graycube
@graycube@lemmy.world
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 1 week ago:
Before we had fancy temperature controlled ovens, probably for all but the last 100 years worldwide, bakers used wood fired ovens, coal fired ovens, and solar ovens usually lined with bricks, stone, clay, and/or cast iron. Figuring out the the temperature was a mix of guesswork, rules of thumb, experience, and luck.
I read somewhere that many bakers were skeptical of this new technology. That a lot of marketing had to be done and it was often sold to beginners as easier to get started baking.
There are really only 3 temperatures needed. Low, Medium, and High. The other factor is how fast your oven cools down after you add the food.
When I bake bread I’ll start with a relatively high temperature and the lower it every few minutes to simulate the wood fire slowly dieing back.
When I bake on an open fire I’ll use a cast iron “Dutch Oven” and put it in the coals or near the coals depending on whether I want “high”, “medium”, or “low”.
Usually I want high temperatures for pizza. Or for searing and roasting and toasting. Medium temperatures for baking ordinary things (pies, cakes, cookies), and low temperatures for slow roasts or very large and heavy dishes or beans (which take a long time to cook).
In Farenheit I usually think 400-450 is “high”, 350 is Medium, and 275-325 is low. You can go higher, of course but usually we move to the stove top or grill for that. And lower sometimes, but usually we use a slow cooker for those many hours long projects.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 month ago:
There is an article about it here: www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hiring-humans
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
Oh, and if you want to use it as the backing store for a database consider obstore instead of s3fs: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08-01-obstore/
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
I’d use an s3 bucket with s3fs. Since you want to host it yourself, Minio is the open-source tool to use instead of s3.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 month ago:
I think they are trying to go back to before they were grown up and had to deal with adult issues. They idolize their innocent childhood and some how associated that as the time when America was great. They find it really confusing that the child’s perspective of that time window was flawed. They also find it confusing that different age conservatives all imagine a different time window for when life was good.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 2 months ago:
We also don’t know the true cost of these tools since most AI service providers are still operating at a loss.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
It has a name: “you pee”. They just leave ir off of most maps because it is considered nsfw.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 months ago:
Just try stuff and see where it takes you. Talk to lots of people from different walks of life too.
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 months ago:
Are pets livestock, or did they miss a category of mammals? In the US there are more dogs than children.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 4 months ago:
It is probably being remotely driven from India and they just lost wifi for a minute.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 4 months ago:
Which is why he had to be made an example of and executed. It took a few hundred years for his brand to be perverted into funding a gilded palace in Rome.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 4 months ago:
Also go outside to grab my paper to read the comics first.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 4 months ago:
Fire up my PC and hit the dial up to check my email and BBS’s.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 4 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 4 months ago:
Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 4 months ago:
I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 months ago:
Depending on the state there may be different formal definitions based on population and incorporation status. In Ohio, we have townships, villages, and cities. In Pennsylvania they have “boroughs” instead of villages. In NY a borough is a subdivision of a city. I don’t think they have the township organizational structure in Vermont. In Maine there are unincorporated territories (usually just numbered).
The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 months ago:
Most towns are not urban by any standard. I ate dinner over the weekend in a town with a population of 669. It was big enough to have its own restaurant and post office. It was a 30-40 minute drive from any town with a population over 10,000 (and that, just barely).
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 months ago:
This guy has a YouTube channel of him just driving around small towns in the rural Midwest USA. youtube.com/@joeandnicsroadtrip
- Comment on China now faces 245% Trump tariff 6 months ago:
The US is only 4% of the world’s population. We may have more US dollars than anywhere else, but 96% of the world is still a sizable potential market.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 6 months ago:
So I can start my own social media company called “X”? Or my own electric car company called “Tesla”? I can copy the logos too?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 6 months ago:
Zero.
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 7 months ago:
I once had a vintage Jaguar and some jerk stole the chrome lettering off of it. I suppose that is a way to get a good match.
- Comment on FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible 7 months ago:
I’m guessing the “do not call” list goes out the window, not that it actually changes much anyhow.
- Comment on The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier 7 months ago:
If those guys are supposed to be in uniform - no two are dressed the same. One guy didn’t tie his shoes, another’s jacket doesn’t fit. It is very sloppy and unprofessional looking.
- Comment on What's the best way for Elon to remove the parasite class? 🤔 7 months ago:
So from his point of view, poor people, ie 50% of Americans, are parasites.
- Comment on Can I consider myself bi or should I just say straight if I want to date women but just can’t find any that attract me? 7 months ago:
Is it sapiosexual where you are only attracted to people you have a strong emotional connection to?
- Comment on Don't ya know, guns can just ✨ magically appear✨ so any attempt to ban them is impossible. Dumb liberalssss tryna to take away my GOD GIVEN right to murder people!!11! 7 months ago:
Freedom!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed. Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.
- Comment on Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 8 months ago:
Indeed is useless for both recruiters and recruits. The garbage there is greater than 99.99%. Most likely is is finally waning as a platform.