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we don't have to buy shit, but we're going to anyway
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die KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
die KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
So since I managed to get a significant raise at my workplace I decided to treat myself to a little something
a while back I found my dad's old pen collection - in it were a series of six Waterman pens and a mechanical pencil; one travel sized, one big fountain pen, the works. It was still in the box too, but it was just a blue brand case with basic faux-felt indent lining
so I decided, since I can afford it and since these pens hold sentimental value to me, that I'll get a nice display case to show them in
but here's the kicker: turns out a 6 pen case is nigh impossible to find
every pen case is aimed at the high cost extravagance of the deep and abyssal well that is pen collection enthusiasts, meaning it's a one-pen showpiece made out of rare mahogany or some shit or a 12-to-24 pen emporium
but extensive googling has resulted in success
in Singapore, a store called Peninasia; in it, a 6 pen leather case by a company called Wolf 1834 specializing in "luxury jewelry accessories, watch boxes, cases & watch winders". said leather case no longer in production; it is the last of a defunct run
and I nabbed it
and it got me thinking, ya'll got to have stories about neat purchases
so please share the cool things you buy and why you buy them
a while back I found my dad's old pen collection - in it were a series of six Waterman pens and a mechanical pencil; one travel sized, one big fountain pen, the works. It was still in the box too, but it was just a blue brand case with basic faux-felt indent lining
so I decided, since I can afford it and since these pens hold sentimental value to me, that I'll get a nice display case to show them in
but here's the kicker: turns out a 6 pen case is nigh impossible to find
every pen case is aimed at the high cost extravagance of the deep and abyssal well that is pen collection enthusiasts, meaning it's a one-pen showpiece made out of rare mahogany or some shit or a 12-to-24 pen emporium
but extensive googling has resulted in success
in Singapore, a store called Peninasia; in it, a 6 pen leather case by a company called Wolf 1834 specializing in "luxury jewelry accessories, watch boxes, cases & watch winders". said leather case no longer in production; it is the last of a defunct run
and I nabbed it
and it got me thinking, ya'll got to have stories about neat purchases
so please share the cool things you buy and why you buy them
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You can't post that you own an Enya ukelele without also posting your cover of Orinoco Flow, c'mon...
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Missed the chance at 1d20V joke
Does it still float if you put heavier dice on it?
But I did do one splurge, where I bought a Chris Onstad original sketch. Achewood was huge for me, and I got to give some money to a dude what helped shape me and now I have a fun thing to put on my wall.
do not succumb to capitalism
It's not succumbing to capitalism unless you're creating a stock portfolio, and even then...
This is just plain old "buying stuff" and, as long as we take care of them, we don't have to feel guilty about it.
I got a wonderful clay tanuki statue that is currently in my parent’s basement that will probably stay there until I buy an apartment with more than four rooms.
The tanuki itself or its gigantic testicles?
He comes up to my knee and he is roughly 40% testes by height and volume.
does he require a dedicated viewing gallery
do his testes
I don't actually have a wall to put this up on yet, so pictured is it mounted on someone else's.
Succumbing to capitalism would be me becoming a centrist, and proclaiming that our current modern democracies are Good, Actually, and supporting exploitative corporations.
I suppose I take offence from the notion that I am giving in to exploitative capitalism by trying to bring a bit of joy into the lives of my friends and family.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I at least don't put any blame on people not being able to sever themselves from all earthly desires in the pursuit of starving the machine though.
People want stuff.
Surprisingly reasonable, I want to say it was around $40? Weighs about six kilos.
This is where I bought it, looks like the sale is going for another three hours, 60% off, which is what pushed me over the edge.
Sure, that's a useful distinction. Perhaps it's my own narrow interpretation, but consumerism is a vapid urge to purchase things for the sake of the purchase itself, often as a form of conspicuous consumerism (look at my fancy new car, clothes, gadget, doodad etc.).
The examples here are different, imo
I dunno I feel like I'm off on a weird tangent, today has been a big day
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Satans..... hints.....
I cook eggs pretty regularly so the seasoning on the small pan is already coming in beautifully. I'm really trying to figure out what to make on the big skillet, aside from thick-cut bacon.
Three part question
1) What model pan'd you get?
2) How do you cook your eggs?
3) How're you seasoning that pan?
I friggin' love eggs and hate my current pan, I am real curious about a Better Egg Life
oh, that's remarkedly affordable! I spotted a nice piece of wall art on etsy a while back, but it costs a stupid amount of money, and shipping it here add another 25% to the final price
one day though... one day
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I got myself a DeBuyer mineral-b 9.5" omelette pan.
Now there's cheaper options if you have a gas-range, I went with DeBuyer specifically because I rent and as such I bregudgingly have a glass-top electric range and one of the down-sides of that sort of burner is that I needed the thicker 3mm Carbon Steel from DeBuyer to prevent warping from the temperature differential from the sides and the flat bottom, unlike a gas range -- where heated gas can envelope and get heat up along and into the curved edges of the pan and a thinner carbon-steel pan would be fine.
I cook my eggs in butter, ideally you'd use clarified butter but I don't really bother with that unless I happen to find ghee at a good price. I just use whole pats (~1 tbps/egg) of butter, that might sound like a lot but not all of that butter is getting absorbed into the egg. I cook em on medium and add my eggs when the butter has mostly done sizzling cause that means the natural water content has mostly steamed out.
If saving butter is your priority, then definitely invest in a hard-anodized aluminum non-stick pan instead, where you might only need 1tsp/egg of butter or oil.
Seasoning is dead simple, with the caveat that a brand new pan will ship to you with some kind of protective coating that will need a good scrubbing off under very hot water. In the Mineral B line it's beeswax, which I appreciate because it's not as environmentally complicated as it might be with other brands. Once that's off you just heat up the pan ~ medium-high and while it's heating up splash a good dab of a high-flashpoint neutral oil -- I intermingle grapeseed or safflower/sunflower oil -- and use a towel to distribute it across the surface of the pan. Let it smoke slightly for a couple minutes. Then it's done and the first seasoning show have slightly discolored the pan, like it went from bare grey metal to a dull bronzed titanium color!
This is a process you'll repeat quite often, when the pan is looking like it's a little dry after wiping it post-cooking. A carbon steel pan is going to darken up and brown/black out over time, and that's perfectly great -- it's polymerized fats that have bonded to the carbon in the iron to form a naturally non-stick surface with none of the heat-sensitive toxic volatile organic compounds in traditional non-stick cookware.
To me the biggest upsides to carbon-steel have been that it's not as heavy as cast-iron (something I've used for more than 10 years, and would still use for cornbread/pizza), which make it much easier to manage, jostle, shake or move the pan. And just like cast-iron, no matter how badly you fuck up the pan it's relatively simple to get the pan back to bare metal and make it like new again with a new seasoning; and once you learn how to build/maintain a seasoning they'll last years and years.