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I have a laptop in the kitchen on news most of the time, in case WWIII starts.
Other times the laptop is on YouTube. So if I am cooking French (food), it will be playing French music, if I am cooking Indian, it will be Indian music, so on and so forth.
You can find music in any culture on YouTube.
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A belated Easter dinner.
SV roasted prime rib steak.
I had a bone to pick with the butcher. The way he cuts the steaks. The rib bones are not parallel to the face of the meat, which makes it difficult to have a steak with uniform thickness. So I use my reciprocating multitool to slice the bone lengthwise. Not messy and quick.
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Shelby, sorry that you have to go thru this not very pleasant situation. Plenty of folks here will give you food and eating ideas to minimize discomfort.
Someone I know had gone thru the same thing during the pandemic. The dental office shut down in the middle of her procedure because the dentist died and a few of the assistants got infected.
Hope everything will go smooth for you. Let us know your progress, all information are very much on-topic food/eating that would be beneficial for everyone here.
dcarch 😒
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Not sure where to post this:
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A King's Ransom!
A way to enjoy king crabs is not to look at the price tag and not to do the calculation to figure out how much is the meat per pound after shelling. This is to avoid indigestion.🤣
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23 minutes ago, rotuts said:
those are good points
hopefully the baterries would be easy for the user to replace
and be reasonably priced
High current/high voltage batteries most likely would be hardwired and they will not be cheap because the balancing charging electronics.
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4 hours ago, chromedome said:
I wrote a long rant about storage, renewables and their inevitable rise, but it would take us well OT so I've refrained.
I agree. Yes, let's get back on topic, about cooking.
I was very happy recently that the off-grid system I built/configured from solar panels, successfully sous vided a 100 hour 8-lb brisket.
The system to connect the main components from solar panels to controller to inverter to monitor, to batteries etc. was critical and complicated even for an off-grid (meaning one-way system). A two way on-grid system may be 10 times more complicated.
Imagine if you have to design a traffic control system for a high speed highway that both north going and south going traffic are using the same lanes.
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36 minutes ago, AlaMoi said:
do note, after spending money for your charging station, you'll have to spend more money for the hardware to feed your battery power back into the electrical grid.
It gets very complicated. Solar panel system is low voltage DC power which needs to be converted and stepped up to 110vAC (or 220vAC) to feed to the grid. Car batteries in general put out around 400VDC, which needs to be stepped down and converted to 110VAC.
Not easy and not cheap for high power (amperage) electrical and electronic bi-directional system work.
So, adding batteries to kitchen appliances to tie into the grid? good luck finding a repair person if some thing goes wrong.
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"-------With V2G technology, electricity can be taken from the car battery and pushed back into the grid. V2G and vehicle-to-X (for example vehicle to home, vehicle to building) are basically the same technology. The key word is bi-directional.-----"
All batteries have limited charge/discharge cycles. The more you cycle the quicker the battery ages. We all know how soon a cell phone's battery needs to be replaced. Have you check out how much it can cost you to replace a car battery? WOW!
It sounds to me the VAG concept means your batteries will be constantly charged and discharged.
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3 hours ago, FauxPas said:
Reading seed catalogues without first having a garden plan is equivalent to going food shopping hungry and without a list 😇
3 hours ago, FauxPas said:I have a garden plan in my mind. Unfortunately, it's far more generous than the space I actually have available, ha. 😄
What is the antonym of "PLAN"? 🤥
This is my 2024 tomatoes seedling start tags.
Working on tags for other vegetables.
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9 hours ago, Shel_B said:
I saw these on Amazon and a few other sites. I've neither seen nor heard of them before. Has anyone tried them and have any comment on their quality and taste?
Good to see you back posting.
I have no comment, I grow all my tomatoes organic.
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That is a lot of power to heat up a pan/pot almost instantly.
1. A lot of power requires a lot of copper to heat up and then cool down. Copper is in short supply and very expensive. That's why many wires and cables are made with aluminum nowadays.
2. High power high frequency magnetic cooktop, have they look into pace maker issues?
3. Many of my pots' and pans' bottoms are warped even on low heat cooktops.
4. For some people, it is nice to have a car with 1,000 HP engine just to get there a few minutes faster.
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One of the many dishes for the Lunar New Year of the Dragon dinner.
Dragon roll sushi, with head and tail, as required by the tradition.
Pot stickers to symbolize gold ingots for prosperity, also common tradition for new year.
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1 hour ago, chromedome said:
Just gonna leave this here...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/06/1228868005/purple-tomato-gmo-gardeners
Soon, there will be tomatoes with Bacon and lettuce DNA .
Just think how much time we can save making a BLT.
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25 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
Lobster would be more appropriate. The Chinese for lobster, 龙虾, literally means 'dragon shrimp'.
Fantastic idea!
I was thinking it would be difficult to sculpture a dragon's head and tail. But I can make a lobster dragon roll sushi with a lobster head and tail.
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I am thinking of making dragon roll sushi with pot stickers.
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4 hours ago, pastameshugana said:
Can you describe your growing setup (or have you elsewhere that you can link to?)
Thanks!
I had posted sometime ago (a few years back) my system, but I have not been able to find it using the "search" function here.
I can't take pictures of the system now because the new cell phone camera can't work with the LED flicker interference.
Essentially, I installed solar panels to power about 1,500 watts of homemade LED lights. It has been very good for 5 years of growing.
Thanks.
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Slowly recovering from stressful Holidays cooking. A very easy dinner for today.
Sous vide boneless rib steak, popovers, on salad greens grown under LED lights.
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BTW, the pop overs were made with non-gluten flour. Very surprised how well and how tasty they came out!
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13 hours ago, vyas said:
NGO group kitchens in India
Welcome.
Tell us more about NGO group kitchens.
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You may try one of the two below, gives you from 0 RPM to full speed:
1. If you have an incandescent light dimmer switch, plug in your mixer. (less than 300 Watts)
2. Get a PWM (Paulse Width Modulated) motor speed controller. (can be 1000 watts)
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The best knife can be forever destroyed in a fraction of a second if the fine edge is over heated.
I would never take a knife for sharpening to someone operating a grinding wheel without using water.
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7 hours ago, Laurentius said:
Why are there bars on the windows of a highrise? Is this normal?
And bars for air conditioners.
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42 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:
How typical is this kitchen? Is it upper class, middle class?
I remember traveling to Hongkong, and Europe, size-wise, this kitchen is middle -upper class. Here in the US, of course that kitchen is considered very compact, if you include a refrigerator, a dishwasher, and a 4-burner stove/oven.
Eat-in kitchens? No such thing.
That's why entertaining at home is not a very often thing in other countries.
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It just occurred to me, a strange thing to me looking at the picture above, the counter on the window side, what's under the counter? No drawers?
How can a kitchen function without drawers? I think something interesting is under the counter behind those door looking panels.🤫?
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Dinner 2024
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Although we were only in 90% eclipse path, it was still a very amazing event. Even dogs in the area were barking when the sky was getting darken. It's been known that some animals (humans? 😊) behave strangely during a solar eclipse.
When eggs were on sale, I bought a few dozens. They are taking too much room in the fridge. Have been trying to find ways to use them up. So made this dish for a quick dinner.
Sunny Side Up Eggclipse
Fried sunny-side-up eggs on squid ink pasta, painted with home made black garlic sauce.
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