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[Drastic Action]

My fridge uses cardboard pieces and duct tape as shelves.  I highly doubt it can adequately handle the zany action that boiling pots of curry can induce.  I am glad that I realized this now, because I've still got at least 3 or 4 more servings left in the mother.  I will just leave it on the counter for a bit first.  And I second the dude who mentioned how it's inconvenient to keep putting it in separate containers - I made so much damned curry, that overall it'll be lasting a good 8-10 meals.  This means 8-10 days worth of not having to clean the pot that I'm cooking with (except for the rice in a smaller one).  I take good advantage of it, even it means I have no room for anything else in the fridge.

[Golfhaus]

Someone on this site the other day asked how he would open the can.  Nice call.

{picks up monogrammed horn, gives it a good long toot}

The last panel, of Philippe eating the Chap Stick, is the Saddest Thing.

Also, how does Ray know what the common knowledge is concerning when to put hot things in the fridge? He seems more like just-chuck-it sorta guy.

[EgoSumNoah]

The atmosphere as he goes past those trees and skips across the creek, with that black water under a black sky. The atmosphere was spooky, but in a juvenile sort of way. Like cartoon ghosts.

I really liked this one.

Also, one more can for Acox, who understands thermodynamics.

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah... I sort of can't see "not feeling" this one.

It ends with a five-year-old, "lost" in a marsh prob'ly two hundred yards away from home, deluded by his childish lack of perspective to the point where he thinks he's lost forever and fearfully dining on Wonderful Medicine. If that's not funny as hell in a split-second-twisted sorta way, I don't know what is. I think we all might just be a little spoiled by the layers and scale of the GOF, still.

Its kind of a good strategy to get people back into "regular" Achewood, actually, laying down a strafing-fire pattern of "so-sad-its-funny" immediately after the tactical nuke that was The Fight, to remind us... hey... strafing fire can really mess you up, too.

Or maybe it just reminds me of my early childhood in northern New York State, my father taking me on twenty-minute drives to West Canada, NY and telling me that we were lost in Western Canada and we would never get home. We would have to start a new life, bartering beaver pelts to earn ourselves a rough-hewn log-shack eventually.

I mean, I was five or six. I was Convinced.

[littlefallsmets]

Also, how does Ray know what the common knowledge is concerning when to put hot things in the fridge? He seems more like just-chuck-it sorta guy.

Ray seems like the kind of guy who'll go on benders of watching "Good Eats" for six or ten hours in a row, stoned out of his mind, without much sinking in, just being entertained by puppets and the concept of a molecule... but whatever actual facts sink in? Really Sink In, y'know? Like they're added to a rolodex of very-specific out-of-context facts in the back of Ray's head that he has to share whenever he can, to prove that he Knows A Thing Or Two.

He'll probably occasionally just blurt out when people are making soup that soup was originally made in an animal skin draped over a fire, the water keeping the animal skin from ever burning. And he'll be absolutely sure that he's completely helping.

[misterqueue]

I got the feeling both Ray and Emeril just saw this as a typical "Beef Rule".  Like the creekbed (ie Earthquakes).  So not so much that they'd know "common wisdom" as they just know Herr Beef well enough.

[goldenchurchhill]

Also, how does Ray know what the common knowledge is concerning when to put hot things in the fridge? He seems more like just-chuck-it sorta guy.

Ray has probably never eaten a left-over in his life.  Maybe if it was like 4 in the morning and they had broke into some Blue Nun bigmouths at like 3.

[Climalene]

I picture Geology Greg being much more like Rudy Mancke than Bill Nye -- kind of dour, does little 60-second bits on the local NPR station, leads the occasional nature hike. 

[goldenchurchhill]

Ray seems like the kind of guy who'll go on benders of watching "Good Eats" for six or ten hours in a row, stoned out of his mind, without much sinking in, just being entertained by puppets and the concept of a molecule... but whatever actual facts sink in? Really Sink In, y'know? Like they're added to a rolodex of very-specific out-of-context facts in the back of Ray's head that he has to share whenever he can, to prove that he Knows A Thing Or Two.

He'll probably occasionally just blurt out when people are making soup that soup was originally made in an animal skin draped over a fire, the water keeping the animal skin from ever burning. And he'll be absolutely sure that he's completely helping.

I know, I know.

[jough]

I just finished downloading these and they're excellent.  I've only started watching the show somewhat recently, but man, I learn something from every single episode.  Good times.

Also, if anyone from Be Square Productions or Food TV is reading this, I'd totally buy every season on DVD if you fuck*ng put them out, assholes.

[swinehund]

Or maybe it just reminds me of my early childhood in northern New York State, my father taking me on twenty-minute drives to West Canada, NY and telling me that we were lost in Western Canada and we would never get home. We would have to start a new life, bartering beaver pelts to earn ourselves a rough-hewn log-shack eventually.

You make it sound so awesome. Real manly, like.

[littlefallsmets]

See, whereas Emeril probably learned this from "Good Eats" too... except not in an accidental way at all.

Emeril probably watches Food Network with such-as a large binder filled with loose-leaf paper, taking notes on every new thing he learns and filing them away in a very organized fashion, to study and possibly quiz himself on at a later date. I assume he's proud of doing this, in general, but downplays the extent to which he is meticulously devoted to it. As though its a noble endeavour on the surface but suspects, to himself, that its a little weird to be SO into it.

I'd reckon there are three shows he does not take such notes on:

Bobby Flay, on account of Bobby Flay being a douche...

Rachel Ray, because he used to have a huge crush on her and had his heart broken by how she's slowly ditched the girl-next-door thing for the dressing-like-a-whore-to-look-obstensively-younger thing...

...and Molto Mario because he feels it would be somehow an attack on his own manhood to pay close attention to someone who is so clearly a Gay Bear.

Everyone else, he's got a whole sub-section of his binder for each.

[wombat]

...and Molto Mario because he feels it would be somehow an attack on his own manhood to pay close attention to someone who is so clearly a Gay Bear.

Noooo!!

I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that...

[evan]

Emeril probably watches Food Network with such-as a large binder filled with loose-leaf paper, taking notes on every new thing he learns and filing them away in a very organized fashion, to study and possibly quiz himself on at a later date. I assume he's proud of doing this, in general, but downplays the extent to which he is meticulously devoted to it. As though its a noble endeavour on the surface but suspects, to himself, that its a little weird to be SO into it.

I bet Emeril really really hates the REAL Emeril.

[Omegatron]

This betrays a fallacious belief that the rate of cooling is the same for a very hot object than for a lukewarm one. In fact, a hot object will cool faster than a lukewarm one, and then the rate of cooling will slow as the object approaches equilibrium with its surroundings. Thus a hot object in the fridge spends LESS time in the 'danger zone'.

Utter bollocks.  Cooling rate is not the same as total cooling time. 

That's like saying a guy in a car two miles away from the finish line will beat a guy on a bike two feet away.  "But the car is faster!"