the turkey pot and pee

In the spirit of it being turkey-fryer-safety-warning week (officially or not, we don't care), we decided to read the directions for the turkey fryer in which we have been boiling fabrics pretty much daily for several weeks, thus learning that it is important to clean the spiderwebs out of the fryer before use.

Unless deep-fried turkey is even better than I've heard, and keeping in mind that I'm not advocating developing a sensitivity that requires boiled sheets, it seems to me that people who let their pots sit around and collect cobwebs all year are really not getting their money's worth out of them.

In other money news, it appears that no-flush urinals do save water, but they don't actually save money, as the following quote reveals:

Craig Hansen, who's overseen Fort Huachuca's no-flush urinals since 1996, found them beyond the capacity of his housekeeping staff.

"People accustomed to coming in, wiping things down, scrubbing the floor and going away, show a lot of resistance to having to do something new that takes some thought," he said.

So Hansen turned instead to the fort's higher-skilled - and much higher-paid - operations and maintenance teams to monitor and change urinal cartridges.

So that's a thing to think about, I guess, if you had any interest in no-flush urinals.