Live Stoner Chat Live Stoner Chat - Oct-Dec '24

[Buzzard]

Hey @Buzzard Any idea what kind of bird this is? Bad pic but it's sleeping and I don't want to wake it up. This is a house finch nest that's been vacant since the middle of the summer. This bird is sleeping in it at night all of a sudden the past couple days but it's gone during the day so I never see it. It's in a fern on my porch. It's got a long skinny beak you can't see in the pic. I'm in NJ
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I have no idea but it looks comfy in that nest.

 

[VitaMan]

I gave up cooking with aluminum decades ago after I got a new aluminum pressure cooker when I was living off grid on sailboats. I was cooking with part seawater instead of salt to conserve fresh water, and washing the dishes with sea water. It only took a month or 2 before the thick aluminum pot was full of pinholes, I guess from exposure to seawater! Later I read somewhere that aluminum exposure is linked to Alzheimer's. Also tiny bits of aluminum scraped off a pot react with the fillings in my teeth and give an awful metallic electric taste. I'm all stainless steel, glass, and enamelware now. You ever notice how the aluminum foil on the lasagna is full of holes when you take it out of the oven? I guess the acid in the tomatoes dissolves aluminum and deposits it in the lasagna...

Late 7O's the military recalled all of our aluminum mess kits because of neuro toxicity. We used to wipe off grey oxide before cooking in the field....

....that could explain why I get lost in my own home sometimes LOL

All of my cookware is steel, cast iron, glass or enamel. the cast iron especially.

 

[JP1]

So no good just wiping that off? I get oxide on my grinder after I clean it with alcohol. Been doing it for 20 years and I've always been questionable about it

 

[VitaMan]

So no good just wiping that off? I get oxide on my grinder after I clean it with alcohol. Been doing it for 20 years and I've always been questionable about it

That shouldn't happen to anodized aluminum.....should it?

 

[Badfinger]

Hey @Buzzard Any idea what kind of bird this is? Bad pic but it's sleeping and I don't want to wake it up. This is a house finch nest that's been vacant since the middle of the summer. This bird is sleeping in it at night all of a sudden the past couple days but it's gone during the day so I never see it. It's in a fern on my porch. It's got a long skinny beak you can't see in the pic. I'm in NJ
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May be a type of wren

 

[VitaMan]

long tailfeather

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

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Beans in chili is a sin in Texas…..punishable by a 3 mile dragging behind someones horse!

 

[JP1]

That shouldn't happen to anodized aluminum.....should it?

I have no idea. This thing is from the 90s. I clean it with iso and it gets some kinda grey stuff that I wipe off with qtips and paper towels

 

[JP1]

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Beans in chili is a sin in Texas…..punishable by a 3 mile dragging behind someones horse!

This ain't Texas. I like beans in my chili. Actually I mash a can of beans and use that to thicken it, and I put another can in at the end cause I like em

 

[PeaceLove&Buds]

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Beans in chili is a sin in Texas…..punishable by a 3 mile dragging behind someones horse!

A 1/2 pound of sour cream on top is cool though?