I just now finished a jar of jalapeno that I put up in 100% vinegar + spices. I grew them in 1988. 21 years old pickled peppers. Tasted like fresh. I did have lots of dill in the jar. at least one and maybe 2 big flowers of dill with stems in there. only very light on salt. These jalapeno were sliced in half length wise top to bottom. Red ripe peppers should not be pickled unless you intend to eat the red ones moderately soon. They simply go mushy soft too fast. But pickling takes more jars and I have since gone over to making hot sauce. Basically the same thing. I use peppers and vinegar and NO Water added. always 100% low cost white vinegar. With hot sauce I grind up the peppers in the food processor to reduce the volume and then put into the jar with vinegar. with pickled I put whole peppers in vinegar. But I can get a lot more pepper into the jar if they are ground up first. I also no longer add spices to my hot sauce. If I want flavor I put it on the food as I cook it and then add hot sauce. It all works out easier for me with no risk or less risk of botulism. However, if I ever make pickles again I will add dill as I like that flavor on pickled peppers and cucs. I like garlic but I dont use it because there can be some problems with garlic. So if I want garlic today I add it to the food and then add hot sauce later. I like hot sauce because I can control the amount I add to my food. Dry hot peppers lose a lot of flavor especially c chinese types like habs. If you want to keep the flavor of chinese you should consider frozen or pickled or hot sauce which is my solution.

First off, be careful with the terms. Tankless and point of use are not necessarily synonymous. You can have central tankless heaters and point of use heaters that have tanks. About the only difference installation wise for a tankless unit is it may take a larger gas/electric line to feed it. Yes a tankless heater would be an energy win on an infrequently used facility. You'll have to shop around to see what the prices end up being. $500 is exhorbitant for the installation of an replacement unit. Get estimates from reputable people if you're not doing it yourself.

There is a reason why French polishers charge a fortune, and this is it. A very difficult and time consuming process to master. Cabinet finishing and polishing apprentices require years to get this right in the U.K. There are many different colors of shellac. Knowing which one to use and achieving the deep mirror like finish requires the building up of many many PERFECTLY applied coats. Personally, I think this is not one for DIY, especially with a valuable antique as your guinea pig. Just my opinion.

I liked it as an entertaining read--kept my interest while I was home sick and had time to read stuff that wasn't for work. I thought it was interesting that the narrator was a woman with an alcohol problem. In all the jillions of books that I've read, I don't think a drunken woman has been a main character in any of them. I probably won't see the movie in theaters because I usually don't like the movie versions of books I've read. But if DDs want to go, I would go along with them, or I would watch it on Netflix just to see how they made it work. I do find casting decisions in general to be so interesting. I really like the casting on Mozart in the Jungle, for example, and I feel it contributes a lot to the show's joie de vivre.