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I love the drama of service a whole head of roasted garlic. It’s a little slice of flavor that keeps impressing, but pulling out the cloves can be a little messy (even) with a pickle fork) and (unless you are using an air fryer) Roasting on this soft and spreadable setting takes at least 50 minutes.

Fortunately, you can cut that time in half by peeling the garlic before roasting it. You get a slightly different flavor profile, but it’s still sweet, deep, and spreadable – all the things you would expect from roasted garlic.

Peeling the cloves allows them to cook faster and more evenly, so that the inside dwellers see as much heat as the outside dwellers. You can also change the texture and color of your roasted cloves with the amount of oil you add. More oil gives them a confit-like texture. (In fact, if you completely submerge them in oil, you make garlic confit.)

These were about half submerged. Photo: Claire Lower

If you only use enough oil to coat the cloves, they will come out candied and chewy, with little crispy chunks around the edges. If you want more crispy pieces, just smash the garlic really hard. The frayed edges will tan pretty nicely.

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These were simply thrown with oil. Photo: Claire Lower

How to make lightly roasted cloves of garlic

Ingredients:

• As much garlic as you want
• olive oil
• salt

Peel your garlic how much you have. If you want to keep the cloves whole, cut a small piece from each end of each clove – the skin will slide off easily. If you want small, crispy, caramelized pieces, smash each clove with the flat side of your knife, removing the peels that way.

Place the peeled cloves in an ovenproof bowl and add the olive oil. The more oil you add, the softer and less browned they will be. Add two large pinches of salt for each clove of garlic and stir quickly to distribute it evenly. Fry the garlic in a 350-degree oven until the cloves are soft, fragrant and dark in color – about half an hour. Smash and spread on a variety of foods.

Remove any clove residue from the oil before storing it in the refrigerator (if you’ve used a lot of oil) and use extra oil that day. (Botulism thrives in an anaerobic environment like oil is, and I would hate it if you got botulism.)

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If you’ve stored gasoline (hopefully not in plastic bags or other random containers) the important thing to know is that it can get bad and after a while you won’t want to stick it in your car or lawnmower. But you shouldn’t throw it on the street either. Here’s what you need to know about safely disposing of old or expired gasoline.

How long does it take before the gasoline goes bad?

Gasoline is volatile, which means it is hardly a liquid. Its molecules all dream of escaping and floating freely in the air, and if the cap on the container is not tight enough, they will. Gasoline is also easily oxidized, meaning its molecules break apart when exposed to certain other chemicals, including oxygen. This is what makes it so flammable and so good in engines. If you oxidize fuel very quickly, it creates a fire – or a series of tiny explosions inside a car engine that move the pistons.

When gas slowly oxidizes – whether in a gas can in your garden shed – you get a series of molecules that are not exactly the same as regular gasoline. They may not propel your engine as well as they should and in some cases can clog the fuel lines.

For these reasons, you really can’t expect stored gasoline to last forever. Three to six months is about the best you can hope for when properly stored; If it’s in a loose can or has been exposed to heat, it may take even less time.

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What if you dump old gas somewhere?

You probably know intuitively that neither your city’s sewer system nor the local ecosystem will be very happy to gobble up the gasoline of an entire tank. Gas is corrosive, toxic, and flammable and just isn’t one of those places.

Draining gasoline is illegal almost everywhere – check your local laws – and the fines involved can be substantial. If you’re already trying to think of places to drain your gasoline without getting caught, you’re an asshole.

How to dispose of old gas safely

Your city or county should have a procedure for doing this, which you can look up on their website. You can also google hazardous waste disposal [your area]”To find more options.

Follow the directions, but typically here’s what you need to do:

1. Make sure the gasoline is in an approved container (again, this is not included Plastic bags or random buckets).
2. Call the landfill in advance to check opening times, rules, and other requirements. You might get rid of it in a moment old paint cans or car batteries at the same time.
3. Drop it off in the right place using the approved methods and enjoy the security that comes when you remove a flammable liquid from your hands without poisoning the environment.

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Some companies try to differentiate themselves from others by branding themselves as more than just one company. Instead, companies like this one supposedly have a higher purpose. The only thing is that these identities are usually backed up by loads of rhetorical bullshit.

Look no further than WeWork, for a corporate unicorn that gained worldwide recognition and only collapsed when its IPO collapsed, also because its S-1 paperwork was interspersed with “Yogababble”.

The truth is, there are tons of companies out there that adhere to the same set of rules that WeWork drove to its spectacular demise, and when you’re applying for a job you want to be wary of the meaningless corporate drivel that if only to avoid it working for a company that, amid pimped-up rhetoric, may mask broader inefficiencies.

What is yogababble?

Even if you haven’t come across the term, you are likely familiar with Yogababble, which is interchangeable with a host word that aptly defines hollow corporate dictionaries (see: jargon, catchphrases, etc.).

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However, Yogababble is indicative of a newer species typically used by tech-savvy companies that share ideas about bringing about widespread social change through everything they sell, sometimes conveyed through whims related to spirituality. The phrase was coined by NYU in 2019 Marketing Professor Scott Galloway, specifically related to WeWork’s doomed IPO prospectus that same year.

Usually this type of trap isn’t even subtle, as it’s scattered throughout the corporate mission statements and the “about” sections of countless corporate websites. The thing is, there is a direct correlation between the level of Yogababble a company uses and the sharpness of its financial returns, especially when it comes to shareholders.

Galloway explained how this works in a video in 2019:

Of course, this is not only endemic to billion dollar corporations, although it has an ubiquitous root among great business leaders. Smaller businesses have also capitalized on the apparent need for Yogababble.

How to recognize yogababble before applying for a job

As you scour a job posting and read a company, ask yourself a simple question: do you understand what a company does and what values ​​it has after reading a mission statement or an “About” section?

If a company claims to “leverage existing synergies between corporate actors and new technology to drive social change and innovate,” you are likely to be selling a lot of Yogababble. It doesn’t have to be pure yogababble either – traditional company jargon is also widely used and doesn’t have to deal with spiritual issues to create confusing clichés.

Bottom Line: If after reading the higher calling, if you are more confused about the purpose of a business, don’t apply as you may end up in a house of cards.

Why not apply to companies that use Yogababble?

This type of rhetoric is often a paving stone for damn problems a company might face. Rather than finding that higher calling by working there, it is more likely that a company that bases its reputation on an unclear mantra is having profound problems that negatively affect the longevity of your job and your work experience.

We work was notorious for its employees working long hours for low wages. Over faced internal and public accounting on the treatment of women employees and the behavior of its former CEO Travis Kalanick in 2017 (currently the company’s slogan is “We create opportunities by making the world move”, whatever that means). You can probably give more examples. This culture is so widespread that it becomes part of the culture broader corporate culture, with everyone’s LinkedIn profiles with self-proclaimed titles like “Chief Accounting Ninja” or “Change Alchemist”.

It is more than possible that any platinum jargon a company uses is just masking its reckless – or possibly even reckless – leadership. So when a company wraps itself in a yogababble blanket or spits out corporate platitudes to lure you in, it’s all the more reason to stay far away.