Congratulations, you did better than many native Yinzers posting on food threads around here! Your luck and taste are superlative.

Easy to do yourself. Just need some honing grit from Amazon.

In a pinch I have also just run a file over the blades and then fine-tuned the spacing adjustment. The blades will self-sharpen the last little bit just fine. Just wear some gloves while you file as it is easy enough to cut yourself.

That is simply silly. Besides the many people like myself that have a still, there are countless others that buy jugs of distilled to drink because that don't trust the source of "spring" water.

Whatever you do, do not get fooled by Acorn's version. I got it there (without reading the fine print on the menu) only to find some ice cream on top of some sort of pastry shell. I was then informed that it was a "deconstructed" interpretation of the dish....

I got tired of hauling water and bought a still. Best investment ever. Your only other option, given the mystery soup of industrial chemicals that periodically enter our rivers, is a reverse osmosis filter. Don't waste time with anything else - they mostly just remove chlorine.

Do they make them local, or at the Greensburg factory with most of the stuff these days?

You'd have 120 jobs doing active damage to our real economic base (Eds and Meds) . Our region would be better if they didn't exist.

Do you defend Fentanyl dealers? There are probably at least 100 of them in the region. Wouldn't want them to be out of work either.

That document is hilarious. I read the whole thing, and the takeaway is that "due to their relentless pursuit of environmental excellence" they are a model of green industry.

I think their employment numbers are in line with the rest of their duplicitous propaganda there. They don't break out the coke battery workers and the "ancillary workforce", so if it isn't an outright lie, they are rolling in a bunch of unrelated workers for the steel plant.

The consent decrees are literally US Steel saying "we know normal operation of our facility violates the CAA, and here's how we intent to continue". You think you need the DOJ to set up some kind of FBI sting operation? Their guilt is clearly not in question to anyone, including them.

At this point, I am pretty sure you are an astroturfer, and not an environmental lawyer. The downvotes on where I pointed out the EPA lawsuit database make it clear what is going on.

There are literally hundreds of them in that database. I just picked out two well known ones since you asked for a link.

You keep throwing out more red herrings after I answer your questions. It makes me doubt your motives, and I suspect we both know the (1) DOJ doesn't need to "cooperate" to file either a civil, or even criminal suit and (2) the state DEP and the ACHD are perfectly capable of filing these suits. As per many of the examples in that database. Looking through those, it is clear they sometimes all pile on, and sometimes states go it alone.

Good god, read a newspaper. Or just google and you would quickly find the EPA database (https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/cases-and-settlements) of both civil and criminal violations and settlements.

Things like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf. Which resulted in a $20.8 billion dollar fine. Or Volkswagon's $14 billion dollar settlement for their diesel emissions. The list is very long.

You say that like it means something. The EPA is an administrative agency and is responsible for the largest pollutions lawsuits ever filed or awarded.

120 at the coke ovens. Which is the culprit. Coke is produced elsewhere, and with modern pollution controls that don't violate the law.

Harmful industries shouldn't be continued as some kind of jobs program.

120 workers at most. That doesn't begin to compare to how many jobs have been chased away by this situation. I know of two people myself that declined local high tech jobs because of our air pollution. Both after having been here for grad school. So they weren't ignorant.

Local (city and municipal or ACHD), state or federal officials all have standing to sue (for real, hundreds of millions proportionate to profits and damages) under the Clean Air Act. They could also issue criminal charges as these acts are intentional. They do not.

So if you continue to vote for the same people in office, you will get no change.

Vote out all the incumbents. I realize that people won't do that because it may let in some "worse" person from an opposing party. All I can say is that if you keep voting for the lesser of two evils, you get evil.

Nonsense. The violations are completely acknowledged and documented. The ACHD doesn't have to do any "work" except file a Clean Air Act lawsuit, and a criminal one as well. For hundreds of millions, as per other national cases. Not the small fines they go after which amount to a cheap license to pollute.

They don't do so at political direction. More pay is just rewarding them for not doing their job.

Union Grill is not just known for it, but their execution is consistently perfect. I have had that sandwich anywhere I could get it, including many home made, and their version is as good as it gets. Every time.

Walnut Coffee Tree is open until 8 weekdays, and later weekends. I have heard they are considering extending those further. Pre-covid they were considerably later still, and were busy.

A bigger disgrace is the complete lack of smart lights. Either the old school kind that have a magnetic sensor in the road, of the newer camera based ones.

These are a win at every intersection. They save gas and time, preventing unnecessary idling. And they have become cheap enough that I see them in little boonievilles. But not in Pittsburgh. Even at our busiest and craziest intersections.

I find the goat butter at Whole Foods to be a wonderful variety.

Be cautious of "Amish" butter. Much of it seems to be regular butter to me, and almost none of it is grass fed (which I can readily tell).

Of course you can. It is the normal practice in the western world. Just google "coke scrubbers" and get educated.

The cleaner way is modern, upgraded scrubbers. Like they use everywhere else in the western world. They work, but cost more to run.

You keep acting like no one has a plan. Here is the plan:

Upgrade the facility into compliance with the existing law, like every other coke producer in North America or Europe, or shut down.

End of plan.

Weekly violations of a 40 year old law that almost every other company in the US manages to comply with is "not good enough". Let's start there.