How to change your car door handle

May 31st, 2008 by Boogie

I broke my car door handle. Being an old car I barely found a replacement handle. The guy who sold it to me wasn’t in the mood of changing it also.

So I had to do it. Basically all you need is a screwdriver star shaped and some free time( up to half an hour).

Take all the screws out in order to be able to move the door internal panel. You do not need to remove the window opener, which I guess is more complicated. Also you  will need to remove some internal screws, but with care you can make it, no other tools are needed!

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Healthy grill pan: aluminium or iron?

May 31st, 2008 by Boogie

Googling didn’t help.

The local supermarket has only aluminium grill pans but on the internet I see much praise for the iron ones.

And I recall hearing something about aluminium not being healthy…

I want to make sure I take a good choice, as I plan to use it a lot. Let’s see what I discover.

 EDIT:

Issue solved, thanks to Cooks illustrated. Read what they have to say, it was what I was looking for in terms of quality:

http://www.cooksillustrated.com/testing.asp?testingid=453&bdc=5436

In terms of material health, I found this very nice article:

http://www.eartheasy.com/article_healthy_cookware.htm

Also health related, about the dangers of aluminium cookware:

http://yourcookwarehelper.com/which-cookware-is-safe-and-healthy/

And finally, for further reading:

http://vegkitchen.com/tips/healthy-cookware.htm

…  1 week later …

So I went for a 30Euros relatively small grill pan (about 50 $ ?). It is made from aluminium, but has an extra coating to protect the aluminium shell from getting penetrated.

My grill pan saves the day( every day I have some raw meat in the fridge). I tried salmon, chicken and other unidentified fish. All cooked good, without oil(well, I added just a little bit, directly on the meat). The cleaning takes 30 seconds, nothing ever sticked on the pan.

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