Use my toaster oven because it is 1500 watts and the oven is 3500 watts.
They both take about the same time too,

Toaster Ovens are the number one cause of home fires.

With the looming danger of fire, it's like cooking on the grill.

So, my wife is traveling for work and she is having dinner with the exec team and staff. They are going on about how fabulous and authentic this Mexican food place is with its chipotle lime rice and mango carne asada. Needless to say she was not impressed with how "authentic" it was considering she grew up 15 miles from Mexicali and had lots of real stuff to choose from.

Holy crap that hot pocket was hot. Just burned my lip with the lava filling that flowed out.

Have heard about Hot Pockets causing a burning flow from one end to the other...Hot Pockets.


Went to a really real authentic Mexican place, not Tex Mex...The burrito was so unspicey it tasted like my Mom's Beef Stroganoff that she makes with mushroom soup. Not that it wasn't good. It just wasn't spicey.

The word "hot" implies that one should attempt to video the person while they eat it.

Many years ago the place I worked at was all single men, except the owner. The boss hired a young college freshman co-ed that was very cute. She was raised in Clovis, New Mexico. Her dad was a hard core Nazarene so she was sent off to Bethany Nazarene college for an education. Anyway on her fist day, we guys all wanted to go eat lunch at old family owned Mexican place on Route 66 which was just a few blocks away. It had some pretty good and HOT salsa and great cheap food. I invited the new girl to come along, some of the guys were convinced she would not be able to handle it. She jumped at the invite and was happy to go. She loved the spicy food, spoke Spanish to the waiter, and got the "house special" salsa that was even hotter. It burned down several of the guys.

It did not take us long to forget she was the new young innocent girl and we got to talking like guys. Later she thanked me in private saying she had never been to lunch with guys like that before. She had never in her life danced, been to a movie, or done many of the things the good girls with the Nazarene parents did.

She got her degree in computer science and even modified some of the software to make it fit our needs at the photolab. We had a IBM System 36 with just two 8 inch floppies and a dot matrix printer. We only had the accounting software on it.

A lot of the real stuff is not spicy hot, they expect you to put sauce on it.

When I first moved out to CA I was at a get together and there were lots of finger foods around and I could hear them snickering at the "gringo" reaching into the pickled peppers expecting a show. After a couple minutes of watching me eat them like candy they decided not all mid-westerners eat bland food.

I once made a batch of Jambalaya for some of that same group and they thought it was really hot. Those of us from WI and PA thought it was just on the hot side. Silly people.

When I was growing up I had a cast iron mouth, and gut. Mom made some HOT chili. In fast she won the Oklahoma State Fair blue ribbon for her chili. It was just floating in peppers. Stirring it made ya sweat. No beans, those are for wimps. As I got older and into my 30s my esophagus and guts turned into wimps. I loved to eat that chili but I had to have a big bottle of Maalox to wash it down. Her chili did not burn your mouth, but from the tonsils all the way to the um end, it burned. Johnny Cash and that burning ring of fire came to mind every-time.

Not into hot. I like food with flavor.

One of the times mom brought a batch of chili to my office. All the employees had lots and loved it. The funny part was the next day and the stories of overnight reactions to a gut bomb. The boss said for the first and only time in his life he stood straight up in bed, and started RUNNING and he said it was like a cartoon where the sheets just moved backwards and he was not going forward until he got some traction and he raced to the bathroom clenched up as tight as possible.

I went through that for a few years...and then it just went away. Like/eat it very hot again ever since.

Me too, but some things like pickled peppers are just loaded with flavor and happen to be hot.

I don't like foods that are hot just to be hot and I don't like the stupid sauces that try to see how high on the Scoville scale they can get just to prove they can, but I do like the flavor of a lot of spices and peppers that are out there. Especially Thai or Cajun.

Sour stuff too. I love lemons, lemon juice, Tear Jerkers and all that stuff.

Miracle Berry Tablets and lemon juice is the best lemonade you will ever have by the way. No added sugar.

I have never understood the sour thing. I just don't care for excessive sour. An orange with a little tang is OK, but I prefer a sweet orange. I order iced tea at lunch and often it has some nasty sour lemon wedge on the rim. I flip it off right away and rotate the glass to avoid the lemon taste. Maybe someday I will get smart enough to tell them no lemon. I do tell them I am plenty sweet, and or sweet enough, just plain iced TEA is what I want.

Glen looks like they fixed the random pictures thread finally.

Yep, and it looks like they rolled the new thread into it. Cool.

I don't like lemon or sugar or any other flavor in my iced tea. I will, however, eat the lemon if they happen to stick one on after I tell them plain, no lemon. Hot tea at a Chinese restaurant I have sweet though. Odd, I know.

I do hate bitter flavors and Starbucks coffee. The coffee, not the 3.5b calorie crap they use to cover up the taste of their crappy coffee. That stuff is tolerable if someone buys it, but it is a lot of money for what you get. I would rather get something I really like.

Yea, Charbucks coffee sucks. I have never tried coffee except black. I don't care to spend time and waste the time of covering up the tastes of bad coffee with fo-fo flavors. When we were in Portland that Charbucks crap was everywhere. I had to drive away from the hotel and go to Burger King to get some decent coffee.

I live in the land of Starbucks and only get their black iced tea, unsweetened of course.

I usually do black, but for dessert at lunch I do cinnamon hazelnut in my coffee.