Agreed. Unless you are doing psychedelics. In which case it acts as a catalyst.
Interestingly, part of the reason it is still used is because it allows for a reduction in dosage for other things are also used as part of the cocktail prescribed for modern anasthesia.
I was curious so I went and looked. I will definitely be reducing my usage of it to only when I do psychedelics.
C02 and water makes carbonic acid, which creates an acidic/bitter taste. This is fine and even desirable in some things like soda and beer but in whipped cream it’s pretty gross. The bubbles are also less stable which is why you get popping carbonation instead of something more akin to a smooth foam head on a nitro brew
N2o doesn’t react with water and the bubbles are more stable so it is a far superior choice for whipped cream. Those bubbles dissolve in the fat of the cream under pressure then upon release aerate the cream resulting in a lighter, fluffier product. That’s why propane wouldn’t work (plus imo propane also imparts an off flavor and I don’t want to eat it despite it being generally recognized as safe). N2o also inhibits bacterial growth, both through replacing oxygen in the canister (which all 3 would do) but also because it’s bacteriostatic. Probably other stuff too
This law is dumb. Make your own whipped cream! A siphon is like $50 now. It makes whipped cream super fast without needing to whisk a bunch and you can also use it to make pickles really fast. You can also use it to carbonate fruit slices and make cocktails if you get c02 chargers
I bought a siphon to make whipped cream (and other recipes) a couple of weeks ago. Fresh cream from it tastes a lot better than from the store bought canisters. Not sure what the reason is, but I'm guessing the store bought canisters contain additional chemicals to extend the shelf life.
At .50 EUR per N2O load (plus the siphon) it is somewhat of a luxury of course. But if you're into cooking, I think it's a reasonable investment. I'm looking forward to trying a Hollandaise recipe next. It's much easier to make in a siphon than using the traditional technique over a water bath.
It’s mainly because they use shitty cream. Try adding xanthan gum and/or a carageenan to stabilize the whipped cream and keep the peaks stiffer longer. Will also extend shelf life a bit and make it taste a bit creamier.
The other thing you can do with these is reduce the fat content a bit as they will make it taste creamier with less fat thus giving you a similar tasting product for less calories. However, this could also explain why your home made product is superior as side by side full fat will generally still taste better. I still think most major producers cheap out on their cream supply though and use low quality cream that tastes mediocre regardless of fat content though.
> I'm looking forward to trying a Hollandaise recipe next. It's much easier to make in a siphon than using the traditional technique over a water bath.
What? How does that work with a siphon? How are the eggs yolks cooking then? Or is using the siphon giving you the same texture without actually cooking the yolks?
I love the electric lazy, but that's not it :) The lazy is passive (you experience it while it happens), this was interactive.
PS - Did you know you can get a portable version? It's just the goggles, plus the sound/visual combos. (Or, at least, you used to be able to, haven't checked in years).
The alternative method is just people ad-hoc tracking the aircraft with their own ADS-B receivers. LADD doesnt allow aircraft to stop broadcasting. Only that data vendors like FlightRadar must respect the privacy requests. But antenna owners can choose to share their data with vendors that dont respect the LADD program in which case there is 0 recourse.
You can buy the antennas for like $100 and share the data in real time with whoever you want.
You do realize you can buy a $100 antenna on Ebay and pull the live-to-the-second location of every airplane in your visible sky, directly from the aircraft, right?
There are websites displaying this exact same data where you can watch US Military Air Tankers in active refuelling operations with both US and other nation's aircraft in active war zones.
If I own a plane and you track that plane, there's nothing I can do, since that information is public. Websites that publish that data through an API are publishing data they got from the aircraft itself.
There's a number of ways one can avoid being tracked and Elon saying there aren't is a blatant lie.
Well, it won’t stop a dedicated stalker but having to plan an execute is already a significant barrier of entry for 99% of the bored, drunk, unstable minds that would come up with the idea of walking up to someone.
A "stalker" is pretty much by definition "dedicated". Otherwise it'd just be a casual observer.
But what it most important to keep remembering is that the whole discussion of elonjet account is a distraction. Sure, it's one guy posting the data for whatever motivation he has. But it doesn't matter at all, because the source raw data is public domain information available to the whole world for free on many other air traffic websites. Even if Elon were to shut off, somehow, every website in the world, the data is literally there for the taking out of the airwaves since it is being transmitted in the clear, by government mandate.
There isn't any conceivably rational argument to claim this data is private.
Off the top of your head can you link to a couple of these easy to reach sources, or the hardware, the drivers and the configuration needed to capture this data.
Let's see if its really that simple, reachable and affordable such that any mildly disgruntled oaf can do in an impetus.
_This aircraft (xxx) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator._
Which proves my point.
A motivated stalker will dig in and research but that’s inevitable, but the other 99.999% losers will self-limit to whatever is available for the minimum effort.
This translates to harmless yelling at clouds, unless some cheeky troll does the homework for them.
For under USD$100 / EUR€80, build a Raspberry Pi with a USB ADS-B receiver that can run dump1090 and PiAware. View data locally or via FlightAware Users that share data with FlightAware automatically qualify for a free upgrade to an Enterprise Account.
I don't quite understand if you're deliberately ignoring my point of if you're that out of touch.
Perhaps you've forever lived in an academic/industrial bubble, but a significant part of the population and definitely the vast majoirity of those that would engage in taking a virtual confrontation to IRL, are borderline illiterate, have significant difficulty parsing simple manuals. You're describing setting up a computer with Linux, configuring an SDR and configuring some software to parse the data stream.
Are people on HN of all places pretending to be cutely ignorant about doxxing? Back in the days of Internet forums it was understood to be a bad thing to publish someone's home adress or a picture of it. It's not that home locations were thought secret information, it's an invitation to random crazies.
we're not ignorant, we're taking many things into context. Musk is a public figure, he's being hypocritical, he's not actually being "doxxed", and his kid wasn't threatened by somebody who used the plane's location.
He has been shadowbanning all sorts of people. Ukrainian war reporters, financial reporters, all sorts of stuff. This is just an upgrade to actual suspending accounts from what he has been doing the last 10 days.
I don't think the subs hanging from the ceiling on the hallway in front of the bar are COTS. If they are it's not on their websites or catalogues. Like it may be the same cone but it's not the same enclosure or anchoring.
Interestingly, part of the reason it is still used is because it allows for a reduction in dosage for other things are also used as part of the cocktail prescribed for modern anasthesia.
I was curious so I went and looked. I will definitely be reducing my usage of it to only when I do psychedelics.
https://clinicalview.gehealthcare.com/article/use-or-not-use...