Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Since it took until almost 8 PM to get installed there was no meal cooked on it last night. The maiden voyage was making a homemade version of an Egg McMuffin for my son this morning.

Did the "burn in" of the oven this afternoon to flash off all the factory applied solvents.

Tonight I am making a roasted pork loin with cabbage, carrots, onion, molasses, Guinness, beef broth, caraway seeds and other things like garlic, salt and pepper.

Trying to give away our perfectly fine GE gas range to local charities, but have not gotten a nibble. One problem is that they are not willing to pay for natural gas service for the houses they are building or renovating. It wasn't so long ago that our local utility did that for free and gave a rebate. I used that at one of our rental houses (we are down to one). Times have changed for no real good reason. Natural gas used solely for heating is way better that coal based electric heating whether it is your house, water or a range. Simple thermodynamics. Natural gas directly heats things up and it is more water than CO2 as a byproduct whereas coal based electric burns coal (nearly all the byproduct is CO2) and converts it to electricity at best at 45% and typically much lower.

I am not being political here. I cringe every time I see an ad that electric vehicles have zero emissions. Most electricity in the US is fossil fuel based so it isn't really when you take the entire view into account. But as we get more and more solar and wind and dare I say modern nuclear (Bill Gates has been involved with this and it looks extremely promising) it looks like a better and better option.

 

Found a charity home for my old range. We will make a donation to pay for the cost of hauling away.

 

I try to be,

You know that I am a Dem, right?

There are things that I think are important. Rights of all kinds for every citizen.

It isn't just 2nd Amendment rights. It is all rights.

2nd Amendment rights are important. but so are other rights.

 

TVA was why Oak Ridge was used for uranium enrichment and why Arnold Engineering Development Complex (with the huge transonic wind tunnel) were sited in Tennessee. They had cheap electric power.

BTW, I was once inside the 16T tunnel at Arnold. Very cool.

And hydro electric is good, but it is such a waste of it for heating anything. It is throwing away 100% energy.

 

We donated to the Repurpose Project in Gainesville. They are a non-profit whose aim is to take things that are still useful and recycle them into the community instead of having them end up in a landfill. My old range is perfect for a landlord that needs a gas range or a young couple in their first house that needs a gas range because what they have is a POS. Everything works and it was a decent level of GE gas range back in its day.

They were very happy to get it.

Could have sold it on Craigslist for a couple of hundred easily. I think that I bought it for that a long time ago.

I did not give them the old flexible gas line for connecting from the shut-off valve to the range. It is not safe to reuse them.

 

I am going to have to go through a learning curve. I did not expect that. My old GE gas range allegedly had a 13000 BTU high burner and my new range has three 15000 BTU burners and a simmer burner. I have to say that either BlueStar was very conservative on their burner outputs of GE was very optimistic. I thought they would be closer in operation. But I am not complaining.

I did buy the BlueStar range with the smallest BTU burners because it would be really hard to put in a hood at my house, but I do have 10' ceilings and an attic fan. My installer thought that I made the right choice.

 

Making carnitas for tacos today. Made a tomatillo/avocado salsa as one topping. Also have some pickled red onion that I made some time ago. Will chop up some white onion, cabbage and radish as well.

 

At least the skeeters will be away for a couple of weeks. :^)

 

I do add pistachios in lots of things. I even make pesto with pistachios instead of pine nuts and it is great.

 

Green (from tomatillos) chicken posole tonight.