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@relee Sous vide is usually done at very low temperatures, like 50-70 °C

definitely not in boiling water, that's just boiling the food (which is another perfectly valid method of cooking things!)

That's also precise because boiling water is exactly 100 °C, give or take a degree or two for altitude and salt content
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@relee (safer because the sous vide process already killed any pathogens so even if it's seemingly undercooked when served, it's unlikely to cause illness)
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@relee (meat cooked sous vide is usually quickly browned in a skillet) (restaurants sometimes use sous vide methods to mostly cook food well in advance, because it's vacuum sealed so it stays fresh for a long while, and the cook can just take out a single steak or whatever, quickly sear it to brown it and bring it up to temperature, then serve it significantly faster--and safer--than cooking a raw steak)
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@relee yeah, a vacuum-sealed bag specifically, held at a very specific temperature in a water bath. the temperature for sous vide is usually *far* below normal cooking temperatures, and you cook it for far longer than most any other method of cooking. it doesn't brown the food, so unless you then brown it in a skillet or something afterward it might taste undercooked, but it's still fully cooked
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specifically, we had some food for dinner that was par-cooked sous vide and the copy on the packaging was talking about sous vide as though it was some mysterious fancy super-gourmet thing and not like, how most pre-cooked and par-cooked food is prepared
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@heatherhorns if there's hypokink is there also hyperkink?
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@rey i can accept not liking it, people have different tastes, but why would someone want to look like they don't like it when they actually do
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@Austin_Dern ALves
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@rey i'm surprised people would have a begrudging attitude towards key lime pie, that stuff's delicious
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playing xenoblade 3 got us thinking about the rest of the series and it's just occurred to us how... weird, in a good way, some of the character's playstyles in xenoblade 1 were

like dunban was a tank character who relies mostly on evasion, not defense

melia does buffs, but also uses those buffs as ammo for powerful attacks, spending the buff to damage the enemy

we always enjoyed playing as melia
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@codl first thought seeing the cw: "weird way to cw us politics but okay"
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@owashii@plush.city several megaman games had robot masters designed by public contest, with the levels designed before they knew what the robot masters would be
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dunno if that's the case for that one, but it's why a lot of the earlier games had situations like that
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@ziphi How are you so fast at this? Seriously, it's really impressive!
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@trysdyn MMBN is *entirely* blue magery. Enemy drops are all either money or an ability the enemy uses.
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@variance here's a secret: you can walk on the surface, but the power goes away when the water gets too warm
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@xenon i'd be mostly concerned as to whether it's coming from inside your house/apartment/what-have-you right now--i'd suggest turning off breakers one by one and seeing if the interference goes away. It's probably not from your place but it's simple enough to check that it's not worth risking it
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@xenon yeah, just a xenon arc lamp would be less of a concern

if there's arcing in a power box it would be a good idea to figure out where it is and fix it before you get a house fire
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@xenon Broad-band interference would suggest potentially something arcing; is there a theatre nearby that might be using a xenon arc lamp for a projector or something, maybe?
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@tillianisafox (but again, we don't have any evidence for that. never talked to anyone who's actually done that)
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