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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I’m a handyman. New homes are trash. Contractor grade fixtures that will need to be replaced. Everything is as cheap as possible. “Let’s put the water heater in the attic so once it fails it will destroy everything under it.” Let’s use the push to shut-off water lines that will break the moment you decide you want to replace that crap faucet."

    Once you live in you will want to spend upwards of 10% of the house value fixing all the crap that the builders did. Get yourself a high end inspector to go through the house with a fine tooth comb and they will find all kinds of code compliance issues that the builders will be liable for. New construction is crap. Most of them aren’t built to last the length of a mortgage.

    When you buy an older home you know there are things that will need expensive repairs. I bought my house knowing that 40 amps would get us by but it was going to cost $20k to get us current. The HVAC was on its last scheduled year of life. The roof was on its last scheduled year of life. Same for the water heater. The septic passed an inspection when it shouldn’t have and I dropped $7k four months later to replace it because it collapsed. The AC hasn’t worked in 3 years. I need to patch parts of the roof. The water heater died but I was able to replace it myself for a quarter the price of someone else doing it. But this house was 90k in 2017. I knew what I was buying. With new houses you expect things to last. But they don’t. They are built to sell, not to last. And the more expensive the new house the worse the failures get. Don’t even get me started on modern McMansion roof design.





  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldtoCooking @lemmy.worldI have 2 dozen eggs to use up
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    Separate the whites and yolks. Make a sponge cake or something out of the whites.

    In a tupperware container, put down a thick layer of salt. Then place the yolks close but not touching on that layer of salt. Cover everything with salt. Leave it out at room temperature covered but with the ability to breathe. The yolks will harden and dehydrate. You can now use them as a Parmesan substitute in salads, pastas and other things.

    If you want to step things up a little bit make sense and cray powder or chili powder (American Curry powder) with the salt to impart some flavor to the yolks.

    There’s nothing wrong with a hard egg sandwich. Little bit of mayo. A little bit of mustard. Maybe a tiny bit of horseradish and some dill. Put that on two slices of bread.

    You can make ice cream. Egg sugar, salt, cream.

    If you don’t anticipate running into another surplus then you can get some food grade lime and waterglass the eggs for long-term storage as long as they are not washed. If you bought them from a store In America then do not do this. Only do this with farm fresh unwashed eggs.

    I run a hard surplus on eggs so I do not do this because I know there will always be more so I’m not looking for ways to save them but ways to you use them.

    Never underestimate the tastiness of shakshuka.

    Breakfast burritos.

    Do you have any urine and wood ash? Maybe it’s time to bury some eggs in the backyard.

    – Edit: fixord all the voice to text errors.



  • Have you ever cracked open a floater and found a perfectly fine egg? You are counting the ones that confirm your bias but don’t have a large enough sample size to work from. I have 21 chickens. 5 ducks and an unknown number of geese that lay eggs. I’ve seen fresh hour old eggs that are bad and sink. I’ve seen 6 week old eggs stored at room temperature that sink. I’ve had day one eggs that float and are still fine. Eggs are a natural product with high amounts of variation. We can’t even reliably tell if a fertilized egg is male or female using the best science available and people expect a float test to determine if it’s infected with bacteria? Not happening. The float test tells you how much air is in it. That’s all. And that isn’t even a guaranteed way to determine age.






  • It should be green in color. It should have a date on it so I know it’s not been in a warehouse for a year. It should be using olives grown somewhere between Spain and Turkey †. It should be in an air tight container. It should be in a non clear bottle or in a tin. It should say it’s cold pressed. It should say it’s first press.

    Some will say that it should gel if you put it in the fridge. Some say it shouldn’t gel if you put it in the fridge. The fridge gel test is a myth that doesn’t offer any usable data on purity or quality.

    † there are some fine examples from California but you are going to pay extra for that.



  • I originally went with these colors because they are the only hardwoods available within an hour and are relatively cheap. I didn’t want to burn money on what was probably going to be a failed attempt. For the remake I wanted to use the exact same materials to accurately show the skill difference over the years. I’m very tempted to make another one with even more pixels but much higher quality wood and more color contrast. But there aren’t any hardwoods that retain a dark or bright green color so I’d still have to change that up.






  • Get some good English muffins (Bays are in the refrigerator section and sooooo much better than Thomas’s). Are you doing bacon? If so line a baking sheet with foil and fold the edges so that the bacon grease doesn’t run under the foil. Lay you bacon out on it and pop into a cold oven. Bake at 375 for 20 to 30 minutes depending on how accurate your oven is. Doing sausage? Fry your parties up in a frying pan. Cook your eggs. If you want them to be perfectly round then use English muffin rings or grab a can of tuna and cut the top off with a hacksaw, oscillating tool, can opener, angle grinder. Make sure to debur the edge with emery coth. Make sure your pan is absolutely flat and not warped. You might want to lightly toast the English muffins. For the cheese use American cheese food product slices. Take one slice and fold the corners toward the center. And break along the fold lines. The smaller center square is for one sandwich. The corners will be exactly the same amount of cheese. That is for sandwich number two.

    Line a baking baking with parchment or freezer paper. Assemble the sandwichs and place them on the baking sheet. Place in freezer for two hours. Toss them in a freezer bag. Place in freezer.

    Microwave for 90 seconds when you are ready to serve.