My old history teacher used to say footnotes were the first hyperlinks. I'd spend an hour chasing one reference to another book. That's how you end up with a stack on your floor you never planned to read.

Better rise" is all I need to hear. Guess my lazy mixer habit is why my brioche always looks a little sad.

Yeah but that's the whole point, isn't it? If you can't repeat the results, then it was just luck. A good week doesn't mean much if the next ten are bad. Real skill shows up over and over, not just in a single lucky break. So if it was just luck that week, then the method itself is probably broken. How do you know your success wasn't just a fluke?

Scary and expensive mess? I mean, come on. If he's been doing it for 15 years on big rigs without a single issue, maybe the risk is way overblown. People work on high pressure air lines all the time with quick connects. It's not like he's welding on a fuel tank. Sometimes forum talk makes everything sound like a death trap.

Nah, I'd probably just gas myself out.