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Did you say burger ? 
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No - I'm doing Tagliatelle with bacon and mushroom sauce tonight.
Mind you, I do enjoy a good burger done in the Sous Vide: 90 minutes at 60C then a 20 second sear on each side is wonderful! Serve in a toasted English muffin, with iceberg lettuce, chopped onion, mayo and mustard. 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Sous Vide
First time seeing this type of cooking. It surely seems strange to me.
OriginalGriff wrote: Serve in a toasted English muffin, with iceberg lettuce, chopped onion, mayo and mustard
No cheese or ketchup?
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It is strange - but good, for some things.
You can take a lump of cheap beef out of the freezer, dump it in the tank and turn it on, then 18 hours later it's cooked - and soft, and juicy, and wonderful. (Costs very little to run, especially compared to an oven)
It cooks steak superbly: cooked to medium rare all the way through, you end up with rump steak with is as tender as fillet, but with the flavour-fullness of the rump.
It takes some getting used to: 1/2 degree C can make a huge difference as it alters some proteins and not others, which can be good - or bad...
Plus, to use it you need a vacuum sealer, which means that all the food in my freezer is properly sealed - so it lasts a lot longer, and doesn't get freezer burn.
It's not good for everything: I did a leg of lamb and really, really wished I hadn't. 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: 18 hours
Will you really wait for that long ?
How do keep the water with the right temperature for so long when a half of a degree makes such a difference?
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Yes! It's just a case of "dump it in and go to bed" - it'll be ready for supper tomorrow night.
I have one of these: http://www.sousvidesupreme.com/en-uk/sousvidesupreme_vs_demi.htm[^] - the Demi version - it's the size of a breadmaker, and the temperature is controlled by an embedded processor which intelligently maintains the water temp - it works out how long it took to adjust it a tiny bit last time, and starts early enough that it keeps the temperature within 1/2 degree C. Costs about as much to run as a light bulb!
I'm seriously thinking about trying my hand at deboning a whole chicken and turning it into a roll for cooking - the quality of individual chicken breasts done it is are excellent, and the whole Christmas turkey breast I did last year was so juicy and cooked all the way through that is was good eating, unlike "normal" turkey which I find dry and tasteless.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Article?
I've seen several brands doing about the same thing. Is Sous Vide a recommendation?
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The quality is good - it's solid, and there are no moving parts. It's a bit of a pain to empty (that much water is heavy to cart around) and the lid could be insulated instead of thin aluminium. But...for the money, I couldn't find anything else that didn't look like it would fall apart pretty damn quickly!
Only fault I had was that the supplied mains lead was cheap and naff. It's a US company and the UK spec moulded plug was on a cable that clearly came from a Chinese bargain bin - the IEEE end was a loose fit on the electrical connections and fell out / arced. Grabbing a spare UK IEEE lead from my vast supply fixed it!
I didn't buy their vacuum sealer (it's a bit basic and plasticky), instead I got one of these: http://www.foodsaver.co.uk/product.aspx?pid=14005[^] which was a lot bigger than I expected, but feels solid and robust.
I tell a lie: I did get a Sous Vide vacuum sealer for ziplock bags, but it was fine, they were cr@p - you can't wash them because of the textured inner surface (so you can't reuse them) and they don't hold a vacuum for long, just a couple of days max which is a complete waste of time. The heat sealed bags / rolls are designed to be disposable, but work a whole load better.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That's some good info, I'm updating my wish list as we're talking.
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What is this thing you call debugger?
Why do you need a new dictionary? Here is the meaning of IDE 
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Don't forget - it's dangerous to use an IDE in March...
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Don't forget - it's dangerous to use an IDE in March...
With M$ its dangerous every month! 
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Technically, it's dangerous to use more than one IDE in March.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Just got my new Computer Dictionary
What a coincidence - me too!
Dictionary<Computer, object> foo = new Dictionary<Computer, object>();
/ravi
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hard drive [n]:
Going to the office every morning
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! 
They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
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codespace.com: All Git repositories are available for export
I'd send an e-mail pdq to get what you can back.
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Most of my repo are SVN. Only a few new repo are GIT.
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Wow.  How terrible.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Holy hell, that's f**king crazy!
I would be hitting the bar, good luck!
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Terrible.
Outsourcing your server is a bad idea, and outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea (think tax-information, banks, medical records, aw - the cloud-horrors that are still awaiting us!)
As soon as you outsource your server, you're no longer in control and depending on the other party.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Bearing in mind the grief we are having getting our network back up I am keeping all my source backed on my local hard drive, dropbox & memory sticks!!
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Agreed 100%. There's no way I'm putting my private information in the 'cloud'. Bearing in mind the frequency that 'reputable' companies are admitted getting done over (adobe, ebay etc.), how long is it going to be before people are stealing far more than your password?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea
But for the moment where all your local data is gone. In which case it might be quite interesting to have the data somewhere in the cloud.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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If your data is gone, ANY backup would do. Still, given the choice between a backup on somebody else's cloud (!) is a similar bad idea.
Back up on tape, and put it in the vault.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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