Rice vinegar in the water before you cook it helps too, like a teaspoon per cup, keeps the grains from getting so sticky in the first place. For quinoa I would freeze it flat in a bag instead of trays since the grains are so small they just fall apart when you try to pop them out. Barley holds up fine in cubes though, just give it a couple extra minutes in the air fryer because it's denser.

My friend Dana had the same thing happen at a Safeway in Portland about three weeks ago. She spent close to half an hour on a $2 off toothpaste coupon while her ice cream melted in the cart. The cashier finally told her to just show the paper tag next time because the app scans wrong half the time. It feels like they keep pushing these apps out before they even work right.

That 38% jump from a Denver client's test doesn't shock me at all, because I watched a bakery page drop from 800 words to 60 and bookings went up. Watching people scroll past walls of text is painful when you spent hours writing every word, so I feel you on how weird the win feels. Cutting stuff is scary but the numbers keep saying the same thing.