Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Community standards, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Thank you. I'm even more confused now.
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Hard News: Community standards, in reply to George Darroch,
I think Yahoo/Tumblr’s biggest risk is if they’re taken to task for the huge amounts of copyrighted material they host. While they do have some talented content producers, the vast majority of their sites rely mostly or exclusively on work from elsewhere. With porn, that’s especially so.
Indeed. Otoh, there's a useful curatorial role being played, especially on the more niche porn tumblrs. They've looked at all the porn in the world so you don't have to.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Chris Waugh,
It took me a while to adjust to rice cookers, but once you get used to them they’re great for both regular rice and various East Asian styles of porridge. Fill ’em up, turn ’em on, and forget until you get hungry.
I can't believe it took me as long as it did to discover the virtues of a rice-cooker. Life is just better with one.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Nora Leggs,
But since it has returned to service it has churned out a large number of cheesy wafers, using cheese straw recipe. Also experimented with deep dark valrohna chocolate wafers with some success.
Awesome. It's like it was technology from the future that you acquired in the past.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Gareth,
(Next food thread should be nonnas, Russell, although in our case that would be Mamgu and Nanna)
You're on.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Ben Chapman,
We managed to make a pavlova, that ended up all of 2cm high. We had difficulty finding a beater or even a whisk in our town. Well, we did find one that ran on AA batteries, which proved insufficient to the demanding task of beating egg whites. We were reduced to whipping eggs with a fork. Despite all that, the pav was a hit.
What an insanely ambitious project, though. This is a Great New Zealand Story!
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to B Jones,
snicker
Chortle.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Islander,
We have my Nanna’s girdle-iron – which belonged to her Nanna & was brought to ANZ from the Orkneys…I still cook iron breads & potato cakes on it-
I love this too.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And this is the companion piece: nonna’s rolling pin, made from a single piece of cherry wood. It was more or less nonna-length, by the time she was in her eighties.
I love this.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to BenWilson,
I get a little misty using my grandmother’s original Ralta Crock Pot, with the fawn outer and Temuka pottery inner. It gets used most weeks
Oh man, I have needs now …
Which one of these does it look like?
Edit: Yes, I did just type "Ralta crockpot" into Trade Me's search window. Because I am tragic.