There’s also a Turbo Grill setting. I don’t know what this means.I learnt about this in the other Plaice.
The woodfired pizza oven cuts through all that Gordian Knot nonsense in a single swoosh.
It has no settings.
It has fire, or no fire.
The AGA is great - it has no settings at all
I discovered by accident the other day that my oven has a pizza setting. It’s hidden behind the bread setting. I discovered it when I accidentally turned the wrong dial.
There’s also a Turbo Grill setting. I don’t know what this means.
There's a dial on the front of the central heating boiled labelled min and max. What possible reason would I want to set it to anything other than max? I'd like my house to get warm really slowly please.
Our condensing boiler has a digital temp setting for the circulating water temperature. It’s set to the highest value permanently. There’s a tank stat too. Why change it? I like hot water.Why would you not want to save about 10% on your heating bills? As Kim sed. Modern boilers only work at full efficiency if return is below 55C. Our Ch rad flow is 49C and the house is a comfy 20C. Hot water is set to 55 which gives a very pleasant shower. Boiler is running at low output and no on off cycling so reduced wear. Ian's OP and the follow ups are amusing but let's not be luddites.
How the fuck do I set that with a dial labelled min and max? Give me settings that mean something. I don’t even know what a condensing boiler is and I’ve read Kant.
I discovered by accident the other day that my oven has a pizza setting. It’s hidden behind the bread setting. I discovered it when I accidentally turned the wrong dial.
How the fuck do I set that with a dial labelled min and max? Give me settings that mean something. I don’t even know what a condensing boiler is and I’ve read Kant.
I think Ian's preferred goat setting is probably min, or off.
The woodfired pizza oven cuts through all that Gordian Knot nonsense in a single swoosh.
It has no settings.
It has fire, or no fire.
You can perhaps pretend it has settings by throwing more or less wood on it, but it more or less does what it wants.
Mostly, it wants to do the Right Thing, which is good.
And Fire.
If it doesn’t go up to 11 it’s not worth having.
Fire is much more configurable than that. You can get all sorts of temperatures and conditions of fire by carefully balancing the proportions of fuel and oxygen. A fire is a living breathing creature, and should be treated with respect. There is a true art in managing fire, esp when it comes to cooking with it. The wood you use, the moisture content of the wood, if you use charcoal, the wood the charcoal was made from. All sorts of things can change the result of your fire. It's not as simple as there being fire, or not fire.
Fire is much more configurable than that. You can get all sorts of temperatures and conditions of fire by carefully balancing the proportions of fuel and oxygen. A fire is a living breathing creature, and should be treated with respect. There is a true art in managing fire, esp when it comes to cooking with it. The wood you use, the moisture content of the wood, if you use charcoal, the wood the charcoal was made from. All sorts of things can change the result of your fire. It's not as simple as there being fire, or not fire.
But, have you worked out what colour it should be yet ?
What is the setting for bears?
The woodfired pizza oven cuts through all that Gordian Knot nonsense in a single swoosh.
It has no settings.
It has fire, or no fire.
You can perhaps pretend it has settings by throwing more or less wood on it, but it more or less does what it wants.
Mostly, it wants to do the Right Thing, which is good.
And Fire.
Oh dear...
Mr L, you clearly work in Marketing AICMFP.Fire is much more configurable than that. You can get all sorts of temperatures and conditions of fire by carefully balancing the proportions of fuel and oxygen. A fire is a living breathing creature, and should be treated with respect. There is a true art in managing fire, esp when it comes to cooking with it. The wood you use, the moisture content of the wood, if you use charcoal, the wood the charcoal was made from. All sorts of things can change the result of your fire. It's not as simple as there being fire, or not fire.
But, have you worked out what colour it should be yet ?
And do people want fire that can be nasally fitted?
If it doesn’t go up to 11 it’s not worth having.
For $2000 I'll build you one that goes to 12...
I expect the pizza setting is pretty much "leave the element on 100%, and hope for the best. Perhaps it will reach an equilibrium temperature before it catches fire".
I can understand why they might want to hide that.
Attempting pizza in a domestic oven is a fraught business, pushing the poor thing to it's absolute limits.
The woodfired pizza oven cuts through all that Gordian Knot nonsense in a single swoosh.
It has no settings.
It has fire, or no fire.
You can perhaps pretend it has settings by throwing more or less wood on it, but it more or less does what it wants.
Mostly, it wants to do the Right Thing, which is good.
And Fire.
How the fuck do I set that with a dial labelled min and max? Give me settings that mean something. I don’t even know what a condensing boiler is and I’ve read Kant.
Ours is labelled min and max, with a detent about 2/3 of the way round labelled 'E' or something for the optimum condensing point. That's the heating loop temperature.
There's a separate dial for the hot water temperature with a sparkly footprint sticker denoting the least-worst compromise between not scalding yourself while washing your hands under the non-mixer hot taps and a half-decent shower/bath temperature.
For toast, I just twist the dial to max and manually pop it when I see the first curls of smoke. Undercooked, raw toast is horrid.
All modern toasters are rubbish. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y) We just use the grill.
The woodfired pizza oven cuts through all that Gordian Knot nonsense in a single swoosh.
It has no settings.
It has fire, or no fire.
You can perhaps pretend it has settings by throwing more or less wood on it, but it more or less does what it wants.
Mostly, it wants to do the Right Thing, which is good.
And Fire.
When we were buying this house the bloke who had rebuilt it after a fire showed us a darkened bit of stone wall in the cellar and said that there had been a wood-fired bread oven there but he'd needed room for the water heater so he had knocked it apart and thrown it out. >:(
The AGA is great - it has no settings at all
QuoteOur condensing boiler has a digital temp setting for the circulating water temperature. It’s set to the highest value permanently. There’s a tank stat too. Why change it? I like hot water.Why would you not want to save about 10% on your heating bills? As Kim sed. Modern boilers only work at full efficiency if return is below 55C. Our Ch rad flow is 49C and the house is a comfy 20C. Hot water is set to 55 which gives a very pleasant shower. Boiler is running at low output and no on off cycling so reduced wear. Ian's OP and the follow ups are amusing but let's not be luddites.
But what toaster dial number do you use?
For toast, I just twist the dial to max and manually pop it when I see the first curls of smoke. Undercooked, raw toast is horrid.
All modern toasters are rubbish. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y) We just use the grill.
Our boiler has a E detent on the central heating dial but not on the hot water dial. Dunno why.
Charcoal should be served with vipers (Tim Hall should understand this).
And warms up wet Labradors.....
The AGA is great - it has no settings at all
I miss having an aga to cook on. Always ready, does great tray bakes, warms your bum and dries your clothes. Fabulous things.
We were given one of the first sort by the police after a spate of burglaries in the neighbourhood. We've never used it. I guess Avon&Somerset have a warehouse of them ready to respond to burglary statistics.
I did add a few lines of code...
Remember when gadgets needed a little lithium cell to keep the memory powered while you changed the main battery?
Remember when gadgets needed a little lithium cell to keep the memory powered while you changed the main battery?
Indeed. I was thinking about just that in relation to my heating controller - I have a vague feeling that it requires such a battery. But I've never changed it in ~15 years, as far as I can recall. Maybe I'll discover it has died the next time the main power source (2xAA) needs changing.
Basically, the chips are arrays of little boxes, like bazillions of egg boxes joined together, that are either empty or full (of electrons). Volatile memory means those boxes are leaky unless kept topped up, non-volatile means the boxes stay as you left them. But it's all 0s and 1s, all the information has to be encoded multiple times to get from these words to the binary data stored in memory.
What exactly is 'flash' memory and why is it called 'flash'? This is the kind of question which, when answered, is liable to leave me my informed but unenlightened, but I'm asking it anyway.
Basically, the chips are arrays of little boxes, like bazillions of egg boxes joined together, that are either empty or full (of electrons). Volatile memory means those boxes are leaky unless kept topped up, non-volatile means the boxes stay as you left them. But it's all 0s and 1s, all the information has to be encoded multiple times to get from these words to the binary data stored in memory.That's what I thought all along.
So it's memory that doesn't remember?What exactly is 'flash' memory and why is it called 'flash'? This is the kind of question which, when answered, is liable to leave me my informed but unenlightened, but I'm asking it anyway.
In even more laymans terms, it doesn't remember what you put in there (as Ian says, "volatile").
Perhaps I should make that a more high-level question: how on earth do 'silicon chips' store things? What happens when something is 'remembered' on one?
What gets rearranged and how does it then get interpreted into something humans can see, hear, etc?
Richard Feynman reportedly said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics,” and he wasn’t joking. Speaking of which. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2016.00053/full)Using a Biro on a bananananana is exceptionally satisfying.
(https://i.imgur.com/baeQ7B7.jpg)
Bananas: they just work
But:Richard Feynman reportedly said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics,” and he wasn’t joking. Speaking of which. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2016.00053/full)Using a Biro on a bananananana is exceptionally satisfying.
(https://i.imgur.com/baeQ7B7.jpg)
Bananas: they just work
ETA: And yes, that's the end which monkeys open them.
It is a similar experience to that of using a ballpoint pen to write on bananas.But:Richard Feynman reportedly said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics,” and he wasn’t joking. Speaking of which. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2016.00053/full)Using a Biro on a bananananana is exceptionally satisfying.
(https://i.imgur.com/baeQ7B7.jpg)
Bananas: they just work
ETA: And yes, that's the end which monkeys open them.
There is nothing better in life
Than writing on the sole of your slipper with a Biro.
I hope you enjoyed writing that – and I expect you did!Perhaps I should make that a more high-level question: how on earth do 'silicon chips' store things? What happens when something is 'remembered' on one?
The lies-to-children version of the main flavours of computer memory:
I hope you enjoyed writing that – and I expect you did!Perhaps I should make that a more high-level question: how on earth do 'silicon chips' store things? What happens when something is 'remembered' on one?
The lies-to-children version of the main flavours of computer memory:
Right, I've got my own geek analogy in my mind now. It's like old-fashioned hump-shunting railway waggons, where you push them all up to the top of the hump then as they trundle down the other side under gravity, switches are switched and points are pointed in such a way as to make all the coal trucks go to the coal train, all the blue trucks to Thomas and all the carriages with dangly bike spaces to the train that goes where all the short people live. Except we've only got two sorts of truck, and they are truck and no-truck, one electron being identical to any other electron. But we've got a series of switches that sort out trains of electrons. And then these trains of electrons don't actually go anywhere, they just get announced: the train now standing at platform one is a letter black pixel. I think it's that interpretation bit I want to understand but let's leave that for another day.
What exactly is 'flash' memory and why is it called 'flash'? This is the kind of question which, when answered, is liable to leave me my informed but unenlightened, but I'm asking it anyway.
In even more laymans terms, it doesn't remember what you put in there (as Ian says, "volatile"). We're currently trying to document for a customer that all the non-volatile memory (other than the obvious stuff, like hard drives) in one of our systems isn't capable of revealing their secrets should someone else get hold of it.
Until a few posts ago I had no idea there was a right or wrong way to open a banana.
The stalk is where the banana's butt is. Probably.
It's just easier, the stalk lets you hold the banana so you don't get sticky fingers at the end.
No, you pop the seam at the top, while checking carefully for banana spiders.FWIW that''s what the monkeys and apes I've known do. Baboons use their teeth; chimps use their nails. With a bit of practice you can doo it one-handed and the skin you leave still looks like it has a banana inside.