You ever try that tape yourself? I had a buddy who worked on a dredge boat years back and he swore by that same grease and tape trick. He told me one time they had a flange on a cooling line that was pitting so bad you could see daylight through it. They packed it with bearing grease, wrapped it with that self-fusing tape, and he said that fix actually held for a good six months until they could haul out. Matthewgonzalez, your buddy's story is spot on, that stuff is like duct tape for the ocean. Always amazed me what guys will come up with when the boss says "just get it running til Friday.

Turned it on last week after not watching for years and forgot how much the narration drives the whole thing. Jim Dale's voice is half the magic honestly. My roommate walked in during the pie-making montage and asked if it was some new Wes Anderson show. Told her no, just a relic from when networks let shows breathe instead of forcing them to be 10 episodes of plot crammed into 8. That green-screen garden still looks fake but in a charming way.

My buddy who worked at an outfitter in the whites always told me to stuff everything loose too. I still folded my footprint the same way for years and it started getting these weird permanent creases that actually let water pool in the same spot every time it rained heavy. Finally tossed it and got a new one and now I just cram that thing in the bottom of the bag crumpled up. Dave sounds like he knows his stuff honestly.

Wait, didn't you worry that sous vide wouldn't get that same deep flavor from browning? I was totally in that camp for years. I thought you had to have that pot on the stove to get the good stuff. Then a friend pushed me to try the water bath method and honestly I was wrong. The fat comes out so clean and neutral, perfect for baking or frying. I still do stovetop if I want a nuttier taste for something specific, but 90 percent of the time I'm going sous vide now. It's just way less stressful and I never have to scrape burnt bits off the bottom of a pot anymore.

Wait you actually had a dead houseplant COLLECTION @lucassmith?