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When cooking on an electric stove, anytime you pick up a pot, turn off the burner. On a gas stove you always know if a burner is left on, but not on an electric range. Don't be the guy who sets the house on fire. Your wife will not appreciate your culinary skills if you burn down the house.
Don't put towels in the same washing load as other clothes. They get wet and very heavy and will ruin your machine if everything is not perfectly balanced. Wash and dry towels separately, always, even if you think that is silly. Sort by weight not color. Color guard products work. Drying towels and bath mats by hand on a clothesline or drying stand in the garage is a nuisance that most people avoid, but it works.
Label and date everything that goes in the freezer. I think women are the only people capable of actually doing this but for the rest of humanity out there, at least try.
If a round of golf costs more in dollars than the number of strokes you take during that round, consider a different sport. Pickleball is usually free on public courts. Pickleball scoring is complicated, but it doesn't involve strokes. It does sometimes give people strokes, however.
What other things have you learned too slowly?
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So very true. And yet I’d like to put in a word for the induction cooktop burner.
Electric, but much more responsive to high, or lowered heat than any other electric appliance I've ever encountered. Not quite as responsive as gas, but almost.
It might not be for everyone, but I think it saved my house on at least two occasions over the past few years, when the late Mr. She, in the later stages of dementia tried to cook something without me present, and the cooktop simply refused to allow him to burn the house down.
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My new ceramic stovetop is not induction but it sort of works like one in that it only turns red when something is on it. But it definitely stays hot even if it isn't red. Or at least that is what my wife tells me.
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That's a good question. I may have to come back to it.
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Another addition to the electric stovetop warning. Even if you remember to turn it off, remove the pan at the same time. Your food will continue to cook as the burner cools down. I've been using electric for the last 2 years for the first time and have eaten rubbery scrambled eggs a lot until I learned this lesson.
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The thing with an induction burner is that only the pot (which has to live up to circumstances) gets hot. When the power is turned off, or down, the pot shuts off, or diminishes its power accordingly. That's why it doesn't tend to burn the house down.
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