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  • July 25, 2020 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Changes at King Arthur Flour #25748
    Mike Nolan
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      I think Costco has the 12 pound bag for $6.99, Walmart and Target have the 5 pound bag for around $3.49.

      July 25, 2020 at 6:47 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 19, 2020? #25747
      Mike Nolan
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        Did Violet ever get her 'something sweet'?

        July 25, 2020 at 6:45 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 19, 2020? #25746
        Mike Nolan
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          We had salami and melon for supper.

          July 25, 2020 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Changes at King Arthur Flour #25739
          Mike Nolan
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            Depends on the supplier, but 50 pounds of flour is probably somewhere around $20-$30 these days. Shipping is the expensive part, if you can find a local distributor who will sell it to you it is a lot cheaper to pick it up.

            My former neighbor, the head of the local Sysco office, used to grumble about the price of flour going up, remembering a time not that long ago when he could buy it for $8 a bag.

            July 25, 2020 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Covid-19 Discussions and Stories #25737
            Mike Nolan
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              The latest covid19 shortage: beer cans!

              The problem is that a lot of beer is usually sold in kegs to bars and restaurants and at sporting events, and they're all still pretty much shut down, so canned beer sales are up and the breweries are running out of cans.

              July 24, 2020 at 6:34 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 19, 2020? #25725
              Mike Nolan
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                Well, my idea of 'roughing it' these days is a Holiday Inn that doesn't have HBO!

                July 23, 2020 at 9:47 pm in reply to: Changes at King Arthur Flour #25720
                Mike Nolan
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                  I suspect political correctness was a factor in the reason to select a new logo.

                  BTW, Trader Joe's is dropping their branding of certain products as 'Trader Jose', 'Trader Joe San', etc.

                  July 23, 2020 at 2:26 pm in reply to: No quizzes until next week #25707
                  Mike Nolan
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                    Nothing major, really. The keyboard on my laptop seems to be dying, some keys don't work reliably.

                    I spent yesterday evening trying to get an older laptop working, but it keeps crashing, so I may have to give up and get a new one, and I don't have time for that for the next few days.

                    July 22, 2020 at 3:11 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 19, 2020? #25693
                    Mike Nolan
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                      It sort of depends on your grill, if there are hot spots and cold spots, as there are in most ovens, rotating helps even things out, but at the cost of losing a bunch of thermal energy every time you open it up.

                      July 21, 2020 at 7:29 pm in reply to: Changes at King Arthur Flour #25673
                      Mike Nolan
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                        They will certainly keep the kingarthurflour.com domain name, because they won't want anyone else to grab it, and at that point having a CNAME entry that equates it with the new domain name costs nothing.

                        July 21, 2020 at 3:35 pm in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of July 12, 2020? #25668
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I think I got Cass's latest post released from the spam queue but it is several posts back.

                          July 21, 2020 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Changes at King Arthur Flour #25659
                          Mike Nolan
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                            What historical connection to King Arthur is that? They took the name 230 years ago and have no ties I'm aware of to Medieval English flour mills.

                            One of the BBGA members has reported in the BBGA forum that he has switched from King Arthur to a different flour source because of consistency issues.

                            I'm hoping that's just a temporary issue caused by the flour panic.

                            July 21, 2020 at 11:56 am in reply to: Covid-19 Discussions and Stories #25658
                            Mike Nolan
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                              I'm not sure 'modern' historians still say we won World War II.

                              July 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of July 12, 2020? #25650
                              Mike Nolan
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                                Actually, I'm not at all surprised to see it happen again, it appears to be a counting issue and once the count is off in a thread, I think it stays off.

                                July 20, 2020 at 8:40 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 19, 2020? #25649
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  I wonder if a perforated pizza pan would work better in a charcoal grill?

                                  If you've never tried to bake a pizza at 600 degrees or higher, it is a big change from using lower temperaturs.

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