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Yeah I've got a Viair too and it's awesome, would never be without one. I also have a Ryobi cordless but it's only good for bike tires and inflating footballs. I burned two of them out on car tires, returned and got another one each time so no more car tires for that POS.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I've got a viair, the 55P I think, in the trunk of my car along with a super long 12v heavy duty extension cable AKA jumper cables. Instead of road flares I have a 3-pack of those pop up triangles, and I've also stuffed in there a small floor jack and the appropriate socket on a breaker bar. Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah I've got a Viair too and it's awesome, would never be without one. I also have a Ryobi cordless but it's only good for bike tires and inflating footballs. I burned two of them out on car tires, returned and got another one each time so no more car tires for that POS. Thirding Viair. I have one in my Jeep (88p) for airing up after offroading. It will get scorching loving hot after airing up four 31x10 tires from 15psi to 35psi (and takes a good while longer on the fourth tire as a result) but it gets the job done. Considering half of their product lineup is compressor setups for airbagged vehicles, they know their poo poo.
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BraveUlysses posted:totally worth it to get a ryobi 18v cordless inflator, i use it for cars and my road bike and they're like 20 bucks I wish, the uk only gets the big £60 one, not the pistol grip jobby.
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I've been looking for cheap replacements for the neon bulbs in my retro tech stuff (tape players, flip clocks, etc), and I think I finally found some
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Just a reminder to all PNW Goons read this https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3857678 and come do some cool and good driving.
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Fourthing VIAIR, I have their 85P compressor and it's so much nicer than the typical cheap lovely compressor random people have probably gotten you as a present at some point in your life. Significantly quieter, yet at the same time sig faster, and it has a really nice built in pressure gauge.
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10 year old push mower just will not keep running. I’m not throwing it away, but I can’t wait a week or two to get it fixed I have to get my Yard mowed. Thoughts on just getting a replacement? It is a 6.75 Briggs engine. $250 for Troy Bilt with similar engine, $300 for Husqvarna or $400 for the Husq with the Honda engine? Or none of the above I’m kind of limited to Lowe’s in my town.
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I bought a Troy built around that price range about five years ago that's still kicking around. My brother-in-law uses it a bunch. It's self propelled and does a good job.
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YEah it is the same, never had self-propelled before. I’ll try to read up tonight and get one this weekend unless it is really going to rain for the next few days or week like weather app says.
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So when I put the spare tire back under the trunk floor today, I noticed some decidedly non-stock wiring going to the battery (which is in the trunk), but it ties into the .... taillight harness? It's fused, I couldn't figure out where the hell it went - was guessing maybe a previous owner bought it on a pay by the week plan and maybe it was some kind of GPS tracker? Shrugged, pulled the fuse, got everything in the trunk, hopped in, and... it wouldn't start. Wouldn't crank, wouldn't click, wouldn't do poo poo except light up the dash and turn on the radio. The check engine light didn't even come on. Popped the fuse back in, and it started, but took a bit to start (acting exactly how it does if the battery has been disconnected recently). So whatever the hell it is, pulling the fuse killed the constant battery feed to the ECU. I'm gonna have to dig and figure out what the hell it's connected to. The ECU itself is under the hood, right next to a fuse box, so if it had lost its normal constant +12V, they could have tapped into that handy fuse box right there. Whatever it is, it's tied into existing harnesses very neatly. Not gonna disturb it, but it'll be nice to know what the hell it's powering. Seminal Flu posted:Gonna blow your mind here... front tires fit on the back. Yeah, if I felt like playing swap a wheel more than once.  slothrop posted:that's annoying! does yours plug in via cigarette lighter or connect to the battery directly? At the advice of an electrician friend I got one that clips directly to the battery and it's been pretty good so far. I had a cigarette lighter one a few years prior and it was hot garbage. Lighter. Gonna get a real one soon. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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My 1972 super beetle had that weird proto-ECU-style system that was more "taps to every circuit so you could hook it up to a big multimeter machine and see what's wrong." Of course it's almost literally double the wiring to the entire car, so when I did my first major work to it I ripped most of those wires out to simplify. Think "20 gauge wiring parallel to all of the real wiring in the vehicle." After doing that, it wouldn't start. Turns out a lot of the original wiring had corroded away or been cut, and a few of the connections in the not-ECU plug were the only thing keeping the car running  . IIRC it also had a differential voltage circuit in the "BRAKE" bulb on the dashboard: there were two brake light switches, one on each braking circuit. If one switch was tripped but the other wasn't, the differential in voltage potential would cause this bulb on the dash to light, indicating a brake circuit failure. Through some magic trickery involving a specifically 1.5W 12v bulb and a calibrated resistor, if that bulb was either lit or burnt out/removed, the engine wouldn't crank. I made it my mission for like two solid weekends to pull the little proto-PCB out that housed the brake light and figure that poo poo out, because I wanted to simplify the dashboard. Even with probing I couldn't deactivate it, so I ended up soldering an appropriate power resistor in there, conformal coating the entire thing, and using some 3M adhesive to mount it behind the dash. Also black was 12v hot and brown was 12v switched. Yay pre-standards. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Yeah uh, I really doubt this is feeding the ECU itself. Especially with the wire disappearing into the taillight wiring (which goes outside of the car). I'm guessing I'm gonna find some kind of GPS tracker behind the bumper or something, and probably find a relay buried up under the dash tied into it. I owned the same year/make/model car before this, and that one didn't have this wire. The car has had 5 owners (including me), it's been passed around quite a bit. But I've only found one thing that made me scratch my head (sunroof was unplugged), and one that was "loving PO" (exhaust is patched together with multiple sections and booger welds). The windshield leak is also stupid annoying... Whatever it is, someone tried to make it look like factory wiring.
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Jul 6, 2018 05:50
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Breathalyzer/rental car lojack disabler thing you mean?
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everdave posted:10 year old push mower just will not keep running. I’m not throwing it away, but I can’t wait a week or two to get it fixed I have to get my Yard mowed. Just get an electric mower, the Ryobi cordless I got for $300 is ten times better than any gas mower I've ever used and ten times easier to deal with.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Breathalyzer/rental car lojack disabler thing you mean? Can't say I've seen a rental compact car with a stick in the US, and the wiring is too clean to have been a breathalyzer install (those guys are usually the ones who couldn't hack it at Best Buy). ... then again, the buy here pay here immobilizers tend to be hack jobs too. So it's really a mystery. Someone went to a lot of effort to make it look factory.
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Jesus Christ it's still like walking into a furnace outside. At 10:30. At night.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Jesus Christ it's still like walking into a furnace outside. At 10:30. At night. I tried riding my bike tonight, like I do most nights after sundown. Only made it 4 miles out before packing it in. I should have been dissuaded when the doorknob was hot, on the inside. On a north facing door. The only class tomorrow is at 1330 and I'm contemplating driving, even though it's literally 0.35 miles away. gently caress it's hot.
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*looks at phoenix weather* Wait... 97 loving degrees at 10:30pm? Overnight lows in the 90s?  Holy poo poo. I'm never bitching about the heat in TX again... and I grew up in the desert. (I'll still bitch about the heat index though!)
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Smart Arizona goons like myself worked from home today and haven't stepped foot out of the 79 degree air conditioned house. Sadly, I have to go to the office tomorrow, so I'll have to endure the walk from my car to the office and back (garage at home is insulated and I actually keep the car inside of it instead of a bunch of poo poo I'll never use). STR posted:*looks at phoenix weather* Wait... 97 loving degrees at 10:30pm? Overnight lows in the 90s? Yep.. My weather station says it's currently 98 degrees at my house. Just think, if we were stupid and changed our clocks for DST it would be 11:40 pm and 98 degrees! Luckily the overnight temps in the 90's is only for part of the time in July & August... The not cooling down at night is what makes these next two months really crappy. Up until now it's been pretty nice in the mornings and cooled down after sunset... The Locator fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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I did my 3rd face laser session and it's simultaneously better and worse. Better because there are now less overall hairs for the laser/light (it's a combo) to hit, meaning less energy gets dumped into the hair follicle. Worse because now we're cranking the energy level up a bit (from like 2.8ms to 3ms dwell time) to start getting the less-dark hairs, and because fewer hairs means more hot spots instead of a more spread out burn. So instead of having an overall red face it's spots of really deep red, like rosacea or something. They tell you to "avoid any sun exposure" after the treatment and I just kind of slowly looked out the office window into the parking lot, at my car parked at the furthest spot I could see   It's even worse now, a couple of hours later, but I'm too  to take a photo in bed.
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Hmm, my issue with my car that every second time I start it the Electronic Stability Control and ABS fail and blare out poo poo on my dash has now fixed itself. But now I'm in a predictament that my battery is poo poo and in the rear guard and the hatch is 100% electric. So jumping it is a labour.
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The Locator posted:Smart Arizona goons like myself worked from home today and haven't stepped foot out of the 79 degree air conditioned house.  Gonna guess imagining 69 degrees in a top floor apartment in Phoenix this time of year will result in a lot of people dying from laughter, though. OTOH I blow past 1000 kWh/month easily in the summer, even with the new HVAC. 2.5 ton unit for 750 sq ft. New place has excellent AC, it's far newer, and it's on the middle floor, but the electricity market in the suburb I'll be in isn't deregulated, so I won't be able to get the stupid cheap 4.1c/kWh plan I have now (which expires next month anyway... going up to 7.5c/kWh if I were to stay here) - upside is it's a co-op instead of for-profit. It looks like this year's rate is 8.6c/kWh, but there's also a $21 base charge on top of that, which applies no matter how much/little power you use. They also have a time-of-use based plan, but super peak (2-6pm) is 18c/kWh.  (overnight is only 3c, though) GF also gets home from work around 2:30, and I'm generally waking up around 1, so the AC is gonna be cranked at that time.Metal Geir Skogul posted:I did my 3rd face laser session and it's simultaneously better and worse. Better because there are now less overall hairs for the laser/light (it's a combo) to hit, meaning less energy gets dumped into the hair follicle. Worse because now we're cranking the energy level up a bit (from like 2.8ms to 3ms dwell time) to start getting the less-dark hairs, and because fewer hairs means more hot spots instead of a more spread out burn. So instead of having an overall red face it's spots of really deep red, like rosacea or something. They tell you to "avoid any sun exposure" after the treatment and I just kind of slowly looked out the office window into the parking lot, at my car parked at the furthest spot I could see I... think this is the first time I've actually seen your face. Those burns look a bit painful, but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I wouldn't mind lasering my face, but for different reasons (I loving hate shaving, but also hate facial hair..)
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Everyone should be very thankful to our scientific forefathers who went "drat it's hot-as-balls in here, I wonder if I could rig something up with copper coils and ethyl alcohol and make it not as hot-as-balls anymore". I love this quote from Ben Franklin after he and a chemist friend of his got a mercury thermometer down to a temperature of -14°Cquote:From this experiment one may see the possibility of freezing a man to death on a warm summer's day. That's a little grim there Benji my man.
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Yeah my house is a reasonably modern build with decent insulation and days like this, if I tried to crank it below 79 during midday it would just run non stop. I was sweating buckets lighting off fireworks in the driveway last night, but tonight definitely has the furnace effect going on stronger. I think the wind helps. MGS: Not gonna lie I have at least thought about having my neckbeard lasered off. The older I get, the stabbier it gets if I let it go at all.
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Memento posted:Everyone should be very thankful to our scientific forefathers who went "drat it's hot-as-balls in here, I wonder if I could rig something up with copper coils and ethyl alcohol and make it not as hot-as-balls anymore". I love this quote from Ben Franklin after he and a chemist friend of his got a mercury thermometer down to a temperature of -14°C Wasn't A/C actually a byproduct of "man, we can't keep the humidity low enough for this color printing to work right, let's make a thing that takes moisture away. Oh poo poo this exhaust side is hot and the other side is cold"? E: actually that was industrial A/C, I guess BF was really there on the initial documented concept. Though IIRC ancient Egyptians had evaporative cooling figured out with special building designs. STR posted:
This is how my face normally looks:  I've only started this "selfie" thing recently, when someone in the fabgoon thread pointed me out to the selfies and chill thread. I used to vehemently avoid cameras, to the point where I volunteered to be the "unit historian" in any army unit I was a part of, even when that position didn't officially exist. It meant I could run around (out of formation, side bonus) behind the camera. There is only one not-official/ID photo of me during those six years, and it was because I was forced to take a photo of myself and send it to my family on the drill sergeant's order. Lasering takes awhile, there's a reason they sell it in packs of six sessions, spread 4-6 weeks apart. Hairs have 3 stages in their growth cycle: Anagen (actively growing), Catagen (still growing but winding down, like fall), and Telogen (resting/shedding). Anagen is the longest (1-5 years), Catagen is the shortest (2-4 weeks), and Telogen is the middle, up to 4 months. Some hairs start regrowing after telogen, but others (like arm hair) fall out every telogen cycle, limiting the max length. If you pull a hair out and the follicle/bulb is surrounded by a gel, it's most likely in the Anagen phase. Laser/IPL can only destroy hair follicles in the Anagen phase. The light concentrates energy into the follicle, heating it up and damaging the follicle and hopefully the capillary that feeds it, shutting off bloodflow permanently. Sometimes they recover, but usually they don't. However, hairs in the catagen or telogen cycles for whatever reason don't get destroyed nearly as much and refused to die, like shooting a drunk person that doesn't know they should be dead. A lot of people say they have "patchy" beards, and this is absolutely true. This is my chin about 3 weeks after the first treatment, showing how a few spots are almost totally gone but there is still a lot of growth around it. This wasn't the operator's error, it was simply that patch that was growing at the time when I had it done. Six sessions usually gets about 85-95% of the hair permanently, but most people have to go back six months to a year later just to catch those stragglers, and almost everyone will have to go back at least once within two years due to how long hairs zapped in the telogen phase can take to "wake up" and repair. This is why the FDA doesn't classify laser as "permanent hair removal," but "permanent hair reduction." There has to be a 100% chance that someone won't have to go back within two years for follow-ups for it to be "removal." The only treatment that can do that is electrolysis, where they use an electric needle in each and every pore to burn the follicle right dead, anagen/catagen/telogen phase doesn't matter. 
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STR posted:Gonna guess imagining 69 degrees in a top floor apartment in Phoenix this time of year will result in a lot of people dying from laughter, though. OTOH I blow past 1000 kWh/month easily in the summer, even with the new HVAC. 2.5 ton unit for 750 sq ft. I keep it at 79 now because it's where I'm currently comfortable. I kept it at 77 last year, and with my solar the bills are still pretty small except for July/August. The A/C is spitting out air at a 20 degree temperature differential, so it would keep it in the low 70's or probably in the high 60's just fine, but I would freeze my rear end off (I'm a Phoenix native). 8 months out of the year my electric bill is $30~$35 and sometimes less thanks to the solar. My GF is cold at 80 degrees so I moved my thermostat up a couple degrees a few months ago as all indicators are that she may be moving in with me in the future, so I'm getting myself used to a bit warmer temps and she'll have to get used to a bit cooler temps. My house was built in 2005 and I got every insulation option I could, including solar shield windows (dual pane with an inert gas between the layers) and putting maximum insulation in the garage as well as the interior parts of the house (builders don't insulate the garage normally) and it took a surprising amount of time to heat up even when the A/C failed last year on the hottest day of the drat year at about 10am. It only got up into the 90's by the end of the day, and luckily the A/C guy got here early the next morning.
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I die of sweat drowning at 78 when sleeping, but 76 is completely fine. Across houses and AC solutions, all the same. Even six years in I guess I still have a bit of acclimation. I'd kill for an affordable electric bill if I could have 69 though. Haven't pulled out a jacket most of these years, even in the 40s outside unless it's raining. Cold is good everywhere except working on plumbing and car plumbing.
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The Locator posted:My GF is cold at 80 degrees so I moved my thermostat up a couple degrees a few months ago as all indicators are that she may be moving in with me in the future, so I'm getting myself used to a bit warmer temps and she'll have to get used to a bit cooler temps. I'm in the opposite boat - I'm moving in with my GF, and she likes it a little warmer (thankfully, not much, and there's a ceiling fan in the bedroom... along with attack cats that will rip apart your foot if you hang it out of the bed  ). She keeps it around 75ish. I can handle that so long as I have a fan.My AC went out sometime overnight last week - it was over 80 degrees inside before noon, and took a couple of hours to bring it back down from ~90 to mid-70s after maintenance replaced the contactor (also, contactor taking a poo poo on a 1 year old unit... go figure) - they got it going around 3pm. Insulation? That's for rich people (and newer places). If I wasn't on a stupid cheap electric plan, I'd be dropping $150-200/month on electricity for a 1 bedroom apartment. But neither exterior door really closes due to foundation problems, I have a fireplace, and my water heater sits on my patio (fine in the summer, murders my electric bill in the winter). So long as I keep an eye on my power usage and get it in the sweet spot between 1000-1499 kWh (where I get a $100 discount), my electric bill ranges from $40-70. Metal Geir Skogul posted:I die of sweat drowning at 78 when sleeping, but 76 is completely fine. Across houses and AC solutions, all the same. Even six years in I guess I still have a bit of acclimation. I mean if you want 69...  78 is hot enough that I can't sleep without some serious air movement, enough that the noise of the fans will keep me up without wearing earbuds (which are uncomfortable as hell for me). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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I used to be the "68, all the time" guy, but these days I'm piling on blankets at 75 with a fan. Probably doesn't help that I spend eight-plus hours a day in a 90 degree kitchen directly under the make-up air. e: ask me about keeping a jacket at work because the walk-in freezer is literally a hundred degrees colder than standing by the grill. Coasterphreak fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Ask me about working in a 120+ degree pizza kitchen. The only reason anything got done about it is we got a corporate visit. Guy that walked in asked WTF was wrong with the ac. GM: "nothing... it just can't keep up with the oven and this lovely rear end hood you gave us" (it was a "finger" style oven hood, instead of a proper captive hood). We had a 3rd HVAC unit a few weeks later, and a proper vent hood with makeup air around the same time. You could see your breath while standing at the front counter after that (since the new unit's vents were directly over the counter). It was beautiful, until corporate decided to take over the thermostats a few years later (which another GM got around by buying a few clip-on halogen lights). e: I kept a decent hoodie with me, but more because this particular pizza chain required a complete store inventory every.loving.day. So I spent a good hour in the walk-in every night at close, plus another hour or so in there earlier in the day rotating + fluffing cheese.
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I'm also a 69° guy. Or lower, I love the cold It's currently 76° and I'm sprawled out on the bed with no blankets or sheets covering me because I'm too hot to sleep
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Yeah, even in the dead of winter, I have a fan going. Sleepwear is generally boxers, if that. I do sleep with both a flat sheet and a (very light) down comforter in the summer, winter I'll use a much heavier comforter. But the fan is still going, I still sleep in boxers, and I keep a foot hanging out as a temperature probe (I really have no idea why I do this, I just do). The exception is when my electric bill has gone past the point of being affordable in the winter, in which case the heat is dropped to 50 (lowest my thermostat will go) and I'm wearing sweatpants and a hoodie to bed. Still with the fan going and a foot hanging out. In the winter I usually keep the heat at 65. I honestly don't know how GF copes with winter (we've known each other since we were 14, but last dated over 20 years ago); she's just a hair over 100 pounds soaking wet, and I suspect a few pounds of that is her hair (both of us have hair well past our shoulders). She doesn't tolerate the heat very well at all, but I have an extra 85 pounds to keep me warm/give me a heart attack in the winter. I know I'm drenched in sweat once it gets past about 75.. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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STR posted:another hour or so in there ... fluffing cheese. I'm 100% convinced you're doing this on purpose now
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 So this is legit a thing that pizza places do.... The major chain pizza places get their cheese frozen in 20-30 pound boxes; the stores I worked at usually got anywhere from 30-100 boxes at a time, a couple of times a week. It's cubed, in itty bitty chunks. It's inside a plastic bag, inside of a box. It has to thaw in the cooler for a couple of days before it can really be used (otherwise you either use more cheese, or the pizza doesn't cook properly, thanks to the cheese being frozen); during that time, you rip the top off the box (it's perforated), reach in with your hands, and, well, fluff the cheese. Basically you grab the frozen chunk along the sides and break it up. You do this every day. Also, every day, the cheese gets rotated from bottom to top (bottom is newest, top is oldest; as cheese gets used through the day, you're supposed to pull from the top rack). I should point out that cheese is measured by volume (using a cup) at most pizza places. Frozen cheese physically takes up less space; as it thaws, it expands considerably. It's very much in the interest of the owner of the place to make sure the cheese is rotated and thawed properly. Otherwise, they're using a lot more product. Cheese is the most expensive thing that goes on a pizza overall (meats can get spendy, but 99% of pizzas have cheese, while a lot don't have meats - and the more toppings you have on a pizza, the less of each topping you actually get), and any manager worth their weight will make drat sure the cheese is used properly. I've worked in places that shredded their own cheese every day; that costs far more than actually getting the cheese pre-shredded/cubed, but it does make for a much better pizza. (hint: most still use portion cups) So yeah, at the Papa John's and Pizza Huts I worked at, I had been doing it long enough that I knew how to do it quickly. Remove the day's predicted cheese usage from the top shelves, move it to the make table. Start rotating cheese, but reach in and give it a good fluff before chucking the oldest to the top shelf (you need heavy gloves unless you like frostbite). When receiving the truck, you were supposed to rotate everything, date the new cheese (write the received date on the box with a marker), rip the box (tear the top off), give it a quick fluff, slam it into the shelf, repeat until the 1-2 pallets of cheese are fluffed and racked. When receiving it, you could get away with just punching the poo poo out of the sides of each box instead of actually reaching in (kinda like a karate chop from both sides); that was enough to break up the cheese enough to start thawing, and meant you didn't have to wear the "wash them? why would we ever wash them?" gloves that didn't have any kind of offensive smell (  ) that have been passed around from manager to manager since the store opened 30 years ago.This process repeats itself every.loving.day. Take down the predicted cheese usage for the day, throw it into the bottom of the make table, rotate the cheese to the top, fluff it in the process. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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STR posted:Ask me about working in a 120+ degree pizza kitchen. Yup. The bakery totally blew my heat perception. Now I bitch when it's in the high 90's, but only if the humidity edges up to 80% or higher. The rest of the time I just sweat and ignore it.
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I got hosed in the opposite way - after the pizza place, I worked in a walk-in cooler for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. It got to where I just wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt, MAYBE a hoodie (it was set to 34 degrees, with fans all around). I was not happy when I got asked to help out in the dish pit there... going from a very dry 32-34 to a very humid 110 with a big rear end Hobart conveyor belt dishwasher spraying you in the face as every tray rolls in is no fun.
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Heh. I went from doing datacenter work in South Texas back to running a bar kitchen, and to the bakery from there. Heat and I are friends, and I got used to full coat sleeves no matter the temp at the bakery because hot sugar is like napalm; it sticks to kids. These days I don't do as much hot work, but my tolerance is still up there despite being a fat kid.
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Funny how much crossover there is between IT and food service, isn't it? My IT knowledge is severely dated (most of the stuff I know is older than the people who've interviewed me... "OS/2? What the gently caress is that? What the hell is this MFM magic you're talking about? SCSI? IDE? IRQs? DMAs?!? THE gently caress MAN, YOU'RE JUST MAKING poo poo UP NOW! GET THE gently caress OUT WITH THAT NOVEL poo poo" dude it's Novell Netware "I DON'T CARE"). Food service is easy to jump in and out of, and can pay pretty decent.
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If you asked me to imagine what 'fluffing cheese' was, as described by STR, then this isn't it. It wouldn't involve food, for a start.
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Jul 6, 2018 10:35
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