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While you can smoke well on a grill if you know the tricks, nothing beats a dedicated smoker for succulent low-and-slow smoked ribs, pork, and brisket. You don't have to spend $10,000 on a big black submarine as seen on TV. Whether you want to go with wood, charcoal, gas, pellet, or electric, you can choose from a wide variety of smokers that are easy to use and get great results for under $500. Here are our picks. Read More

Were you about to make a pie for this weekend? Stop. I think you should join me in abandoning Team Pie for Team Galette; you won’t regret it. It’s not like we haven’t had our share of exceptional vegetable galettes, but save a nectarine version in the archives and a cherry-almond riff in the book, I usually defaulted to pie when it came to fruit, round, slabbed or cookie-ed. But last week, when we had an excess of blueberries on our hand because someone (cough) cannot control herself when anything first graces the Greenmarkets, it all felt like so much work — all of that dough, sugar, crimping and weaving and trimming, baking time, plus I have no idea where my pie dishes are, they’re probably being used as a play-doh receptacle somewhere. A galette would never do this to you.

Galettes are your friend. Requiring less of everything, they come together in all of 15 minutes and take 30 to bake, which means you can totally wait until the last minute to make one, as you were going to anyway. They don’t care if you make them round or square — whatever shape the dough stretches out into will do. But that doesn’t mean someone (cough) didn’t get carried away trying to put a July 4th spin on hers.

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まる：「どうも、まるです。」
はな：「はなでーす。」
Maru:[Hello, I am Maru.]
Hana:[I'm Hana.]


ん？　なんかいつもとちょっと違うような――
Wow, you somehow seem different...

ということで実は、連載でお世話になっている『ねこのきもちWeb編集室』さんより、
まる＆はなへ誕生日プレゼンをいただきました！
まるはクッション、はなはキーホルダーです。
These are Maur's cushion and Hana's key ring.
These are presents to Maru&Hana from 『ねこのきもちWeb編集室』.

まる：「ふむふむ、これは静かでいいですな。」
Maru:[This Hana is very quiet.]

はなはクッションのまるに尻尾を太くして超警戒。　近づけると一目散に逃げていきます。
Hana is cautious to the Maru's cushion.

はな：「何あの太短い生き物は！！」
Hana:[What a round and short creature it is!]



まる：「実際はもっとシュッとして、スラッとしてますけどね。」
Maru:[I am slimmer than this.]


ありがとうございました！
Thank you!

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I searched "Business Group Teamwork" on Getty and sifted through 41,177 photos to bring you this post. For authenticity, I didn't sign in to remove the watermarks.

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Step 1: Find a stock photo.
Step 2: Reenact it.
Step 3: Hilarity ensues.

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Shane is allegedly (allegedly) a Walmart deli worker with a penchant for pranks. These series of notes, which popped up on imgur last night are reported to be left by his frustrated (yet very lenient) managers, who are both frustrated with and clearly in love with the little scamp.

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"Bitter clowns tears with a hint of suspicion. Great with lobster Thermidor. Best drunk in the street. Taste guide: Trouser jazz."

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Watch a remake of Beyoncé's "Partition," done entirely with clips from Bob's Burgers. You can thank a Tumblr user named ThatNutCray for this miraculous gift with which we have been blessed.

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A restaurant owner in West Virginia responded to a customer's complaint that servers should "show more skin" in the absolute best possible way—by showing a photo of potato skins on their Facebook page and offering a special to benefit rape victims.

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Is there anything worse than reaching for that frosty glass of lemonade on a warm day, only to find a recently-airborne critter doing the backstroke in your drink? Well, yeah, I can tell you what's worse. Taking a gulp, then realizing there was a swimmer in the pool.

A sports bottle or an insulated travel mug with a lid solves the problem when it's just you in the back yard, but when you're hosting a barbecue, maybe you'd like something a little more festive for the mojitos and margaritas. Right now, canning jars are very trendy as drinkware.

The Ball Sip & Straw lids ($7/4) are one of the latest accessory items from the company that's filling your shelves with canning jars. The plastic Sip & Straw lids replace the flat canning jar lid, and you use your own jar rings to secure them. A round hole lets you sip from the container, or you can insert a straw into that hole.

After some initial confusion (yes, I'm easily baffled by simple things) I realized that the lids can be used with the bump upwards or the divot downwards. Using a straw, it didn't make any difference which way the lid faced, but there were sipping differences. With the divot downward, it was like sipping from a travel mug, while bump-up sipping was more like using a sports bottle.

The four-packs of lids also includes four reusable straws, but pretty much any straw will fit - the holes are large enough to accommodate the wide "milkshake" straws as well as regular-sized straws. The included straws are a reasonable length for use with either pint or quart jars, depending on how thirsty you are.

While these aren't the most earthshaking devices on the planet, they take very little space to store, and if you've already got canning jars on hand, you instantly have plenty of matching and inexpensive drinkware. Besides keeping pests out of beverages, these make the drinks less messy if you tip them over. You'll get some spillage, but it's not as bad as dumping a whole glass of sticky spiked raspberry lemonade onto the picnic table.

Of course, glass jars are breakable, but canning jars are pretty sturdy, particularly if they're likely to fall on lawn rather than concrete.

There are two sizes of lids—to fit either regular or wide-mouth jars—so you could use that feature to differentiate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, if that's an issue at your party. Or just choose a lid size to match your canning jar collection.

Both the lids and the straws are dishwasher safe.

About the author: Resident yeast whisperer and bread baking columnist Donna Currie also has a serious gadget habit. When her father-in-law heard about this column, he upgraded the nickname for her kitchen from "gadget world" to "gadget heaven." You can find her on her blog, Cookistry or follow her on Twitter at @dbcurrie.

Disclaimer: Testing samples were provided to Serious Eats.