glass and can be used as an oven/serving dish.
The container is made of glass, which does not absorb odors or discolor from tomato sauce, etc, so the food container is easy to clean.
The jar and the lid are both transparent, so it’s easy to find what you are looking for, regardless of where the jar is placed.
Wash this product before using it for the first time.
Designer
Sarah Fager
Length: 8 “
Width: 6 “
Height: 3 “
Volume: 34 oz
Food container
Freezer-safe.
Dishwasher-safe.
Lid
Freezer-safe.
Dishwasher-safe.
Leave lid ajar while heating to release steam.
Food container with lid
The lid is microwave-safe; heat food up to 212 °F.
I finally figured out why Lindt Chocolate is weird.
He’s looking the wrong way! First, he’s not looking at what he’s working on, the chocolate truffle that is DOWN in front of him. And he’s not looking at the whisk either! He’s looking somewhere off into space to the left of it! WTF?
It’s fine chocolate but the packaging has always been a strong negative and I couldn’t put my finger on exactly why.
I’ve been listening to Harry Dresden audiobooks for about a year now. What a joy it has been to follow “Chicago’s only professional wizard”. I’ve got 2 books before the end of the series as it stands. I’m in awe at how with each book, the quality of his writing writing increases. Jim Butcher could write a cookbook and it would encompass the entirety of the human experience in each recipe.
If you want to give it a try, start with the fourth book, “Summer Knight”. The first book was his first right out of writing school, and while it’s ok, the writing and storyline hit their stride in “Summer Knight”!
Here’s a great life-hack: store your milk in glass, it tastes fresher longer! I’m not saying you should spend $7 per 1/2 gallon every week. Just buy a 1/2 gallon glass milk jug and reuse it forever! Pour 1/2 of your gallon jug into the glass bottle and when it comes time to use the second half of your milk in a few days, it will smell fresh and unspoiled!
