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  1. Zeno Marx

    Your All Time Favorite 3 TV Series

    in no order: Mad Men MASH NYPD Blue Downton Abbey
  2. Zeno Marx

    How To Home Stove Tobacco - Informational Only

    I'm looking for experience with this. I wouldn't think 190° would damage the rubber gasket, nor create enough pressure to break the jar if it wasn't tightened down until after out of the stove. If I understand the stoving process, the only reason you're using the foil is to create a seal that...
  3. Zeno Marx

    What Music Are You Listening to? - February 2023

    This past week has been all about Iancu Dumitrescu.
  4. Zeno Marx

    Home (Or Professional) Chefs - Lets Talk Knives.

    I've never heard a single complaint about knives from this company, even from grumpy knife aficionados who lift their nose that they're not full tang and other pet peeves about their knives. They begrudgingly recommend them if they've used them. I've wanted to grab a couple different models...
  5. Zeno Marx

    Home (Or Professional) Chefs - Lets Talk Knives.

    I hear you. They do have great customer service and support their warranty.
  6. Zeno Marx

    Home (Or Professional) Chefs - Lets Talk Knives.

    I grew up with Cutco knives in the house. Traveling salesman, like Amway or Tupperware. I bet most people in our neighborhood had them. They were a very good value. But have you seen their prices lately? I like to support American companies, but wow, they're up there. I periodically get...
  7. Zeno Marx

    Home (Or Professional) Chefs - Lets Talk Knives.

    From my limited research, I kept getting these recommendations. On the low end, Victorinox Fibrox series, and on the high end (for me), it was J.A. Henckels Four Star II series. If I was splurging, I like how some of the Roselli kitchen knives look, and I've heard they have good steel. Take...
  8. Zeno Marx

    Good Use For Empty Tins?

    I've used a couple for shaving soap samples. They're basically the same size as shaving soap tubs.
  9. Zeno Marx

    Ode To Spices

    Szechuan pepper. gochu (think kimchi). gochujang. Sambal Oelek. light and dark soy sauce. getting a little off the path here with sauces, but rather than try to make my own, I use things like this for spice. also into several Indian spices, like madras curry, tumeric, cumin, coriander...
  10. Zeno Marx

    Time to Taste the Benefits of Cellaring?

    You might like it more right now than you will in a year, in two years, or in five years. It will change, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will change for the better. Managing the myths and your expectations is significant.
  11. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    38°, overcast, and very windy. I found a nook, and the wind wasn't a problem. Italian poker in a British tradition with new Night Train. I hadn't smoked Night Train in this particular pipe, but it will be repeated. It was a fantastic smoke. 8.5/10
  12. Zeno Marx

    How Often Do You Rub Out Flakes.

    This. I already replied in this thread and said I rub them out. That's not necessarily true. My mainstay is Luxury Navy Flake, and most often, when I'm not rushed, I take the flake and pull it into strips 2-3mm wide, like you would string cheese, and then I softly rub the mound of strips...
  13. Zeno Marx

    Tobacco Pipe Travel Box

    That's cool. I appreciate the project. Has anyone ever modified a GI Joe footlocker? The early ones were wood. I had a plastic one.
  14. Zeno Marx

    Question for debate

    I think about this every Saturday when I window shop Pipestud. Pre-McClelland, he was setting modest prices, and things sat for a while. A brother of mine, who started smoking a pipe at the same time I did, sent him some tobacco, and they were, as I said, modestly priced and sat for a while...
  15. Zeno Marx

    When to Sell Estates

    I'll have to think about that. Music can be that way for me. I can not be ready for something, yet know there is something there for me, which nags at me to re-visit and re-visit and re-visit, resulting in me finally liking something. For instance, I thought Keiji Haino was pretty much...
  16. Zeno Marx

    When to Sell Estates

    I recently picked up a pipe at a reasonable price in a vein I've wanted for a long time. I underestimated its size, though the pipe I've wanted for a long time was always a large pipe. In other words, I knew it was a large pipe, but then when it was in front of me, it was just too large. I...
  17. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    28°, breezy, and sunny. British prince with 5 year old Night Train. The top of the bowl was very spicy and tangy, but it settled down after that. Night Train is the weirdest thing for me. It can be dark fruit and prunes, which is why I smoke it at all, but it can also be so tangy that it...
  18. Zeno Marx

    Ultrasonic Cleaner For Meer?

    Those proxabrushes are handy tools. They come in several sizes as well. Target has its own brand, which are cheaper than GUM brand. And dollar stores also carry them, which are cheaper yet. But then again, you could use pipe cleaners slightly dampened with ISO just as well.
  19. Zeno Marx

    Ruminations on the Perfect Cake

    I only really mess with/worry about cake when I notice it getting uneven as I tamp or when the airhole becomes restricted or closed off. My days of fastidiousness are long gone. I'm grateful for that too, because I can take things too far and rob myself of the ease and joy of something. And...
  20. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    41° and sunny. All that snow, and now things are melting with rain in the forecast. I hope the gutters thaw before the rain comes. Large rusticated Italian billiard with new LNF. Good smoke, but like a rookie, I couldn't get the bottom to burn for beans. 7.5/10
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