How many of those racks came back from the same few suppliers, or is it spread out across a ton of farms? 1,000 is a wild number to hit without clocking it, but I'm more curious if you've got a "bad batch" story burned into your muscle memory from like rack number 37 or whatever.

Took me a decade to flip on Fight Club. Read it in high school and thought it was just edgy dude-bro nonsense. Picked it up again during a rough patch in my 30s and finally got what it was saying about feeling stuck and chasing meaning in all the wrong places. The anger parts still felt over the top, but the loneliness underneath hit way harder. Your mileage may vary, but sometimes you just need some life experience to unlock a book. Glad The Goldfinch is working for you now, grief is one of those things you don't get until you get it.

The cremation setting thing got me because my oven did the exact same thing to a pie last month...

Drove circles for 20 minutes last time, finally just parked and walked to the exit.

Bet that cornstarch trick works about as well as my neighbor's advice to "just add more butter" to fix a burnt casserole. Guess we're all one weird tip away from gourmet status, huh?