Krudler @ Krudler @lemmy.world

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Now you've got me wondering what kind of materials are cheap as hell, come flat out of the production line, and are still more durable than the steel you're sharpening.

This whole convo has got me thinking!

Whataboutism makes you look like an idiot

A couple of decades ago Microsoft did some testing to see if they could unify PC and Xbox communities.

They put the top tier controller players against middle range keyboard mouse players.

The bums on the mouse and keyboard beat the living dog shit out of the pros.

Microsoft shoved this all under the carpet and never spoke of it again.

It does for many people, because we as humans are continually in a dance between our conscious and subconscious minds.

Your subconscious mind is trying to protect you and trying to help you manage your emotions through those behaviors.

Your conscious mind is seeing a problem with those behaviors and you want to change.

Your subconscious mind freaks out and it clings harder to the things you're trying to walk away from, when it fears that you will lose them and correspondingly, It's ability to manage your feelings through these behaviors.

So in the short term, it can help a lot to tell yourself that you do not need to stop, while you gradually worry about reducing.

But in the longer term, it would be advantageous to you to seek counseling. There is an emotional component that is at play in every unwanted behavior, every addiction. The actual addictive act is almost irrelevant. For example a drinking problem has almost nothing to do with alcohol.

It's very simple, valve is a gamer company. Epic is a money company. Every single thing each respective company does shows that. I'm not a bitch, I'm never going to let those Epic cunts have a penny of my money. Fucking with the games industry, fucking with gamers, locking exclusives, it's all bullshit & they can suck my cock

Yeah but did you try Linux

I love the wild, devil may care, DIY approach!

It's the type of lunacy that I would try just to see how it works hahahah

I've said in many other threads in regards to cooking, and my knives, that I admit and confess, in full, that I am a complete rebel and sinner

I use a dual wheel Rada quick sharp to blast the correctly angled edge, knowing full-well that it shears off material, and then I quickly use my 14-in hone. I am completely aware that I am gradually eroding my knife, but I don't care, it's sharp enough to shave a buffalo and it takes me 8 seconds

I know by official standards and reckoning... I am abusing my knives and doing it "wrong"

But I cook every day, and it takes me 5 years to go through a knife. I completely gave up on sharpening with a stone a decade ago. My attitude is "fuck it, I'll just get another knife in 5 years, this is a primary tool for me and I'm not going to baby them"

I would love to know how this works out for you though!!! I can absolutely envision a scenario where you angle these pieces of slate and you make yourself your own version of a quick sharp!! This is madness though, which is why I love it LOL

I agree with your approach

I think knife sets are a bit of a con job because a good cook really just uses one or two. I'm looking at my knife block and I'm seeing 9 different knives in there, two of them get used. Two.... The $5 el-cheapo chef knife and a $1 paring knife. I haven't used the serrated bread knife in 10 years, because my chef knife is sharp enough to shave my beard

I'm also kind of exaggerating a bit on my prices. Yes I've paid $5 or 6 but I time the purchases to be right after Christmas when they're on clearance. I'd say in "real money" and with recent inflation I'm using about a $35 CAD knife

I also find the pricing of them to be completely arbitrary. I have been gifted knives that should be extraordinarily high quality based on retail price... And found the handles/plugs were falling off, or they were degrading within weeks!

I don't understand why we live in a world where someone can sell a $500 knife that in terms of manufacture and material cost, is almost indistinguishable from a no-frills budget one. And in many cases, conspicuously worse in every measurement!

Oh shit you triggered me with "you don't have the right" lol

Yeah like I don't have the right to talk about abortion, reproductive health, or anything like that because I don't have ovaries

I don't live in a society, I don't have a mother, sister, thousands of females in my life who I care about. I don't get to advocate for women's reproductive rights, because I don't have the right bits in my crotchal area

I also don't get to express an opinion on anything that I am not a personal expert in. If I saw a helicopter with one of the blade snapped off, I'm not allowed to refuse boarding, because I'm not a helicopter maintenance technician. I don't have the right to express my opinion on the subject

The newer battery technology (silicon versus graphite anodes) has the potential for massive improvements

We are currently in the early adopting phase, where companies have finally gotten this technology usable. All the early adopters are going to be crying in the next couple years as their batteries end up smoking and in the garbage

I cannot wait until this technology smooths out and a couple hundred million people do the testing

Look up language exchange groups in your city

Basically you get together and you speak to each other

You will speak in the language you want to learn, and they will speak in English

And you will correct each other in real time and go from there

And we should just get rid of sex, all insemination should be done in a lab because it's much easier.

You seem to be obsessed with a certain area of thought, particularly with your own sexuality & that of others. You should get therapy and figure out your own sexuality before examining this any further. There's something extremely wrong with worrying about other people and where they put their genitals.

Cherry picking is probably one of the most egregious

You can make a university-level essay on a subject, and people will identify one tiny irrelevant detail they disagree with and ignore the overall point

You're making some great points

I like that you like sharpening, my grandfather taught me how as well and it's a pleasure to know how. I have also been surprised how some "bargain basement" cheap ones are higher quality steel than the expensive Henkels, just as one random example

Maybe it's my fault, but I don't think so, I think it just revealed a deeper truth to me...

I was given professional chef knives by someone who dropped out of cooking school. I mean, you could just hold the chef knife in your hand for a second and tell you are dealing with a completely "next level" tool

I think I had that knife for all of 5 days before something took a massive chip out of the edge. I suppose a person could argue it was my fault. I really don't think it was, I think it was just a freak incident. But the timing of it revealed to me that I'm just going to stick with my cheapos. There is too much going on with cooking to have to stress about if my little delicate knife can handle a tap against a pan edge

That chipping incident disabused me of many false notions. I can absolutely acknowledge it made prep quicker, but I did the mental math and realized I'm not going to pamper and baby knives my whole life. I need to be able to have tools that if they break, they go straight in the trash and I just get another one. In the forensic analysis, it's much cheaper and easier to go that way.

This is for me as a home cook - I can acknowledge if I worked in a professional environment I would need pro tools that I would baby and pamper, but my home kitchen is not the place

I've cooked every meal from scratch for 5 years

There's one tool that was worth the $50 and that was a garlic press, the rest was money wasted

It's much better to understand your tools and buy appropriately, instead of just assuming that lots of money is the answer

That's my opinion and experience

Ah... ** this ** is what finally convinced her. Fuck you, Melanie, you ignoramus.

It is inarguable that anything but twist/tuck is ok. Bread box is a whimsical idea from when material science was advanced enough to make horseshoes. Everything else either requires more plastic/steps or wrecks the bread.

There's really no argument here.

As a wonderful cook, I resent just about every piece of cooking advice. They're just oft-repeated, poorly-understood concepts.

For example, I love cast iron. It's my go-to for nearly all my cooking. I cannot stand cast iron people. They think their lump of iron is a baby that needs to be spit polished and pampered like a Fabergé egg. No, you beat the ever-loving hell out of it, abuse it, soak it in water, leave it to rust, abuse it with scouring pads... then you rub a 1/16th tsp of oil on it and get on with life/cooking.

Edit: Same thing with knives. Before you give me a huge sermon about how to sharpen and care for knives, why don't you understand that you can use a $5 German steel chef knife, a Rada quick sharp and a hone. For the amount most people cook and prep, that's going to last 30 years. I cook every single meal from scratch, there's 20,000 cutting board Kms on my $5 knife. Yet if the subject comes up, people are linking $300 knife reviews... Proof they want to have a knife, not use a knife.

Not so much the spelling, just... I went to school with a girl who's father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada... they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee

Her name was "Dollarina"