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Based on past experiences, avoid plastic like this unless you use it once and throw it away. You cannot get it clean. It's very hard to wash butter/fat off of plastic by hand, and it's not dishwasher practical.

Also look at the needle length and tip, it's short, and has no side vents. You are not injecting into a vein, you want the material to be spread out sideways not down.

I love out metal injector, the only downsides are the needle bends easily in a drawer with other utensils unless you remove it for storage, and the O rings don't last.

Sorry to be the lone hater, but I hate pumpkin pie, this is a great excuse to make a double pecan pie instead!

Just follow the recipe on the dark Kayo, and double the amount of Pecans (use good ones, Sunnyland will ship you some). The extra pecans balance out the super sweet caramel custard filling.

If you are too lazy to make a crust, buy the Pillsbury Just Unroll, which Cook's Illustrated rates #1 in premade. It's bland, but not offensively bad.

@Lorenzo - you are forgetting the onions and celery, without those it won't taste like stuffing, just wet buttered bread. The fat in the butter carries the seasoning and aromatic vegetable flavors. Leave out the fat and vegetables, and stuffing is wet salty bread.

Costco prices for soda used to be special, now they are better than inflated supermarket prices, but higher than any decent sale. We don't bother with soda at Costco anymore.

Sadly that's the story for a lot of Costco, the value oriented customers seem to be displaced by the upwardly striving consumer. At times, it feels more like a big ugly Trader Joe's than a discount warehouse store.

Great article. I've never been tempted to make a turkey burger (tough, bland, dry), but you have tempted me!

Wouldn't all this apply to lean ground beef?

@queenblue how do you saute the onions and celery without fat? If you add them raw, they will not cook, if you boil them.... well, then they are boiled (yuck).

I'd bad fruit juice, particularly apple juice before I'd ban chocolate milk.

S few kids won't drink plain milk, but will drink chocolate milk.

Look at that pathetic giant puddle of canned Heinz baked beans.

How are we supposed to take this seriously when half of the plate are cheap sweet beans right out of the can?

Would you take an American breakfast seriously if 1/3rd of the standard plate was Skippy peanut butter?

And what's with the quality of most English sausage? Often more filler than meat. They are obsessed with only "quality" cuts, yet fill it with rusk. Give me snouts, ears and tails any day over bready filler.

And fry bread? It's plain white bread dunked in the deep fryer. Mega high calorie, and blah. More like a giant unseasoned crouton for the sea of canned beans than proper toast.

Cups are lame and error prone.

buy a cheap scale!

Nothing to wash, and much more accurate.

Hellman's / Best Foods has changed in the last few years, it's now moving towards a Miracle Whip/Lite Mayo sort of flavor, more sweet and sour. Maybe people's perceptions of what Mayo is supposed to taste like has been distorted by Lite Mayos (which are all sweet)?

It's quite off-putting.

(yes, homemade is great, but has no shelf life, you going to whip up a batch to get a couple tablespoons for a BLT?)

It does depress me to see the waste from all the people who take a bite out of the middle, and throw away the rest. They skip the deep flavor from all the end bits. But then those are the same people who prefer boneless fried chicken, hate eating ribs unless they are overcooked "falling off the bone", and never eat all the fantastically delicious meat from a steak bone.

Same sort of people who order filet mignon steak.

Yes, there was corn in the banana polenta (forgot that).

But why use butter, but no cheese, or cream, or milk, or rice, or pasta?

My guess is she is a sorta vegan (except butter), and sorta low carb (except potatoes and corn). The tempura coating might be cornstarch, which would go along with the no grains, only corn or potatoes.

I'm confused. They said "vegetarian", but clearly there were more limits.

I would have thought vegan, but there was butter used.

I saw:
No EGGS
No CHEESE
No MILK or CREAM
No RICE
No PASTA
No WHEAT
No CORN
No GRAINS (except perhaps rice flour in tempura not served)

Huh?

I think there were a LOT more unspoken limits.

This looked like vegan + butter - grains