I have a Le Crueset grill pan.. love it. Especially in the Winter. That's the start of our collection.

Cayne's is decent for kitchen stuffs, as is Nikolau (like Nella, restaurant supply) at Queen/Bathurst. I don't even mind IKEA for some generic kitchen stuff, cookie sheets shouldn't be too tricksy unless you're looking for especially long life, my cheapo sheet and baking tins are lasting the rounds so far - I think the cookie sheet I got from the dollar store, in fact - nothing fancy like silicon or non-stick though, just regular metal.

Reminds me that I've not baked pie all summer, hell, hardly any baking so far. Hrmph.

Nikolau left with dukes though

I thought so. On closer inspection it was a ripped up, semi-floating fish carcass.

Nella's pretty reasonalbe price-wise. since you're an east-ender take a look in Dinetz (on king down the street from the Sun), much cheaper but good stuff.

i think nikolau's around...at least it was about a month ago.

How many songs in a set?

yes yes I keep meaning to go Dinetz, of course D'oh.
Thanks for all the advice, Cam I'll take that disk off you if you'd like I'll measure the oven tomorrow morning to see if I can get 29 inches in the oven.

I do want to get some more robust stuff, been going through cheap stuff for far too long.
37 disks?!!? Damn you are an impressive recycler.

like pyze said you'd do well with the inexpensive nella knives; you don't need to spend $150 on a knife when you only use it once a say or so.
you might also tap phong next time you're in chinatown. it's not exactly williams-sonoma but for kitchen basics it's probably the cheapest place in town - they supply a lot of restaurants. get yourself a 60L stock pot while you're in there...

Yea I totally have no need for super awesome knives, somedays I'll be in the kitchen all day but for the most part, as you say dinner time cutting. No ceramics for this cat, I'd just cut my hand off. A nice knife that's properly tall in the back of the blade so I can slide it on the knuckles and such for chopping. The crap knives I have, are , well, crap. I'll be getting a chinatown butchers knife for the boned animal attacks. A meat knife, a sharpener, paring for the small work ...

We'll be using our leftover chicks and turkeys to make some stock we can freeze, etc... just getting smarter about how we cook and eat.

Thanks all for the tips.

That's what she said.

Also: I love my main chopping knife (https://usa.jahenckels.com/426henckels), but I've cross-sectioned part of a finger nail TWICE with it (just grazing the nail-bed)... must remember to tuck finger tips in.

only 5"?

nice... I'd be happy with the 8inch chefs knife...hell I'd like anything from Henckel . How awful is it that the nicest knife I ever owned was my non-issue boot knife when I was in the forces?

Ronin,

Those earbuds are perfect - thanks for hooking me up.

*returns to rocking out/working on portfolio site*

More like arm, leg and a nut. Those racks are tough as hell though, apparently.

That's what she said...

CETMA racks look really useful. I dig the utilitarian fixed gear/font rack steel bike look. I'll put one on my Capo then ride down to Urbane to show it off to Rob

anyone wanna do a first aid course with me?

requirements;

$800+ tax and accommodation for course
and a car to drive out to whistler



mainly, so i can get a ride out there

Advanced Wilderness First Aid? Planning to do a season in Whistler?

sorry for the late reply pyze , been taking care of my Da and had to place him in a home , so I droped off the planet sort of speak , I see the forum guy's riding around at night but no time to stop

wilderness fist responder so i can guide white water canoe trips next year, wistler is the cheapest place having it before the spring (when i want my SRT and SRO for white water rescue (i know most of the white water stuff, but no piece of paper saying so))

You can get that course through Outward Bound up in Burk's Falls in Oct. By the time you get out to Whistler, try to find a place to stay during the classroom portion (damn difficult at this time of year and horrendously expensive - I did several seasons there), you'd be further ahead to do the course here.

Ah nuts, you just missed the first half of the Paddler co-op responder course that's running
https://www.paddlerco-op.com/rescue__..._first_aid.php

Their course was $650. You might try to contact them to see if you can finagle anything. Lee Chantrell is an excellent instructor.

damn wished i had seen the paddlers coop one.

i looked at the outward bound one and im weighing up my options... if i can get to the whistler one for cheap i'll take it (im down with bush crashing a campsite and bringing food. but from what i understand they give you room and food for a bit more), otherwise im doing the outward bound one.


the thing i like about the whistler one is that they dont give you a schedual of how things are done. so stuff happens when you least expect it, a friend did it and said one day an instructor rolled his kayak and didnt surface, when they pulled him out, all he said was "not breathing"


in the end im going to be spending around 2k on courses for next summer for pieces of paper saying ii can do stuff i can already have done

wow second blackout of the night

Blackout? Where in the city are you, we had one here in the East on Sunday.

*shutters* Our worst nightmare....

https://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/495685

This article makes me sad.