The Kitchen

This method is by far the easiest of the two methods I descnbe, but because it uses bromine liquid as a precursor to the dibromodioxane crystals a fume cupboard (or a fucking good method of fume extraction) is absolutely essential. Surgically removing ones gonads with a blunt knife would be a much less painful way of harming yourself than messing with this stuff in the kitchen. 

Because both ferrite and martensite are magnetic, kitchen knives can be hung up on a strip magnet screwed to the kitchen wall. 

Do you have two cars Then you have about 12 pumps with seals. And in your house, how many. sealed pumps do you have In the kitchen, mechanical seals are on the pump in the dishwasher, the blender, the refrigerator compressor, and the garbage disposal under the sink. Do you have a clothes washer There are two seals on the clothes washer. 

John Bardeen was a truly remarkable scientist, and also a very private, taciturn man. Pippard (1995) in his obituary of Bardeen, recounts how John returned home from the Bell Labs and walked into the kitchen to say We discovered something today to (his wife) Jane s regret, all she could find in reply to what proved a momentous statement was That s interesting, but I have to get dinner on the table . ... 

It s best to boil off the water outdoors. If you do this in the kitchen, you may not be able to open the doors and windows for a couple of weeks. Wood tends to swell when it absorbs a few hundred liters of water. 

The ultimate requirement of any product is that it performs the function for which it is designed. With many materials the design life of the product is usually not as important as it is with plastics because of the behaviors such as creep of plastics (Chapter 2). In all cases the useful life is an important consideration whether the item is a pan for the kitchen or a bridge to handle traffic in a city. 

Mr. Boughalem, whose hair brushes his collar, understands how to be casual without forfeiting the formalities that make a drink a cocktail and not a glass of punch. The Snack Bar s vodka, with a light twist of the taste of lemon (the restaurant infuses its own in a big picnic jar at the bar), strikes tart to grapefruit s sweeter acidity. Creme de framboise, a raspberry liqueur, is soured slightly by a mash of fresh raspberries. This is science, not kids in the kitchen. 

Looks like an alien, said the bartender who served it, wiggling his fingers like antennae on either side of Iris lanky hair. Are you a fan of Wylie s Mr. Dufresne, mutton-chopped and pony-tailed, was visible in the kitchen at the back, corralled like a quarterback by cooks, directing his food into the dining room. 

The house drink, the Belladonna, which was named for Ms. Arpaia, was unavailable because the kitchen had not sent out the ginger-orange puree required. And the Blue Moon, based on a fresh blueberry puree, which is another of the chef s touches meant to distinguish the cocktails, was being served with a commercial substitute and garnished with a raspberry. 

Alcohol sulfates are excellent foaming surfactants. According to the Kitchener and Cooper classification [148], alcohol sulfates form metastable foams. However, quantitative values cannot easily be compared because foam largely depends not only on the instrument used to produce and evaluate foam but also on the concentration of surfactant, impurities, temperature, and many other factors. In addition, a complete characterization of the foam capacity should take into account the initial amount of foam, its stability, and its texture. 

The domestic microwave oven is one of the magnificent inventions used in the kitchen that contributes to simplify ing the lives of many people, as the time for cooking an acceptable meal can be reduced to the time it takes to defrost and heat vacuum-packed food, altogether consuming less than half an hour. 

Special thanks are due to the staff of the Institut d Etudes Scientifiques de Cargfese for the warm hospitality and for the continuous and patient assistance, in particular Mme B. Cassegrain,... and not forgetting the kitchen staff ... 

Come into the kitchen while I deal with the food, says Izzy. The kitchen s narrow and dark, as they always are in these mansion flats that were built for a world with servants, and the view is of drainpipes and blind bathroom windows. Well, he is seventy-eight, so I suppose it s only to be expected. But you ll notice a big difference. ... 

Without another word she bent her legs up and I squeezed past, put my bike in the shed, and went in to wash my hands at the kitchen sink. Aunt Elaine was cooking. I scrubbed and scrubbed at my right hand, until the smell of Mark s father was gone and all there was left was carbolic. 

Supper s in the kitchen, I said, leading the way downstairs, though it wasn t as if he didn t know his way around the house. He d mended enough bits of it, one way and another. When we got there, he saw the table laid and said, I thought the family d be in the dining room. ... 

In the dimness of the kitchen passage Mark is outlined against the daylight beyond. The air is thick between us, and walking toward him is like pushing through water. 

I lay awake for what felt like hours. In the end I gave up, put on my dressing gown, and went downstairs to make some cocoa. The range had got going well enough to warm the kitchen, but I used the electric kettle so as not to lift the lid. 

From a flask he poured mercury—slippery, bright, and dark-then from another vinegar, with a whiff of the kitchen, and finally... 

Yes, just through the kitchen and out the back door. It s on the right. ... 

The kitchen has an ancient bottled-gas stove, a Formica table with an oil lamp on it and a scatter of jewelry tools and materials, a tiled fireplace laid ready with raw-smelling coal, and a beautiful inlaid Queen Anne wall clock tocking away in the corner, showing the phases of the moon and the movement of the sun through the zodiac. As I head out of the back door and find the privy, a black shadow of a cat with blue eyes slips past my legs and away like warm smoke. 

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