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  • My lentils are super basic but still great. Just toss lentils, water, curry powder, salt, and cayenne into a pot and cook until the desired texture. Add some garam masala at the end and stir in. I’ve even got a local company that makes curry powders and such and they don’t include any garlic or onion in the spice mixes.

    I didn’t even adapt the recipe, the friend I got it from makes it exactly like that.



  • As a flavouring there are a number of things you can use. Flavoured oils are the easiest to use/find but don’t give a ton of flavour. I also find a lot of them taste pretty bad, Colavita garlic olive oil is the only one I buy. FreeFod makes FODMAP free onion and garlic powders that work a treat. Otherwise I mostly use a lot of green onion tops when I want onion flavour.

    I normally don’t have too many issues with the texture side, what kind of dishes does removing the onion cause problems? If you are blending the sauce and the onion is adding body, maybe look at different thickening options like xanthan gum.

    Lastly, Fodzyme makes a enzyme powder that works against various FODMAPs including Garlic and Onion. Its expensive, but worth it for eating out or the dish doesn’t work without the onion/garlic base.



  • I don’t know what it is but I’ll read my posts before posting and then come back later and it will have an obvious autocorrect error I missed.

    It pisses me right off how bad predictions have gotten on every keyboard. SwiftKey and Swype were damn near perfect at one point and now I swear it purposely chooses the wrong word.



  • I don’t really have a good suggestion for a general recipe search engine, but for the recipe storage I moved away from Yummly ages ago because they didn’t import everything within the app (which most commercial apps don’t due to copyright issues). I moved to Paprika which I used successfully up until recently where I moved to a self-hosted solution called Tandoor. Both work great as recipe storage solution.


  • Yes, surface material and colour can affect the thermal performance of a device. However when it comes to a smartphone with different colours this difference is almost certainly negligible.

    Heat is transmitted by 3 methods, conduction, convection and radiation. For radiation heat transfer there are two properties that affect how much heat is transmitted/absorbed by the surface, temperature and emissivity. Generally darker colours have higher emissivity than lighter colours or reflective surfaces, but different colours of a phone are going to be close assuming they are the same material and radiation is a minor component in cooling a phone.



  • stealth_cookiestoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy are faucets so expensive?
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    Because that is what people are willing to pay for them.

    A lot of those types of goods are priced extremely high compared to the actual cost to manufacture. Lighting is another example of this. You are paying for the design and brand in many cases even though they aren’t built better or with better materials compared to a more moderately priced faucet. High end faucets do have some more expensive components in them than cheaper ones. For example, orings are replaced by ceramic cartridges that feel better. Those changes maybe account for a couple dollars of manufacturing cost though.

    It can be frustrating knowing how much stuff costs to manufacture, so often I look at items like this and get frustrated because I know the manufacturer is selling for >10x what it cost to make.



  • This fixation isn’t new at all. One of the most popular modifications to Prusa printers for years has been the Nylock mod to make your plate as flat as possible.

    It does make sense, while most parts don’t take up the whole bed area, when you do need to utilize the entire space of a printer you dont want to have to struggle with it. Having a good first layer maximizes the chance that your print will be successful.


  • If you are new and don’t know much I highly recommend staying away from the Ender and similar cheap printers as they require much more tweaking and are less reliable.

    Bambu is the best choice in the price range but the printers themselves aren’t very open. No problem running on Linux though, Bambu Studio is available as a Flatpak and Orca Slicer can be compiled.

    If you want the reliable, open option in that price range I’d recommend a used Prusa, you should be able to get a MK3S era machine in that price range.



  • VGCG

    I mostly came into the series at Tribes:Ascend during the beta, but had played a bit of Tribes:Vengeance with friends in the past. This video is a great summary of the mishandling of an amazing series that nothing else comes close to. There are few things more satisfying in gaming as flying at high speed across a map and hitting that blue plate special.

    I was excited to see Tribes 3 until I saw it was old Hi-Rez employees running the show. I played a few of the early playtests and decided to hold off on purchasing anything until the game got into a more polished state. I don’t know if others doing the same was a contributing factor to development stopping, but by the time I started thinking about checking it out again, they had announced the cancellation of development.