In my opinion I don't see adding another player as a useful step, especially when their selling point is "company trust." Why trust two companies when you only need one? A good rule of thumb in cybersecurity is to minimize attack surface and going through two companies seems to add more unnecessary complexity and seems to require more trust, counter to their selling point.

Mullvad already collects next to nothing and if you pay with monero there's almost no link to you, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't just use Mullvad outright. Mullvad also has server multihop functionality if you want that specific feature too.

Definitely agree, it didn't make my top ten but I use my scraper all the time. It's so easy to just scoop things up after you cut them, or even for cleaning too

I used to be on the air fryer hate train too until I got one on clearance. Now I use it more than my oven; it's the same thing basically but so much more energy and time efficient. The last thing I used my actual oven for was making a cake, only because the pan wouldn't fit in the air fryer. I've even baked cookies and cupcakes in it, they're so cool

I guess my line of thinking was that a can opener isn't the most important investment out of all the tools. I tried to pick the cheapest possible things without sacrificing cooking quality; P38s are like 50¢ and they work well enough and last forever so that's where my mind went

I thought about a peeler too, but I only really use them for carrots and potatoes. I'm one of the weirdos that likes the skin on potatoes and I can peel a carrot easily enough with a knife.

I didn't think about kitchen towels for heat though, that's definitely an essential

I guess the 80/20 rule would apply. I could probably make 80% of most dishes with these tools, but I wouldn't be able to make anything that needs special equipment (like madeline pans, pizza peels, etc.). Calzone would probably be on the table since you can move it by hand, but pizza would be a hard one without a way to get it in the oven. Maybe you could par-cook the crust so it's stable enough to handle and top?

Eggs are a good point too. Scrambled and sunnyside would be easy in the wok, but over easy, etc. would definitely be harder. It would definitely take some finesse to flip it in a wok.

Edit: TIL about a Thermomix. Definitely more versatile than an immersion blender

Certain pathogens can multiply very quickly in as little as 4 hours in what is known as the temperature danger zone (41 to 135 F or 5 to 57 C). If you didn't wash ingredients properly or let the cut ingredients sit any longer than this at room temp then that might be the cause. Beans are particularly more vulnerable, so that was probably the bad ingredient.

Also another side note, if your food was contaminated already, certain species of bacteria release toxins and compounds that aren't destryed by heat, so eating previously contaminated food, even cooked, is a gamble. Not all of them produce toxins, but if they did those toxins will still be there even after the food is cooked.

Honestly no matter what the dish is or how it got contaminated, it's not worth it. I'd reccomend tossing it to be safe, food poisoning is not fun.

Don't be afraid to cut corners or make easy "cheat" dishes when you start out. Not everything has to be from scratch or top quality or take you all day to make. I've made recipes as hard as beef wellington and I've made microwave bean nachos and both hit in the right context. There's a lot of pomposity in cooking and it's good in its place, but at the end of the day its just something we do for fun. Don't forget to have fun when you cook!

My favorite Youtuber is Binging with Babish, others will probably mention him; he is getting very popular in recent years. He is a lot of fun, wholesome, down to earth and the man can cook.

My favorite cookbook is The Flavor Matrix by James Briscione; it talks abot food synergy, pairings and a bit of food science. Overall a good intermediate read.

My favorite recipe is Babish's level 10 cookies, which is my favorite dessert of all time.

My favorite dish is Bucatini Carbonara, a Central Italian pasta dish made with eggs, cheese, and pancetta or guanciale. Authentic carbonara is a true delight, but (don't tell the Italians) you can make an easy version with bacon and onions that is pretty dang good.

100%, Babish / Andrew Rea was the reason I became a career chef and he kindled my passion for food. He's so down to earth, funny, and the man can cook. His recipes and videos are amazing, every one I've made is delicious

Pegasus is my go-to but it takes a bit of tweaking and learning. It's kinda like the arch of frontends; very versatile, lightweight and customizable, but also a bit of a learning curve. Steam games get added automatically, but with other emulaed or wine games you'll need a scraper like Skyscraper or you can edit the metadata files yourself. You can also point to bash scripts to do essentially anything you want on the OS side. Launch anything, any emulator, any game, any bash script, wine, whatever your heart desires.

There are also tons of themes in every style, my top pics are Retro Mega Next for browsing and Library for a grid layout. It is also natively built for use with controller so it is easy to use. It's also cross platform, I currently use it on Fedora, used to use it on Windows and have also used it on Android and Steam Deck. And if you want to go even deeper than that, it runs on QML, and you can customize any and every sigle part of the launcher and frontend with the QML files or even make your own theme. The rabbit hole is deep and very fun to explore and it's such a flexible frontend

Or at that point we move to the forest and start dissociating from society

I've always tackled this problem by seeing it differently depending on the context, "culinary" or "scientific" . Scientifically, a Jalapeño is a fruit, but culinarily it is a vegetable. Same with other foods like tomato being a fruit or cucumber being a berry. They're just vegetables in a cooking context but not in a scientific one

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