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  • If I wished to avoid adding water to the kettle, I would have to instead add the same water to the mash tun and let it slowly trickle through the bed of what is at this point spent grain, babysitting the kettle and its preboil gravity while hoping that at the end of the day, I do not incur fees for late pick-up at daycare.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • If I wished to avoid adding water to the kettle, I would have to instead add the same water to the mash tun and let it slowly trickle through the bed of what is at this point spent grain, babysitting the kettle and its preboil gravity while hoping that at the end of the day, I do not incur fees for late pick-up at daycare.

    Hey Barkeep! Have You Heard Of This High-Gravity Brewing Thing? 2009

  • When the time came to cook the beast of an impromptu feast, I took the precaution to preboil some basmati rice, and clean and trim some broccoli and pick from the garden no less and wash some parsley and Vietnamese mint.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • When the time came to cook the beast of an impromptu feast, I took the precaution to preboil some basmati rice, and clean and trim some broccoli and pick from the garden no less and wash some parsley and Vietnamese mint.

    a pile of im·promp·tu food 2006

  • There was no bechamel and you didn’t even have to preboil the pasta.

    martha’s macaroni-and-cheese | smitten kitchen 2008

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