Did I post about when I went to see him in July? He barely ate (and didn't drink, very unlike him) but remained exactly himself - we worked hard to get Netflix streaming set up on the TV (he knew exactly what to do but was in a wheelchair so I had to do all the fumbling around behind the TV and button-pushing) so he could watch Breaking Bad, which *thrilled* him.
He's also the grandfather who used to have a Porsche with the license plate HUBRIS.
At his second wife's funeral in 1994 I met this man who had kind of a stoner vibe and I said afterwards to my mother, "Who the heck was that?" and she was like, "Oh, he was their drug dealer. They used to keep the cocaine in tinfoil packets in the freezer to preserve quality."
(He was also a naval academy graduate, nuclear engineer, retired Rear Admiral, and worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, lest you think he was all fast cars and intoxicants. And VERY handsome when young. And an early adopter of all kinds of technology - he built a TV in the early 1950s and had the first Atari I ever saw.)
He sounds kind of fantastic.
Per the Food Lab hardboiled eggs recipe: "If you live at a high altitude, a thermometer is essential" with no further high altitude instruction but I am guessing the idea is to maintain the 190 degree simmer. For soft-boiled eggs he recommends maintaining the boil for a few minutes rather than immediately removing the pot from heat when you add the eggs, so maybe do that for hard-boiled as well and just leave in the hot water for longer.
Fascinating, flea! Does not sound easy to be related to.
He could be [fantastic]. He was a crap father, however, and had a mean streak.
I believe that! Definitely better from afar.
I think it may be time for me to start spending money on good clothes and then never get rid of them.
I've been trying to do this more often, which is why my wardrobe is getting expanded with pieces from Kambriel.
I'm sorry, Flea. Your description makes me think of The Most Interesting Man in the World.
flea, I'm sorry about your grandfather. He sounds like the kind of person who, if he were a character in a book, he would be dismissed as "unrealistic."
Burrell, I was pretty amazed what a difference it made to ease of peeling.
I was destroying hard-boiled eggs trying to peel them, and everyone just kept repeating the advice that old eggs peel the easiest. Which is fine, but we eat eggs often, and they don't have the chance to get old. (I realize we could buy an extra carton of eggs for the express purpose of letting them get old, but that takes up room in the fridge and, frankly, I can't plan ahead like that.)
So I googled for ways to make hard-boiled eggs easier to peel, and found this Serious Eats Food Lab piece: [link] which had the advice to put the eggs in the water AFTER it's at a boil. And I have to say, it works every damn time.
(Also, I am a little sad, because I'm thinking about how annoyed ita would be that we keep talking about eggs.)
