What Are You Doing Today?

[John Brunner]

Wondering if I should just go back to bed. I was putting up dishes and my year old, glass, encased in plastic tea pitcher
fell in the sink.Seemed fine until I poured fresh tea in it. Started coming out the end. Actually think it busted in dishwasher. Trashed. Sigh
Then we are making our ice cream,and I am cracking eggs, when I noticed egg shells in my broken eggs to mix!
Had to dig them out. Finally got it all together and it is a churning away now.
Sitting on heating pad, until ice cream is done.then lunch time. Rest of day just usual stuff to do.

When I moved into this place I had a new countertop installed with nice, deep stone under-mount sinks. For the most part I really like them. Being under-mount means there is no rim on the countertop to catch crud. And combined with the tall farmhouse-type faucet I have, I can fill any sized pot with ease. But the downside to stone sinks is that you're working in a concrete container. I've broken/chipped a number of items because there is no "give" to the stone as there is with thing stainless steel sinks. There is no way to be careful enough when you're preparing a meal or doing dishes. If glasses don't slip out of your soapy hands, all they have to do is tip over and they crack or shatter.

Regarding egg shells...I'd just figure that the churning would break them up enough. After all, they're almost 100% calcium. People crush them up and feed them back to their chickens.

 

[Hoot Crawford]

Sorry, I can't remember what state you are in, Hoot. Wonder if you could make do with a 'wall' air conditioner or a window air conditioner. When my daughter's ac went on the fritz her boyfriend brought over a portable ac that vented out a window with like a corrugated pvc pipe.

Thanks for your concern, but I'm in Central Florida and it's "only" 88 here now, and will be in the 90s for the next week or so. A window unit would not suffice. And the HOA would never allow a window unit. The system I have now is working just fine - I'm only getting quotes so I can factor in the cost of a new system when I sell the house.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I find that my days are filled with routine and "sameness." Not much worth talking about and usually the SOS daily. I've turned into a world-class, disorganized putterer.

 

[Krystal Shay]

I find that my days are filled with routine and "sameness." Not much worth talking about and usually the SOS daily. I've turned into a world-class, disorganized putterer.

Same here. Most days, I seem to move through the day like a zombie.

 

[Shirley Martin]

Me, too, @Beth Gallagher .

I washed, dried, and put away our winter coats yesterday. I don't think we will need them for a while. How's that for excitement?

 

[Marie Miller]

Wondering if I should just go back to bed. I was putting up dishes and my year old, glass, encased in plastic tea pitcher
fell in the sink.Seemed fine until I poured fresh tea in it. Started coming out the end. Actually think it busted in dishwasher. Trashed. Sigh
Then we are making our ice cream,and I am cracking eggs, when I noticed egg shells in my broken eggs to mix!
Had to dig them out. Finally got it all together and it is a churning away now.
Sitting on heating pad, until ice cream is done.then lunch time. Rest of day just usual stuff to do.

Kitchen tweezers! Cracking every egg individually into a bowl. Tedious but it can save you time and product at the end.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Kitchen tweezers! Cracking every egg individually into a bowl. Tedious but it can save you time and product at the end.

um. did not know of kitchen tweezers. Most of the time I do not have eggshells in things, but the ole arms aren't moving good today

 

[John Brunner]

Kitchen tweezers! Cracking every egg individually into a bowl. Tedious but it can save you time and product at the end.

If I'm making something that takes several eggs, I'll do as you said and crack them one-by-one into an intermediate container. I do that when frying eggs or making poached eggs, since it makes it easier to lay the eggs into the hot surface out of a bowl rather than getting my thumbs close to the heat.