Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
One scale multiple bowls as one often needs to mix ingredients in a serial, (cereal?) fashion. You ain’t enough saving time or effort to brag about it. Besides, I’m putting it all in a dishwasher, adding some soap, pushing a button, and walking away with a hot cuppa tea.
- Comment on Chef 3 days ago:
Again: How good does good enough need to be?
- Comment on Chef 4 days ago:
Yeah, I just ask them for the traceable certifications for the accuracy of their measuring tools. I mean, I want to know you got that level accuracy. Not just have blind faith. I get a LOT of pissy responses and blank stares.
The worst thing to happen to woodworking is the availability cheap digital calipers, aka: Idiot sticks. They now think they a rocket surgeons.
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 4 days ago:
I remember a cartoon I saw in a magazine decades ago. It was 2 people, both obviously gods. The one that was larger and bearded was looking down on a smaller child like person. The child was showing the adult a planet he had created, (earth) in his cupped hands. The adult sized god looks down at it simply says, “And now that you have had your little joke…”
- Comment on Chef 4 days ago:
Yeah, experience matters. But whether it’s learning to walk as an infant, baking bread, or having sexy sex, the more experience we have at doing something, the better we tend to get at it. As the old saying goes, “We tend to get good at those things we do often.”
- Comment on Chef 4 days ago:
Volume is good enough. People lose sight of “just how good does good enough really need to be?” What you are talking about is a discussion of tolerances. I used to be a toolmaker. Perfection in accuracy and tolerances was part of my stock in trade. So many wasted hours spent telling customers that no, the tolerances do not need to be +.0005"/-.0000" or +.001mm/-.000mm for this or that it needs to be this accurate to function correctly. if you insist, I can do it your way, but you will be very unhappy.
When I bake my 2 loaves of bread at home, I use either cups and spoons or a digital scale depending on my mood. I honestly cannot tell you the difference in bread quality. Perhaps I’m just a bad baker and a worse connoisseur of bread - after all, I’m not Paul Hollywood. But I do know it’s still far, far better than store bought bread.
I have known 2 different people that owned and operated very successful family bakeries. They didn’t much care about weights of ingredients in the kitchen much beyond accounting costs per loaf to determine pricing. At 3AM ain’t nobody got time or the mood to scale everything. But yes, they did understand the dough itself allowing them to worry less about the exact measurement. We tend to get good at what we do.
Is baking as loosie goosie as cooking? Oh hell no! The tolerances must be respected. But you got more leeway than you, the home gamer, think you have. So worry less, and bake more!
- Comment on Chef 4 days ago:
I would argue that even measuring by weight isn’t all that important. Baking recipes are built as ratios. And as we all know, because we were awake in math class on that day, a ratio is simply a unit less form of measurement. And as long as we maintain the ratio we are good to go.
This is why you can bake a great loaf of bread with a scale, measuring cups and spoons, or the palm of your hand. Do you think Cavie Cave had a digital scale or a beautiful set of heavy stainless steel measuring cups in his cave 20,000 years ago?
- Comment on I need an adult 6 days ago:
Purple is just an up jump red aimed at royalty
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg leaves stranded boat passengers to die in middle of the Pacific. 1 week ago:
Not defending Zuck the Cuck, but just how many multi channel radios do you think they need to have? And how do you monitor and manage all those radios as a single crewmember on duty on the bridge ? Does an entity like the Coast Guard bear any responsibility to listen to the emergency channel and know how to contact the nearest ship/boat?
- Comment on I do this every time 1 week ago:
I replaced our microwave this last winter. Jokes on everyone, I can no longer hear the tones when it beeps. My hearing has lost that particular frequency I guess.
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
I was still using 3 1/2" floppies regularly until 2014.
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
From waaaayyyyy back in the day, most cars didn’t have FM radio, just am band. You could buy an add-on FM band device that would receive the FM signals and then transmit them to the AM radio to hear.
Today, you can get a cigarette lighter powered unit to connect to your phone by bluetooth and then to an unused radio station to listen to your phone. About $10 to $20 or so. They work fine. I have one in a Jeep.
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
Me and my sisters got a cassette recorder we had to share between us for such things. There were a lot of hours spent listening to the local AM station doing homework and hoping you could catch your favorite song to record.
It took determination and time to fill a cassette doing that. Buying 45’s was faster but more expensive.
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 1 week ago:
But that requires a commitment! Can’t be put into that box!
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 1 week ago:
God I hate text messaging. Instead of pissing away half a day or more sending text messages back and forth, call me and I will solve the problem you texted me about in less than a 1 minute. 5 minutes if you require a technical explanation.
Fookin’ waste of my time and day.
- Comment on Languages 2 weeks ago:
Oh, we steal words. And we will continue to steal words until we have them all!
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 2 weeks ago:
Harbor Freight will sell you cheap cutting tools for this kind of work.
- Comment on modern classic 2 weeks ago:
An old house deserves to live as it is. I hope you get to grow older alongside your home!
- Comment on modern classic 2 weeks ago:
Natural materials people! And then leave them to age naturally and gracefully!
Everyone bitches about how fake everything has become. And then they go and do things like the right hand picture. Idiots. Idiots, the lot of them.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 3 weeks ago:
When I see a rally car, I see a Lancer careening through a missed curve at high speed and flying off into the forest only to get wraped around several innocent trees.
- Comment on Those of us who don't use ChatGPT will get this one ;) 3 weeks ago:
You can tell it’s AI because they left out the part about the majority of olive oil is aduterated with cheap vegetable oils.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was a toolmaker for a while. So there is more than a little skill and knowledge. But I had issues doing that kind of work and had to find another career.
Some people love woodworking. I love working with steel and making tools.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 4 weeks ago:
It is very satisfying. That’s why I was a toolmaker for a dozen years or so until I got so cranky and pissed off angry I had to find a new career before I DID skin some idiot alive and nail their hide to the wall.
But I do enjoy the process of making a good and accurate tool. The problem is, I tend to be a perfectionist. And when I realize I’m on the third iteration of a tool that really isn’t that important, it can be hard to pick up the old thread again. But I do enjoy it.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 4 weeks ago:
You ain’t the only one in that boat. And there is nothing wrong with that either.
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
So why did you claim that “it’s the likely wealthy, highly educated people” that are bad? Choose your words better and don’t make blanket statements.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 4 weeks ago:
I got into making and designing small tabletop model steam engines because they are cool. So I needed to buy a small lathe, a mill, a metal cutting bandsaw, and all the tooling each machine needed. So much tooling…That’s the part that will break you financially.
And then you discover you need to design and make a jig or fixture to make a special tool to make another special jig and fixture to make a tool to make that one tiny part for that engine. None of which you will probably ever use again. You end up making tools to make tools to make tools. You can spend 6 months to a year designing and building tools just to get to make that one little part.
I’ve got thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into making engines that I just give away over the years. But I can’t stop this hobby. And I have added 3D printing to my list of hobbies as well.
At least it got me away from collecting fine antique shotguns and importing hunting dogs.
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
So, what’s wrong with that? If the worst people are all highly educated people, then there should soon only be the good people left that aren’t as well educated. Right?
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
I have nothing against waiters. The world needs some waiters. I used them as an example. But yeah, a doctorate in sociology will probably improve humanity to a greater extent than being a waiter. And to be honest, even a doctorate in sociology isn’t at the top of the list like a medical doctor would be.
And when it comes to emigration, countries want the best educated people they can get so they can improve their nation and the people’s lives that live there. Like it or not, waiters, taxi drivers, and cashiers, by and large, are not on the desirable list of professions for Western nations looking for immigrants.
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
Not if Trump has his way.
But migrant workers have always been a thing. Doing the lowest paying jobs with no security or care. Things like hoeing fields or handpicking tomatoes. Are you willing to travel from one job to another doing backbreaking work for little pay?
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps not. But a PhD is indicative of highly specialized knowledge, like mathematics, engineering, or physics. All knowledge sets that are highly prized by nations around the world.
Waiters need not apply…