Salt trick won't work, toss em and cry a little.

Tried it twice and both times I kept thinking about how I could've bought two normal steaks for the same money. That funky earthy taste people rave about just tastes like old cheese to me. A good fresh ribeye with nice marbling has way more of that beefy flavor I actually want. Dry aging seems like a way to charge double for less meat after they trim off the crust. Give me the $18 cut every single time.

The stopwatch thing got me thinking about something nobody really talks about, and that is how LED replacements mess with the timing too. A lot of shops swap out old strobes for LEDs and just wire them into the same flasher, but the load is totally different so the pulse rate drifts. I had a 182 come in where the tail beacon was flashing at like 38 times a minute when it should have been closer to 45, and the owner had no clue because who counts flashes sitting in the runup area. The other piece is that uneven strobing is actually a clue about bigger stuff, a bad ground or a corroded pin can show up as a weird flash before it ever fails completely. So the timing thing is less about passing some check and more about catching a connection that is on its way out.