I thought about a shredder but instead I made myself a small incinerator with an old barbeque grill and and a screen rolled in a circle to contain what is burned. One match and poof. The remaining ashes I throw into the grass and use a broom to break them up and they disappear into the grass.
I am amazed at online commerce and how far it's come, in what? 40years? I buy a lot from amazon and places I can combine items to get free shipping. But what really knocks my socks off is that I sold the Corvette in my avatar, sight unseen, on craigslist. It was priced as more of a project car than those $80,000 totally refurbished ones, so I got a LOT of responses on it. I told everything I knew that was wrong with it, as is. And now we can make repairs to our house. My husband was kind of sad to see it go but he had barely driven it since he bought it decades ago. And now he was too stiff to even be able to get into it. Funny thing. Spry little me got in to see if it would start so we could get it out of the garage. It started right up! But then I could not get out! And I didn't have my phone! Told you we could do a comedy on getting old. : )
I just did that today also. @Al Amoling ! I get $100 per month from Humana for the OTC items, and I buy almost all of my vitamins through the OTC store. Bobby has United Health Care, and he has a quarterly allowance from them. Each company has different items, so with using both online stores, we get a good variety each month. UHC also gave him a card that allows Bobby to use it at Walgreens , for approved items.
Same here, Thomas. We used to be able to do that when we moved just outside of Washington in the 60s. We burned nearly all of our trash in a big barrel. The old guy next door never raked his leaves...he just did a controlled burn across his entire huge yard. His lawn was beautiful. Then they banned outdoor burning there. It's fine where I live now in a different part of the state, except for certain times of the day/certain times of the year (when winds are high.)
Just ordered these from Amazon: I just don't have the freezer room for pasta, and these are only 15¢ each. I can use them for other dehydrated stuff as well. I'm still mulling over my next want...a larger pizza stone/steel. I want one that will cover an entire rack in my oven. The 14" x 16" is not always sufficient. The best I've found that will fit is this steel: 14" x 21" @ $129.00 I can't decide if it's really worth it to gain that 70 in². I look in Craigslist every once in a while for a used one, but that's been going on for a few years (my "need" is not urgent.) I also read that unglazed quarry tile can be used for this purpose, and I could cut some to fill in the gaps to augment my existing stone. But then I would have to find the same thickness as the existing stone, and--more importantly--find something that I am certain does not contain lead or any other bad thing.
the last few days bought new cutters for my old shaver, nose and ear trimmer, and a stovetop purcalator.
I wasn't very clear. Those are oxygen absorbers. They are used for long-term food storage, usually with mylar bags. You put the dried dried in the mylar bag, shove in an oxygen absorber, squeeze out as much air as possible, and then seal the bag. The oxygen absorber further reduces the amount of air in the bag, so the food can last for years. "Preppers" have been doping this for many years. Regarding this and pasta: there are articles and opinions all over the place as to how long dried homemade pasta can be safely kept. Opinions range from "days" to "months." It seems that one reliable safe method is to put the pasta in a mylar or vacuum seal bag, chuck in an O2 absorber, draw out the air and seal it. The other safe option is to freeze the pasta, and I ain't got the freezer room. And as I said, I can also use the O2 absorbers to preserve some of the fruits & stuff I've dehydrated...I was considering the use of preservatives (sodium bisulfite) and have not yielded. This is the better solution. And they're only 15¢ each. Now for that pizza steel...when I have cold cuts & burgers, I use a good quality bun. I've made my own ciabatta rolls before but they're best done on a pizza stone (like I do my Italian bread.) The stone I have is fine for pizzas, but it's a little small for my Italian bread (my loaves end up a little short & squatty.) And it's way too small to fit a batch of buns on. Getting a larger stone has been on my list for a while. I'm somewhat hampered by my oven's style. There's a slightly protruding convection fan in the rear, and the back of the racks curve up to stop stuff from getting shoved off, which loses several inches of space compared to a rack that is flat and goes all the way to the back wall. There are regular stones available that would fit were it not for this design issue. I've looked for smaller stones to fit the empty space my existing stone leaves but none are made. That quarry tile would be the next best thing, because I can custom-cut it on my tile saw...but I've got the "food safe" issue to consider. See how complicated my life is?
No electric. So that's what the curve is for. Why don't you just get a oven rack that's just flat? Maybe the manufacturer has it as an option.