OT - What are you doing right now?

WeberWho

GrateEggspectations said:

Just attending a virtual wedding. 

It sounds like a perfect excuse to start drinking. Open bar?

Mark_B_Good

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Wondering out loud how long, when it is open normally, it takes a ship to traverse the length of the Suez Canal.  

Right now it's looking like 3 weeks.

How long before they start using dynamite? Should we start taking bets?

Mark_B_Good

Canugghead said:

Canugghead said:

Thanks @JohnInCarolina . It's crazy labour intensive, thankfully I figured out a way to make it easier. It was tricky to get the knife exit at the matching slot on the opposite side... always knew the grooves on the inside floor are for slicing through, last night I finally realised I could use the grooves in the ceiling (identical tiles top and bottom) to guide the knife tip, duh! And yes, I did RTFM and this tip is missing. May be it's common sense, I dunno 

@Mark_B_Good ^^^

Mark_B_Good

So lessons learned. I packed that cube WAY to much, and had trouble cutting at top and bottom right through meat. Made it hard to separate skewers when I pulled everything open.

Second, I ended up with smaller pieces of meat when I packed, as I cut around the bone of the leg of lamb. Not good, ended up with chunks too small for the skewer to bite into ... so I had to fix a few when I unpacked. I kind of knew that would happen as I packed it, but hoped for the best.

So in future, leave meat packed a good inch from the top, and use nice big steaks, cut about 1/2" thick. No tiny pieces.

Otherwise they turned out great.

Canugghead

Meat glue!?

Fwiw, I shorten the sticks and snip off the points with cutter pliers before vac sealing.  Save bag and freezer space, minimize risk of bag piercing and stick burning.

Mark_B_Good

Canugghead said:

Meat glue!?

Fwiw, I shorten the sticks and snip off the points with cutter pliers before vac sealing.  Save bag and freezer space, minimize risk of bag piercing and stick burning.

I was worried about the bag being punctured by the points. Fortunately they didn't ... 

nolaegghead

Even though the bags are thinner, I find sharp stuff like bones and skewers don't puncture the bag when using the chamber sealer vs the external bag sealer (nearly as much, at least).  I think it must be because the slow drag of a tightening bag on the external sealer causes tears.  The chamber causes the bag to slightly inflate then immediately collapse around the food/objects. 

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1375477256060080132

PigBeanUs

nolaegghead said:

Even though the bags are thinner, I find sharp stuff like bones and skewers don't puncture the bag when using the chamber sealer vs the external bag sealer (nearly as much, at least).  I think it must be because the slow drag of a tightening bag on the external sealer causes tears.  The chamber causes the bag to slightly inflate then immediately collapse around the food/objects. 

Somebody actually flagged this post. 

What kind of sadness exists in someone’s life that they feel better flagging this post?

I’m not angry. I’m impressed  

ColbyLang

Drinking a beer or 6. It’s been a long week. 80 hours on the clock....thank God tomorrow is an off day. Gotta love Lent

nolaegghead

PigBeanUs said:

nolaegghead said:

Even though the bags are thinner, I find sharp stuff like bones and skewers don't puncture the bag when using the chamber sealer vs the external bag sealer (nearly as much, at least).  I think it must be because the slow drag of a tightening bag on the external sealer causes tears.  The chamber causes the bag to slightly inflate then immediately collapse around the food/objects. 

Somebody actually flagged this post. 

What kind of sadness exists in someone’s life that they feel better flagging this post?

I’m not angry. I’m impressed  

Content isn't getting flagged, its a weird kind of adulation by my fan base.

nolaegghead

....or maybe they just got touched by their uncle one too many times and are hopelessly broken.  That is sadness.

GrateEggspectations

Quite the moon this night. 

JohnInCarolina

Woke up early, because cats are aholes.  One of ours has started sprinting across the top of our bed, from my wife’s pillow to mine and then the floor, over and over again, making friggin circles in our bedroom, until one of us gets up.  Mind you, there is food in their bowls, because we have an automatic feeder set up.

Anyway... enjoying a cuppa Joe on the porch with the fire table in full force.   Nice morning.

johnmitchell

Morning coffee and watching a busy blue bird build her nest

ColtsFan

@johnmitchell our blue birds have been busy too. I feel like the female likes to sit outside the nesting box and give the male orders

lousubcap

@ColtsFan - like that's a surprise??  

JohnInCarolina

https://twitter.com/ButtersKennedy/status/1374869802523758596?s=20

@frazdaddy - this your place?

Battleborn

JohnInCarolina said:

Woke up early, because cats are aholes.  One of ours has started sprinting across the top of our bed, from my wife’s pillow to mine and then the floor, over and over again, making friggin circles in our bedroom, until one of us gets up.  Mind you, there is food in their bowls, because we have an automatic feeder set up.

Anyway... enjoying a cuppa Joe on the porch with the fire table in full force.   Nice morning.

Our cat does the same thing, every morning at 6:30. Like clockwork. If she isn’t in the room, she will come and bang on our bedroom door. 

SonVolt

Mark_B_Good said:

Canugghead said:

Meat glue!?

Fwiw, I shorten the sticks and snip off the points with cutter pliers before vac sealing.  Save bag and freezer space, minimize risk of bag piercing and stick burning.

I was worried about the bag being punctured by the points. Fortunately they didn't ... 

Keep an eye on them in the freezer over time. I almost always get air leaks (intrusion?) over time with sharp objects. Now, anything w/bones gets covered with a square of parchment or foil. 

JohnInCarolina

Appreciating a gift from a former PhD student:



I’m helping him get his green card, but this is over and above.

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

Appreciating a gift from a former PhD student:



I’m helping him get his green card, but this is over and above.

Great gift highlighting a great act. 

lousubcap

And morning celebrating as well.  (That bourbon advent calendar brought about the early celebration option!) 
Well played on both sides right there.  

GATraveller

Fowling.

ColtsFan

Just parked my happy asz in my spot for the rest of the afternoon

gmanrva

A little butt

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/JonHansenTV/status/1375538035551522821

JohnInCarolina

https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/1375922572227936260?s=20

GATraveller

Waffles

kl8ton

It moved. 

https://trib.al/lgvCV0g

$400 million an hour.