I made a chicken too
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I don’t often dress my chickens in skin tight leather body suits but this kink free zone is approved by @clovis8 . Well done! Perhaps literally!
Nah, that’s just the abundant smoke darkening it. Breast was only 140 F when I pulled it.
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Yes, that is a human system of measurement based on observable things in the human world, which reflect how humans interact with their physical environment.
The most common alternative system is currently based on the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second, as decided in 1983 and slightly revised last year. Originally it was supposed to be 1/10,000,000th of the quadrant of the earth, with a metal stick as official reference even though that stick didn’t really have a very close relation to any actual planetary dimensions. Other metal sticks were modeled after the One True Stick. Then in 1889 they made a new stick and got super specific about the reference points, including ambient temperature conditions. A few years later some dude figured out that 1,553,164.13 times the wavelength of cadmium red in air, at 760 mm of atmospheric pressure at 15 °C was exceptionally close to the value of the New Stick. By 1950, light wavelengths of cadmium 114, mercury 198 and krypton 86 were all contenders for official status, but none caught on. Then in 1960 they got super serious about nailing this thing down and decided to go with 1,650,763.73 vacuum wavelengths of light resulting from unperturbed atomic energy level transition 2p10 5d5 of the krypton isotope having an atomic weight of 86, i.e. λ = 1 m / 1,650,763.73 = 0.605,780,211 µm. This is the standard that held until the aforementioned 1983 change.
It’s all very logical! It doesn’t line up very well with how actual humans tend to interact with the actual world they live in, as evidenced by vernacular systems strongly preferring multiples and divisions of 2, 3, and 4, but the math is easy if you do nerd stuff.
Really, the mistake is operating in base 10 instead of base 12.
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It’s not base 12, it’s base X, where X changes without apparent rhyme or reason.
Back when I was a post-doc at NIST I got to see what was formerly the One True Stick and the One True Kilogram, which reside in NIST’s museum. Cool stuff.
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Pretty cool. I’ve been to NIST and worked with some people there, but the best I got was to wonder just how accurate the fancy looking digital clock in the auditorium we sat in was. Like, it had to be pretty good, but just how good? It didn’t display more than minutes, but you had to think it was better than that.
Probably just an ordinary clock, tbqh.
Enjoyable pointing out to the religious and ID squad how if humans had six fingers on each hand instead of five it might have resulted in a base 12 number system with much simpler arithmetic.
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My dad is a huge fan of zuppa toscana from the Olive Garden, so I tried a rip off recipe for him yesterday which turned out great. Forgot to take a picture, but here is the recipe I followed: BEST Copycat Zuppa Toscana Recipe - The Chunky Chef
I myself enjoy a nice light soup made from, let’s see here, one pound of sausage, 8 oz bacon, one cup cream. Oof. That half a bunch of kale is doing a lot of work in this recipe!
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Thought my stir fry looked especially photogenic tonight. Stores started carrying impossible ground, so I used that this time.
I also made Alton Brown’s moo-less chocolate pie this evening. It’s still chilling.
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I spy with my little eye.
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Had another basically total disaster tonight. Filling to dough ratio was off, cook sucked, dough was tasteless. Total bummer.
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If we’re being critical, it does look like your dough-to-filling ratio is off.
I’m always impressed with the mileage I get out of raw dough, it stretches and shapes far beyond what you think it will. You could also chop up that ham smaller and then make a ‘ham salad’ type filling - that will give you more shape/fold options with less dough.
What’s that knife there in photo #2?
