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1 hour ago, satyanash said:
I thought this was a turnover when I was watching it live. From this angle it just looks like he... ran out of bounds.
He pushed off, but wanted a foul call. What else is new.
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9 minutes ago, Rusty Shackelford said:
Now here's a straight shooter with upper management written all over her:
BOSTON (Reuters) - An ex-stripper who became a regional sales director at Insys Therapeutics Inc gave a doctor a lap dance at a Chicago club as the drugmaker pushed the doctor to prescribe its addictive fentanyl spray, a former Insys employee testified on Tuesday.
why'd i waste 8 years of school studying reflexive anthropology?
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Got the Philips 9640 "fryer" in today.
Has decent heft, and takes a decent amount of footprint relative to the cooking volume. Which is good and bad.
Although I'd say it's good for 3-4 portions, as advertised.
The bottom of the cooking chamber is shaped to really induce a cyclone effect.
Cooked some fries with it. 180C @ 20min stopping to shake the basket a few times. Brushed oil over the fries to ensure good heat transfer and crispiness.
Result? Yeap, really does taste like oven fries -- a bit dry, doesn't have interior fluffiness -- and quite distinct from actual deep-fried potatoes. Not bad, but not a substitute.
Why's it still good? Everythings really self-contained. Cooking basket really easy to remove and easy to clean. No odor like actual fry job. Near zero mess in prep and cleanup.
How's it compare to convection toaster oven? Probably would taste identical. Easier clean job. Easier handling as you can pull out the entire food content in the cooking tray.
Would I swap for toaster oven? Still considering it. Probably not. I don't need to heat anything with elongated shape (baguette would go in large oven). With toaster oven I can turn convection off...but that's not really that big of a deal. Everything else I can use both in the same way, but the "fryer" is more portable and self-contained (previously mentioned I'm low on countertop space).
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The value proposition of the system is that +1 room = +1 unit = receiver/amp/speaker all integrated.
If you've already got your own speakers, it erases a third to half of the value.
IMO the amp only makes sense if you've got a pair of speakers you really cherish for the performance, appearance, integration into your room. say...for a den, man cave, whatever. 400 is the cost to integrate that room into a Sonos system.
Otherwise it's almost a 400$ wireless/wifi/Bluetooth dongle. (Of course you eliminate the need for a receiver but still....)
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1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:
Check out the pizza baking steel...
https://slice.seriouseats.com/2012/09/the-pizza-lab-the-baking-steel-delivers.html
basically a cast iron griddle turned to 11 -- a gigantic heat sink.
problem though is it takes a lot of time to heat that thing up. those portable pizza ovens supposedly gives you a cocoon of 800* radiant heat in a very short while
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11 hours ago, LTtxfan said:
Fwiw.... Bobby Burton tidbit
"Bru McCoy and De'Gabriel Floyd became friends during the recruiting process. In part, they did so because both were elite recruits in Southern California and in part because both liked USC. Remember, Floyd was actually committed to the Trojans way back as a junior before opening up his recruitment and eventually selecting the Longhorns. And McCoy grew up a devout USC fan. But I'm told another aspect that really bonded the two was their dedication to off-field training. Both of these guys love to work out, they love the process of getting better as athletes and as football players. In that way, they saw perhaps a kindred spirit in one another."
their dads should be roomates
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Coens. Wes Anderson. And to a lesser extent - only because hes no longer praised with the same loft - Tarantino.... all hugely overrated.
I mean, they all know how to make great movies. At least 2 from each are amongst my personal favorites...but they also make plenty of stinkers and duds.
People make as if every turd they squeeze turn into gold tho.
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55 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Sometimes they are actual investors, sometimes they get options or warrants as part of their compensation, sometimes they aren't invested at all. Reading Carreyrou's book, I didn't get the impression that the directors were a whole lot different from the directors of most publicly traded corporations, just a bit more gullible, blinded, or bullied by the blondo.
Given that directors are intended to be the real governance of a corporation, I find it startling how disengaged from the reality of the corporation are many or most of them. It's not limited to Theranos in any way.
They rubber-stamp executive compensation recommendations. That's a pretty big job, and a pretty good racket
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7 minutes ago, elfenix said:
i think there's a bigger fan relative to the air volume in these countertop air fryers. breville has a countertop convection oven that (iirc) has a much bigger fan (and also a basket tray). price isn't too bad if you were already getting a good countertop oven and a good air fryer.
thats a serious looking unit.
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7 minutes ago, Deej said:
Aren't these countertop ones just small convection ovens? You'd be better off buying a nice counter-top convection oven, which would be more versatile and useful. I have one. It does a great job on frozen fries, plus can be used as a toaster oven, pizza oven, etc.
Yes, yes, and yes.
My rationale is the circular chamber and smaller volume of these things makes the convection more effective. And that's what yields the crisp texture. I'm buying one to test it out.
Problem with most of the counter-top oven is that the fans are puny.... and the ones i've used don't even make a good seal.
And cooking small quantities in a traditional oven is just a tremendous waste of energy.
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Roccbox... Uuni... whatever.
Essentially small-chamber ovens using live fire (pellet, wood, etc) with reflective sides so they get ultra-hot, ultra-fast. Good for anything but especially targeted for pizza.
In idea it makes a ton of sense. Not a big homemade pizza guy but I can see us putting it to use.
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16 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
I got a counter top air fryer for Christmas. My only experience previously is doing turkey and chicken in the outdoor Charbroil Big Easy air fryer...which I like a lot.
Am I the only one not impressed with the table top version? It fits so little food, that if you are cooking for more than one person, you have to cook in batches. Add in that you have to toss the fries every five fucking minutes while air frying and it quickly becomes a pain in the ass to babysit. The oven is faster, easier, and turns out a better product.
if it's just about fries (which is my primary usage), the alternative is actually deep frying... which is messier, smellier, and is a much more PITA disposal issue with the oil.
cooking fries in oven usually will not yield similar results as frying.
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Air fryer doesnt fry. It's a convection oven. And it does the same your traditional oven does - if your oven has a fan/convection mode.
You'll be "baking" your chicken wings and fries, just like you would in an oven.
The difference is, the smaller volume makes it a bit more efficient given the quantity that most people cook. And the air flow in the round chamber is probably better than in a big oven, or a mini convection toaster oven. Means easier cleaning, also.
Ideally, I'd have just the mini convection toaster... but that's a larger unit and more or less a permanent fixture in the kitchen, of which we have limited space... because the wife prefers to have a microwave (blech) and a traditional toaster.... both of which would be obviated by the mini convec toaster.... but I digress.
Bought the Philips 9641. Side note, these companies really need to fucking rationalize their product lineup and make the 100s of models meaningful

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