hide bad searing" is a real thing but so is hiding behind the sear. took me a while to get that a pot can do stuff a flat top never will.

Wait, so you had a handwritten cheat code for life sitting in a box for a decade and just forgot about it? That's like finding out the lottery ticket in your junk drawer was a winner the whole time. I mean, Ray basically handed you a map to avoid every bad job in northwest Ohio and you went "cool, I'll store this with my old pay stubs." Idk, maybe it's just me but I would've taped page 3 to my bathroom mirror. The part that gets me is the maintenance schedule tip, that one line probably saved you more money than the notebook cost in the first place. Dude was out here giving you 34 years of hard knocks in 20 pages and you needed a layoff to finally read it.