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The last few seconds of that video...
I don't think I'd ever be comfortable having this sort of thing stretched out horizontally with a big heavy monitor ready to fall right on my face.
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I saw .NET 5 RC1 has launched and it made me giddy. Kind of like when we got our new kitchen appliances.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. 
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My dad got giddy the first time he touched a transistor.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I worked with a guy who got excited talking about valves.
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Kitchen appliances are awesome. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I love my gas range and my convection oven. I'm never going back. You can pry it from my cold dead hands.
I cook the most beautiful turkeys in this thing. 
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Try a Sous Vide as well: I use the Anova circulator, and it's brilliant for steak, chicken, and seafood.
They are just releasing a consumer steam / combi oven: Anova Precision Oven | Anova Culinary[^] but it's pretty expensive, so I'm giving it a miss for a couple of years I think.
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I don't know how much stuff I could cook with it. We have a small kitchen. It's not much bigger than one of those kitchenettes you find in hotels, but we took some walls out and opened it up some. Still, not much cupboard or counter space so we have to be careful what appliances we get. It's kind of weird having a tiny kitchen but every amenity in it (gas range/oven, nice 1100 watt full size microwave, dishwasher, etc) but aside from the rice cooker and toaster and coffee pot we don't really have room for much.
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I know what you mean - our previous house has a kitchen so small that it held a cooker, fridge and washing machine - and only about 1m2 of countertop. Heck, the sink and drainer were bigger than the counters ...
Now we have a larger one, so I get cooker, espresso machine, toaster, knife sets, breadbin, slow cooker, soupmaker(s)*, "external" vacuum sealer, "Chamber" vacuum sealer, meat slicer, and sous vide / deep fryer (I multipurposed the frier) - and still have room to work!
* One of them is brilliant - great for winter lunches! The other is ... overcomplicated.
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Where did you get This old Tony from ?
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YouTube: This Old Tony - YouTube[^]
He's a metalworker (and time travelling lathe owner) but don't let that put you off - he's one of those practical people who know what they are doing with metal, and computerising routers, and ... and who can put together a damn good video to show it. Worth watching, which is rare for YouTube these days - there is far, far too much crap there just for monetisation.
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He's into 3d printing big time
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He's only just started with 3D printing: he is also converting an old industrial 3-axis milling machine to CNC control ...
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I used to have a gas range.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In England we used to have a gas range with an eye-level grill/toaster. We could make English toast (toasted on one side only), cheese on toast was easy - anything on toast was easy. Why don't they do eye-level grills anymore (in America they call them broilers, I think)?
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I just broil in the oven. I don't think I've ever seen what you're talking about. Now I'm curious.
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What the USians call "Broiling" is called "Grilling" in the UK.
What the USians call "Grilling" is called "Frying" in the UK.
What the USians call "Frying" is called "Deep Frying" in the UK.
These terms are flexible and are changing in the UK as the pernicious US influence spreads like a virus through the Uk population.
This is why it is called and "Eye-level Grill", not an "Eye-level Broiler".
I believe that they became less popular because they got in the way of modern extraction hoods. I still miss them though. [^]
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� Forogar � wrote: English toast (toasted on one side only)
That's French toast. A regular part of my diet growing up in the 50s.
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No, French Toast is fried, not grilled: Easy French Toast Recipe | SimplyRecipes.com[^]
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Back in the 50s we made do ... 
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Most important is a proper knife.
Get a Windmühlenmesser [^] in carbon steel with Solinger Dünnschliff and you will realize that all knives you ever had before were blunt.
They need to be treated well though (or they will get stained), and regularily sharpened.
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I use ceramic knives - seriously sharp! "Now that's a knife!"
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I went ceramic over five years ago, and still have the four I bought then - three of them are still just as sharp as the day I bought them with no sharpening.
I still have my steel knives though, because ceramic can't be used on bone - the edge is too fragile and you get chips.
I did buy a proper ceramic sharpener as an import from Japan because I know my wife ... 
That's why "Three of them" haven't needed any attention! 
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Yeah, they hold the edge much longer than a steel knife, but I have several dislikes with them.
Higher friction is one, the brittleness is another. You really can't do this[^] with a ceramic knife.
The brittleness also leads to another problem as far as I'm concerned, most ceramic knives have a very high edge angle of up to forty degrees to compensate for the brittleness which makes them less... well, not less sharp, but rather... they simply don't cut as well's a knife with a 10-15 degree edge. You'd know what I mean when you cut a tomato and the chopping board remains dry.
So they really are each others opposites with different strong points.
That said, I really should buy my wife a ceramic knife of her own.
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