Yeah, ours works great as a dehydrator, I just wish it came with more dehydrator racks. You can order more I've just never gotten around to doing it
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We do also have a breville toaster oven/air fryer (slightly different model though) and do love it. Probably use it more and get better results from it than our regular oven.
It is not, however, the greatest air fryer out there. It's certainly passably but we definitely get better results from the crispi, and the Ninja is much easier to clean.
I whole-heartedly recommend their toaster ovens without reservation. And if you lack the storage/counter space for a dedicated air fryer o it will certainly do.
My one wish is that they'd make a toaster oven with a rotisserie.
My wife worked at a fancy kitchen store for a long time. She tested out a whole lot of small appliances, demo'd them for customers, saw what people returned and exchanged, etc. and generally knows what's what.
And her general advice is to go breville for basically every small kitchen appliances. I can really only think of 4 exceptions- KitchenAid for stand mixers, Vitamix for blenders, croquade for waffle makers, and the Ninja Crispi for countertop air fryers.
I've really put our breville sous chef through it's pages over the years, Shen had it since before we started dating to easily more than 10 years, and it's still going strong.
This feels like a wonderful gift, this video needs to be projected behind every speaker at the next round of protests, with an accompanying message flashing at the bottom saying "Trump posted this himself" à la South Park's "this what scientologists actually believe"
It's him literally labeling himself as a king, complete with a crown
Shitting all over America.
What possible angle could you look at this from and say "yes, that is a mature, mentally stable person who should be in charge of anything?
And since most of the media is kind of dropping the ball on this, we need to be sharing this around as something like "Trump posts AI-slop video of himself as a king shitting on America" instead of the bullshit headlines I'm seeing about it.
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It's become a new years tradition to just play a bunch of random asylum movies just to have something on while we're hanging out and so we have something to occasionally point to the TV and comment on.
We usually try to pick a known movie that we can start at a specific time so that something cool happens at midnight. A favorite is Hitler getting punched in the balls in Kung Fury
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Shitty b movies. Anything by the asylum, anything that may have once appeared on an episode of MST3K, any weird VHS your parent brought home for you one day back in the 90s by some obscure polish director that you half-remember and now that you think about it where the hell did your parents even find that movie?
I'm hopefully a long way off from it, but I tell my wife pretty regularly that if I ever fall and can't get up to just leave me on the floor. Gravity will have made it's decision, I'm to be a floor-person, no sense in trying to fight it. Let me crawl.
I work in 911 dispatch, I get calls all night, every night for lift-assists, sometimes we're sending help out to the same place every night or even multiple times a night.
I don't want that for myself.
I don't think I get recognized, but I've had a handful of people say that they like the way I write, so maybe I have a group of dedicated followers somewhere.
Funnily enough, I just earlier messaged some random lemming that I had tagged for a while as "this guy seems cool" to let him know that. I figure everyone likes to get a little compliment like that from a stranger now and then. Just some random dude whose username kind of stood out to me and I noticed every time it popped up he seemed like a nice guy. So some of you are probably out there like him being recognized for just being a decent person.
Just gonna chime in to say check with your local libraries to see what they do have available, and also check with surrounding libraries,
My local library is a small branch of a countywide network of libraries, so I can go check things out from any library in the county.
I was a little surprised to learn that my local branch has mobile wifi hotspots available. They're nice for families that are struggling to pay for Internet service so their kids can do schoolwork, I'm also thinking about checking one out for road trips and such.
A bigger branch has a pretty impressive library of things available- tools, cookware, board games, small appliances, AV equipment, etc.
One thing I'd really like is vehicles, although I'm sure it would be an absolute liability/insurance nightmare, not to mention the upfront and ongoing costs and such, so I totally I totally understand why it's not a thing.
I'm lucky that I've always been able to borrow a car from my parents when I needed one because mine was in the shop or whatever. Not everyone is so fortunate though, and unless we step up our public transit game, a lot of people need cars to get into work and run errands and such. A small fleet of basic sedans or something that you could check out for a day or two when needed without paying out the ass for a rental would be amazing.
And almost everyone needs to move something big or transport a few people once in a while, so a pickup truck or passenger van in the fleet might be kind of nice.
Even if it's not totally free, they could be rented out at-cost and not have to turn a profit like regular car rentals.
Anvil firing
You get 2 anvils
Pack some gunpowder between them
Light a fuze
Run
The top one shoots off into the air
And you try not to looney tunes yourself.
American/meat-eater
Bread stays out but is wrapped
Butter stays out in a butter bell (that's not a common thing in America BTW but they should be)
Some sauces and condiments and such that are packed full of salt and vinegar and such stay out
Leftovers and such go into the fridge after a few minutes to a few hours, there's not exactly a hard rule here, just kind of based on what feels right and whenever we get around to it. Overnight is too long, with few exceptions if it's been out that long we'd probably throw it out.
One exception to that is if I make stock, there's a good chance that's going to sit out for a good while to cool down. It takes a while to get a big pot of liquid down to a reasonable temperature to put in the fridge. I also figure it's been simmering for several hours, so odds are there's no bacteria alive in it, so I throw a lid on it to try to keep it that way, especially when I do it in the pressure cooker because it's basically been autoclaved at that point and it's staying in a pretty damn close to totally airtight vessel.
Most vegetables and fruits are fine out on the counter for at least a day or two, and some will last weeks or months depending on temperature, humidity, how much light they get, etc. but most of them last a lot longer in the fridge so that's where they go. Onions, garlic, potatoes, pineapples, and bananas always live outside of the fridge. Other things like apples, citrus, tomatoes, peppers may go either way depending on how fast I'm planning to use them and how much fridge space I have. Cut-up produce always goes in the fridge.
If you're dining out getting it hot and fresh from the oven, I'd tend to agree with you
But if you're getting delivery or takeout, which at least in the US, probably accounts for most pizza consumption, odds are that when you eat your pizza it's probably been sitting in a box for at least a few minutes, maybe up to an hour or so, soaking up its own steam and juices, and maybe going cold
Which, of course, would change the texture and probably not for the better.
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I've largely avoided any major injuries pretty much my whole life, so I don't have the best frame of reference
Most scrapes, bruises, cuts, sprains and other common injuries are right as rain in a couple days, maybe a week or two if it's a particularly bad sprain.
I tend to not get sick too often, but I have noticed that when I do as I get older stuff like a sore throat or cough will linger a few days longer than they used to, fever still breaks in a day or two, and I'll be feeling just fine otherwise, just that little tickle in my throat sticks around for a while.
Playing devil's advocate, if I somehow didn't know robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles were a thing, I might think it was a car used for Google Street view or some sort of GIS mapping
Or if I were a paranoid cop I might think they have a bomb strapped to their roof, or cell phone jammers or some other crazy conspiracy bullshit.
I'm no expert on animal color vision, but different animals absolutely see color differently, some have markedly worse color vision than humans, others are even better
And of course we can't really know for certain how different animals perceive color since we can't actually see the world through their eyes as it gets processed through their brain, though we can make some pretty educated guesses.
AFAIK, most mammals except for some primates (like humans) and a few other exceptions, have dichromatic vision (have only 2 kinds of cone cells in their eyes instead of 3 like we do) so there's gonna be some "gaps" in their color vision, and one of the common configurations is similar to red-green colorblindness in humans and would make orange look very similar or indistinguishable from green but the specifics do vary from one species to another.
Other types of animals like many fish, birds, and reptiles actually have 4 types of cones and so can see parts of the spectrum we can't (though it doesn't necessarily mean they can or can't see the same colors we do and then some, where we have receptors for red, blue, and green light, they might have for example, red, blue, blue-green, and green, giving them essentially the same range of color vision we do but with extra sensitivity to the blue/green part of the spectrum)
And then of course you have animals like mantis shrimp with 12 or 16 types of receptors.
When I took my state's required hunter safety course, one of the instructors was an older dude with grey hair and a ponytail who wouldn't look out of place at a Dead & Company concert.
To point out the importance of wearing an orange hat during small game seasons, and also to "be sure of your target and what lies beyond it" he pointed out how much that grey hair and ponytail would look a lot like a squirrel if you only caught a glimpse of it through some brush.
Not saying that's exactly what happened here, the kid doesn't look like he was the grey ponytail type, but the article shook loose that memory in my head.
EDIT: not that I'm ungrateful, but somehow this is now my highest rated comment on Lemmy, and I'm just curious why this one in particular resonated to well.
Kind of, but not much, certainly not anything like a steady income.
I gave one of those apps a try that give you rewards for installing and playing games. After a couple of years I earned up enough points to get about a $50 gift card. None of the games on it are amazing, but some of them are passably entertaining when you just need to kill some time. They're all, of course, loaded with ads.
This is more of theoretical money at this point, but years ago I bought a small quantity of Bitcoin (like less than 0.1 BTC) and I've just kind of been sitting on that. It was about $20 when I bought it, it's worth quite a bit more than that now. If I were to cash out now, it wouldn't exactly be life-changing money by any stretch of the imagination, but it might get me a crappy used car, or maybe offset the cost of a nice vacation for me and my wife.
I do the Google opinion reward surveys, which basically pays out as credit for the android app store. Every so often it adds up to enough for me to spring for some paid app I wouldn't have bought otherwise, or maybe a book or movie or something.
If you want to count it as online, for a while I did taskrabbit, basically an app to get hired doing odd jobs for people, putting IKEA furniture together, yard work, hanging shelves, etc. That wasn't a bad side gig if you're handy, but I don't have the free time for it these days and it was kind of a pain figuring it out on my taxes at the end of the year.
Not me, but I have a friend who was a stripper for a while, when she got out of it, she actually made a decent little chunk of money selling her used stripper heels because some foot fetish people are all about that. She figured out that it could be feasible to just buy some heels, wear them around for a few weeks, and sell them for a profit. She decided it was more trouble than it was worth for her but something like that is potentially an option as well, pretty sure used shoes aren't the only thing with a weird fetish secondary market you could take advantage of if you know where to look to sell them.
First name is ultimately derived from Hebrew, it's one of the most common names in the English-speaking world, and variations of it are similarly popular in basically every place where Abrahamic religious have a foothold.
It's fine. I've met plenty of people with my name, I don't particularly like or dislike it, it is just my name.
My last name is kind of interesting. It's ultimately of Italian origin, but sometime after arriving in America someone basically decided that it sounded too Italian, dropped the vowel at the end, swapped out about half of the remaining letters, and created a new name that kind of sounds similar to the original.
Looking at it, you'd probably never peg it as an Italian name. Sometimes people look at it and try to pronounce it as if it were French, but that's not how we pronounce it.
I rather like my last name. I probably use it more than my first. It's got a nice ring to it, it's unique, there's rarely going to be anyone else around with the same name to avoid confusion, it's got some fun family history to it, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't exist anywhere in the world outside of my family.
Unfortunately, my family is pretty uncreative with male names, if you look at the top 100 names in the US from the last 100 years, my entire family tree can basically be found in the top 10 or 20. I'm aware of at least one other person with the same first and last name as me and there's probably a good handful more, and there's a solid chance they have the same middle name as me too.
I rarely see the extended family so not a huge deal.
I don't normally recognize specific users online except for a handful of novelty accounts. For all I know, I've only ever talked to 3 people on Lemmy. I don't generally look at usernames, and certainly don't remember them.
So, my dude, I think it says something that I recognize you. I hit about the 1st sentence of your second paragraph and went "is this that guy again?" And sure enough, you were.
I'm not saying this to belittle you in any way, please go on being your sensitive, submissive, gender-nonconforming self. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
But you're on here every couple of weeks posting along these same lines, so I can tell that this is really eating at you at a pretty deep level, and while I don't know what the best solution for you is, it might be professional help, it might be as simple as getting out more, it might be anything in-between, I'm pretty confident that just posting about it on here is probably not going to find you the solutions your seeking.
I honestly can't say I've experienced that.
It might be that newer or different models are lighter, like I said, mine is over 10 years old.
Or it could be down to something goofy like your countertops being smoother than mine (not unlikely, I have some shitty laminate counters that are pretty beat to hell)