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we just moved into a place with zero drawers in the kitchen. are there any good cutlery organization options that can be used over the counter, or is the pro play basically just "get one of the normal drawer cutlery organizers and put it on yr counter"??
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Apr 22, 2021 18:09
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Do you have space to add a portable countertop with drawers or something?
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Apr 22, 2021 18:13
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Do you have access to a library or college 3d printer? They're usually free or very cheap to use, materials included. If so, I'd look for cutlery or desk organizers https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=cutlery&type=things&sort=relevant https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=desk+organizer&type=things&sort=relevant note the skull option! If not, I'd just hit a local kitchen supply store or IKEA and get something intended to set on tables or at coffee stations. Amazon has options, but local will be cheaper.
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Apr 22, 2021 18:18
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I'm a fan of Yamazaki's line of dish/mug/kitchen stuff organizers; a couple of the stackable kitchen racks (or possibly the bread box?) might work E: https://theyamazakihome.com/collections/kitchen Canuck-Errant fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Apr 23, 2021 02:02
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in addition to the above suggestions, if you are allowed / able to put anything on the walls, you can get a system where you hang open containers (can-shaped) off of a rod or something, and store flatware in there
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Apr 23, 2021 02:57
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Quick update in case you consider this. Definitely not a kitchen thing but since I posted it once here, I figure it's worth correcting the record. The charging hub closes the gap a bit more, and it would be very nice since charging the batteries one at a time, in the drone, is annoying, takes a long time, and I think my cats might want to eat propellers if I am not careful. This is a fantastic toy, by the way. Intrigued a hummingbird though, so careful where you fly! BrianBoitano posted:DJI Mini 2 Drone, which I'm seriously considering as a birthday gift to myself: Costco CP.MA.00000367.01 vs. DJI store bare or kit I think CP.MA.00000306.01
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Apr 23, 2021 05:28
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Pyrus Malus posted:we just moved into a place with zero drawers in the kitchen. are there any good cutlery organization options that can be used over the counter, or is the pro play basically just "get one of the normal drawer cutlery organizers and put it on yr counter"?? You could get one of those standing steel dish racks that go over your kitchen sink, but just turn it into like a cutlery rack, etc. 
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Apr 23, 2021 17:16
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Ugh my roommate dropped the paring knife
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Apr 26, 2021 11:53
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I somehow lost the blade for my KitchenAid grinder attachment. the most exciting replacement option had a bunch of plates along with the replacement blades. anybody know what these are for? just a really coarse grind?  and while I'm at it, what are the smaller blades at bottom right for?  edit: lol they are the wrong loving size
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Apr 27, 2021 00:16
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Empty Sandwich posted:I somehow lost the blade for my KitchenAid grinder attachment. the most exciting replacement option had a bunch of plates along with the replacement blades. The die on the right is for sausage stuffing. I’m guessing the same for the other weirdly shaped one. Lawnie fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Apr 27, 2021 00:57
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yeah those are meat grinder blades
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Apr 27, 2021 07:03
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 i wonder how many ridiculous shipped-in-from-across-the-planet sorts of ingredients they'll continue to feature though
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Apr 27, 2021 15:06
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Oh God Biden got to them 
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Apr 27, 2021 15:28
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mediaphage posted:
LoL that a site named for a devotion to Epicurianism would put ANYTHING above personal luxury. Like, they should be publishing articles about how if you really want to enjoy snow leopard stuffed with fresh clubbed baby seal you really need to cure it for 24 hours in advance in a spicy elephant brain jam.
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Apr 27, 2021 15:36
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Lawnie posted:The die on the right is for sausage stuffing. I’m guessing the same for the other weirdly shaped one. gracias Vim Fuego posted:yeah those are meat grinder blades any special use for the two blades rather than four?
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Apr 27, 2021 16:09
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Empty Sandwich posted:gracias The two blade ones are for sausage stuffing. Just needs to agitate and push, not cut against the die so much.
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Apr 27, 2021 16:18
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mediaphage posted:
To my understanding the per lb environmental cost of transporting food is pretty low compared to production. It does depending refrigeration requirements of course. Like the carbon cost of coffee is pretty low compared to beef and for most of the world there is no local option for coffee, it's all international shipping.
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Apr 27, 2021 23:38
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captkirk posted:To my understanding the per lb environmental cost of transporting food is pretty low compared to production. It does depending refrigeration requirements of course. Like the carbon cost of coffee is pretty low compared to beef and for most of the world there is no local option for coffee, it's all international shipping. for sure, though i think some things are pretty iffy. there's a growing push for air freight for some tropical fruits, for instance. anyways the shipping was just an example, i don't think we should have to, or even should, stop moving things around like coffee anyway i think this is a dumb move that makes them feel good about themselves without effecting any sort of meaningful change while they continue to ignore other stuff like rapacious fishing.
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Apr 28, 2021 03:35
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mediaphage posted:anyway i think this is a dumb move that makes them feel good about themselves without effecting any sort of meaningful change while they continue to ignore other stuff like rapacious fishing.  all this time i thought they just used nets...
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Apr 28, 2021 05:07
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Apr 28, 2021 06:50
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I'm trying to find a small, but tall pot for boiling ramen, specifically one that would fit this strainer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DF4L2DG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1. I want a small one that just tall and narrow so it boils quickly but still will cook all the noodles. I am having a hard time finding one that isn't a piece of poo poo. Any suggestions?
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Apr 30, 2021 21:00
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Skyarb posted:I'm trying to find a small, but tall pot for boiling ramen, specifically one that would fit this strainer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DF4L2DG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1. try looking at asparagus steamers. for instance: https://amzn.to/3vsxKcq  this is 4 quarts and just shy of 7 inches wide so your strainer should fit.
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May 1, 2021 14:54
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I just had fun replacing the grease in an old kitchenaid artisan Mrs. Barfish got 2ndhand. I now know why they're so drat heavy. Most of the weight appears to be grease:  That stuff was *nasty*. I was transporting the mixer on its side and it leaked this horrible oily mess everywhere which I initially was worried was rusty water. A quick google led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eKHVvNX5eY The instructions there were straightforward, only difference between mine and the model shown was that the gearbox bolts on mine were square heads. The amount of grease that guy removed is consistent with what was in mine. It's back up and running, sounds a bit quieter and seems smoother than it did before the change.
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May 2, 2021 23:21
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May 2, 2021 23:54
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Yeah, I'm glad I looked at that video before opening it, otherwise I'd have thought that grease was some eldritch horror inflicted on me by the last owner. Turns out food-grade grease looks really nasty when it goes bad. The good news at least is it's easy enough, if messy, to replace.
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May 3, 2021 00:24
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i thought that was some kind of terrible mistake then, from that video, i just learned that it's intentional and there's really just supposed to be like 2 cups of grease in there holy crap
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May 3, 2021 00:25
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The amount of nasty oil pouring out of it made me think there'd be quite a lot of grease in there, but yeah I wasn't expecting.... that. The gearbox area in the upper housing had about 3 golfball sized clumps in it I had to scoop out on top of what you see in that pic. Fair play to Kitchenaid, the gears all looked good as new in there after I scraped that poo poo off them. Anyway, if anyone else is seeing nasty brown liquid coming out of their mixer housing, now you know what needs done. Food-grade machine grease is cheap on amazon. The only tricky bits are making sure you have a square-head driver and a punch to remove one pin.
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May 3, 2021 00:33
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Some spilled out of mine like 15 years ago. The one I mentioned earlier that I’ve never done maintenance on. Good to know there’s extra.
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May 3, 2021 00:35
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The grease can separate if it isn't used in quite some time. The fix is to just run it a bunch and it eventually re-emulsifies. I had to change out the one gear in my made by Hobart kitchen aid a few months ago after it broke and scraped all that nasty poo poo out and put all new grease back in. The one kitchen I used to work in the 50+ year old big floor standing Hobart up and died one night when I was mixing bread dough. Something went bad in the gear box and it bled all the oil/grease out of the part the hook attached to into a bowl of dough. The repair guy came and looked at it in the morning and said "I can't even get parts for this anymore" The next two weeks we had to go back and forth between kneading the dough by hand and using the smaller mixers to make multiple batches while a new mixer got shipped out.
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May 3, 2021 01:45
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Thumposaurus posted:The grease can separate if it isn't used in quite some time. So basically kitchenaid mixer grease is the opposite of an aioli, if it breaks you can fix it and there's always too much of it.
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May 3, 2021 02:56
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VelociBacon posted:So basically kitchenaid mixer grease is the opposite of an aioli, if it breaks you can fix it and there's always too much of it.
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May 3, 2021 08:05
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StarkingBarfish posted:I just had fun replacing the grease in an old kitchenaid artisan Mrs. Barfish got 2ndhand. I now know why they're so drat heavy. Most of the weight appears to be grease: Looks degraded, but this doesn’t look like an excessive amount of grease for a gearbox? It has to be enough to cover all of the exposed surfaces of the gears or else they’ll corrode.
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May 3, 2021 13:55
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In case you think that's all there was, watch the video- that was what was left on the gears, inside the cover was about a pound more of the same. I don't think it's particularly excessive for the reasons you state, but it came as a surprise to me since I'm used to trying (and typically failing) to fix modern appliances that tend to use brushless motors with sealed planetary gear reductions and much less grease. Last time I encountered something like this it was on a circa 1970's electric drill gearbox.
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May 3, 2021 14:43
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I would be surprised if, with the exception of the plastic intentional weak-link gear, the drivetrain was much changed since 1970 or so whenever the KitchenAid mixers came out.
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VelociBacon posted:I would be surprised if, with the exception of the plastic intentional weak-link gear, the drivetrain was much changed since 1970 or so whenever the KitchenAid mixers came out. From what I've seen it doesn't look like it, for this particular incarnation. From what I understand the older artisans are more like the even older classics but I've not been inside any other models. There's some more die-cast stuff in this one like the structure that holds the plastic gear but the drivetrain is all cast rather than sintered as far as I can see. AvE did a breakdown of one of the newer 6000s a while back and unless he removed grease off-screen, which I don't think he did, there is waaay less grease in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qKp-0h9P18 See 23:00 onwards. The other difference is what I'd expect from my previous post: planetary gears and a more modern (but still brushed) OEM motor. Based on this, I'd rate the old artisan better than the new pros just because changing the brushes on the older ones can be done without opening the unit. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 15:13 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 15:09
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hell yeah AvE. I was just about to post that, but by the time it took me to scrub through and listen to his prose, you beat me. pretty skookum yeah?
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May 3, 2021 15:16
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He's a treasure. The Juicero teardown was another thread relevant revelation.
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May 3, 2021 15:35
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StarkingBarfish posted:Yeah, I'm glad I looked at that video before opening it, otherwise I'd have thought that grease was some eldritch horror inflicted on me by the last owner. Turns out food-grade grease looks really nasty when it goes bad. The good news at least is it's easy enough, if messy, to replace. btw what did you end up using as a replacement grease?
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May 3, 2021 17:33
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Paul MaudDib posted:btw what did you end up using as a replacement grease? Buttercream.
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May 3, 2021 17:40
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Amazon has a bunch but this has been recommended by several places specifically for kitchenaid mixers: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchenaid...ps%2C160&sr=8-1
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