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There is a restaurant here in downtown NYC where only congee is served. My favorite is the one with a type of dried fish, (not salted fish) and peanuts. Very simple classic oldie recipe, but very satisfying. Must eat with deep fried doughnut sticks (YOUTIAO?). dcarch

Thank you very much. dcarch

"------ Risotto (/rɪˈzɒtoʊ/, Italian: [riˈzɔtto], from riso meaning "rice")[1] is a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetables. -----" I an trying to be funny. So often I fail dcarch

You guys don't know anything about what you can do with different pasta shapes. dcarch

It's risotto, except thinner. dcarch

Temperature was going to drop below freezing. I rushed out and picked the renaming ripen tomatoes and made the last 2020 BLT s. dcarch

Thanks! You made my day. I though I was the only one . Fun reading, Great writing. dcarch

I like pasta too, all shapes except one. I can't figure out how to cook bow tie pasta. The center always getting uncooked because it's much thicker there. dcarch

In all these years I have shopped in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese markets, I have never come across those "pasta" except the last one. I have not been to China recently, but those many times I traveled to China, I had never seen those either. I have never seen any restaurant served those either dcarch

When I go to a Chinese market, I enjoy walking thru the noodles isle. Chinese - many many doodles made from different flour, they all taste different, but they all look more or less the same. All noodles. Italian - Many many pasta shapes, but they all more or less taste the same. dcarch

No squashes this year. All squash plants were killed by borers. I found out that squash borer moths fly at night. So I got a UV zapper to kill them. Now it's fall, no more moths, so I had the zappers in the kitchen. Amazingly, the zapper is much more effective in killing off those annoying house flies. In less than an hour, all flies got vaporized. I hereby declare : My house is a no fly zone! Anyway, before that, I found out that flies did not taste like chicken, certainly they tasted even less like raisins. Please, please don't ask how I found out. Thank you. dcarch

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Not sure what I had done can be useful for you. I had steak SV'ing at 129F, I put the frozen lobster tails in the same bath for about 30 minutes. Then I took the steak out and add boiling water to the bath to raise the bath temperature to 135F instantly. 20 minutes later, I put ice cubes in the bath to instantly lower the temperature back to 129F. put the staek back in, SV for 15 minutes. Then both the lobsters and steak are ready for searing and serving at the same time. dcarch

Get a trail cam, as cheap as $40. You can find out what kind of critters have been messing up your garden day and night, and then work out a way to deal with them. I found out it was my neighbor's dog which dug up my yard at night. My neighbor fixed their fence. dcarch

Inspired by Franci's lobster dinner. I went out and got myself some. Not grilled, just sous vide'd. dcarch

I expect their accuracy rate turns out to be close to 100%. Here is the system I developed: 1. Inexpensive weed control landscape fabric, which allows watering but blocks weeds. 2. "A" is a 1 1/2" metal tube. The tube is heated up using a blow torch. It can cut holes thru the fabric easily and quickly. 3. "B" is another 1 1/2" tube used to core and remove soil thru the same holes, leaving a precise hole in the soil at a depth good for garlic. 4. "C" is a plunger to push the soil inside tube "B" to cover the garlic clove inside the hole. 5. "D" is a ruler to make sure proper social distancing between cloves are maintained. :-) Everything is reusable. Same system is used for growing a few other seedlings, if weed control is needed. dcarch

Planted 165 garlic cloves. Proper social distancing between cloves. dcarch

BLT never. (Better Late Than never) Cold weather is here. Not many tomato days left. dcarch

My uneducated opinion: 1. I have never seen browning vegetables in a Chinese restaurant. Browning food is generally considered unhealthy and to be avoided. 2. Blast furnace hot stove creates appetizing aroma in the air (wok hei?). 3. Blast furnace hot stove for restaurants cooks food faster, and therefore faster customer turnover. 4. In the old China days, pork fat was used frequently for cooking, and fatty meat was preferred. Yes, extreme heat makes lots of aromatic hydrocarbons and Maillard reaction with fat. But high heat does not much to lean chicken white meat cooked in vegetable oil. dcarch

Extreme heat wave is predicted for the next few days in many areas. Many people will suffer. I apologize for finding this funny: "With current temperatures hovering above 120 degrees, rangers in Death Valley National Park have some advice for would-be visitors: Drink plenty of water, avoid excessive outdoor activity and, please, stop trying to fry eggs on the pavement. It doesn’t work, it makes a mess and the staff has better things to do than clean up after you. In fact, the proliferation of broken shells, discarded cartons and accumulated goo has reached such a point that the park recently took to its Facebook page to implore people to stop ---------------------." dcarch

Shame on you. You lazy bum! You know how to build more lights , multi-layer farm, and high-rise interior gardening. dcarch

Typical desktop computer cooling fans give you about 50 to 100 CFM (12VDC) and run at about 1500 to 2000 RPM. Cooling fans for server room, data room equipment run much higher and noisier. I have many of those. TFC1212DE (120mm x 120mm) fan runs at 5000 RPM and 252 CFM. V80E128BHA5 (80mm x 80mm) fan runs at 6300 RPM and 73 CFM. That's why I find it interesting that some kitchen exhaust fans claim they can quietly evacuate 600 to 900 CFM. dcarch

Many areas' building codes require make-up air for kitchen exhaust, something like over 600 CFM. dcarch

You are absolutely correct with universal motors and some brushless motors, their speed is determined by voltage, but induction motors are synchronous motors. They are more or less constant speed motors determine by 60 Hz line frequency. The pushing fan is not going to make the fan speed higher. With very restricted and long running duct systems, you can increase CFM by adding in-line booster fan. dcarch

The quantity of exhaust air is determined by the size of the duct and the air pressure of the fan. If the duct size is only big enough for one fan, then it make no difference how many fans you have, 2, 3, 50, 100 fans will give you the same CFM of exhaust air. As long as the fan size is the same, having more fans will not increase air pressure, therefore CFM. dcarch