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[perchie.girl]

Hey Diva, that ground beef will still be just fine. Had it been 24 hours, I'd still say cook it till it's well done, but 6 hours is nothing. More than 24 hours, I'd cook it for the dogs. more than 2 days, trash.

The best way to tell if the hamburger is still good is grab a small bit, sprinkle a little salt and pepper to taste and pop it in your mouth... Yum yum... steak tar tar

Been eating raw hamburger since I was a kid old enough to watch mom cook it. Can always tell the quality of the beef and fat content immediately when it hits the tongue. Seriously. Try it.

Won't eat raw chicken or pork but like my pork cooked medium and my chicken cooked thoroughly. Won't eat raw fish either... I've caught and filleted too many and have seen the worms in the raw flesh (sorry sushi lovers).

OK, all that aside I want to recommend to folks that they NOT try to cut curling bacon (to keep it flat) while it's still frying in the skillet in the hot smoking bacon grease. You might just tip the pan and end up with a nice stripe of 2nd degree burn down your bare belly. Alternatively, wear a good heat resistant apron while cutting, or lose the weight that you shouldn't be carrying so your belly doesn't get in the way of the spilling hot bacon grease. It's so much easier to clean it off the floor.

Enjoy your weekend (even if it does smell like skunk & involve working

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Raw hamburger yum.... Back when i was a kid.... wouldnt do it now unless I ground it myself.

WRT raw fish.... I am a sushi lover.... Just about all freshwater fish are NOT on the menu. because of parasite potential. I think Salmon is an exception only because it lives most of its life in the sea

One of the FDA rules for sushi in the US is the fish has to be frozen solid to a certain temperature for x amount of hours before selling it for sushi. Certain fish are required to be cooked ... Eel and shrimp come to mind. But salt water fish parasites are less compatable with human physiology.... dont know where I read that but I can dig it up if you want.

Ok here is a great discussion on which is cooked and why and the freezing thing
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/15423/which-types-of-fish-in-sushi-must-be-cooked

and for what its worth.... Sushi isnt the fish its the rice.... Sushi rice by itself is delicious. Its been mixed with a certain amount of vinegar to enhance the flavor.... and it takes alot of muscle to make it.

deb

 

[Cynthia12]

Have a son that loves sushi...not me!

 

[perchie.girl]

Have a son that loves sushi...not me!

try a california roll. its cooked crab avocado and cucumber inside of rice and seaweed outside.... one of my favorite rolls. Nothing raw in it.

then another that I love roll wise is a Volcano roll.

Salmon skin fried with tempura on the outside rolled inside out thats seaweed inside and rice outside.... then sliced into bitesized pieces.... Then topped with cooked lobster mixed with a spicy mayo.... then top that with scallions and sesame seeds and eel sauce. Eel sauce is just a sweet soy based syrrup goes with a lot of things.... Its sauce for eel not sauce made from eel.

I dont do rolls often. My go to for sushi is mostly
Nigeri style which is on top of rice
Gunkinmaki which has a wall of seaweed around the rice and fish to keep the fish from falling off
Hand roll which looks like an icecream cone filled with rice and fish

Yellow tail Nigeri
Mackrel Nigeri Macrel is pickled

Sea urchen gunkinmaki
Salmon eggs gunkinmaki
Smelt Eggs gunkinmaki
Flying Fish eggs gunkinmaki

Eel I get in a hand roll.

I rarely eat tuna or other fishes because I simply dont care for them. I have had shrimp Eel snapper clam Octopus and oyster.

I like oyster shooters but not sushi.

Sea Urchen is an acquired taste. and somewhat seasonal. it has an odd texture but it tastes like the ocean smells....

One roll I cant get enough of is a California roll with Mango and Cilantro inside.... He wont make it unless the Mango is perfectly ripe....

Then there is the Mexican influence.... Jalepenios stuffed with cream cheese and spicy tuna then fried in tempura.....

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I wouldnt expect any smell at the dryer if the exhaust was sprayed. Air is forced out via the exhaust. It may depend on how long the pipe is, distance from outlet to dryer. If it is short the smell could reach the dryer but a dry run should clean it out. If your clothes were in the dryer when it was sprayed i would run a cycle and check for smell. I think it should be ok.

For what it's worth, I agree with you in principle but I'm here to tell you that laundry room is obscene. That area of the house seems to have gotten the skunks full brunt force smell. The smell is coming in through the dryer vent. I did 4 loads of laundry yesterday with it (wash, dry repeat same load) thinking that I'd eventually burn the smell off. Nope. Last night I boiled a pot of vinegar and then left it in the room to cool and then put a pan of baking soda in the dryer.

This morning...

Not much improvement, if any.

I wish I could post a smell on here. You should be glad I can't.

I called the neighbor to see if I could do laundry at her house since we stink. She said yes but she's been gone most days and only comes home around my bedtime. Last night I washed one whole outfit, then ran it upstairs and put it in the least skunky room with the fan from the window (the skunk hit the opposite side of the house) blowing on it. It worked, only mildly skunky today. I'm going to ask the work laundry to emergency launder my 5 pairs of scrubs so I can leave them at work and at least have clothes I can change into for the rest of the week.

 

[Bunnylady]

I know I'm 'a day late and a dollar short' with this, but this is recipe is all over the web for removing skunk stink. When the Mythbusters tried it, the results they got with it were as good or better than with a commercial product or tomato juice. I'd spray or scrub any surfaces that I thought had direct contact with the skunk spray.

Mix the following:

1. 1 quart 3 percent hydrogen peroxide.
2. 1/4 cup baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
3. 1 teaspoon liquid soap or dish detergent.
4. Mix these together and bathe ("shampoo" in or rub down) the spray victim thoroughly.
5. Be sure to use this mixture immediately after it is created, as it is unstable.

 

[Latestarter]

Wow... Saturday afternoon and not a post since early this am. Did everybody sleep in or something? Well, I hope SCG is sleeping, she probably needs it.

I have an excuse. I spent the past 4-5 hours vacuuming and dusting the house. I think I took out 50 pounds of dirt from the carpets. Side effect of having multiple large dogs, one of which likes to dig holes & dirt bathe when outside

My daughter will be here this afternoon bringing her little knee biter, and my son will be arriving tomorrow morning with his 2 dogs, one pretty equal in size to my big guy. That should make Mel happy... He'll finally have a dogmate his own size and young enough to give him a good workout

It's going to be very interesting for sure. I hope they all get along

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I know I'm 'a day late and a dollar short' with this, but this is recipe is all over the web for removing skunk stink. When the Mythbusters tried it, the results they got with it were as good or better than with a commercial product or tomato juice. I'd spray or scrub any surfaces that I thought had direct contact with the skunk spray.

Mix the following:

1. 1 quart 3 percent hydrogen peroxide.
2. 1/4 cup baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
3. 1 teaspoon liquid soap or dish detergent.
4. Mix these together and bathe ("shampoo" in or rub down) the spray victim thoroughly.
5. Be sure to use this mixture immediately after it is created, as it is unstable.

In this case the victim is my dryer. Not sure it's okay to use this in there.

Wow... Saturday afternoon and not a post since early this am. Did everybody sleep in or something? Well, I hope SCG is sleeping, she probably needs it.

I have an excuse. I spent the past 4-5 hours vacuuming and dusting the house. I think I took out 50 pounds of dirt from the carpets. Side effect of having multiple large dogs, one of which likes to dig holes & dirt bathe when outside

My daughter will be here this afternoon bringing her little knee biter, and my son will be arriving tomorrow morning with his 2 dogs, one pretty equal in size to my big guy. That should make Mel happy... He'll finally have a dogmate his own size and young enough to give him a good workout

It's going to be very interesting for sure. I hope they all get along

Nope I was at work. I finagled my way to 4 pairs of clean, skunk-scent free scrub sets (issued to me but were in the dryer when the skunk-tastrophe occurred and I thought were goners) which I left in my office at work so I can just change into them upon arriving the next few days so I don't have to worry about trying to get scent free outfits.

Enjoy your daughter's visit.

 

[bruceha2000]

Rik Smits, The Dunkin' Dutchman, played for the Indiana Pacers 1988–2000, lives in the town I work in. I'm 6'1 he's 7'4, he was in line in front of me at the gas station. When he turned around I said, boy you make me feel short, he says, you are and walks out...hmmpff...

You are, to him! Ask him what is on the bottom 2 shelves in front of him, no fair bending over

I think he probably walked off and maybe got chased by something.

The skunk situation has not significantly improved. It's still the battle of Yankee Candle versus Skunk-pocalypse.

The worst part is apparently when the skunk sprayed and it hit the house it also hit the house where my exhaust is for the dryer. My entire wardrobe for work was basically in there. I can re-wash the clothes and get the smell out but unfortunately I have 2 options from there: back in the dryer or hung to dry. Both options stink. Literally.

And I have to work all weekend.

I suggest you plan a lot of meetings in the office of the person who made you work those long night shifts

My sister yelled at me and said to throw it out. If it had been winter when the kitchen is usually only 63 degrees I would take the chance. But it was 78. Don't want my 30 year old son to become an orphan. I'll keep it in the freezer until garbage day, hoping it won't attract critters when I put it out.

I also need to smack some sense into moi. I am always multi tasking and always goofing up some or all of the tasks. I was also in hurry to get documents out to the mailbox before the carrier came. Duh, I just missed her anyway and then realized I hadn't seen the raw meat. Thought checker might have forgotten to bag it.

You have chickens, right? Cook it and put it out for them if you aren't going to eat it yourself. Near as I can tell, animals are REALLY good at knowing what they should and should not eat. For example, our 1 cat that will eat people food will walk away from deli turkey that is past its prime. I've been known to wash it off and eat it (no, not REALLY bad stuff!), still alive.

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Except that a lot of time the "crab" in the California Roll is cheap fish with crab flavor, AKA "crab sticks".

Wow... Saturday afternoon and not a post since early this am. Did everybody sleep in or something? Well, I hope SCG is sleeping, she probably needs it.

I have an excuse. I spent the past 4-5 hours vacuuming and dusting the house. I think I took out 50 pounds of dirt from the carpets. Side effect of having multiple large dogs, one of which likes to dig holes & dirt bathe when outside

My daughter will be here this afternoon bringing her little knee biter, and my son will be arriving tomorrow morning with his 2 dogs, one pretty equal in size to my big guy. That should make Mel happy... He'll finally have a dogmate his own size and young enough to give him a good workout

It's going to be very interesting for sure. I hope they all get along

I thought maybe you were going to say you were nursing a 2nd degree burn.

I have an excuse too. From 8 to 10 I watered the garden, hasn't rained for a few days, doesn't plan to and it is 85F and sunny (great for the solar arrays!) then vacuumed the pool the best I could. It is still cloudy even after the 2 gallons of shock I dumped in yesterday morning (*). Then the youthful persons and I went to the farmer's market which has too many good things so it took awhile. Then we went to the pool store to ask some questions and ended up with a bottle of stuff to "bind" the puny particles together so the filter can hold on to them. Then the grocery store, then home to put the stuff in the pool. Then time to come in for a bit, which is why I am typing now.

* I forgot what Erin at the pool store told me last year - You have to take the solar cover off every few days if you aren't using the pool. It was uncharacteristically cool for a week, no one interested. I knew the spouse would want to go in after work Thursday so I was going to vacuum it. The expected question came with the "I'm on my way home" phone call: "What temperature is the pool". I answered with "green, very very green".

 

[superchemicalgirl]

When I have to do end of year performance appraisals I eat a lot of garlic.

Maybe I should hide a pair of pants in my boss' desk drawer.

 

[perchie.girl]

crab sticks are surime which a process that has been around for several centuries Surimie simply means meat paste we in the US only know it as made into imitation crab. But they also use beef and other meats....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surimi

Imitation Crab didnt go into production till the seventies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_stick

Mostly Pollock and binders.....

My sushi restaurant uses real crab.

deb