I am European, and cast iron is not used much here (outside of dutch ovens obviously), and neither is carbon steel. To be completely honest, on this side of the altantic we are all a little puzzled as to why y’all like cast iron so much.

I have one non-stick pan for omelettes and fish, a seldom used dutch oven for stews, and I can do everything else with straight stainless steel so it all goes in the wash (except the valve of my pressure cooker).

Even my forged Wüsthof knife goes in.

I like my wood chopping board, but rarely use it because of the hassle of cleaning it. Machine-washed plastic boards don’t stink, so that’s what I use most days.

You can get smaller dishwashers. They make some very compact ones.

And it’s not a hard and fast rule but… If it’s not machine washable, it usually remains on the shelf.

Having read my share of early Soviet era sci-fi, I think you’re wrong.

For movies there are basically no real options to buy DRM free video. There are a few very minor sources like the VOD store of Vimeo, but catalog is limited.

The only functional option for most content is to buy a drive compatible with Libredrive, get a license for makemkv, and just rip blu-ray discs, but that comes with a high startup cost and is more involved.

Amazon used to be straight mp3 downloads for purchased tracks, but I’m not sure if that’s standard anymore.

Still there, though I’ll try just about anything else before going to Amazon, because Amazon bad.

But why would you eat Mexican food in Spain, unless you live there. Your brain went “damn, all those people speaking Spanish are making crave tacos”?

“Even simultaneously” says dr. Lechter.

Aye aye.

Patrick Stewart and Jason Statham, among my favorites, show you can look gorgeous with a nice trimmed dome.