I saw it, have it on tape actually. The stepped ledge burners were pretty cool but would expect to see flame marks on the stainless a la the recent Bluestar thread (scorch marks on the backsplash). It's a closed burner system with the usual cast iron cap topping the burner, so I wouldn't expect it to be quite as effective for wok or simmer cooking as the star-shaped burners of you-know-who. The oven is really huge, though. The quickie clip on the Kitchen show showed two 24-lb turkeys side by side. If you do a lot of baking or roasting in quantity on a regular basis, it would definitely be worthwhile since they said it holds an 18x30" baking sheet (this is a 36" range with 6 burners).

snookums, Builders get blamed for taking too long to build pools! Now he's being blamed for building it too fast! This feat is not that hard to believe. There doesn't have to be anything wrong with the pool. Concrete never quits curing! Remember, the size is like a big swim spa. Probably about 13'X20' and 3'to5' in depth. Good coordination and enough labor makes it reality. This is easier to believe than the building of Hoover Dam in 4 years considering the equipment available at the time. That concrete is still curing. How long should it take to replace the bridge that recently fell across the Mississippi? If the people in charge wanted to get this done in 6 months they could find companies that would accept the challenge. I guess my point is that people (like me) that work in the industry don't really see a problem with this. It's not technically hard to understand. Usually these projects are done for charity or as some type of fund raiser. My hat is off to these guys! Congrats!

It's really odd that the "uncivil" politicians of both parties are in the minority, but they get all the press. Has always been so, no matter the form the "press" takes be it yellow journalism, pamphleteering, etc. However, the way coarseness is creeping into the general way people relate to each other . . . of course we rebelled against strict rules of etiquette and everyone nowdays wants to be king of their own little universe, and that is encouraged because it makes us very insecure and hence want to buy things to fill the voids . . . that's not new either but I am working to design my life so that I am minimally exposed to that way of being/thinking. I'm not trying to crate a "bubble" of thought, I love differing points of view and contrasting ideas, it's how I make my living. But I would like a bubble of politeness, at least when it is my discretionary time. It's odd because I work with the public and I learned early on to temper my sense of humor and my sarcasm and my way of speaking, so as to not accidentally offend people. I learned that not everyone appreciates that type of humor. It's not like I squashed it all together, but I learned not to use it when I was working in a public capacity. Now it seems like people are just, "Screw you if you don't like it" and then "Bring it!" This of course will get many folk to just disengage in disgust, which is probably part of an actual political strategy. Edited to add that it is really amazing how far we have gone when you read something like Jane Austen and marvel at the intricate social mores they all followed. Of course she was skewering some of them in her own way too, when we look back we don't necessarily see the whole picture since some of the bad mannered stuff is lost to the mists of time.

I think this is the one being referred to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTe_mJuR_0