My next post will be about the project that inspired this post. Today, I am here to talk about kitchen tools, not foodstuffs. I was brought up with lots of hands-on experience with lots of tasks. Along the way, I was taught two guiding principles: use the right tool for the job, and do things simply. On their face, these rules might seem contradictory. In fact, they are complementary. Not only is making a task overly complicated a waste of effort, it often leads to worse results. But using the wrong tool leads to inefficiency as well. The goal is to find the balance between simplicity and appropriateness. In the shop, sometimes we used the Bridgeport mill, and occasionally we used our fists. (Trust me, the fist is a valuable diagnostic tool. I earned my first money in electronics by using my fist to diagnose an intermittent connection.) In the kitchen, sometimes we used the Kitchenaid mixer and sometimes we used our hands. The photo at the top of this post illustrates th...
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