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Highly underrated, but a good thermometer can help a lot with cooking meats. Getting the right temp is much more accurate than cooking by sight or feel, and having one that reads in under a second is super convenient.Typhur makes some quality ones that I like to use

Hard agree. I feel like you can cook almost anything with just a cast iron pan and a chef's knife. It's the essentialist's gadget of choice

Canned chipotles in adobo are really good additions to anything savory. Add it to mayo or mac n cheese for a smoky & tangy depth of flavor. Plus where I live it's like 70¢ a can, which is a great price for how much it upgrades the dish.

Very interesting, thanks for the context

You can be, duckduckgo was accurately profiling my location from resolution. Librewolf has a setting called letterboxing that fixes this, but you have to turn it on in about:config. Once I did, duckduckgo's profile wasn't accurate anymore.

Zoom was always fishy to me. When covid hit, everyone required virtual meetings and boom, out of nowhere zoom became a thing. Not even google meet or microsoft teams, it was some random company

Lemmy and their hatred for beans...

I love homemade refried beans. The haters are definitely missing out

Honestly I like the slowness and the small size. Even on lemmy, posting in bigger communities just gets you attacked or argued with by bitter people and it's just kinda sucks. I call it reddit dissease, but its pretty prominant in most other places too.

Small lemmy communities are a breath of fresh air because most people are there to commune rather than argue or judge. Prime example was Lemmy circa 2023

Tis the season for medically inaccurate skeletons

Looks delicious! There are a couple of techniques to get good pics of food; here are a couple I can think of off the top of my head:

Take the picture in an area void of distractions like an empty table
Center the item of interest in the middle of the plate and make sure it's clean of crumbs or fingerprints
Use garnish to make colors pop (e.g. like green chives on white mashed potatoes)
Take the pic in good lighting, sunlight from a window is best
Get close enough to the food to fill the whole frame, leaving a little space on the edges . Get even closer to get good food textures

Chili powder is a good one to have. I make mine from arbol, guajilo, and ancho chilis. Adjust arbol for spice, ancho for richness and flavor, and guajilo for tang and smoke.

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A lot of pre-1990 games are pretty clunky, so you kinda have to see them either as someone from the era would or try to appreciate them for what they are today. That being said, a lot of them are still fun with this in mind.

The Gauntlet series is probably my favorite early game. It's better played with 2-4 people, but can be played alone. It's essentially a dungeon crawler, but the levels and enemies are interesting and fun to navigate.

Some other good ones are Dig Dug (pacman but more fun and underground), Galaga or Galaxian (arcade space shooters), Adventure for the Atari 2600 (first rpg and first easter egg in video game history), Rampage (be a giant monster and destroy buildings), 1943 (airplane shmup (shoot em up) with cool powerups and pixel art) and toobin (also a shmup where you're on an inertube and navigate perilous waters. Sounds boring but it has really cool level progression and game mechanics later in the game).