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    Digital BBQ Tongs: For When Geeks Gas Up The Grill

    If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem

    Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump

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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/13/09

    In reply to Digital BBQ Tongs: For When Geeks Gas Up The Grill
    i don't use gas, danny. and no self-respecting grill master should, either.
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    Image of DssTrainer DssTrainer
    08/13/09

    In reply to Digital BBQ Tongs: For When Geeks Gas Up The Grill
    To all morons that think sticking a hole in meat affects anything.. please try this at home. Stab you hand with a compass, then put it over a 400 degree grill. Notice the blood stops? It's called "searing"... also known as cauterizing. That is what happens to flesh when cooked. So stabbing a hole or even making a small incision in your meat will immediately sear before it looses any substantial juices. Plus the holes are usually on top.. so the juice doesn't go anywhere.
    Now, to the product at hand.. so someone took the all-too-popular fork thermometer and put it in tongs and its worth mentioning on gizmodo? Is the tech world that dry?
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    08/13/09

    @DssTrainer: Try this at home. Take two pieces of meat, cook them nicely on the grill without poking holes in either. Remove both from the grill, allow one to rest 5 min. before slicing, slice the other immediately. See the problem?
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    You are not cauterizing the meat, because it's not *bleeding* you are worried about. Moron.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/13/09

    @DssTrainer: Bobby Flay wants his apron back.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    08/13/09

    In reply to Digital BBQ Tongs: For When Geeks Gas Up The Grill
    Looks like it has some kind of probe in the tong that punctures the meat. This leads me to thinking this is a bad idea for anyone serious about their food. First, sticking holes in cooking meat is generally a bad idea. Juice tends to leak out, giving you a dry cooked lump. Second, it looks like hell to clean. Third, where the probe ends up inside your grilled cut is anyone's guess--could be dead center, could just be below the surface.
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    I love technology. But old school here may just work better. Get a pair of tongs and learn how long it takes. The side benefit is that you can cook a bunch of steaks to perfect your technique.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    Meh, one faucet.


    Cuyahoga. ;)

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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    homeowner: "i quit smoking today."
    buddy: "good for you. what made ya quit?"
    homeowner: "i was thirsty."


    flame on

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    "Cisco was able to put voice/data/video over a single cable; why not the utilities company?"


    This is why...

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    must.

    have.

    video!
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    Image of SJAdGuy SJAdGuy
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    Where is Erin Brockovich when you need her?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/23/09

    @SJAdGuy: Rolling in her pile of $100 bills.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem

    "The Ellsworths ... begged for help."


    Good lord! Did they not realize the gold mine spewing from their tap? FREE HEAT AND POWER FOR LIFE! Sheesh!


    Some people--give 'em lemonade for life, they demand to know what happened to their lemon.

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    Image of Spoony Spoony
    03/23/09

    @bosskev: And here i thought you were just going to say the amount of money the lawsuit would give them had they of just simply showed up with a lawyer instead.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/23/09

    @Spoony: "...the amount of money the lawsuit would give them had they of just simply showed up with a lawyer instead."


    Well, uh, that would have been good too. Maybe even better.


    Come to think of it, my...umm..."organization" is always on the lookout for bright, resourceful people. Please leave your resumé with my bodyguard. I mean, heheh, receptionist.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    Make it Absinthe on tap, and you have a deal.
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    Image of brutaluser brutaluser
    03/23/09

    In reply to If You Can Light the Water Coming From Your Tap on Fire, You Might Have a Problem
    molotov cocktails no assembly required
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/23/09

    @brutaluser: Bottle sold separately.
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    Image of Alex Marchesi Alex Marchesi
    12/19/08

    In reply to Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump
    HA. i live in new jersey.. we dont pump no gas!


    we got peoples for that

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/20/08

    @Alex Marchesi:
    A mullet is a high price to pay for full-service gas stations.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/19/08

    In reply to Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump
    I live in Michigan, and there's no way I'm going to stand there holding onto the pump handle in the dead of winter. I stopped using one gas station when they (apparently intentionally) broke off all the little latch flaps on their pump handles, forcing you to manually squeeze the trigger the entire time (later they got debranded for several months, so I wouldn't ever go back there under any circumstances). Aside from all of that, I'm not really fond of breathing in the gas fumes, so what I generally do is get the pump started, and then back up a few feet until I can't smell it anymore.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    12/20/08

    @Purple Dave: I heard, on Lifehacker, there's these things called "gloves" that are truly revolutionary for performing cold-weather tasks.


    Also, as a sidenote.... there is no difference between "branded" and "unbranded" gas. They all come from the same 2 or 3 vendor/distributors. The primary difference is the added detergents (of questionable quality and performance) that a few "branded" vendors add.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/20/08

    @BeautifulAgony:
    Firstly, there's this thing called "getting the stench of gas on your gloves". I keep my gloves in my coat pockets. My wool coat's pockets. I don't want to have to be sending it out for dry-cleaning in the dead of winter because my pockets reek of gas. And it still requires standing over the pump handle and breathing in all the fumes (or are you going to suggest I keep a VOC filter in my pocket?).


    And it's not the fact that the gas that's unbranded that matters. It's the fact that the gas station (which had very recently changed ownership) pissed off the distributor (in this case, BP) enough that they didn't want their name associated with whatever shady business practices were going on at that station. One of the specific things that I know BP will debrand a station for is tweaking the fuel pumps so they don't deliver a full gallon of gas for each one that they charge for, or so that it rings up a gallon or two before the pump actually engages. _THAT'S_ why I will never again go to that station. They have since gotten either Citgo or Firebird branding (for a while they had signs for both brands stuffed in the big light-up sign, and I can't remember which one they eventually switched the whole station over to).

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    12/19/08

    In reply to Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump
    For those who are uninformed (and/or perhaps too lazy to find out for themselves), some states prohibit latches (or the use of gas caps) because it can interfere with the auto shutoff in some instances. And, although unlikely, the lack of a latch or inserted object can prevent the free flow of gasoline in the event that the auto shutoff failed.


    If you are too weak to pump gas yourself I would suggest going to a full service station.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/19/08

    In reply to Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump
    While they're at it, why not offer some kind of text-to-speech converter so drivers who are blind won't have any problems selecting the right kind of fuel.
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