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  • 0ops@piefed.ziptoCooking @lemmy.world[QUESTION] nonstick cookware?
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    3 hours ago

    TL;DR: A little fat, low to low-medium temp, but don’t put the eggs in the pan until it’s up to temp, keeping in mind that it’ll take longer with the heavy cast iron pan.

    When my eggs stick it’s virtually always because I was impatient and put them in too soon. If you hear the eggs sizzling from the instant they touched the pan you should be good as long as the heat’s not crazy high, but if you dump those eggs in and the pan is quiet than that means it didn’t get hot enough in time. It’s already too late at that point, they will soak up the fat and stick, but whatever it’s not the end of the world. Just wait until it gets hot, throw a few drops of water on there to check if it beeds and floats (good).

    What the other commenter said about waiting a moment to start scrambling is good too. I find that if I start stirring while the layer of egg touching the pan is still liquid (which again, can be for awhile if you didn’t wait for the pan to get hot), it’ll just stir the fat into the eggs instead of around them. So wait just a moment for at least that thin layer contacting the pan to cook before you stir. If your pan is the correct temp it should only take a few seconds, if that.

    So yeah, the preheat and the first second or two really make or break scrambled eggs, but past that it’s smooth sailing.


  • My parents got me started on basic stuff like scrambling eggs, boiling pasta, and following basic recipes, but everything past that was basically self taught. Both my parents can cook just fine, but as time went on they did it less and less often, so by the time I was in highschool I made most of my own meals, not usually anything too fancy but I never relied on the microwave at least.

    I’ve been using YouTube as a resource more and more the last few years. Helps a lot to figure out the stuff that my parents didn’t teach or that I couldn’t easily trial and error. Firstly, it’s nice seeing someone else do it and secondly as blogger-type recipes grow more and more long-winded it’s honestly not much of a time difference


  • In a statement to Reuters, a State Department spokesperson said the U.S. government does not have a censorship-circumvention program specific to Europe but added: “Digital freedom is a priority for the State Department, however, and that includes the proliferation of privacy and censorship-circumvention technologies like VPNs."

    So what’s the advantage of using this portal over one of the many reputable vpn providers that already exist?

    The big catch I see here is that the US is hardly an impartial player. Whatever form this “portal” takes will almost certainly bend toward the current administration’s world view. The bigger catch is going to be the inevitable data harvesting. I guaran-fucking-tee that there’ll be fuck-all in the way of privacy and security.





  • the majority of engine wear in passenger automobiles occurs at startup.

    Cold startup. Oil temps don’t instantly drop the second the engine shuts off. The only real additional wear is on the starter, flywheel, and battery, but then every auto start system I’ve heard of is overbuilt specifically to deal with that.

    Also, during auto stop, the catalytic converter cools down a bit, so emissions go up.

    The car’s not emitting at all when it’s stopped. Any emissions prevented by idling to keep the cat hot are dwarfed by what was emited to…do nothing except keep the cat hot. It’s like spending $5 to save $1.

    Look buddy I don’t even like auto-stop and my car’s too old to have it anyway, but this is misinformation





  • 0ops@piefed.zipto Memes of Production@quokk.aucommunity rules
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    5 days ago

    It’s like if one person said “Free Palestine!” and someone replied, “so you’re saying that Canada shouldn’t be free? That’s discrimination, Free Everyone”. The two countries are clearly not dealing with the same threat to freedom, just the same as how white people don’t deal with the same level of state violence as minorities in the US. At best, replying “All Lives Matter” is presumptuous to the point of stupidity. But usually it’s just counter-propaganda to make people think that black Americans want some kind of supremacy, when really they just want to, you know, not be killed by cops and incarcerated at multiple times the rate of white people.

    For the math-brained, think of this in terms of set theory: all lives can’t matter until black lives do - unless of course you’re one of those nazi’s that doesn’t believe that black people are people.


  • It’d be cathartic, but Trump’s pettiness is boundless. I don’t see an upside to turning the US away from the table at this time, but I can imagine a few different ways a flustered trump would retaliate, ranging from a string of sloppy tweets to going mask-off and dropping all support for Ukraine and explicitly and directly supporting Russia instead. The US is not a stable player, and every day it’s a little bit less so. There could potentially be more to lose than their support, so all I’m saying is this needs to be dealt with tactfully. I know it’s torture but this might be one of those “let him come to the table and pretend he’s doing something to keep him dumb and happy” situations.