Not sure where my response to grawings post above disappeared to but briefly I said that life in the US would be infinitely better without Chinese imports that in the past have killed pets with poison in pet food, date rape drug type chemical on children's beads, tires that fail basic safety tests, toothpaste with false labels that contains anti-freeze chemical and the list goes on. Not to mention jobs lost to slave wages. I did get a snail mail response from Rubbermaid because I gave the wrong e-mail address but they admitted they were aware of this problem and had hoped the faulty product had been caught prior to entering marketplace. Obviously that did not happen. So how do we know the product on the shelves now is "good" product? I found a package of the real thing under the sink with one remaining good product. It was made in Canada and Rubbermaid has since shifted manufacture to China. I have now found a comparitive product also made in Canada and it is almost as good as the original Rubbermaid product. I realize that this is a long winded posting about a seemingly small complaint but herein lies a greater problem that is increasingly affecting each and every one of us, namely that American and Canadian jobs and livelihood are being lost to offshore companies.

Angel cakes don't use any yolks. SPONGE CAKE 6 eggs 1 TBL lemon juice 1 tsp grated lemon rind (no white part, only the yellow) 1 cup sifted cake flour Pinch of salt 1 cup sugar Preheat oven to 325°. Lightly grease & flour the bottom, not the sides of a 10" tube pan. Break the eggs into the large bowl of a mixer, add the lemon juice & grated rind & beat the mixture at highest speed until soft peaks form, 12-16 minutes. while the eggs are being beaten, sift together the flour & salt onto a piece of waxed paper. Continue beating the eggs at highest speed (after soft peaks form) & pour the sugar in a fine stream over them, taking 2 1/2 to 3 minutes to add all the sugar. Change to lowest speed & sift the flour & salt over the surface of the mixture as the bowl turns, taking 2 1/2 to 3 minutes to add all the flour. Scrape the sides of the bowl & beat at lowest speed 1/2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan & bake 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Invert the cake pan & set it on a rack to cool. Prop it up if necessary so that the air can circulate between the cake & countertop. Let the cake cool at room temperature before removing it from the pan.~~from Craig Claiborne

I love Barbie Boops things but where is Barbie Boop??

I mainly use an OXO brush. It has a little holder/drainer that it sits in. My scrubbing pad and Brillo/SOS pads sit in a flower pot under the sink with the draining dish underneath. I occasionally put the OXO brush heads and scrubber through the DW. I should do it more often but about the only time I hand wash is if I need to wash something while my DW is running. I do try to remember to pop it in there if I'm turning my DW on at night after all kitchen work is done for the day. Maybe I'm missing something about the bacteria issue. Don't you all rinse your dishes in hot water when you're done hand washing them? I know they say to keep your hot water tank at 120 for energy savings and due to potential burns but we keep ours at 140 as that is hot enough to kill bacteria. When I hand wash dishes, I rinse them with all hot water so the water is at 140, or pretty darn close, and will kill any bacteria left on the dishes by the scrubber or brush. I also use the sprayer to give the brush and scrubber and good, hard rinse. If you google around, there is evidence that certain diseases, like Legionaire's, thrive in hot water tanks set around 120. But a 140 tank of water is hot enough to kill them. We rarely get sick around here. I've actually been pleasantly surprised that we haven't gotten sick more often lately since we had a 5 year old move in with us last summer and she started K-grade in the fall. People warned us that we would get sick from all the germs the kid would bring home from school but it hasn't happened. She has had plenty of colds but the rest of us haven't caught them. I wash my hands in the water as hot as I can stand it. Just short of scalding temp. So maybe that is helping with spread of sickness, too? I dunno. Food for thought, I guess.