u/HeinousHollandaise

I’m a teacher who will be doing traveling knife skills courses for high schools in my area. This means I will be bringing 10-15 knives and cutting boards from school to school from my own suv. I have my own classroom of all my regular classes kitchen gear already, and want to avoid schlepping those in and out of their cages every time, so my school will be purchasing new knives and cutting boards specifically for these traveling classes. And because this is meant to be a proper/professional class, I don’t want to use thin plastic or bamboo cutting boards. I want the students to get the full experience. So I’m planning on using the 1/2 inch thick poly boards.

What do you think would be a good way to store and/or transport these cutting boards so they have airflow around them and are more or less protected from the outside? The only thing I can imagine is something that looks like a hotbox with rungs for the boards. Is there a better solution that doesn’t just stack them in a bus tub?

I teach community college culinary classes, which mandates a food handlers card that we offer via Servsafe. Lately it’s been getting really hard to want to contribute to the bullshit machine that is the corrupt lobby of the NRA and all its cronies. Seeing how there’s now another food borne illness outbreak at the manufacturing level, it’s becoming impossible to care about the Servsafe branded cert that so many states force us to have, considering greedy business practices have allowed modern day slavery to persist while denying farmworkers access to sufficient bathrooms. And these companies are the ones in bed with the NRA who then force us to pay them to prove to the world we’re safe. It feels a lot like “just use a paper straw” while they’re on their jets 3 times a week.

I care about food safety very much, and do not want this to sound like I wish we didn’t have our own version of oversight. I teach my students my own, very thorough food safety curriculum (along side their Servsafe training) that’s based on real experience and not just memorizable lists that get forgotten once the test is over. It just sucks to teach all these protocols only to have them virtually undone at any moment because some company needed to extract more money out of the working class. I just wish the concept of privatizing our safety was not even an option. Fucking sucks. End of rant.

Hi Everyone,

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but I recently had an emergency scare with one of my dogs and it’s become abundantly clear after talking to friends, just how badly my small community needs an emergency vet.

I live in Taos, New Mexico. Two hours from Santa Fe, where the nearest emergency services are. Taos county is a rural, agricultural, and popular tourist destination community that has approximately 30-40k in population. With tons of livestock animals needing help as well. And we have no weekend or emergency vet services at all.

Taos is a heaven of outdoor recreation, with amazing skiing, hiking, biking and fishing. There are so many animals here that often have to drive hundreds of miles for emergency services.

Again, sorry if this is the wrong place for this. Our current vet practices are doing amazing work given the circumstances, but it’s hard for them to keep up with the sheer volume. So if you’ve been considering opening up your own practice in a beautiful, mountain community, we would be so grateful and wholly appreciate your services.

Thanks.

Hi everyone. I’m planning on tweaking an IKEA perjohan bench to be my new loom bench and just wanted to find some confirmation on the proper seat angle I should cut into it. I’m planning on shaving a small amount of wood off the side pieces so that the seat sits with a slight downward tilt, but just wanted to confirm the proper angle before I make any cuts. Has anyone made their own tilting bench before? Or edited a preexisting one? Any advice? Thanks.

Hi all,
I grew up in the valley and used to work at some popular fine-ish dining restaurants 15 years ago and used to love going around the city trying the best the different communities had to offer.

I no longer live in LA and am very out of touch with the current food scene, so I have no idea if the places I used to go are even still good anymore. I live rurally now, and get virtually no fun or exciting restaurant options anymore. My partner (a very excited eater who’s never been to LA) and I will be visiting my parents together next week and I want to take him to some of the best places we don’t have any access to now. Ideally places that are casual-ish (just no suit jacket required), and have a great quality and value for money. Think strip mall mom-and-pops with the best food you’ve ever had.

The types of places I really want to take him to are:
Vietnamese, Chinese (ideally with dim sum, but no big deal if not), Ethiopian, Thai, proper tacos/Mexican food, AYCE KBBQ, and maybe one new/nice-ish place with food that’s fun and exciting.

We will be staying in the valley, but definitely willing to travel for places that are worth it. I want to show him as much of the city as possible.

Any recommendations in any of these categories are super appreciated. Thanks!

Edited to add AYCE KBBQ as a category