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- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 5 days ago:
I’m sure it works, but its it’s not the only way to to cook a perfect egg. And it is hilariously inefficient both in terms of energy spent to boil water for 32 minutes, and effort required to direct one’s focus primarily to boiling eggs for 32 minutes (plus prep time).
What is funny to me is that this process is just pulse width modulation which is exactly how electric stoves work. But instead of applying the duty cycle to the water to keep it at a steady sub-boil temperature, they applied it to directly to the egg to even out the temperature gradient inside the egg.
You achieve a very similar result by just doing a 2 minute flash boil to set the outer whites and then dropping the temperature with cold water or ice and just walking away while a sous vide stick controls an even temperature for the rest of the time. Now, I don’t have a sous vide stick, but I did get a variable temperature electric kettle for tea, so I have been using that for several years now.
What makes the periodic method consistent and ripe for virality is:
- It reduces the impact of the most common unregulated variables: like pot size, burner power, egg:water ratio; it uses self regulating temperatures; and it’s hard to forget about the eggs since you are constantly monitoring them.
- It is accessible. It doesn’t require any special equipment and it is easy to remember: 2-in, 2-out, x8.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 5 days ago:
Eggs will be easier to peel regardless of age if you drop them into boiling water water instead of cooking from cold. It causes the whites nearest to the shell to cook quickly and pull away from the shell.
If I recall correctly it’s because the proteins in the whites go through two phases as they cook. First they relax like spring partial uncoiling and then they either tighten back up and tangle with each other like, or they cross link with each other like a polymer (I forget which). Regardless of the exact mechanism, if you cook them fast enough, the proteins in the whites bind with each other before they have the chance to settle down and bond significantly with the shell lining.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 week ago:
Snook
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 week ago:
Also the G in gyro.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
More like Halo Finite, amiright?
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 1 week ago:
I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.
I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 1 week ago:
Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 1 week ago:
The word goes back to at least 1580 and at that time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until the two joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 3 weeks ago:
It’s not the chase itself. It’s the “defensive” driving maneuvers and the getting bumped by a beater that will get officers cooked in an unopenable tin can.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong. I love me a nuanced conversation about the intersections of sustainability and accessibility. If you want to, we can have that.
But this is a shitpost community. Posts here aren’t really expected to conform to reality, let alone provide exhaustive coverage of all corner cases. This stupid shitpost also neglects to consider folks who need to have fluids introduced intravenously and the plastic waste created by single use saline bags, or the material/lifetime of the cup in which a straw is used. This is a dumb meme about the choices that some people make with the options that they have. It is not an indictment against the people to which those options may not be available.
- Comment on eco-vengeance iconoclast 4 weeks ago:
Javelina?
I don’t even know Alina!
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. “Pube” is short for “pubic hair”.
The face is not a pubis
- Comment on Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that a rat poison?
- Comment on purrfect costume 5 weeks ago:
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I had to look up the name.
- Comment on purrfect costume 5 weeks ago:
I immediately thought T’Ana
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 month ago:
Yes.
It’s shower_thoughts_ not shower_posts_
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
And the front of it.
- Comment on Harsh 1 month ago:
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
- Comment on Salmon 1 month ago:
Do you not?
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 1 month ago:
I didn’t know it existed.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 month ago:
Where were you when you heard that the president was shot?
Where were you when you heard that the towers fell?
Where were you when you heard someone shout “Geht en mah bel-ley!” for the first time?
These are the questions that shaped generations.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 1 month ago:
Which is worse? Getting hit with bird poop while standing still, or while riding a motorcycle down the highway?
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 2 months ago:
You might enjoy blippo plus.
I just heard about it on the Post Games podcast - Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 2 months ago:
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 2 months ago:
I read the top second cause I thought I should start from the top
🤔
lol. I didn’t even noticed the top until I started scrolling away.
- Comment on Mario 64 wastes SO MUCH MEMORY | Kaze Emanuar 2 months ago:
MOAR MARIO!
MOARIO!
- Comment on here there be lions 2 months ago:
“I’m an Alpha male”
Ah, you’re so stressed, scared and disconnected from your community that you resort to intimidation and violence in some desperate grasp at self respect?
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 2 months ago:
As long as my socks still smell like fresh breeze, and don’t cling to my sweaters, then whatever.
- Comment on If you think about how big the universe is, the fact that we can manipulate energy on such a small scale, like raising the temperature of something by one degree is absolutely insane 2 months ago:
I am envious of your sense of wonder.