“The fraction allows you to communicate length and tolerance in a single number”
I don’t see how that isn’t true of decimals, too. 0.1 indicates a precision of 1 digit, 0.12 indicates a precision of 2, 0.120 indicates a precision of three.
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At least it’s contained. Not too bad a spill. Pour it back into the bottle and you’re pretty much good.
I had a running gag once with my cheese guy where i would order in hectograms. I probably found it more amusing than he did.
It is a very tepid temperature for tea.
You really recognize these weirdly precise numbers in packaging.
355ml. 454g. 25.4mm.
Yeah, suuuuure your chocolate bar is precise to 3 sig figs…
This hurts my brain. Why do we care about all the weird fractions? +/- 0.1 is just another way of saying 1/10. You can still do that if you want without having to do fraction math in random denominators.
Responsible, sensible, reasonable, commonsensical, yes. Cool, not really…
In what country is barley not a common ingredient? Do they not really use it in the USA?
That’s about the going rate for desktop support here, in CAD. I know it’s more in the US, but they have to pay for more stuff.
I do like this idea as a daily or weekly challenge.
Might need to be constrained with a standardized list of pantry items.
An Italian kitchen in 1850 would!
If you have a pasta roller, it’s a snap! 400g flour, 4 eggs, little oil, little salt. Form into a dough, it takes a while to come together. It’s a difficult dough to work. A mixer can help. 8 minutes or so of kneading. Rest the dough an hour, roll out into sheets, and then either use the noodle attachment or cut it into noodles by hand. It honestly only takes like 15 minutes of actual hands on effort and 90 minutes of total time.
Buttermilk barley porridge is very good. I like it with anise and apple chunks.
Kinda with the commenter. A well stocked pantry just means you can make pretty much anything. If you specified the pantry contents, perhaps it would be more of a challenge.
I could make a sponge cake, or sushi, or curry, or ice cream, with these ingredients and my pantry. :)
Stir-fry, probably. Onions, mushrooms, the pepper, some spices, some sesame oil. Fry it up. Toss in the barley and some soup stock. Simmer a bit to hydrate. Then see how it tastes and adjust. Maybe finish with a few eggs and scramble.
1·7 days agoFried rice is continuously fried at high temperature. You scramble the eggs. This is liquid eggs tempered into rice after it’s heated, and it stays liquid.
See tamagokake gohan:
https://www.seriouseats.com/tamago-kake-gohan-egg-rice-tkg-recipe-breakfast
As far as I am aware, nothing has ever released this much sustained co2 over such a short period. Even outliers like the Deccan traps did it far more slowly.
Somewhat famously, beavers are rampant in … southern Argentina I think, and they are incredibly invasive in a biome that is not able to take advantage of them.
It does. If it were precise to less than that, you’d say 0.62 or 0.6 to indicate hundredths or tenths. Why would you say 0.625 if you’re not precise to thousandths? You’d say 0.62500 if you wanted to indicate precision to hundred-thousandths.