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ch00f,

The way car companies are working around this legislation is why it’s so hard to find and buy smaller sized cars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

ch00f,

Sous vide creme brûlée is stupid easy. Mix ingredients, pour into mason jar, screw lid lightly, dunk in water bath.

The only thing that can go wrong is if you manage to crack a jar.

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Funny. I’m surprised this is Beat Buy. We didn’t get those until like 2002. It would have been CompUSA for me.

What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

My parents got me one of them fancy countertop air fryer/oven things and idk what to cook first when I get it set up. According to the box, it does everything a normal oven does as well as air fries. It can hold two whole chickens or 1 frozen pizza. It came with a rack for things like toast and a baking sheet. I also have a...

ch00f, (edited )

You can do DIY potato fries if you couple the air fryer with sous vide. You need to get the starch out of the potatoes. People will suggest you soak them in water, but that only gets you so far.

Put the raw fries in a ziplock with enough water for them to float around. Put this bag into your water and set it to 170F and let them soak for 20-30 mins. Then dry them out (start in salad spinner and spread out on a towel), coat in oil/salt, and air fry at 400 until done.

The 170F water breaks down the pectin that holds the sugars in the potatoes, so if you don’t sous vide, you end up with caramelization/burned fries. This is actually what McDonald’s does to their fries.

A sous vide wand can be had for around $50, and you just need a big enough pot to hold whatever you’re cooking. They also do wonders for dark meat. Sous vide chicken wings are ridiculously good.

ch00f,

Also meteors don’t burn up due to friction. They burn up due to the heat generated by compressing the atmosphere stuck in front of them.

ch00f,

The heat doesn’t come from friction. It comes from compression of the gas in front of the object.

ch00f,

Yeah, but there’s mini golf across town for that.

ch00f,

Yeah, they have a big screen that maps a 3D Angry Birds piggie tower over the fairway, and the birds follow the path of your ball. It really is an impressive 1:1 mapping.

ch00f,

Heh, my thought too, but it wasn’t like an extra pinky. He had two thumbs stacked on top of each other. I don’t know where they joined, but I could see the pad of one thumb on top of the nail of the other.

ch00f,

chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

Dang, wish it came in a large.

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Beat me to it.

If I recall, nothing are nuts. Nuts don’t exist. Collective hallucination.

ch00f,

2003-2007 will never be beaten when it comes to heist movies.

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Autocorrect. Akira

ch00f,

I was thinking of Lady Miyako I think. I’m not a super big anime fan, I just remember a friend telling me about that when we saw it during a theater showing. In one of the American dubs, she has a man’s voice.

ch00f, (edited )

In Akita Akira , didn’t the English dub totally change the gender of one of the characters?

ch00f,

Classically, mirrors used silver metal, and black and white photographs used silver halide. So strictly speaking, a digital or even color film camera would work.

ch00f,

It’s actually checking your mouse movement to see if it looks natural or robotic. You can get a few wrong and it’ll still pass you.

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Eh, I would argue that having a scratched screen goes beyond a cosmetic issue. It tangibly downgrades your experience.

Plastic scratches much easier than glass cracks.

ch00f,

Alita Battle Angel

Fight when she’s like 100% gonna die, but she pulls it off.

ch00f,

I’ve recycled old ram trimmings to recover 2.5g of gold for use in my fiancée’s engagement ring (wasn’t enough for the whole ring, but it’s the thought that counts.

If you do it right, the only byproducts are salt, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water.

Copper (II) chloride dissolves the copper and makes Copper (I) chloride. Mix with sulfuric acid and get CuSO4 and HCl. CuSO4 can have the copper plated out of it and get more sulfuric acid, and HCl can be mixed with Copper (I) chloride to recycle back into copper (II) chloride.

So you’re left with gold and other bits. You can dissolve the gold in a mixture of nitric and Hydrochloric acid to get chloroauric acid. Wash with water and you now have a beaker of gold in solution that looks like an alcoholic’s piss.

Then bubble in sulfur dioxide and you get gold, Hydrochloric acidic and sulfuric acid.

So if you play it right, it’s infinitely recyclable. You just need electricity and heat to keep recovering the waste materials.

The problem I mostly ran into was ending up with a shitload of HCl. The store bought stuff is 30%, but the best you can recover through distillation is 20%. It takes a LOT of baking powder to neutralize it.

ch00f,

The most dangerous is probably the sulfuric and nitric acid. Sulfuric acid has earned its nickname “oil of vitriol.” 99% sulfuric will burn through paper in seconds. Skin and paper have a lot in common. Didn’t play much with the nitric acid, but I’ve heard it’s angry. You really only need a small amount to help the hydrochloric acid dissolve the gold. Also sulfur dioxide is hella nasty smelling.

Nitric acid is the single hardest ingredient to get. I found a seller on eBay. I think you can make nitric acid with store bought chemicals though, but I never had to do that.

Other ingredients:

Hydrochloric acid - sold as concrete cleaner Sulfuric acid - sold (diluted) as battery acid. Easy to concentrate with a condenser. Unlike HCl, you can get like 99% purity through distillation. Copper Chloride - Drop some copper into a bath of hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide Sulfur Dioxide - Mix sodium metabisulfite with an acid. Sodium metabisulfite is commercially used in some food/beverage preservatives. I bought a bag of it of amazon that was marketed towards brewers. SO

ch00f,

The sperm is not a self-reproducing cell. The chromosomes it carries are not used to make it.

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The ask was

What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

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