Yo, is there any reason not to leave my leftover dinner in the cast-iron skillet to reheat tomorrow?
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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I have been released from the dungeon for the weekend. I'm posting from bed!
Yo, is there any reason not to leave my leftover dinner in the cast-iron skillet to reheat tomorrow?
Does it contain tomatoes?
If the food is acidic (tomatoes are particularly bad), leaving food in cast iron causes big reactions with the acid in the food -- rust on your dinner and all the seasoning gone from your cast iron!
On the plus side, it's not actually unhealthy.
So when your toddler you thought had stomach flu develops a low grade fever and a rash on his cheeks, he actually has fifth, not the flu, right?
Just checking (doc hasn't called back yet). Thanks.
It'll make your microwave explode?
Okay, that drinkable yoghurt was nasty.
There's a guy here trying to return a filled prescription, and is threatening to never shop at Walgreen's. He's returning it because he didn't mean to fill it. I just know the manager's going to cave.
Key points:
If you gave a neuroscientist from 1950 an education in modern neuroscience I have a feeling they'd be pretty shocked by two big ideas that we all take for granted:
1) The brain is a collection of competing parts.* The mind isn't a rational machine, a disembodied blob of intelligence. Instead, our head holds a messy network of different brain areas, many of which do their processing unconsciously. What Adam Smith said about the pin factory is also true of the mind: "It is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades."
2) We are very emotional creatures. Take away our feelings and we don't turn into Spock. Instead, we become pathologically indecisive and amoral. You can't separate cognition from emotion.
No, no tomatoes. The only acid would be from port, I guess (I finally made the pork/mushroom deal I posted about weeks ago, and used the port, and it was good!). Oh, and a little sour cream.
It'll make your microwave explode?
I don't have a microwave. Haven't we been through this before?
Yerp. He caved and cut the pharmacist off at the knees. She's dealing with it pretty well. I hate when bosses do that shit.