I love my dacor, but it's a PITA to clean, and I wish I would have gone with a full 6 burner blue star comercialish cook top.

I remember why when I just checked their web site.... my cook top is in the island, and the good ones all have a backsplash.

They make Island trim for the Blue star.

Next house......

=P

which Dacor and what about it is hard to clean? *I still have time to change my order to the Wolf...*

http://www.dacor.com/Our-Products/Cooktops/Preference-Renaissance-Gas-Cooktops.aspx

KNobs don't pull off simply, hard to clean after cooking bacon etc. I had 2 or 3 over spills back to back cooking for halloween. The damn stainless is "bead blasted" to make it easir to clean. It helpes because you don't have to follow "grain". It seams to stick badly though. I got fed up scrubbing after getting it 90% there. Took 2 times scrubbing, and around the knobs is a PITA. When it's clean though not only is it gorgeous the knobs light up. Sounds stupid but a nice feature for simmer when you can't see the flame.

18,000 BTU burner isn't a slouch either.

In retrospect, I would get something more comercial oriented though, and less "pretty", or go with some bad ass induction top. I'm scared of the glass, and if I ever used non magnetic pans.

Thanks Matt. My pans are copper and worth more than the rangetop so induction isn't an option. I have similar knob issues with my current Thermador, but wanted to see if there was anything else. Did a bunch of reading on the sealed vs open burners and it seems that for neat freaks the sealed are better as they can be wiped down easily after each use while the open are better if they are all cast so that you basically don't do shit unless you have a major spill over. Cast looks greasy when seasoned and so should my rangetop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xESDW6ohPBw

I'm sure Sean can translate this for us

Site tweaks

The hammer reminded me of this local story.

http://winonadailynews.com/news/local/article_7f6f071c-de34-11de-b787-001cc4c03286.html

Hammer Top

mmmmm, fresh brownies; nice and thick

mmmmmm...i just ate riblets/boneless wings....yessssss sirrrr

For Shizzon

I gotta stop taking these dumb bets with my room mates. I just did no shave November, and now I get to rock a molestache for a week. I don't see an girls in my coming week.

Did you cut your hair yet?

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i see that econ project is goin well...

Turn on the History channel, some great stuff about Pulsars.

Falko just came on over the music in the basement here.

ROCK ME AMADEUS!

Perhaps a change in station is appropriate

No way, I love that song!

Wow been a week since I've been in here.

A lady friend and I were in sharing mode yesterday and she told me she had been raped three years ago. God dammit that's 3 girls I know of now, 5 if you count the girl that lived a couple doors down from me last year that got raped while we lived there and one that did in my dorm freshman year, though I never met either. Fucking rapists.

You are obviously a listener. Get ready for every woman you meet to tell you something that you aren't really sure you wanted to know.

Ha, that I am. When you grow up with a stutter, you listen instead of talk.

I gotta stop taking these dumb bets with my room mates. I just did no shave November, and now I get to rock a molestache for a week. I don't see an girls in my coming week.

That must be popular, my friend was just in a no shave thing last month at work. He got 2nd place I guess.

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What? Speak english man!

Shit I'm late to bed AGAIN.

Why I Parted Ways With The Right

Opinion | Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:49:45 pm PST

1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)

2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)

3. Support for throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)

4. Support for anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.)

5. Support for homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.)

6. Support for anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.)

7. Support for conspiracy theories and hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.)

8. A right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.)

9. Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.)

10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)

And much, much more. The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.

I won’t be going over the cliff with them.