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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Morning: Work out, shower, coffee, protein shake, make breakfast for my wife, hop on the laptop.

    Night: Cook dinner, kiss my wife when she gets home. Hit a few golf balls on the simulator. Watch an episode from an anime series if there’s something new. Maybe have a cocktail with the neighbor.

    Shower, scroll for about 30 minutes, sleep.

    I feel very lucky, and try not to take each day for granted.


  • Hard disagree. Try making a sauce which requires high heat, then very low heat. Turning the electric burner down doesn’t immediately reduce heat, it cools off relatively slowly. I guess you could switch to another burner that was preheated to a low temp, assuming you have a free burner while cooking.

    I’ve worked for years in several professional kitchens and cook 3 meals a day, 7 days a week from scratch at home. I know how to use the tools in a kitchen, and non-induction electric burners are absolute garbage.


  • I absolutely agree. I’m happy to switch to a new technology as long as it performs at least as well as my current implementation.

    I have a few cast iron and carbon steel pans, but most of my cooking vessels are thick copper (not copper inserts, full 3mm or more copper). Copper pans are superior to any other material (unless you prioritize cost) and are sadly incompatible with induction.

    Don’t even talk to me about electric element (non induction) stoves, they’re garbage for heat control.




  • In no particular order:

    • being fit
    • physically tired
    • no booze or cannabis on nights I actually have to sleep well
    • a completely dark room, no little lights on electronic devices, blackout curtains, etc…
    • a bed (I won’t mention the brand unless asked) that adjusts to my sleep patterns. It measures my breath rate, heart rate, how often I move, if I’m snoring (rare), etc… It then knows how well I’m sleeping and can soften or firm up, and tilt my upper body up or down. Depending on how my vitals change it learns how best to accommodate my sleep.

    If I have trouble due to stress or the neighbors are making noise I’ll throw on an eye mask and ear plugs.

    I’m basically comatose 15 minutes after hitting the pillow and wake up before my alarm.



  • and I sharpen those every 30 minutes

    I’m sorry, what?

    If I sharpened my knives after every 30 minutes of use I wouldn’t have any steel left after a couple of months, tops. My knives are shaving sharp, I use them for several hours every day.

    If your knives hold an edge and are profiled correctly, sharpening every 30 minutes (even a quick touch up) is entirely unnecessary. Professional meat cutters and fishmongers annihilate cutting for 10 hours a day and require razor sharp tools, and they don’t spend even close to as much time as you’ve claimed touching up their edges.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love sharp knives, but either you’re exaggerating or doing it wrong.