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I used to make cowboy coffee when I backpacked a lot, but right at the tail end of it being a common pursuit, I found a plastic, single cup French press at Target in one of their end-aisle clearance bins. It worked great. If it were today, I wouldn't carry the extra weight and just go back to...

I've had one of those inexpensive stove-top mocha pots for years now, and I've watched for a stainless steel model to upgrade. I finally got one (Kontessa). Same process and everything. The main difference is everything is made sturdier, and you don't feel like you're using a toy. Feel...

I need to stop looking up watches. I see one, look it up, and then am faced with "a used car or a watch?" Not really, but those are the prices I seem to run into with the watches I think are cool (that I'd likely never wear). The aforementioned Tudor Submariner. An IWC field watch. Marathon...

Cut the cake. Then, I wash the airhole with Dawn and a tube brush and the inside of the bowl with a green Scotch scrub pad and Dawn and thoroughly rinse with warm running water. You can safely take it down to bare wood like this, if you so desire. Then I plug the airway with a solid-core Q-tip...

No, sir. Thanks for this post and the others. I'm not sure why I've never given leather a big consideration. I wash my hands a lot and am constantly cleaning things. Kind of always been that way too. The dogs used to be the source of constant wet joy, with nature walks and camping or...

Maybe you guys can talk about your favorite bands in this thread? Like I said, I didn't like the weight and feeling of anything on my wrist, but I also didn't like how bands tugged on the hair on my wrist. I tried a few too. Speidel (an obvious nightmare for hairy arms), oyster style, fishbone...

I can't stand having something on my wrist (and also found out I hate having heavy stuff in my pocket, so no pocket watches either), but I think watches are very cool. A long time ago, I worked for the manager of one of the top 10% in sales Rolex shops in the USA. I handled a lot of watches...a...

That's rough. Best to you.

I think Renaissance wax is a possibility. Now that Halcyon is no more (I think that is accurate), I should probably be paying more attention to this. I only have around an ounce remaining in my tiny jar. I'd recommend doing a little research before settling on Renaissance, but I swear it was...

I'd like to see one of these pipe sculpture collections. Really. I've long been curious about how they're displayed, if they're displayed, if they're fondled and appreciated and put back on their pipe stand, or what. There have always been the pipe guys who don't smoke the pipes, so I've...

I couldn't find the link for the 60 Minutes piece (might have seen it elsewhere), but here is an article on it: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/patient-stories/642-pain-injections-restore-taste-and-smell-for-patient-with-long-covid SGB is an injection of local anesthetic medication into the...

I'm privy to a largish group that goes out a couple times a month. One of the folks is on a highly restrictive diet. I'll call them Jack. Another is one of these folks who makes a large part of their identity about food. Fancies themselves a cook. They can eat enough food to make other...

Best of luck. There are procedures to help with your taste. 60 Minutes did a piece on an injection into a certain gland in the neck that brings back taste for a lot of people. Just in case you haven't heard of it. I can't remember the details, but it is a relatively simple surgery/thingy...

Yes, Dana makes Mystery Ranch and also, at least at one time, had a government contract supplying certain parts of the military. I assume elite units, because it is very rare to see them end up on the open market. I've kept a few photos from when they've ended up on ebay. It's all hush-hush...

Comparatively, the old military packs are brutal carries. They didn't care if a GI was struggling through a hump. The new ones, like the USMC ILBE, were based on a tried and true civilian design that was a great seller and a notoriously comfortable and quality pack. Of course, they added...

I definitely did, but I also, eventually, ended up with a backpack that could carry 50+LBs and still feel like I had the most comfortable couch on my back with very little body/back fatigue. I'd watch other people dying to take off their packs when we would stop for breaks, but I'd just take a...

Don't get me started on backpacking gear. I lived to backpack for a decade+ and really got into the gear, especially backpacks. I could start a rental service. They're simple things, but they're also not. The one good thing about them was that at $200-400, you weren't likely to buy a bunch...

I don't care what anyone says. There's real benefit coming into a hobby with limited means and less information. I've watched what you're describing in every hobby since post-internet. Music. Shaving. Whisky. Comic books. Pipes. Hunting. Flood themselves with information (and opinions)...

Nice! Would love to see them both. Those Petersons are cool, and I don't know anything about Lorenzo.

I thought we had a thread about podcast listening, but they're scattered about pipe makers and such. If you have one to recommend, please do so. About anything. NOT limited to pipes and tobacco. I'm a fan of Julia Ioffe. I don't always agree with her (I mostly do), but she always has a...