Happy Monday! Why do I say such a thing you may ask? Because today we celebrate the birth of amych! Wishes sent for the happiest of days and the best year ever to come.

Sadly enough, I have to admit I'm less optimistic than Shir.

Huh. I don't even think I'm optimistic. I just keep reminding myself that there were a lot of events in the past 120 years on this piece of land that not many predicted. Oct. 7th was one of them. And clearly something will happen in the near future - I just can't predict what it will be. Yes, it can be for better or worse, but things will change because things change. I just have to keep hoping that it will be for the better - and my idea of better is less death and destruction and mass evacuations.

(I've had a long rant about Israeli politicians, but I've deleted it, because, oh, well, what's the point. Sigh.)

Please do. It's an important practice to remind ourselves that we should expect and demand so much better from them.

the part of the electric mixer that is shaped like a ball, made of curving wires, which you use in order to make cream into whipped cream and the-eggs-whites-and-sugar into a white (really white, this time) foam?

Whisk

Now I want pancakes.

And oh, amych! Happy birthday!

You can call it/them a whisk, but you can also call them beaters (since that is what they do, right?)

And, in the cooking subject, I recently got an air fryer ... cleared a space for it, did the initial test run. Now what do I do with it? I keep hearing that you can cook almost anything in one, but the instructions say to use glass or metal and a lot of my cookware is ceramic, which the instructions said NOT to use. A recipe for buffalo wings came with the thing, but I'm semi-vegetarian at this point, so that's no help.

is there another word for the "white" part of the egg

Nope.

the part of the electric mixer that is shaped like a ball, made of curving wires

Mixer attachments have many different shapes, and many different names.

E. g. whisks, whips, blades, beaters, hooks

Wow, all very violent terms. If you want to "gently fold" something in the kitchen, you have to do it by hand.

I love sweet potatoes in the air fryer. I get the little ones and just put them right in the basket. Coat with olive oil and poke them with a fork a bunch of times. Yum. I don't think I ever used a glass or metal container, just dropped the contents in the basket.

A whisk is what Nilly is describing which is different than a beater. A whisk’s wires are flexible and a beater’s are rigid. And beaters aren’t ball shaped.

even how to gently fold (is that how you say this in English as well?) flour and the like and not just mix them.

Yes, “fold” is what we use in that context. (Also, Nilly, your grasp of English never ceases to amaze me! Shir, too. And really anyone else for whom it’s not a first language. English is just ridiculous!)

seperate the yolk from the - um, is there another word for the "white" part of the egg?

Nope - the white/liquidy bit around the yolk is just called the "white."

Kids old enough to make breakfast is THE BEST.

I missed the butt-warmer discussion but would like to add a plug for heated STEERING WHEELs as maaaaaybe even better on cold winter mornings?

And really anyone else for whom it’s not a first language. English is just ridiculous!

Different words for different instruments and actions make sense to me. Phrasal verbs remain my nemesis in English. Generally I think that English grammar is much easier than Hebrew/Arabic grammar. Sure, we have three tenses only and no "progressive"/"perfect" forms, but I have no idea how anyone is expected to learn this as a second language: [link]