The Cooking Thread
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@PleegWat the king of all words!
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@remi Google translate FTW. On further investigation, the word I was looking for is baseboard.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
The difference was large enough to account for the costs of changing the oil every 10 meals
Heh...uh...what? Yeah...I usually change the oil a few weeks after it starts smoking. /confession
Looks more like motor oil by the time I'm done with it, especially the sludge at the bottom.
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@boomzilla I don't do it that often either, but 10 meals is the usual recommendation. Or checking the color references on the original packaging.
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
At one time my electricity provider gave me a gizmo to measure energy usage that worked by simply clamping it around a wire, without needing to actually open the circuit to plug the thing
It likely wouldn't work with a conventional corded appliance. They have to be clamped on a single conductor to measure the current indirectly via induced voltage from the current passing through the core of the clamp. If you pass both conductors through they cancel each other out. You can get around this if you feel comfortable splitting the exterior insulation of an extension cord and separating out the live conductor and clamping only around that. You can then inline that with your load.
This will not likely be as accurate as something like a Kill-A-Watt meter because you would only be measuring the current and not the voltage but it would be better than nothing.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
It likely wouldn't work with a conventional corded appliance. They have to be clamped on a single conductor to measure the current indirectly via induced voltage from the current passing through the core of the clamp. If you pass both conductors through they cancel each other out. You can get around this if you feel comfortable splitting the exterior insulation of an extension cord and separating out the live conductor and clamping only around that. You can then inline that with your load.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
This will not likely be as accurate as something like a Kill-A-Watt meter because you would only be measuring the current and not the voltage
For resistive loads like heaters, reactive power is pretty much zero, so (on paper) it shouldn't make a difference.
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@Zerosquare said in The Cooking Thread:
For resistive loads like heaters, reactive power is pretty much zero, so (on paper) it shouldn't make a difference.
On paper, and for this sort of testing, probably not. But there is variation in voltage whether due to sag from resistance or just daily circadian rhythms and their overall effect on the power grid.
But for this sort of "back of the napkin" calculations and debate we are way past the noise and I agree that it doesn't matter in the slightest.
Although Kill-A-Watt meters are cheap and record kWh metrics that are not susceptible to manual human sampling rate. Plus they're cheap and once you buy one you'll be in a "new toy phase" for a while. Same goes for an IR camera. If you want to know where your home is using lots of energy just look for the hot spots. If you want to know where you are losing or gaining energy just look at the walls for hot or cold spots, depending on the seasons.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
If you want to know where your home is using lots of energy just look for the hot spots.
That's easy. I don't even need an IR camera. The bedroom that we use as a computer room is 5–10 degrees warmer than any other room in the house.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
The bedroom that we use as a computer room is 5–10 degrees warmer than any other room in the house.
That does not necessarily mean heat gain due to poor insulation. A long time ago
in a galaxy far, far awayI rented a house with a bedroom that also had a big temperature differential to the other rooms in the house. I eventually deduced that room was a room addition made from what used to be a porch and they never bothered to run HVAC ducts to the room. I assume they expected normal air movement in the house to handle that. It did not.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
The bedroom that we use as a computer room is 5–10 degrees warmer than any other room in the house.
That does not necessarily mean heat gain due to poor insulation.
Yeah. It's graphics cards. Anywho...
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@boomzilla The Nope, You Eat It thread is .
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@HardwareGeek with an appropriate BAC I could obsess over eating that.
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Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways.
You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
I miss @mott555, when was he last around?
I don't know. 10 Aug 2020, 16:05?
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@Zecc said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
I miss @mott555, when was he last around?
I don't know. 10 Aug 2020, 16:05?
Possibly. That time reflects the last time he had active participation in a public area of the forum. Likes/dislikes do not count. I regularly use the forums PM feature to chat with a user that their profile says they have not been around for a long time.
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@boomzilla Plus a full day to disassemble the dryer, clean all the components, reassemble the dryer, find out it doesn't work, take it apart again, be unable to find the problem, and end up buying a new one anyway?
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The "Nope, you eat it" thread is
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla Plus a full day to disassemble the dryer, clean all the components, reassemble the dryer, find out it doesn't work, take it apart again, be unable to find the problem, and end up buying a new one anyway?
If I had to guess, this supposedly took place in a dorm so it would be the university's responsibility to clean or repair it and then hopefully catch the moron that did it and charge them for the damages and repairs.
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I got one of my top 10 burns last night when I reached in front of the cordless kettle spout right as it came to a boil.
Might not be for the squeamish
Steam can do wicked things to flesh in short order. It didn't even hurt much until the blister popped tonight. Now it feels like a proper burn.
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: You again? What did you do this time?!
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@Zerosquare Might as well make good use of that Season Pass.
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@Zerosquare On the one hand I imagine @Polygeekery to be the kind of person who fixes himself at home with whatever's around, on the other I'm having trouble imagining him wasting good alcohol in disinfections.
Filed under: what's your problem, Firefox's spellchecker?
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@Zecc said in The Cooking Thread:
I imagine @Polygeekery to be the kind of person who fixes himself at home with whatever's around
Yep. Remember the super glue story when I got my finger into a router bit? There are many others. When I tell my wife that I need to go to the hospital she knows that shit just got serious.
As for the alcohol comment......not even I would ever get desperate enough to drink isopropyl alcohol.
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I probably should have went to the hospital for this burn.
Spoilers because not appetizing despite being cooked flesh. You've been warned.
I never would have thought that a cordless kettle could do that in a split second. I've gotten less burned by oxyacetylene cutting torches.
Yeah yeah, I know, the water vapor in steam increases the energy carrying and transferring capacity of the air by.....I don't know......a lot. It's still pretty amazing. I now have a healthy appreciation for the descriptions of steam boiler accidents and explosions. If a 1.75l, 1800w cordless kettle can do this in a split second exposure then a steam train accident would be....... -shudder-
All of the safety warnings that come with pressure cookers make sense now. Their manuals read like you just bought plutonium. I totally get it now.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Spoilers because not appetizing despite being cooked flesh. You've been warned.
Meh. Barely any pus.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
the water vapor in steam increases the energy carrying and transferring capacity of the air by.....I don't know......a lot.
I own a steam oven. It is just as effective at heating food as submerging in boiling water.
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Totino's pizzas are one of the garbage foods from childhood/early adulthood that I still really like.
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@Polygeekery Totino's has an interesting sauce that definitely sets it apart from other cardboard frozen pizza.
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@boomzilla I like it with a little bit of Red Hot and some freshly cracked black pepper. Good stuff.
Other garbage foods that I still like:
- Velveeta Shells and Cheese with a little salsa mixed in
- "Lasagna" variety of Chef Boyardee
- Beef flavored ramen noodles
A few weeks ago I picked up some ramen noodles and made them for lunch one day. My wife walked in the kitchen as I was doing so and asked if something had happened and if we were now poor and I had not told her.
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@Polygeekery I'd still eat ramen if I could. It's ok with the flavor packets (depending on the flavor; some are not so good), but add some frozen veggies or a little cut-up leftover meat, and it becomes a not-great but decent meal. Unfortunately, I can't eat the ramen itself anymore.
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@dcon forgot the Skittles, just to fuck with people.
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@loopback0 I'm pretty sure that is a parody or joke or whatever. If not then I wholeheartedly suggest that he eat a lot more glass before he has a chance to pass on his genetics.