The potato famine wasn't nice time. I'll see your potato and raise you a turnip. Disclaimer: I've never eaten a turnip. But I never make mashed potatoes. Way too much trouble and getting them to not be lumpy is way too much work. Besides, I love a lot of potato dishes way more than mashed potatoes. I've been making a lot of hashed browns lately, gotten pretty good at it.
My town made it illegal to have a gas stove in new construction. They are certifiably insane. Berkeley, CA, the city council always seems to be full of holier than thou assholes.
I've been making a lot of cream of mushroom soup since I identified the Lepiota Rachodes (Shaggy Parasols) growing at the edges of my compost pile a few weeks ago. Delish!!!!
How is an electric range supposed to save you from that? The soot and smoke comes from the food, not the flame.
Try CO2, CO is the product of incomplete combustion.
I had a mysterious squash appear in my backyard around 20 years ago. They were delicious. I grew more every year from the seeds. One day I saw them at my local indy supermarket and asked a produce guy what they were and he said "kabocha," Japanese pumpkin. I grew 250lb of them this year, most as sitting on my dining room table for the winter. They are a "winter squash." Their flesh is a deeper orange, redder than the orange pumpkins you see on porches. They are sweeter, a lot sweeter. The deeper reddish the orange flesh is, the better, sweeter, denser. I never grow plain pumpkins anymore.
Does that mess up your lungs? I haven't noticed it but may be suffering from it. I actually sometimes turn on a burner to heat up my kitchen. There's no central heating in the house. I picked up this heater today at Costco, not sure how or where I'm going to use it:
My range is maybe 50+ years old, an O'Keefe and Merritt that was here when I moved in in 1983, a former resident had bought it used for $25. There used to be venting in the kitchen but it was removed (I can see where the vent hole was covered). Can I test for CO? I have CO and smoke alarm combo installed but that would only trip at high levels, I figure. The house doesn't have central heating, so I sometimes turn on the range (top burner of the gas stove) to heat it up some. So far I haven't passed out...
Thanks. Guess I should look into installation of ventilation in the kitchen. I think I may be getting another of this heater, one for the kitchen as well as the bedroom.
We had a pumpkin vine in the front yard this year. Never really fruited. But that damn thing reminded me the plant from "Little Shop of Horrors." I'd trim it way back, next day it would grow 2 feet again.
And if you have a fan blowing out 150 CFM, you need 150 CFM of inflow too. Most new homes are that leaky, so you have to open a window and almost no one does that. Without the inlet you get low flow, and can back flow b-vents on water heaters, fireplaces, and furnaces.
remove the parsnips and replace them with rutabaga. That's good eats.
