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Mer☕️🧭☕️ • commented on 5 posts 2 days ago
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Reuse the boiled water from a pasta pot. That starchy salty s**t is amazing as a sauce base, or a great sub for any other water needed in the recipe.
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Not a pro, but wash your damn rice! It's easy and it makes the rice so much better.
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All that brown stuff on your pan after you brown some meat or veggies? Use it! That's called fond - it's f*****g amazing and will make your sauces have way more depth. You can easily get it off the bottom of the pan with a little wine, which is called "deglazing."
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If I see one more person press down on a burger while it's on the grill, I'm flipping that grill over. EDIT: To everyone saying "Smashburger", you know what kind of person I am talking about. The self-proclaimed BBQ grill king who loves to squish the burger and asks your temp but everyone gets a hockey puck. It happened this weekend and every single time, I want to flip their grill over. EDIT 2: Since I'm getting criticism about the well done burger... changed "well done burger" to "hockey punk" to further emphasize my example.Show All 18 Upvotes
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I work at Top Golf, where you have to pay per hour to play. It's generally $50 an hour. But if you're a platinum member, you get to play for free as long as you want. But the catch is you pay, like, thousands of dollars to be a platinum member. And the perk is that you get, like, 20% off food. And these platinum members are like super elite. They just come in, and they just play golf for free, and they have their golf bag with them and their gloves, and all that. But what they don't know is that if they just work one day a week at Top Golf, they not only could play for free, but they could also eat 50% off all of the food.
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Your cakes are never fresh. They're always frozen because it's hard to frost a not-frozen cake, so we bake them and we freeze them. Every single cake.
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So, movies and TV shows screw this up all the time, but when you're doing CPR on somebody and you see the flatline on the monitor, you never shock them. So, this is what's called a systole. And it's what's known as an unshockable rhythm and you never ever shock somebody that has this lack of electrical activity, and it's just been perpetrated by bad TV shows and movies forever. And unfortunately now, a rhythm that actually would be shocked like this would now be seen as unrealistic by the audience. So, TV show makers and movie makers are kind of stuck.
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I'm a dentist in San Antonio. Lots of people tell me they've been using a whitening toothpaste for their teeth that aren't getting whiter. That's because whitening toothpastes don't whiten your teeth. All they are is they contain abrasives that help remove stains on the outside of your teeth. They're not doing anything to chemically whiten your teeth more than the natural shade. Another secret is Crest White Strips and all of the at-home whitening kits contain the same chemical that dentists use to whiten your teeth at the office. The ones at the office are just slightly stronger because you're under supervision while we're using them. Any products with hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide is going to whiten your teeth. And if you use it correctly, it should work just as well as the one at the office.
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I work with leather and you might be surprised to find out that those little tags that say "genuine leather" don't mean what you think they mean. So, leather comes in four different quality grades, the worst of which I don't remember the name of - it's basically a bunch of scraps pressed together. But the other three grades are called "full grain leather", "top grain leather", and "genuine leather". Full grain leather is exactly what it sounds like. It is the full height of leather unsplit, uncut, unchanged. Top grain leather is the leather after it's been split once and you get the top part of the leather, so it has one smooth face and one kind of rough face. And genuine leather is kind of the s**t leftovers mixed with some glue and other stuff. So, genuine doesn't mean it's the real deal. It means it's kind of low quality.
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I used to work at a factory that makes Keurig pods and we would just take a whole bunch of coffee all mixed together and put it in different pods. Some of them would say Dunkin' Donuts, some of them would say McDonald's, some of them would be off brands. But only difference between the different pods was flavors - if they were flavored. All the rest of them were all the same coffee.
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As a surgery nurse, when someone gets a leg amputation, I have to put it in a bag and carry the severed leg down the hall to a refrigerator to be sent off to pathology. I have to do that regularly.
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I work as a Clinical Health Educator for the county health department where I drug and STD test people all day and then re-educate them. And at the very end of the year, I do send those results to the CDC, so they can collect data. And for some reason, with my Bachelor’s, that pays less than wiping ass. But the most interesting part is that STD results among people over the age of 50 have increased by 250%. And there's at least six different nursing homes and assisted living facilities in my area that have STD outbreaks. And they're contributing so much that gonorrhea is becoming incurable. And my favorite part is going out to these nursing homes and assisted living facilities and having to test these people, and I'm supposed to re-educate them. But do you really think 95-year-old Gertrude is gonna [care] about what I say after she’s been homie-hopping with every single male on the unit? And I was just recently at a facility with 60 residents and all 60 tested positive for chlamydia, which is the most common STD for people over the age of 50.
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I've been doing commercial HVAC, heat and air conditioning, for the better part of a decade. And one of the biggest complaints I have with residential companies is preventive maintenance calls or anything like that, spring startups where they have to come out every year and check your refrigerant levels and your air conditioning and they tell you "Oh, well, you're a little low, we better top you off". That's a lie. Unless you have a leak in your system, or a much bigger issue, refrigerant does not evaporate. They're robbing you. If they have to keep coming out to charge your system or top you off, call another company. Somebody that's not a crook. And I don't care if it's your brother, your aunt, your uncle whoever has been doing this for hundreds of years. They're robbing you.This Panda hasn't followed anyone yet
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