This Bacon-Wrapped Pesto Chicken Recipe Is Almost Too Easy
Video recipe link (BuzzFeed.com)
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
I'd Have To Respectfully Disagree
Everything You Need to Know About America's Most Iconic Steak
The porterhouse is the most iconic steak cut. Here’s why.
Picture a steak in your mind. Chances are you imagined a porterhouse. Here is everything you need to know about this cut — its history, where it comes from, and what to look for to get the best.
Video link (LA.Eater.com)
The porterhouse is the most iconic steak cut. Here’s why.
Picture a steak in your mind. Chances are you imagined a porterhouse. Here is everything you need to know about this cut — its history, where it comes from, and what to look for to get the best.
Video link (LA.Eater.com)
Simple, Yet Effective Advice
Best culinary tip for the home cook:
Have fun, experiment and keep cooking. Remember, food should be appreciated.
(OCWeekly.com)
Have fun, experiment and keep cooking. Remember, food should be appreciated.
(OCWeekly.com)
Guess Who's Having A Banner 2015
Under Armour: What a year for this company. First, the brand's initial superstar client, Tom Brady, wins the Super Bowl. Then, the company locks up Jordan Spieth to a 10-year contract right before he begins his total world domination. Then Bryce Harper starts blowing up. And then another one of Under Armour's stars, Stephen Curry, wins the NBA MVP and leads his team to a championship. It seems every athlete the company sponsors is on fire! Well, except Hunter Mahan. . .
(GolfDigest.com)
(GolfDigest.com)
I Was Wondering What Their Prerequisite's Were
What do J.D. Power's quality ratings really measure?
First, as its name indicates, it's all about "initial" quality, measured by problems reported by new-vehicle owners in their first 90 days of ownership. If something breaks or falls off four months in, it doesn't count here. Second, the scores are problems per 100 vehicles, or PP100. So Power's 2015 IQS industry average of 112 PP100 translates to just 1.12 reported problems per vehicle. Third, no attempt is made to differentiate BIG problems from minor ones. Thus a transmission or engine failure counts the same as a squeaky glove box door, tricky phone pairing, inconsistent voice recognition, or anything else that annoys the owner.
Traditionally, a high-quality vehicle is one that is well-bolted together. It doesn't leak, squeak, rattle, shed parts, show gaps between panels, or break down and leave you stranded. By this standard, there are very few poor-quality new vehicles in today's U.S. market.
But what "quality" should not mean, is subjective likeability: ease of operation of the radio, climate controls, or seat adjusters, phone pairing, music downloading, sizes of touch pads on an infotainment screen, quickness of system response, or accuracy of voice-recognition. These are ergonomic "human factors" issues, not "quality" problems.
Yet these kinds of pleasability issues are now dominating today's JDP "quality" ratings. "Cars and trucks have never been built better, but frustration with audio, infotainment, and navigation features on new vehicles has never been worse," Automotive News senior writer Jesse Snyder pointed out back in 2012. "For the first time, complaints about such features surpassed those about engines and transmissions as the top category... [And] half the problems reported by vehicle owners after 90 days were design related – things that are confusing or hard to use rather than faulty or broken."
As Power's 2015 IQS press release points out, "Entertainment and connectivity systems remain the most problem-prone area for a third consecutive year, with voice recognition and Bluetooth pairing continuing to top the problem list." But is that really quality? J.D. Power says that when it asks consumers what quality means to them, their definition is much broader than just absence of defects.
"They also include 'perceived' quality, quality of materials, and very much design quality – not only is the component built as designed, but was it designed right in the first place," a J.D. Power executive said. "The purpose of the IQS, they contend, is to measure quality problems as defined and reported by consumers. "So we take the broad approach that if a consumer considers something a problem, it is counted as a problem, and we count them all the same for a number of reasons. When we look at the degree to which these problems impact overall satisfaction of the customer, there is virtually no difference between design problems and defects."
Also important to understand is that almost all automakers have gotten so good that the rankings among brands and gaps between them are far less meaningful than they once were. For example, in the 2015 IQS, the gap between Chevrolet in seventh place and Toyota in 10th is just three PP100, or 0.03 problems per vehicle, which seems statistically insignificant.
(AutoBlog.com)
First, as its name indicates, it's all about "initial" quality, measured by problems reported by new-vehicle owners in their first 90 days of ownership. If something breaks or falls off four months in, it doesn't count here. Second, the scores are problems per 100 vehicles, or PP100. So Power's 2015 IQS industry average of 112 PP100 translates to just 1.12 reported problems per vehicle. Third, no attempt is made to differentiate BIG problems from minor ones. Thus a transmission or engine failure counts the same as a squeaky glove box door, tricky phone pairing, inconsistent voice recognition, or anything else that annoys the owner.
Traditionally, a high-quality vehicle is one that is well-bolted together. It doesn't leak, squeak, rattle, shed parts, show gaps between panels, or break down and leave you stranded. By this standard, there are very few poor-quality new vehicles in today's U.S. market.
But what "quality" should not mean, is subjective likeability: ease of operation of the radio, climate controls, or seat adjusters, phone pairing, music downloading, sizes of touch pads on an infotainment screen, quickness of system response, or accuracy of voice-recognition. These are ergonomic "human factors" issues, not "quality" problems.
Yet these kinds of pleasability issues are now dominating today's JDP "quality" ratings. "Cars and trucks have never been built better, but frustration with audio, infotainment, and navigation features on new vehicles has never been worse," Automotive News senior writer Jesse Snyder pointed out back in 2012. "For the first time, complaints about such features surpassed those about engines and transmissions as the top category... [And] half the problems reported by vehicle owners after 90 days were design related – things that are confusing or hard to use rather than faulty or broken."
As Power's 2015 IQS press release points out, "Entertainment and connectivity systems remain the most problem-prone area for a third consecutive year, with voice recognition and Bluetooth pairing continuing to top the problem list." But is that really quality? J.D. Power says that when it asks consumers what quality means to them, their definition is much broader than just absence of defects.
"They also include 'perceived' quality, quality of materials, and very much design quality – not only is the component built as designed, but was it designed right in the first place," a J.D. Power executive said. "The purpose of the IQS, they contend, is to measure quality problems as defined and reported by consumers. "So we take the broad approach that if a consumer considers something a problem, it is counted as a problem, and we count them all the same for a number of reasons. When we look at the degree to which these problems impact overall satisfaction of the customer, there is virtually no difference between design problems and defects."
Also important to understand is that almost all automakers have gotten so good that the rankings among brands and gaps between them are far less meaningful than they once were. For example, in the 2015 IQS, the gap between Chevrolet in seventh place and Toyota in 10th is just three PP100, or 0.03 problems per vehicle, which seems statistically insignificant.
(AutoBlog.com)
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