These Are Useful Cooking Tips

29 Cooking Hacks You Should Know By Now

10. The easiest way to check if cooking oil is ready for frying:

“To check if the cooking oil for frying is hot enough insert a wooden spoon/ladel. If it starts to bubble around the wood, the oil is ready.” - Kashaf Syar, Facebook.

21. The best way to save your fingers:

• “ALWAYS make sure you are constantly sharpening your knife. Using a dull knife is more dangerous than using a sharp one.” - maxieg710

Complete list (BuzzFeed.com)

People Need To Do These Things When Driving

Everyday Driving Habits That Could Save Your Life

Pretend you're driving a limo

• Always be smooth, and try not to make any sudden, jarring movements in braking, turning, or acceleration. You'll be safer, because it takes concentration and planning to drive smoothly. You have to brake earlier, ease off the pedal somewhat before you actually get to your turn, and be vigilant for potholes, bumps in intersections, and other potential dangers to steer clear of or move through more slowly.

Look past the car in front of you

• When you scan the road ahead, look multiple car lengths beyond the car in front of you. Look to the left and right of it, and even through the front windshield if you can. Seeing through the gaps in traffic allows your brain to process more information, since the big objects nearer to you are easily picked up by your peripheral vision. You'll likely start braking for dangerous situations even earlier than that car you're behind, and that's a very reassuring feeling. 

Complete list (Thrillist.com)

Did you Know - Oreos Edition

10 Things You Never Knew About Oreos

4. It takes 59 minutes to make an Oreo

Each Oreo wafer is baked for exactly 290.6 seconds at a temperature of 400°F from above and 300°F from below.

7. They’re as addictive as cocaine

A 2013 study suggests that the fats and sugars in Oreos make this cookie just as addictive as psychoactive drugs.

8. Each Oreo contains 90 ridges

Every Oreo cookie contains 90 ridges, 12 flowers, 12 dashes, and 12 dots.

Complete list (SpoonUniversity.com)

This Is Not Good News

Jonathan Quick out indefinitely for Kings 

GM reportedly puts timeline at about three months for goalie's lower-body injury

Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick had a non-surgical procedure for a lower-body injury Tuesday and is out indefinitely, the Kings said Wednesday.

General manager Dean Lombardi on Wednesday told the Los Angeles Times that Quick will be out for about three months.

Quick opted against surgery for what is believed to be a groin injury sustained in the final 30 seconds of the first period of the Kings' season-opening game against the San Jose Sharks on Oct. 12. Lombardi said last week that Quick's injury is in the same area as the strained groin that kept him out for almost two months in 2013 and confirmed it was not a knee injury.

(NHL.com)

A Lot Of People Would Like To Know, Too

What The Hell Is Pirelli Doing In Formula One?

What the hell is Pirelli doing in F1?

“We want to do F1 because its popularity places it as the number one motorsport category and it’s seen as the pinnacle of motorsport. For our brand positioning, as a prestige brand supplier, that makes a lot of sense. It’s also pushed us in ways we couldn’t have imagined when we entered F1 in 2011.”

How does Pirelli’s involvement with F1 translate to their street car business?

“The main benefit is the increase in simulation work that goes on with our tire design, particularly in the area of structural design. We use simulation in the analysis of our new tire models and how they work with various manufacturers cars. It’s the exact same simulations we use in F1 and the road car business is going very much in that direction as it looks for decreased development times. Honestly I envisage in 10 years time that probably all types of tires for road cars will be developed exclusively in this manner. F1 helps us to be at the leading edge of that.

Using simulation for development also means when you actually put the wheels on the ground of a new vehicle, that you get a tire that is very close or is much closer too what the final product is going to be therefore reducing both times and costs.

So our involvement in F1 does have a lot of benefits that are genuine technology boosts that translate to the road car. That’s not a marketing line. I won’t tell you that you can bolt on the set of F1 tires on your street car and go faster, but there are aspects of our top of the line street tire (the Trofeo R) that we were using seven or eight years ago in GT racing.

(Jalopnik.com)

A Damn Fine Creation

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That's A Great To Know

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That's A Damn Good Question

Who Ultimately Is Responsible When A Self Driving Car Crashes?

Until recently, there was no question about who’s responsible for an automobile’s operation: the driver. One-hundred percent.

When driverless cars without a steering wheel or brake pedal start hitting the highway, your only role will be ordering the car where to go.

“There’s something we used to call split responsibility,” said Hod Lipson, director of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab. “If you give the same responsibility to two people, they each will feel safe to drop the ball. Nobody has to be 100 percent, and that’s a dangerous thing.”

(DetroitNews.com)

Beer Can Often Lead To Great Ideas

How beer kegs helped create the modern pit stop

Perhaps most interesting is the story of how Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1, and his crew devised the modern pit stop in the early 1980s. As the documentary explains, teams made sure to have long-lasting tires and carry enough fuel onboard for the race, since pit stops were slow. Murray, a member of the Brabham F1 team at the time, was looking for some way to reduce weight in the car. He realized that fuel was a major portion of the vehicle's weight, so he started working out how they could run a lighter car with less fuel – without losing the advantage in a pit stop.

The team's solution was interesting, to say the least. They rigged up a fuel system using pressurized beer kegs painted in the team's colors so they could pump 30 gallons of fuel into the car in just 3 seconds. The team also would take the opportunity to put fresh tires onto the car, which meant they needed a way to get them on quickly, as well as a way to keep the tires warm in the pit. They were able to do this by pre-loading wheel nuts into the air gun sockets and building a makeshift heated box to store the tires in. While engine reliability issues initially hid the benefits of Murray's strategy, those were overcome, and the team saw massive success.

(AutoBlog.com)

Man Cave, Winter Edition

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That's A Hell Of A Picture

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The Simpsons Called It

15 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True

4 Scotchtoberfest

The Joke: Principal Skinner tries to set Bart up to get in trouble, so he concocts something called "Scotchtoberfest," which allows him to control an entire event in which he knows Bart won't be able to resist pranking Groundskeeper Willie. Skinner attempts to catch Bart in act.

What Actually Happened: Vintage Wine & Spirits Co. A wine, beer, spirits, cigar, and wine accessory specialty shop located in West Des Moines, Iowa created a real Scotchtoberfest held every Saturday in October.

5 Flaming Moe

The Joke: Homer tells the local tavern owner Moe about a secret cocktail that includes cough medicine and fire that he calls a "Flaming Homer."

Moe steals the recipe and renames the drink the "Flaming Moe," and begins selling it at his tavern, betraying Homer in the process. The drink is a success and Moe becomes famous, even Aerosmith drops by to perform at his place!

What Actually Happened: Andy Heidel, the owner of a bar in Prospect Heights, NY called The Way Station, just happened to have a bottle of Robitussin behind the bar when someone brought up the Flaming Moe. Not sure why you would have cough medicine behind a bar, but whatever. He grabbed the 'tussin and mixed it with Pernod, Jagermeister and a Bacardi 151 floater and set it on fire. He and his friends got shmammered and the real-life Flaming Moe was born.

14 Viva Ned Flanders = The Hangover 

The Joke:
Ned Flanders decides he hasn't really lived so he turns to Homer, who takes him to Vegas. As you can see in the image above, it pretty much plays out exactly like The Hangover.

What Actually Happened:

The movie The Hangover comes out, the film is about a couple of guys that go to Vegas for a bachelor party...and well...just take a look:

Complete list (Ranker.com)