What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?
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High quality kitchen knives. I'm partial to hand-forged Japanese carbon steel. So sharp. Maintains an edge. Easy to sharpen. Being beautiful is just an added bonus.
Dexter Russell carbon steel knives. Some of the patterns are 200 years old. Cheap compared to the high end stuff but they're easy to keep screaming sharp and work great.
Stainless knives are good for pocket knives that are exposed to sweat, work knives that are in corrosive environments, serrated steak knives that go in the dishwasher. Anything else, pretty much, carbon is king.
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You can actually buy a peanut crushing machine! I don't have one, and I can't honestly see that anyone would want to go through the botheration of cleaning and maintaining but hey to each their own!
For me there's a bulk food center that sells stuff out of bins by weight, and they provide the crushers for a minor extra charge, I believe it's 11 cents extra per 100g
Every once in awhile I run out of peanut butter, but because I actually always have roasted unsalted peanuts, if I need to I can just bust them up or smosh them in my cast iron mortar and pestle
You can just bash some on a cutting board with a hard heavy thing... The little smashed up nuggets are amazing on different things like rice noodles, as a topping for curries, some salads
One of my favorite uses for peanut butter, and you only need like a tablespoon, is mix it in with a little bit of beef broth out of a box, mix in the peanut butter, some Thai chilies or whatever heat you like, spices to taste, and then you can parboil some potatoes and finish them in that sauce and it's like this crazy... like dude just try it
I love peanuts so much!
Edit: I forgot to mention I was eating peanuts while typing this comment
Ha ha thanks! I love peanuts too but seems like I won't be able to make my own peanut better anytime soon
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I ended up with an air fryer. It's still just a convection oven, but I use it constantly.
I love my adult E-Z-Bake oven, lol.
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At first it felt too hard, but I quickly realized I could mould it to whatever shape is most comfortable as I'm falling asleep. I often shape it to hold my neck in addition to my head.
I was looking for a pillow that doesn't feel flat, I was using a memory foam pillow that would end up nearly flush with the bed by the time I woke up, which was really uncomfortable. The buckwheat in the pillow doesn't really compress, so it stays firm and keeps it's shape as long as you dont move too much.
As a rotisserie sleeper, I don't think that's going to work out well for me... I'll stick to my ever growing nest of pillows.
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Yeah, it's a bit too big but appart from that it's excellent
If they release a steam deck "mini" that's like the size of a thick phone my productivity will crash so hard.
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Calling that game slop is criminal
True. The design, animations and everything has a lot of heart put into it.
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I ended up with an air fryer. It's still just a convection oven, but I use it constantly.
What's with these? Do they heat up faster? More convection means more heat transfer? I don't get it
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The total eclipse. I was lucky enough to live in the path of last year's. I now understand why people are willing to travel across the world just to experience something that only lasts a few minutes.
Would you mind elaborating on your experience? Why was it exciting ? What came through your mind at the time ?
I've seen a solar eclipse but I'm in elementary at the time and didn't care for it. Now I wonder if it must have been kinda terrifying the old human thought their God was mad.
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I didn't see any of the hype for the Barbie movie (apparently they painted streets in London pink?), but I just went in and saw it. Awesome film
Also: A laser tape measure. I always heard about people ranting about them, and often thought "I get it I get it you're a child who likes shiny things", but I finally got one and it is one of my most prized possessions. I can now find out the distance to things like THAT.
Didn't live up the hype: I caved in and got a mechanical keyboard. A nice one. Keychron something such. I now have a heavy clackety-clack keyboard. That's it. The usual plastic 15 quid keyboards I get are only every so slightly less good. Don't buy into this fad. It's for ASMR fanatics and their heavy wallets
Counterpoint on the mechanical keyboard. I type heavily (as in, I hit the keys hard) and my joints are terrible. After a day typing on a shitty membrane keyboard my hands will be aching. A mech lets me find the right switch/dampener combo so that doesn't happen
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Pro tip: crush roasted unsalted peanuts and have real peanut butter. You have no idea what you're missing. The peanut butter sold in most places is hydraulically fractured, then the peanut oil is reserved and replaced with inferior soybean. Crushed (not fractured) peanut butter does not separate, and it is breathtakingly versatile in cooking!
This is commonly available most places afaik, just 100% peanut.
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The band Opeth
wrote last edited by [email protected]I moved past my metal era ages ago and still listen to him. He's always been fantastic. For as much hate the Heritage album got when it came out, it's also one of my favs.
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Planar Magnetic headphones. Can't go back.
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World of Warcraft back in 2007-8
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Induction range top. Quick on, fine degree of control, quick off, little heat radiation. Better than gas. Only adaptation was flat bottom wok which
makes the working world go roundis not quite the same experience.Keeping it clean with minimal effort compared to a gas range was unexpectedly my favorite part
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What's with these? Do they heat up faster? More convection means more heat transfer? I don't get it
wrote last edited by [email protected]Both. The fast-moving air really does have an almost frying effect, and mine takes like a minute or two to get up to temp (and fits a whole pizza).
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World of Warcraft back in 2007-8
Still playing.
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Linux and open source software.
Tested out a dualboot of Linux Mint about 2 years ago on a Windows laptop. Wanted to see how far I could get on 100% open source and free software.
I got far enough that I never looked back.
I’ve tried switching multiple times, but so many programs I use for work are not supported on Linux. I essentially was having to run 2 systems so I relented and tried to de-Microsoft windows.
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World of Warcraft back in 2007-8
Why this time? Stopped playing 2006.
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Why this time? Stopped playing 2006.
That was when I started playing. Hype for the game was super high up to Cataclysm, I think
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Keeping it clean with minimal effort compared to a gas range was unexpectedly my favorite part
I find it even easier than a glass top electric (what the induction replaced) I think it is because only the area directly below the pan is heated, spills are easier to wipe up and don't get baked on.
