Wosn?

Reminds me of the flying Mercedes CLR:

https://youtu.be/a9vD0R1fvZw

SPRICH

Mixing directly I got scrambled eggs far too often (no idea what I did wrong) so I switched methods. (Or runny sauce when I waited a moment before mixing)

If it works for you, perfect!

The bain marie is my workaround with the heat problems.

There’s one thing I do differently: I prepare the eggs and cheese in a metal bowl which I slowly warm up on top of the cooking pasta (Bain marie) while whisking it. Shortly before the pasta is done I’ll add the right amount of pasta cooking water with a ladle to make it nice and creamy.

This gives me plenty of time to do things and reach the perfect temperature without stress.

With the bain marie way, just let the pasta cool a moment before adding the sauce, to prevent the sauce from curdling (as it already has the perfect creamyness).

With this technique I find it very easy to control the temperature.

At least in Japan the middle aged men card trading game is a thing:

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/

“CD labeling pen” They sold permanent markers with thin tips specifically for writing on CDs.

Very long time ago Electronic Arts (ECA at the time, with the cube, ball and pyramid logo) published amazing games.

I really really enjoyed my Racing Destruction Set or the Pinball Construction Set on the C64.

I’m just happy now I did pirate them and never gave them my money to cause what EA is now.

So in my eyes “ECA” is another company “EA” killed.

(40 years ago, when I was 15 - sue me, EA )

Also depends a lot on the oven. Incidentially today I bought a (used) new one (after I found it in local listings for 50 Eur - and sold off my old one for 30 Eur).

The old one goes to 260C, the new one gets to 300C. No way to make decent pizza in the old one (I tried) , but with the new one and a steel I’d have a chance.

I’m German so I have good access to Italian flour, for Pizza I use Caputo Pizzeria (for which I pay Eur 2.50 per kg). I order a few packages online.

Typical supermarket flour here has a lower protein content - so it can hold less water.

The Caputo is about 3 times the price of supermarket flour, but 1kg of flour is 6 (round) pizzas, so the difference is a few cent per pizza.

Check youtube for good information - damn, I forget the name of the channel, it’s a married couple showing Italian cuisine , he’s American she’s Italian. They have a video how they make the rectangular pizza in the household oven.

This is crazy, chatgpt just found what I was looking for from roughly the above description:

https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/authentic-italian-pan-pizza-in-teglia-recipe

What a burn. The Tesla might even catch fire from this comment alone.

I’ve never eaten good pizza out of a household oven, so I’ve bought an electric pizza oven for 200 Eur.

By weight I use 60% of water compared to the flour (i. e. 500g of high protein pizza flour to 300g of water), 7g of salt and a very low amount of dry yeast. Overnight proofing in the fridge, next day I ball the dough (around 270g per pizza) and let it proof at room temp for a few hours.

Baking 3 minutes at 400°C (740F)

The investment for the oven has well paid off, as I don’t order any pizza to my home, anymore. You can freeze dough balls or use more yeast for “same day dough”.

Edit: Ah what nobody mentioned in the other comments (I think): The choice of flour makes a huuuuuge difference. Use pizza flour or at least a high protein flour (which has at least 12% of protein)

Herr Dicke Hose hält 2 Minuten durch.

tja.

Yes that’s right. It’s a get your shit together or go bust moment for us here in Europe.

Yep, I know that for myself. But I can’t switch away from github as that is where the huge company I work for has its stuff - and it needs convincing the enterprises, not the individuals.

Personally I just have my own repos which I can move anywhere in an eyeblink. But it takes political power to. move governments, departments and companies.

For example I have no way to ditch Teams or Outlook, because that’s the accounts my employer set up. I can’t ditch my RSA hardware token, because that’s what my. employer’s customer uses. I can’t ditch. my work phone as only Samsung and Apple are vetted.

That’s something that needs to change on a pan-europrean level.

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities… (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I’d have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a “european code review agency” might be a thing.

We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

We need an Europan open source stack.

Yes, we’re tempted by the right, too. But ousting them now would do no good.

But Ramstein (only one m, unlike the band) - keep the USians there for a time, let’s keep it as is for a time until it’s time to make some kind of deal.

They might need it one day, so we keep it as a collateral.

All long term international agreements and security guarantees died on the weekend so we need tangible things to force our former allies - now those we have deals with - to ensure they behave.

The correct thing to do would be our foreign office to issue an official travel warning for the US. (Which would have some impact on tourism to the US)

Let’s keep the big things for later, we WILL need them.

We’ll have an election in a few days here in Germany. And we’re already stumbling. The polls don’t look wo good.