The countertop sized steam, convection oven combo that’s built in would be my dream appliance. Barring that a dedicated shelf for one and the actual oven can sit idle for that one time a year you need to cook 3 different things in the oven.
Im actually a Miele fan the dishwasher was fantastic up until it tried to flood out house that happens… What sucks is that they don’t sell parts directly so getting parts is a pain in the ass. Also because of low volume their techs are less available and more expensive.
You are going to be so pissed when it breaks and you have to wait weeks to get the Miele tech to come in, tell you that the part you know is broken is actually broken and then come back in 2 weeks with the actual part. All because the assholes won’t selll you parts directly,. I wanted their dishwasher but I couldn’t handle not being able to order replacement parts and just do the work myself. Getting someone to do any service related task in Seattle is such a pain in the ass and wallet.
0? Vaccines don’t cause autism…
I actually agree with her. They were unwilling to actually touch the liberal issues or conservative issues. They stick to the official government talking point and that’s it. Sanitized and just perpetuate the lie of the day.
So you are telling me we need to listen to you on Sunday? You are a crazy polymath in every way man.
Most don’t, 2 days or multiple offers and 100-200 over asking. The ones that sat for that long had something seriously wrong with them and were selling at a bad time of the year. Buyers get spooked if a listing goes pending and falls through or a bad remodel took out a load being wall or 2 and the yard is encroaching into the basement. 2 years ago I saw some go for 400-500 over asking so I guess it could be worse…
The volume is so low that we’re not out of bounds of I want it and bad financial decisions be dammed I have 2-4 years left to produce babies. A lot of tech bros in our area can come up with 200-300 down and a mortgage and as long as both people work they can hold down the 7-10k house payment too. The volumes were taking about are like 20 houses a week so 1000 annually in greater Seattle. Add that to people being dead set for one hood and you would be lucky to average a house a week. Shortages create manias and manias aren’t rational.
That house won’t rent for 7500, which is funny because that’s how much you would bed to break even (ish) on a 1.1-1.2 mil house. Red fin says estimated rent is 5500 and even that is high. Houses are an emotional purchase right now, the right move is probably to sell and rent unless inflation goes totally nuts then you’d get screwed
Must be location specific everything in LFP is selling. Even if it’s a terrible money pit and they mostly are because contractor rates for Reno are outrageous. 50k for a small bathroom is considered normal. 12k for a deck is low. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Lake-Forest-Park/15855-37th-Ave-NE-98155/home/90284 Needed structural remodel and normal remodel. With the cost of labor is 300k of work for maybe a 1.2m house not including holding costs while they do the work which are around 90k a year. They wanted 1.1 down to 960 but you can’t unfuck it for that cost. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Lake-Forest-Park/3810-NE-178th-St-98155/home/92629 Pending with 15% escalation. For basic 2br 1 bath with a basement on a large lot. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Lake-Forest-Park/16051-36th-Ave-NE-98155/home/90064 Sold in 2 days 100k over needs a a remodel. Yet less than a month ago this guy went for 50 under because the initial sale failed. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Lake-Forest-Park/17031-35th-Ave-NE-98155/home/88409 Decent house but steep slope. It’s crazy out there man. Meanwhile this guy rents for an affordable 6k a month. https://www.redfin.com/WA/Mercer-Island/4456-Ferncroft-Rd-98040/home/257056 which is less than the mortgage with 20% down for any of the above projects.
That was a month ago. The 1-1.5 band went from reverse to 60 in February. Nothing was moving from nov/jan or going at/under ask. Now it’s back to 10-15% over its nuts. All for a 50-100 bps dip in rates that going to retrace in the next week or so if the fed make waves about future cuts.
Good luck I hope they don’t crush your soul with their bureaucracy and science denial . I have so very little respect for the cdc now that I would support shutting it down and either starting again it just giving up altogether.
I will attempt that as soon as the damn chickens start laying again. Warming up store eggs is more effort then I can give eggs as they are always a last minute meal for me. Had really good luck with Kenjis poached egg method if that’s your thing.
Absolutely you need to know who you are dealing with. No different than books or any other material. That’s why I don’t like picking up video recipes off randos. As much as you hate Alton at least you know what to expect and adjust accordingly. Besides it’s very rare that I have all of the incidents needed in a recipe available at any given time. Cooking an exact recipe is 2x the work as cooking an inspired by recipe. Often the author achieves similar outcomes using a technique you aren’t familiar with or don’t prefer and you need to know to skip that and do it your preferred way. People who don’t know how to cook don’t know what to omit or shortcut and so cooking becomes that much harder for them. I cook probably 6-8 meals a week and still sometimes things burn due to sugar content or stick due to moisture/heat issues. New recipes are always complicated even if you generally know what you are doing. Even stuff that should be stupid easy like fucking “easy Mac” that powder clumps unless you find the perfect addition technique and even then it still might clump.
I don’t use the the extra bowl and strainer, it does improve cohesion on old eggs but like you said not worth it. Don’t need it at all for home eggs. Cracking into a small sauce dish and gently sliding it in helps though with minimal extra effort. The Method is nearly identical to the one you linked just with that extra step. I like starting with kenji recipes and then eliminating all the stuff that’s just a bit too much work. Just how I operate Home grown eggs are great taste better too but managing bird worms and diseases that really sucks.
Many people can’t cook. The technique to mix prep and heat are actually quite complex. Zero chance you will make a passable pie crust off just an ingredient list for example. Temperature control on a skillet is quite complex based on heat thermal mass and moisture content. It requires a lot of practice, reading watching and practice again to get things to taste good.
Windows will fight you hard to prevent that. Clippy is back and he’s been enhanced with AI
The thing is Trump has a good chance of winning right now. Sure lots of things could change but the guy should have no chance in hell but here we are. If the the goal is to squeak by with a 1-2% margin like it’s a union vote then the democrats got this down, if the goal is some sort of ruling majority capable of governing, well that shit ain’t looking good. 4 more years of disfunction under Trump or Biden is a pretty terrible outcome in my book. Even if Biden wins we still loose just a little less it’s not much you cheer for even if I have to eventually hold my nose and vote for the guy.
2 senile dudes yelling at each other for 2 hours. I’ll wait for the highlights reel
The NFT shoes are certificates redeemable for shoes aren't they? Like no need to own the actual watch just buy an option on with option for redemption of physical. A luxury good equivalent of a metals/commodity exchange. Thats probably the best use of blockchain. Trade in the NFTs have the exchange charge a fee but store the actual in a vault. Or better yet, never actually make the watch just build it on demand if its actually claimed.
I think your are right that the grocery store manager has a surprising amount of independence and ability to source things from local and better vendors. Ive seen a store go to shit in less than a month when they had management turnover. Ive seen one improve over the course of a year as well.
Weird on the yeast. Pandemic related? There was like year when everyone decided to bake bread and flour suddenly sold out . It was still available in 25-50lb bags but that was too much for most people.
You can cook with just TJs ingredients you just kind of get shitty prices for meats and odd quality vegetables. You aren’t easily going to be able to replicate an ethnic recipe you found on the internet but you could probably cook some bland American recipe from pioneer woman of something. You and I are just spoiled because we cook sophisticated recipes with hard to find ingredients that most people probably don’t care for. Honestly short of a better spice and deli meat selection I can’t really think of something I commonly cook with can’t get at tjs or at least substitute with something acceptable. I don’t shop there because I’m lazy and don’t want to make 2 trips but in a pinch I could make it work. Also Nobody actually needs whole wheat flour unless you are baking whole wheat bread. I make waffles with it and bread starter but if it were to suddenly go missing I could deal. 5lb of whole wheat lasts longer than 50lb of white flour.
Where did you do cooking camp? Silvanas or frog legs? Mountaineers camp lottery sign up ends this week btw. I heard that the zoo was kind of crap they spent half the day watching tv. We also heard good things about the shoreline y.
I’ll have to check it out they look like they are serious about their cakes.
Yeah they need to have some sort of old person servers so you can play with other people that aren’t all that great.
Your kid is a bit older than mine so you just went through all that. What were the good camps for 7 year olds ?
Although I think they have mostly just rediscovered that if you don’t provide the voters any choice at all and both parties have nearly identical policies then politicians don’t even have to bother with even that. There really hasn’t been any meaningful immigration reform in the last 20 years and I don’t foresee any progress in at least the next decade
Your method works, it’s more complex than mine but also more flexible. Attaching NFTs to physical goods as a means of authentication is a good idea but It’s not perfect. You can still separate the real Rolex from the NFT and transfer the copy with the fake but at least you only have one instance of a fake out there. Still even with a simple solution like a database there should only be one instance, the only thing the blockchain adds is the ability to have a private key that prevents unauthorized transfers in the database though even that should be possible to add to a database without resorting to blockchain. Ultimately if the database is setup correctly the only difference between Blockchain and database is that trades can occur without an authorized shop to facilitate the exchange and even there a database could be used because the key is really just the same as a password so really we’re talking hacker resistance. Also if you want to be able to fix entries and roll stuff back then Rolex needs a set of private keys on the blockchain. If those are lost the blockchain entries get compromised as well. IMO blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. Almost always when dealing with physical goods it falls back on some single exchange to authenticate the validity of the token and transfer the thing or the license/right. The only place that seems to be a non issue is digital currency where there is nothing to transfer and the value comes from the scarcity of the token itself.
You refuse to service the serial number and blacklist it. Maybe you allow folks to send them in for inspection/authentication and re/serializing if they think it’s legit. With even say 3 serialized parts at 6#s you have 10^18 possible combos. That’s probably not enough to secure a non rate limited system but if you charge 1$ check you will be fine as long as the database isn’t compromised. My understanding of cryptography is limited but it may be possible to encrypt the entries as well such that even compromise database keys can’t be guessed. Rolex is the DMV of Rolexes. If they don’t like your serial number they can cancel you at any time and that’s it short of suing them. Thats why if there is ever any doubt they can simply refuse to authenticate or force you to send the watch in for authentication. Moreover they can work with insurance companies and provide an authentication service that allows fake watches to be canceled for insurability as well if they wanted that. Though I think in general insuring fake Rolexes is probably pretty profitable and not paying out on fakes might not be worthwhile. I’m not skeptical of the trade, there is after all a trade in Nike shoes and they are worth significantly less but it’s more that I wonder how much premium they loose on the black market due to lack of traceability. Without a very skilled authentication it’s hard to validate you get the real thing and markets tend to discount accordingly. Even the real thing if it’s possibly blacklisted by the vendor without a good way to verify would get discounted. So you should end up getting prices for the real thing that are close to that off high quality knock offs. People in the 3rd world but stolen cars all the time for example but I suspect they are quite a bit cheaper then the legit ones or at least efforts are made to launder them.