{"id":269,"date":"2006-03-12T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T00:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=269"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T18:11:58","slug":"indispensible-kitchen-gadgets-the-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/indispensible-kitchen-gadgets-the-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Indispensible Kitchen Gadgets, the 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bacon press.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenmortensen.com\/wp-content\/bacon.jpg \" alt=\"bacon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. Straight, flat bacon: it&#8217;s not just for obsessive compulsives any more.<\/p>\n<p>2. Flat bacon is crispy bacon, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogpoll.com\/poll\/view_Results.php?poll_id=41522\">clear majority prefer crispy bacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Martha Stewart might drop by. Think how impressed she&#8217;d be to discover you tracing the cuts for a set of corner bookshelves using your homemade quill pen and a piece of bacon.<\/p>\n<p>4. Kevin Bacon might drop by, and since you&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldavidson.net\/2006\/01\/23\/i-have-slept-with-kevin-bacon\/\">probably slept with him<\/a>, you might as well feed him breakfast. And I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d appreciate straight bacon. He&#8217;d probably phone the tabloids himself.*<\/p>\n<p>5. You&#8217;re probably less likely to see Jesus&#8217; face in a flat piece of bacon than in a wavy piece of bacon.<\/p>\n<p>6. And while, in theory, we don&#8217;t object to seeing Jesus at breakfast, we&#8217;d prefer he appear in a pancake.<\/p>\n<p>7. Although we hope his face doesn&#8217;t resemble <a href=\"http:\/\/skeptico.blogs.com\/skeptico\/2006\/02\/aarrr_its_a_pir.html\">Captain Pugwash&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>8. We also hope his appearance wasn&#8217;t faked, because that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbreakfast.com\/article.asp?articleid=23\">upsets ebay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>9. You&#8217;re also less likely to see Satan&#8217;s face in a flat piece of bacon.<\/p>\n<p>10. Especially since <a href=\"http:\/\/foodmuseum.typepad.com\/food_museum_blog\/2005\/08\/satanically_ins.html\">Satan prefers peppers<\/a>. No surprise there, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bacon press. Reasons: 1. Straight, flat bacon: it&#8217;s not just for obsessive compulsives any more. 2. Flat bacon is crispy bacon, and a clear majority prefer crispy bacon. 3. Martha Stewart might drop by. Think how impressed she&#8217;d be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/indispensible-kitchen-gadgets-the-3rd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}