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What seemed weird when I visited your country
Method of Madness:
Apparently a "block" of butter is an entire box, so each stick is a quarter block.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: LTK on 30 Dec 2013, 18:36 ---Question: Do you refrigerate your butter?
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Always. Unless you are preparing it for baking, in which case you let it rest at room temperature for a while to soften. Reclining chair and fuzzy slippers optional. :-P
Method of Madness:
Yeah, I always do too.
Skewbrow:
Shower area perimeter: Ours is surrounded by walls from two sides, and a glass pane from the third. The open side does not need anything to stop splashes, because the bathroom floor is tiled, and slightly sloping towards a drain 2-3 feet in the "open" direction. If you don't sweep the residual splashes after a shower, the next person using the sink area may get wet socks. The bathroom is relatively large: room for a washing machine at the opposite corner, and (of course) a separate sauna section. Nothing fancy though - we're middle class. Hotels/motels? It varies a lot, the available space being the biggest constraint.
Butter: half kilo chunks is the norm over here. I found the US style of individually wrapped sticks quite convenient to use when baking. They soften a bit faster (surface area to volume ratio), and my style of baking meant that I would use an entire stick at a time.
pwhodges:
I remember staying in a company lodgings in Norway where my shower (high in the house, with a sloping ceiling) was in a waterproof room - shower, toilet, sink, all together with no dividers, and a drain in the middle of the floor. It was curiously liberating.
At home now we have a walk-in shower with no door or curtain, just a dogleg arrangement of panels to keep the spray in.
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