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Respironics' Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator delivers up to 10 liters per minute (LPM) of oxygen; this concentration is the highest available at a medical-grade oxygen concentration. The Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator is the most cost-effective concentrator for high oxygen flow patients. In addition to the standard model (#M10600), a unit is available with an Oxygen Percentage Indicator (#M10605) that ultrasonically measures oxygen output as a purity indication.
This Respironics Concentrator is engineered to reduce the cost of providing oxygen at higher rates and has fewer parts than any other concentrator sold today. Fewer parts and durable casters, as well as protected tubing and electric wires contribute to greater reliability. This dependability also makes the Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator one of the most affordable to own. To view a comparison of the top 10 Liter Oxygen Concentrators click on the following link: Review High Flow Oxygen Concentrators with Comparison Charts.
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Vitality Medical's founder, a Registered Nurse, knows that Oxygen Therapy Devices are life-essential. We have a cross-company Oxygen Concentrator committee that has developed and administers an Oxygen Concentrator Specialist Certification process. Specialists have 35 minutes to pass a rigorous 50-question with a score of 94% or better. This testing ensures they can address your oxygen therapy needs. Our specialists recertify every six months to keep up with our growing Oxygen Concentrator product line.
Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator 10 Liters
The M10 Oxygen Concentrator is engineered to be the highest-performing and most reliable Respironics Oxygen Concentrator available. Each M10 concentrator is individually tested in accordance with Respironics quality guidelines and comes with a written certificate of conformance and a one year standard warranty.
The optional Oxygen Percentage Indicator (OPI) for the Millennium M10 is an audible alarm that sounds when oxygen levels fall below 70%.
Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator Features & Benefits
- Maintenance-free SMC "sure cycle" valve that's designed specifically for the Millennium M10.
- Protective tubing neatly guards the electrical wires and tubing - helps eliminate risk of electric shock and increases reliability.
- Integrated sieve canister reduces tubing connections to enhance bed life.
- Twin head compressor: (higher stroke for more airflow through sieve beds).
- Smooth bottom makes cleaning cabinet easier.
- Highly durable casters designed to withstand rigorous usage.
Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator Specifications
- Width: 19"
- Height: 27"
- Depth: 13"
- Weight: 53 +/- .5 lbs
- Flow rate: 10 LPM in 1 liter increments
- Operating pressure: 10-30 psig
- Outlet Pressure: 4-8 psig
- Electrical Requirements: 120V/60Hz (+/- 10%)
- 11 Amps
- Oxygen Percentage Indicator:
- Green light: greater than 82%
- Yellow light: between 70-82%
- Red light: less than 70%
- Oxygen Concentration: 92 +/- 4% @ 8-10 LPM, 94 +/- 2% @ 3-7 LPM, 92 +/- 4% @ 1-2 LPM
- Storage/transport temperature: -30 to 160 degrees F.
- Operating temperature: 55 to 90 degrees F.
- Storage/transport humidity: Up to 95%, non-condensing
- Alarm indicators: High system pressure, Low system pressure, Power failure, Low oxygen level (OPI model available on the M10605 model only), No oxygen flow.
- Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator Warranty: One Year Standard. Note: warranty voided if used for alternative purposes, including hyperbaric chambers.
- Optional extended warranty: Adds 2 Years to standard warranty. The extended warranty must be added at time of purchase. Call 800-397-5899 for details.
Respironics Millennium M10 Oxygen Concentrator Additional Information
- Millennium M10 User Manual offers instructions for patients to operate their M10 Concentrator.
- Millennium M10 Concentrator Maintenance Guide discusses cleaning and changing the air inlet filter and cleaning the exterior of the oxygen concentrator.
- Millennium M10 Troubleshooting Guide charts possible problems, cause and solutions.
Vitality Medical also carries Portable Oxygen Concentrators for oxygen therapy patients who wish to live a more active lifestyle. Many oxygen patients, using portable oxygen machines also use their portable oxygen as their home oxygen system. When these oxygen patients travel, they bring their portable oxygen supply along with them. We also sell oxygen supplies, including oxygen cylinders, oxygen regulators, oxygen tubing, oxygen masks, oxygen cannulas, oxygen concentrator filters, and finger pulse oximeters you can purchase online for home or office delivery.
Please allow an additional 2-3 days for shipping on all Respironics products.
To be compliant with current FDA regulations, we require a prescription for selected Portable Oxygen Concentrators, Home Stationary Concentrators and Pulse Oximeters. Prescriptions are NOT required for replacement parts and accessories. If a prescription is required for an item in your order we will inform you of the requirement and ask you how the prescription will be provided.
Prescriptions may be sent via:
Fax to: 1-801-733-5797
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Mail to: 7910 S 3500 E Suite C, SLC, UT 84121
If you are unable to obtain a copy of your prescription we are happy to contact your doctor and request the prescription on your behalf.
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- Best 10 Liter Oxygen Concentrator
I can only find two 10 liter oxygen concentrators on the market. The Sequal Integra and the Respironics M10.
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I just received one of these from my supplier and it is noisy as heck! I would put it outside on the porch if I didn't think my neighbors wouldn't complain! I don't know what these other reviewers are talking about it being quiet. Compared to what, a jet engine?
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lindcare delivered this machine yesterday. It is horribly loud and we feel the vibration through our tile floor and into our bodies. It takes an entire room closed off to contain the noise. It will go back Monday. It seems we have been given junk. Probably an old machine. It also won't go above eight liters.
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The Mellennium M10 was less expensive than the other 10 liter home oxygen concentrator and I think it looks nicer too.
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Bud Light bringing Best Coast to Rave for 50 concerts, 50 states event
Bud Light is mounting an ambitious marketing campaign where it's sponsoring 50 concerts in 50 states, all taking place on a single day. And the site of the Wisconsin show will be Milwaukee, with dreamy pop rock duo Best Coast headlining the Rave Aug. 1.
Bud Light's 50/50/1 campaign, created in partnership with Live Nation, MySpace and Universal Music Group, is being orchestrated to promote the beer brand's new Music First marketing platform. MySpace will be streaming select concerts, but its uncertain at this time if the Best Coast show will be one of them. »Read Full Article
Rhinehart's high-energy drumming was always in the groove
When Vodie Rhinehart first hooked up with the Leroy Airmaster blues band, some of its members wondered whether he really understood the blues.
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On Tap Today: Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers at Shank Hall
Considering Summerfest is NEXT WEEK, there's a surprising number of really good music options in town every day this week. Yesterday there was Jeff Tweedy at the Pabst Theater (check back at jsonline.com/music later for a review). Tomorrow there's emerging country artist Nikki Lane at Cactus Club. Thursday is Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion at Turner Hall Ballroom, featuring the former Cream drummer. And on Friday it's Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' first headlining show in Milwaukee ever, at the Milwaukee Theatre.


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Milwaukee is losing one of its finest architects.
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Milwaukee band Die Kreuzen gets 2nd chance
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The music is set for the annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival. Now bring on the sun.
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The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will conclude this season's classical concerts with two proverbial last hurrahs.
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Just heard that RPG artist extraordinaire Steve Zieser passed away yesterday after his long fight with cancer. I didn't know Steve personally, although we followed one another on Google Plus and were clearly reading one another's posts. I love Steve's line-work, and one of the things that the Old School Renaissance will always have to its credit is that its preference for art in the Grand AD&D tradition gave Steve a platform to display his talents. Condolences to Steve's family and friends.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
What a Semester (and It's Still Not Over)
The blog hasn't died, but the workload this semester has been insane. Once it's all over, I'll post more about the 13th Age game I'm running and the Supers! and Ryuutama games I'm playing in.
Back to screwing bolts on plates ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Masters of Umdaar [Fate Accelerated Edition]
Evil Hat has just released Dave Joria's Masters of Umdaar, the latest "World of Adventure" for use with the Fate system (specifically the Fate Accelerated variant of the rules). As Joria notes in his introduction to the book, Masters of Umdaar is more or less a love letter to Planetary Romance; he mentions John Carter, Thundarr, Kamandi, Flash Gordon, She-Ra, Thundercats ... you get the picture. Players take on the identity of brave Archeonauts, freedom fighters protecting the Lands of Light from the evil Masters of the Dark Domains by seeking out the lost technologies of the Demiurge. The game's motto: "When in doubt, dinosaur!"
I did not take much convincing to fork over the recommended $4 PWYW price.
The real selling point, though, is the random "bioform" generator. If a player is willing, they can roll up their character's bioform—mostly inspiration for Fate aspects and stunts, but also a way of suggesting what one's best approach should be. I see this system as "Fate char-gen meets Gamma World char-gen," and I give it an Incredible Hercules thumbs up:
Results range from your bog-standard Humanoid through Energy Being and Mutawarrior to Chimera and Cytyr (a cybernetic satyr). Many of the bioform results direct you to make additional roles on the Animal Kingdom chart, which is in turn divided into sub-charts for Invertebrates and Marine Life; Reptiles, Amphibians, and Dinosauria; and Birds and Mammals.
You then select one of several classes. Joria suggests that the FAE approach attached to your bioform guide you in selecting your class: e.g., a Sneaky Mutant would do well to become a Rogue or Illusionist, while a Flashy Energy Being might make an effective Swashbuckler or Courtier. Note that this is only a suggestion, not a requirement. Your Mutant does not have to be sneaky, roguish, or illusionary. But her class choice will determine her ratings in the six FAE approaches. (New classes are as easy as assigning one approach to Good +3, two approaches to Fair +2, two approaches to Average +1, and one approach to Mediocre +0.)
Characters have just four aspects. The first is the high concept aspect (referencing the character's bioform, class, and lead approach); the second is the motive aspect (phrased as "I must [fill in the blank]"); the third is a personal aspect related to the character alone; and the fourth is a social aspect linking the character to at least one other member of the party. (The decision to pare the number of aspects down to four is a good one for a quick-playing variety of Fate.)
Finally, you are encouraged to pick two stunts. These fall into three categories: Powers (mystical and superhuman), Weapons (technological and item-based), and Adaptations (biological and evolutionary). You can randomly determine your stunts, and you are also given three very simple verbal formulas for making more. Since stunts are always the hardest part of Fate for me, I appreciate both the charts and the formulas.
There are also rules for Cliffhangers (a pulpier version of Atomic Robo RPG's already pulpy Brainstorming system) and charts for generating beasts, monsters, and artifacts. Plus a pre-generated adventure (which I want to test-drive). All in all, an awful lot for what's effectively a free product (although I do think the recommended $4 charge is fair to the creators and a steal at that).
Monday, July 20, 2015
Escape from Satarla! [Barbarians of Lemuria, Actual Play]
|As close as I'm ever going to get to an image of three Satarlan
sky-boats battling it out (detail from Gino D'Achille's cover
to ERB's Swords of Mars).
The heroes barely had time to take in the sight of their rescuer when one of her underlings reported a pair of approaching sky-boats. She called out to Gallius: "Now it's time for you to show me why I went to the trouble of breaking Satarlan law to rescue you—get this boat out of the city!" Gallius didn't hesitate, rushing to the helm and setting the boat in motion. Ralak found the boat's arbalest and aimed it at the pursuers. Koth slumped onto the deck; the wound he had received from the jemadar in the Great Arena was not as serious as it had initially seemed, but he was still losing blood. The mysterious woman called out to one of her companions as she moved to assist Gallius in operating the ship: "Zedrek, tend to the big one's injuries!" Clad in the humble garments of a street priest, Zedrek began to clean and dress Koth's injury.
Zedrek of Lysor, Servant of the Twenty
Attributes: Strength 1, Agility 2, Mind 2, Appeal 0
Combat: Initiative 1, Melee 2, Ranged 0, Defense 1
Careers: Farmer 0, Priest 2, Physician 2, Beggar 0
Boons: Detect Deception, Healing Touch, Savant
Flaws: Cloistered (a variation on City-Dweller), Landlubber
"That's a nasty cut, friend," the priest said in Koth's native Festrelian, "but I think I can keep the scarring to a minimum."
Meanwhile, Gallius was weaving his way around Satarla's numerous towers, trying to put more distance between the heroes' boat and those of the pursuing Satarlan Sky-Navy. Suddenly one particularly high minaret appeared in the boat's path. Cursing, Gallius had to turn back toward their enemies to avoid crashing into the building. At the same time, the arbalest's string broke, knocking Ralak to the deck. (The heroes' players had just rolled two Calamitous Failures in a row.) Enemy bolts struck the boat, killing one of their rescuer's party instantly and damaging a flight vane. The ship began to lose speed—until a now bandaged Koth put his back to the task and singlehandedly bent the vane back into place.
Gallius swiftly regained his equilibrium and threaded the sky-boat through a particularly twisty maze of streets. The pursuers fell behind, eventually losing track of the stolen craft. Gallius was then able to fly the ship out of the city and into the Jungles of Qush. They anchored the vessel in the canopy; while Koth and Ralak covered the fuselage with camouflage netting, the mysterious benefactress revealed some magical talents, casting a ritual of concealment to help hide the ship.
When she was finished, she turned to the heroes and identified herself as Sharangara of Oomis, a collector of rare antiquities. "There's an ancient artifact of the First Age that I want, and I need a sky-boat to get it. Which means I need a sky-pilot, and that's where you come in, Gallius." "Where are you going," the suspicious pilot asked, "and what exactly is it that you're after? Don't tell me it's some hideous weapon that will melt our flesh and send our souls screaming to hell!"
"It's nothing that dramatic, my friend," Sharangara answered. "It's a small cauldron in the shape of a bird. The ancient records call it the Kartal, which my friend Zedrek here tells me is Yggdari for 'eagle.' It may have mystical powers, but it may also just be a beautiful relic of a better age. Whatever it is, I want it for my collection, and I'm willing to reward you all handsomely for assisting me."
"What sort of reward?" asked Ralak. "To begin with, once we have the Kartal, I'm more than willing to turn this vessel over to Gallius. He can sell it to one of Satarla's rival cities, or travel around in it himself, whatever he desires. The rest of you will get more than enough gold. What do you say?" Gallius answered: "I'm intrigued, but you still haven't said where we're going to find this Kartal."
"In the Flying City of the Winged Men, somewhere over the Axos Mountains. You're my pilot, and Zedrek is my translator—he's one of the few Lemurians who speaks Windsong, the language of the Winged Men. Before we can bargain with them ..." "You mean rob them," Ralak observed with a smirk. "... bargain with them," continued Sharangara, "we have to find them. And I think that the wizard Jesharek Jool may be able to help us with that."
"Jesharek's tower is somewhere in the heart of the Qush!" exclaimed Ralak, "We'll be lucky to find it, and even luckier to leave it in one piece. Can't we take a safer path to the mountains? Say, Shamballah?" Sharangara shook her head: "If you want to risk getting scooped up by a Satarlan patrol or shot down by Tyrusian guards, sure. Flying straight north through the Qush will have its dangers, but it's a faster path, and I have some ideas about how to bargain for information with Jesharek."
The heroes agreed with the plan, and everyone settled down to sleep. It would be an early start for the flight north through some of Lemuria's most deadly jungle, and they needed to be sharp for the journey.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Gallius the Gladiator [Barbarians of Lemuria, Actual Play]
|I know this isn't Lemuria, but it's still an arena, a six-legged beast,
and a guy doing the Harryhausen with a spear. A.k.a., "win."
My 13th Age campaign at the FLGS fell through once again—seems like Pathfinder and 5E have cornered the market on D20 fantasy in Urbana. But I was prepared for the flop, pulling out Barbarians of Lemuria's new Mythic Edition after I only picked up a third player this past Thursday. I was interested in seeing how the Mythic Edition rules changes shook out in play, and I also wanted to stick with a low-prep game.
The three players were more than willing to switch systems and launched themselves into character creation. Here are the heroes they generated:
Gallius of Satarla
Attributes: Strength 0, Agility 2, Mind 1, Appeal 1
Combat: Initiative 1, Melee 0, Ranged 1, Defense 2
Careers: Thief 0, Sailor 1, Soldier 1, Sky Pilot 2
Boons: Alert, Friends in High Places, Keen Eyesight
Flaws: Braggart, Greed
Koth the Festrelian
Attributes: Strength 3, Agility 1, Mind 0, Appeal 0
Combat: Initiative 1, Melee 2, Ranged 0, Defense 1
Careers: Hunter 1, Mercenary 1, Slave 2, Gladiator 0
Boons: Born Athlete, Sneaky, Strength Feat
Flaws: Fear (Whips), Illiterate
Ralak of Malakut
Attributes: Strength 0, Agility 2, Mind 2, Appeal 1
Combat: Initiative 1, Melee 1, Ranged 1, Defense 1
Careers: Thief 2, Spy 1, Noble 0, Herbalist 1
Boons: Deft Hands, Savant, Silver Tongue
Flaws: Hunted (Tyrusian Nobility), Obsession (Sorcerer-Kings' Formulae)
The heroes began play in a cell under the Great Satarlan Arena (sound familiar, BoL veterans?). Gallius was there because his superior officer caught him dallying with said officer's daughter. Ralak had been arrested for kissing a noble woman whilst trying to hide his face from the agents of the Tyrusian nobility. And poor Koth, he had been sold to the Arena management to cover his recently deceased master's debts.
As heroes, our protagonists were not going to become fodder for the games. They staged a breakout, relying on the mighty strength of Koth (and the insanely good rolling of Koth's player). First Koth lifted the metal grate locking them in their cell. Then Koth used his bare hands to rip the locked door to the prison chamber off its hinges. Ralak had freed the other prisoners in the prison chamber in the hopes of generating maximum confusion. Gallius broke legs off a chair to serve as clubs for Ralak and himself; Koth opted instead to use the chamber door as a weapon.
In the ensuing melee with the Arena guards, Koth took out nearly all of the opposition with a boxcars-driven Legendary Success: he simply bulldozed them into the walls with the door. Ralak and Gallius had much more trouble with the single foes they ended up dispatching. Rather than fight more onrushing guards, the heroes fled to the right ... and thus into the open floor of the Arena.
The guards chuckled, sealing the Arena gates and opening the passage to the beast pens. As the crowd roared for blood, a hideous jemadar launched itself at the heroes. Koth tried to ward it off with his trusty door, but the beast raked him with its claws (10 of Koth's 13 Lifeblood were lost in a single blow). But Ralak and Gallius made amends for their mediocrity in the battle against the guards. Seizing spears from the sands of the Arena, they threw themselves at the jemadar. Rallak scored a Legendary Success, hamstringing the beast and forcing it to a standstill. Then Gallius threw his spear at the jemadar's skull, striking it right between the eyes for a Mighty Success that brought it down.
Celebration was brief: the Arena guards began to approach the heroes en masse. In the open space of the Arena floor, they would be able to form Hordes and overwhelm the rebellious trio. But just then the shadow of a sky boat fell across the heroes, and a rope ladder was tossed from above. The heroes seized this unforeseen opportunity and scrambled up the ladder to the deck of the now rising sky boat. There they encountered a woman clad in the robes of an Oomisian merchant. "Now that I've freed you," she said, "we can discuss how you'll be showing me your gratitude."
BoL plays just as smoothly in its Mythic incarnation as it did when I ran this scenario using the Legendary rules. The new Initiative rules (which look very much like the Initiative house rules I developed back in 2010 but with the advantage of not requiring NPCs to roll) worked without any hitches, and I was particularly pleased with the new Damage rules for weapons: the impromptu clubs were easy to peg as 1d6L weapons, and Koth's door was a 1d6 weapon (it had the heft of a heavy 1d6H weapon, but lost the H due to its unwieldy nature). The players also appreciated the ability to buy a third Boon by way of picking a second Flaw; they felt this made for more varied heroes. All in all, I'm pleased with how the game is handling in this latest version.
In a week's time, the heroes will find out just who the mysterious benefactor is ... and what he wants from them ...
Friday, June 12, 2015
His Secrets Guard Themselves: Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
It wasn't enough to lose Terry Pratchett, Leonard Nimoy, and Tanith Lee so far this year, oh no. Now Death has come and claimed all-rounder Christopher Lee. There have been many tributes to the man who played Dracula, Scaramanga, Saruman, Dooku, Summerisle, etc., etc. The Lee performance I want to single out, though, is his turn as King Haggard in the 1982 adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.
This was my introduction to Lee as an actor, and it's thus no surprise that it has always been his voice that most thrills me. I still consider this monologue of his one of the highlights of his career:
Rest in peace, Sir Christopher.
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Here's another recipe from the past that I'm pulling forward to share with you again. This Apple Galette recipe was originally posted in October of 2008.
Fall is here, the holidays are near, and the season of eating is officially upon us. For me, that means it's time for apple pie. This is my
third sixth year at Pinch My Salt, and every year I have grand plans to write about holiday recipes. So far, I've failed miserably! Sure, I always manage to post a few pumpkin recipes here and there, but when it comes to the real stuff: the pies, the turkey, the cranberries, the dressing, I always step back and let the pros help you out. (Edit: I do have more holiday recipes on the blog now. You can find them here.)
But this year will be different. If nothing else, I will make sure at least one of you bakes a homemade apple pie for the very first time! Because let me tell you, there is something magical about seeing your very first made-from-scratch pie come out of the oven. It won't be perfect, they never are. But it will be the best pie you've ever tasted.
I remember my first apple pie. I was 19 years old, it was Thanksgiving, and it was my very first holiday away from home. It was exciting to be out on my own, preparing a holiday meal with friends for the first time, but I also remember calling my mom in tears that morning because I was homesick.
We made a lot of mistakes that first year. For one, I think we forgot to take the plastic bag of giblets out of the turkey before stuffing and roasting it. Ooops! But you have to start somewhere, right? For me, I started with my very first apple pie. I don't remember which recipe I used, I don't even remember the process. But I do remember the feeling I had when it came out of the oven. To me, it was perfect! I was so proud, I even took a photo of it.
Years later, looking at that photo of my first apple pie, I could see a million things wrong with it. The crust didn't even brown, not a bit. But here's the thing about a homemade pie: nobody cares what it looks like! It's homemade pie and it's always, always, always better than a store-bought one.
But it seems that a lot of people have a fear of pie crust. I'll admit that fifteen years later, I still don't make a perfect crust. But at the same time, in fifteen years, I've never made a crust that wasn't eaten! It's time to get over the fear, and just do it.
One way to ease yourself into pie making, is to start with a free-form pie or tart known as a galette. To me, an apple galette may sound fancy, but it's really just an informal apple pie. I make one maybe once or twice a year when I'm craving something special for dessert, and it's always thrown together at the last minute. It seems like we always have a few apples rolling around in the fruit bin and this house never runs out of flour or butter! I bet the same is true for most of you.
Now because this it is something that is always an impromptu dessert, I don't have a real recipe or method. I can't give you exact instructions that you will follow to the letter. But that's fine. I prefer that you just jump in and give this one a try.
You will be making an actual pie pastry, so it's good practice for your next real pie. But it's put together in such a way that it just doesn't matter if you mess up. It's supposed to be messy. And the great thing about a galette is that the worse it looks, the more 'rustic' it becomes. Haven't you ever wanted to make a rustic tart? Here's your chance!
You can use any pie crust recipe you would like for your galette, but I am going to suggest one over at Simply Recipes. I used it last night and I think it was the best I've ever made! I basically halved the recipe for Elise's Perfect Pie Crust, since I only needed a single crust.
Now let me walk you through the galette I made last night:
First, peel, core and slice about four apples. If they are small, you can use six. You could probably even use more. I just like a high ratio of crust to apples when I make a galette. It doesn't matter what type you use, I used a couple granny smith, a braeburn, and some other red apple that I can't remember now. Just use what you have, or what you like.
When I prepare apples for pie, this is how I do it:
Put all of your apple slices in a bowl and toss with a some sugar (I used about 1/4 cup), sprinkle in a bit of cinnamon, and a tablespoon of flour. Toss it all together and set the bowl aside.
Now preheat the oven to 400 degrees while you make the pastry. This is important, don't forget to turn on the oven!
Next, clear a large space on a countertop or table and sprinkle it lightly with flour. If you have a pastry board, even better. Have a rolling pin handy and more flour available for sprinkling. A dough scraper will also come in handy if you have one.
Also get out a large cookie sheet, preferably with rim. I use a half sheet pan. Line it with parchment paper and have it handy.
Now, put together your pastry. If you would like instructions with photos, go to Simply Recipes. But we are only using half of her recipe, so use the ingredient amounts that I list here.
Galette Pastry:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup chilled butter, cut into pieces (one stick)
3 tablespoons ice water
Put flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor and pulse to combine. Add butter and pulse until the largest butter pieces are the size of peas. Add water, one tablespoon at a time, pulsing to mix. The mixture won't look like it's holding together, but pinch it, and it should stick together.
If you don't have a food processor, put the flour and salt in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Cut the cold butter into small pieces and toss with the flour mixture. With your fingertips, quickly rub the butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles very coarse crumbs and there are still some small chunks of butter left (you may also use a pastry cutter). Add water, one tablespoon at a time, mixing and tossing with a wooden spoon. When the mixture just starts to clump together, continue to the next step.
Dump all the flour and butter pieces out onto the floured counter or board, and gather it and press it together into a disc shape. At this point, the dough can be wrapped in plastic and refrigerated for up to a couple of days. But we are going to roll it out immediately. If you do refrigerate it, let the dough sit out at room temperature for 10 minutes before continuing to the next step.
Roll dough out into a large circle, making sure to add a bit of flour on top and underneath the dough occasionally to prevent it from sticking to the counter. Try to roll the dough as evenly as possible to about 1/8 inch thick. The circle doesn't have to be perfect and if the dough starts splitting and tearing, just patch it together as best you can. Most importantly, work quickly and make sure to keep the counter underneath lightly floured to prevent sticking! The circle will get big! That's what you want.
Now gently wrap the dough around the rolling pin and transfer it to the sheet pan. Try to unwrap the dough so that it is somewhat centered on the pan. The pastry circle will overlap the sides of the pan by quite a bit, that's what you want. Now dump the apple right into the center of the circle and spread them out a bit.
At this point I usually drop a few little pieces of butter over the tops of the apples. It's up to you.
Next, just fold the edges of the pastry over the apples, sealing any holes that appear along the edges as you go. You want to seal the holes and cracks so that the juices don't escape while it's baking. The pastry shouldn't cover the apples completely in the center.
If you want to try to make it look fancy, go ahead. I don't. I just fold it up and hope for the best!
Finally, I beat one egg with a splash of water and lightly brush the pastry with the egg wash. Then I sprinkle a bit of sugar over the whole thing. This is optional, but it looks nice!
Now put the baking sheet with the galette into the preheated 400 degree oven and bake for about 35 minutes.
Now for the best part: It's time to eat!
I know that there are many different ways to make a pie crust: butter, shortening, even oil! And everyone likes to argue about what makes the flakiest, most tender crust. For pies, I tend to split the difference and use half butter and half shortening. But an all-butter pastry will always have the best flavor in my book. The only problem I have with an all-butter crust, is that it doesn't hold it's shape very well. That's what is so great about making a galette! It doesn't have any fancy fluting, so it really doesn't matter if it doesn't hold it's shape as well. I strongly urge you to give the all-butter pastry a try this time, the flavor is out of this world!
I generally do not use a food processor for pie pastry, but I gave it a try this time. Guess what? The results were great! So, I may start actually using my Cuisinart for more than bread crumbs now. But if you don't have a food processor, just cut the butter into the flour with your fingertips or a pastry blender like I've always done.
Give it a try, have fun, and let me know what happens!
- Plum Galette from Simply Recipes
- Rhubarb Ginger Galette from Simply Recipes
- Apple Rhubarb Galette from Daily Unadventures in Cooking
- Rustic Pear and Apple Galette from The Kitchn
- Apple Pie from Pots on the Stove
- Smoked Apple Pie from Bucky's Barbecue and Bread
Pie Pastry Recipes:
- Perfect Pie Crust from Simply Recipes
- Pie Crust 101 from Smitten Kitchen
- How to Make Flaky Tender Pie Crust from Kitchen Parade
- Gluten-Free Pie Crust from Gluten-Free Girl
I loved the picture of this Galette!! I have made them from Martha Stewart to Ina Garten, but please have fun when you cook!! Don't make it such a stressful time, if you are going to make something for a party or even a few friends and family, practice the recipe first if it's only yourself or people at work. That way you can make a relaxed evening or day out it and even if you've never cooked or baked before.6:43 pm May 17th, 2009
I think food processor made pie crust is the best ever. The golden rule of baking is simple: don't over mix, that's it. When you process the pie dough just mix till blended, and no more and not too much flour just enough to stick together As for the pie crust recipe the prior post wanted to know if they could make a pie crust without using butter or margarine? That's what makes it flaky, if you leave out the fat it will become very doughy and not flake properly, not to mention be just flour and water. I'm sure there are substitutes. I have seen some "natural" made. If you are looking to replace the fat and calories I would try to cut something else out such as using sugar substitute, but that's the reason it's so yummy. Good luck to all and have fun!!!!
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Excitement Grows Over Old Macdonald
Tom Doak
The debut of Old Macdonald, Tom Doak's second design at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in southwest Oregon, can't come soon enough for an ailing golf industry.
Six months from now, the fourth course at Bandon Dunes will open and, for a moment at least, all will feel right with a world beaten down by recession and largely deprived of great new golf courses.
Modeled on the historic designs of Charles Blair Macdonald, the man regarded as the "Father of American Golf Course Architecture," Old Macdonald will shine in an already dazzling corner of the golf world as it fits in alongside a trio of famed siblings: the eponymous Bandon Dunes, which David Kidd wrought from a sea of gorse, Tom Doak's Pacific Dunes, which certainly wasn't the 48-year-old visionary's first design but which trumpeted his arrival as one of the game's most talented designers; and Bandon Trails - Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw's heathland classic that opens and closes with a couple of links beauties but which saunters through a forest of manzanita, hemlock, white fir, and cedar for most of its enthralling journey.
The wildly undulating 10th green at Old Macdonald
Each of these three layouts is so good, they all appear in the top 15 of Golf Magazine's most recent ranking of the country's top public-access courses, and during your stay you're every bit as likely to encounter golfers who say Trails is the pick of them as you are those who insist the original is still the best.
It is Doak's 2001 design of Pacific Dunes that invariably edges out the other two in most publications' rankings, however, placing first on Golf's 2008 list of Top 100 Courses You Can Play, and No. 2, behind Pebble Beach, on Golf Digest's 2007 register of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses.
If early indications, such as the already-full tee sheets, are anything to go by, Old Macdonald will waste little time in throwing its hat into the rankings' ring by joining its near-neighbors at the top of the tree. Indeed, as of early January 2010, there are more rounds booked at Old Macdonald for the year than any of the other courses.
"That's pretty unbelievable," says Doak, who resort-owner Mike Keiser rehired for the task of building course No. 4. "From the beginning, we said that if the new course winds up with 25 percent or 26 percent of the play at the resort, then we will have done something we can be proud of. So far, the reaction from people who have played the first 10 holes (available for preview rounds since last April) is much stronger than that. I really didn't expect people to tell me they thought it was the best course of the four. I'm sure some of that is just the excitement and the novelty factor of having another course to play, though."
Returning to the Oregon coast, site of his most critically acclaimed work to date, was an easy decision for Doak even if he harbored one or two minor reservations over the concept of the new course. "On one hand, going back to work in Bandon was the easiest thing we've ever done," he says. "We are so comfortable in that place and with all of the people there: Mr Keiser, Ken Nice the superintendent, everybody really right down to the wait staff who serve breakfast. It's pretty much a second home to me and to all my associates."
On the flip side, however, Doak says creating a layout in the style of a designer who has been dead for 70 years presented a unique challenge. "It was a very unusual job," he says. "To start from the very beginning, and design a course with a different theme and style from our own was tricky, especially with Pacific Dunes so close."
Macdonald was born in 1855 to a Scottish father and Canadian mother in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He grew up in Chicago and studied at St. Andrews University in Scotland from 1872 to 1874, discovering golf for the first time and quickly becoming hooked. After his return to Chicago, he became a wealthy stockbroker but had nowhere to play. New York's "Apple Tree Gang" would not get together until 1888 and the game did not really take hold in the new world until the mid-1890s.
In 1892, Macdonald built an 18-hole course - the first 18-holer in the U.S. - in Belmont, 20 miles west of downtown Chicago, and a year later the Chicago Golf Club was born. In 1894, the members uprooted and headed for a 200-acre parcel in Wheaton that Macdonald had chosen because it reminded him of the "Auld Country." There, he modeled many of the holes on those he had played in Scotland, preferring their bold, natural look to that of the tedious, straightaway holes Scottish and English immigrant pros were being paid $25-50 to stake out in an afternoon elsewhere in the U.S.
In 1900, Macdonald left Chicago for New York, where he grew ever more frustrated with the unimaginative designs he saw. Starting in 1906, he began "gathering" 70 founders, each of whom contributed $1,000 for the construction of a new course on Long Island that Macdonald hoped would share many of the great features and attractive characteristics of the British links he thought so highly of.
The first rounds on the National Golf Links of America were played in 1909, with the club officially opening in 1911. Its holes, though not direct copies, were clearly inspired by some of the best in Britain: the 3rd a nod to the 17th at Prestwick; the par-3 4th a superb version of North Berwick's Redan hole; the 7th a treacherous adaptation of St. Andrew's Road Hole.
Hell Bunker on 6th hole at Old Macdonald GC
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"Macdonald was a classicist who revered the great courses of Britain," says Doak, "His approach was not just to wander around the land and try to find the best holes he could; instead, he had a short list of what he considered to be ideally designed holes, and he tried to find the right spots on each property to build new versions of them."
Doak's starting point was to go back to the roots of Macdonald's thinking, rather than simply study the holes he, and his protégé Seth Raynor, had built. Having played all of his "copies," Doak is well aware that Macdonald's Redan holes and Road Hole renderings were not all the same, and that some diverged slightly from their Scottish roots. "That gave us license to do the same," he says. "So we weren't building 'replica' holes per se; we were replicating Macdonald's process and trying to find good places to build another version of the holes he admired."
One advantage Doak had over Macdonald, in addition to bulldozers, computers, and Keiser's generous financing, was the extraordinary talents of associates Jim Urbina, Brian Slawnik and Bruce Hepner, each of whom has between 10 and 20 years' experience building golf holes. "With them around, it would have been silly to build the same simple geometric forms (rectangular greens and bunkers) that Macdonald did, specifically at Chicago. I decided if Macdonald had had those guys to work with, he would have done things differently, and tried to make his golf course in Bandon look more like the original links courses."
The result is probably not what people are expecting, says Doak, who adds that if a member of the Chicago Golf Club were standing on the 1st tee not knowing the course's name, he probably wouldn't see the connection. "But when that Chicago member walks on to the first green, a huge backwards 'L' shape with plateaus at the front left and back right, he would feel at home right away because Macdonald built a green like that on nearly every course he built. At the next hole, a par-3, he would see the flag stuck right behind a nasty little pot bunker, and if he'd ever been to St. Andrews, he would instantly know where that idea came from."
Just reading Doak's words quickens the pulse of the devoted golfer who can no doubt picture the rumpled fairways, the oversized greens (one of which is 18,000 square feet!) and the type of tight, sandy turf off which the purest, most responsive contact is made. Geoff Shackelford, author of 10 books - most on the subject of golf course architecture - and an architect himself who has collaborated with Gil Hanse, a former Doak associate, is confident Old Macdonald will be a popular alternative to Bandon's other treasures. "I'm sure it will be very well received," he says. "It sounds like it's going to be great fun. I'm for anything that gets people better understanding and appreciating the old architects. Being a 'theme' course celebrating the work of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor, it will certainly do that."
It's a little early to start making predictions about which new course is likely to be the year's best, but Old Macdonald is bound to appear somewhere on the short-list. It promises to be so well received, in fact, it would likely vie for the top spot in any year. In 2010, however, the competition will probably be a little thin on the ground.
Just 39 18-hole courses opened in the U.S. in 2009, and this year's figure might not be that high. The recession, coupled with an unfortunate, but not altogether unforeseeable, surplus of courses resulting from manic over-development in the 1990s and early part of this century means that course construction can't keep up with course closures.
Had it not been for final construction work on Old Macdonald and a course named Bay of Dreams (Bahia de los Sueños) in Baja California, Mexico, Doak and his team might have had a pretty quiet year. "It really was a very slow time for us," says Doak, "and probably indicative of what lies ahead. We didn't start any new projects in 2009, and four or five of the projects that we had under contract just went into deep freeze. The ones that were housing-related will probably never be built now, because that whole end of the market has dried up, and that was 60-75 percent of new golf development."
Thankfully, Renaissance Golf, and Urbina in particular, is still in demand for its remodeling and restoration of classic courses (San Francisco GC, Yeaman's Hall, Pasatiempo, the Valley Club of Montecito, Claremont CC), something Doak hopes will keep his troops busy. "My associates still love to do all that consulting work at older clubs," he says, "which is good because that might be all there is for a while. I've told them they will need to transition to becoming independent contractors, and to take more responsibility for finding work on their own.
"Jim will be the first to test the waters. He's really to the point where I don't need to look over his shoulder, so I'm trying to help him get some more consulting work on his own. I still expect to work with him on a new project here and there, but he really ought to be in demand on his own. And by the same token, some of my lesser-known associates ought to have their turn in the spotlight too."
As well as relinquishing some of the responsibility he feels for his employees by allowing each one space to look for work on their own, Doak has been trying to offset the slump in orders in the U.S. by seeking jobs in places he never expected to go looking for work.
"Next week I'm going to Brazil to look at a potential project," he says. "And last year I went to Japan to scout a possible renovation of Keiyo CC in Tokyo, South Korea, India, Japan, Spain and China. We've actually signed contracts for new projects in three of those countries, so we ought to be busy for the next couple of years. But we have all learned lately that those contracts are meaningless until construction has begun."
(Just before this article was published, Doak had signed up to build one of the two courses at a new resort development in Central Florida. Coore and Crenshaw are lined up for the other course - an exciting prospect . . . but like Doak says, "prospects" don't put food on the table.)
As is the case with several American architects, Doak predicts most of his appointments in the near future will come from China, where he currently has two courses in the works. Both, not surprisingly perhaps, are on Hainan Island which at the moment seems to be at the epicenter of China's golf boom with the 22-course Mission Hills Hainan set to take over the mantle of the world's largest golf facility from its "mother" development, the original Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen.
Both were commissioned by the same developer, Han Xiding, who made a fortune in advertizing before buying the rights to the Golf Channel in China. "Mr. Han is our kind of developer," Doak told Golfclubatlas.com last June. "Before he was in advertizing, he was a landscape painter, so he might appreciate what we do on an artistic level more than any client we've ever had. He appreciates the importance we place on the detailing of the course, and he's an avid golfer who understands the short-game shots that make our designs fun. He's aware not all of his potential customers will initially think of golf the way we do, but believes that the Chinese golfer is becoming more sophisticated, and is ready to embrace a different type of course."
For now, the first of Doak's China designs goes by the name of the Island Club, because it sits on a 300-acre island in the Nandu River, located in the city of Haikou, Hainan's provincial capital (the second will be built on Mulan Bay, Hainan's northernmost point).
Instead of sending out newsletters, Doak likes to keep friends, associates, media and prospective clients up to date with what the firm is doing by mailing postcards detailing the current status of each job and the nature of the work. Last fall, his postcard from Hainan Island showed a slightly apprehensive-looking Doak standing a few yards in front of a large water buffalo that was barely visible through the Haikou smog. "This setting is unlike any we have worked in before," says Doak, understating the point somewhat. "It's located practically within the city of Haikou and features a lot of waterfront property. As a New York native, I would compare it to building a course on Roosevelt Island." Except for the buffalo, of course.
Doak will certainly be stepping out of his comfort zone traveling to, and working in, China, but he knows he has to. "There is a growing population of Chinese people who can afford to play the game, and all of a sudden they have found that they actually like it," he says. "A friend of mine there tells me the main reason they love it is because it's a great venue for gambling, but whatever the appeal, there are only 400 or 500 courses in the whole country right now, and in 10 years' time there will probably be millions of golfers. So it is the one true growth market for new courses."
One firm that saw this coming several years ago and established itself just as golf began gaining popularity in China is Schmidt-Curley, whose principal designers, Brian Curley, originally from California, and Lee Schmidt from Indiana, had worked for Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus before setting up their own company in 1997. "We had been involved with numerous projects in Asia before we formed our own firm, so in many ways we were in a position to hit the ground running," says Curley. "When we founded the firm, we were able to capitalize on our many contacts here. China, with its large population and burgeoning middle-class, was the next, logical place for golf to thrive."
In addition to the numerous courses they have built in association with famous player/designers (Nick Faldo, Fred Couples and Gil Morgan) in Arizona, California and Nevada, Schmidt-Curley has now built more than 40 courses in China and recently opened an office in Kunming to supplement its original Asia headquarters in Haikou.
Their most fortuitous association has been with the Chu family that began developing the original Mission Hills in 1992. Schmidt-Curley has worked on 10 of the club's 12 courses, and they continue to visit periodically to tweak them as club chairman Dr. David Chu sees fit.
Back in the States, course architects continue to gnash their teeth waiting for the good times to return. Curley, for one, doesn't ever see it happening. "I don't know that we'll ever have a boom approaching what we saw in the 1990s," he says. "On top of the economic downturn, younger players are growing up with different priorities and demands on their time. Most western courses have policies against cell phones, yet most potential 35-to-40-year-old players have grown up sending texts every minute of their lives on their Blackberries. Telling this person to not be 'connected' for five hours is a difficult task. It's not an issue in Asia where golfers are allowed to use their cell phones and encouraged to use the club as a place to do business."
For Americans that are part of that demographic to ever be attracted to golf, and if new courses are to start reappearing, the game will need to take a decisive turn, says Shackelford, not only eschewing the excesses so common at high-end facilities but also making a serious effort to put the emphasis back on fun. "The present situation certainly isn't ideal," he says, "but the future actually looks bright if you like golf courses a certain way: less expensive, drier, lower-key, quicker to get round and more entertaining.
"Clubs are going to become more affordable to join and more accessible to play. But we have to find a way to make golf less of an ordeal and get it back to a simpler, more relaxing pastime. We have to convince people that just because someone is not there to greet you at the porte cochere, or because the course only rakes its bunkers once a week, you still can have a great time. We'll get no help from the PGA Tours and USGAs of the world, but the one positive to come out of our dire economic times is that we are going to be saying goodbye to many of the game's overblown amenities."
Back in Oregon, the Bandon Dunes Resort is refreshingly understated, modest even. The lodgings are simple, yet elegant; the dining probably as good as anything you've sampled before, but without the fanfare. The closest Bandon Dunes gets to overblown, in fact, is a stable of 350 caddies, and the preposterously gigantic practice area (32 acres).
And though Old Macdonald won't be inexpensive at $220 a round in high season, it will at least be dry, fast and, best of all, fun. Really, all the game in America needs is a few hundred more like it . . . if just a little more affordable.
Tony Dear is an Englishman living in Bellingham, Wash. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Liverpool University golf team which played its home matches at Royal Liverpool GC. Easy access to Hoylake made it extremely difficult for him to focus on Politics, his chosen major. After leaving Liverpool, he worked as a golf instructor at a club just south of London where he also made a futile attempt at becoming a 'player.' He moved into writing when it became abundantly clear he had no business playing the game for a living. A one-time golf correspondent of the New York Sun, Tony is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, the Pacific Northwest Golf Media Association and the Golf Travel Writers Association. He is a multi-award winning journalist, and edits his own web site at www.bellinghamgolfer.com.
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