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Agree that it would be interesting to do this taste among people who never drink Coke to begin with. There's certainly going to be a familiarity bias.

Bagel (sesame) with lox, cream cheese, onion, tomato.

Ground lamb is the best. My go-to grill meal for company is ground lamb burgers with aleppo pepper topped with grilled eggplant and yogurt sauce.

Somewhat off-topic, but do we just assume that beef/lamb these days is safe enough (at least in the interior) that it doesn't have salmonella? The hold times at

Don't forget the FISH SPATULA. Sounds useless, but once you've effortlessly flipped a piece of fish, you'll see the light.

I think the lifehacker description could be applied to cooksillustrated too, although it would no longer be a metaphor.

beefy, gamey, steaky, hanger steak!

All of the ridiculously tasty and fresh fish in Chile, often served with shrimp on top (really, a great idea).

Bobby Q's. Not because it's the most wonderful bbq ever, but because it's 2 minutes from my house and delivers!

Observation from this weekend - watermelon seems to turn into vinegar remarkably quickly. I left a cut open watermelon out (the slice was covered in plastic wrap). After about a week, it was leaking tons of liquid that smalled strongly of vinegar. Suprised since I thought that natual vinegar-ification takes much longer without a starter....maybe I just have the right spores in the air.

The oven thing makes sense if you assume that a constant amount of heat (ie energy) is lost to the outside per unit of time/temperature. You will always use more energy to heat more food, but you will do it more efficiently since the amount you lose to the outside is probably constant. thatgrrl - your point about cycling might be true, but you are using more energy to heat up the stone so I don't think you are gaining anything.

I love(d) soda but refuse to drink it, since I know I would drink too much. Hate diet. Izze is great (though it's really just overpriced juice and seltzer mixed). I allow myself to drink real-sugar Coke in Europe though. Yet another reason to travel.

El Mirador is fantastic and cheap for any meal