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  • ourob@discuss.tchncs.deOPtoCast Iron@lemmy.worldSteak night!
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    5 months ago

    It was eaten too quickly!

    The steaks were actually cooked to opposite preferences. The filet was a perfect medium rare, but my wife likes it more medium/medium well. The ribeye was a solid medium, but I like it more medium rare.

    The ribeye was delicious, though, and my wife was happy, so no complaints.




  • Kerbal Space Program 2 and Dark Souls 3.

    KSP2 released their science patch this month that adds missions and a progression path to work through. It’s a lot more fun now that there are goals to work towards, and the missions are much better than what KSP1’s career mode offered.

    I’ve been co-op’ing through DS3 with a buddy, which has been a fun way to tide us over until Elden Ring’s DLC comes out. I just wish there was a similar seamless co-op mod for DS3. Neither of us are interested in PvP, and it’s a little tedious to have to go through everything twice.



  • I’ve made a fair amount of pizza in my cast iron, and it took some trial and error to get the pizza to not stick.

    Either preheat the pan fully before adding the oil or fat and (carefully) drop in the dough, or use a generous amount of butter and shape the dough in a cold pan.

    When spreading toppings, cheese along the edge is fine, but try not to get much sauce on the sides of the pan. That will burn and eat away at the seasoning more.

    My pan doesn’t have great seasoning, though - I mostly just use it for pizza every other week or so.




  • Not really, and no. This shouldn’t affect your already-running system. This change means that the iso will offer plasma by default and will run plasma in the live environment.

    And I wouldn’t say it’s particularly hard to switch from any desktop environment to another. It takes some relearning where stuff is, keyboard shortcuts, etc, but any desktop environment can run any Linux program, provided the necessary libraries are installed (which your package manager takes care of). You can install kde programs on your xfce desktop, and they will run fine (and vice versa). They’ll just pull in a bunch of kde libraries when you install.





  • I haven’t had time to build up a big city, but so far I’ve enjoyed it. I’m running on Linux with a 5600X + 6600XT, and 1080p at medium gets me 30-40 fps.

    I LOVE that roads transmit power and water. Money is way more available early game than in 1. The only annoyance for me so far has been the terrain overlay that comes up when you select a zoning tool (similar to how selecting water pipes switches to underground. You can make it go back to normal by hitting i after selecting the tool. It’s minor, but its an annoying difference from 1.






  • ourob@discuss.tchncs.deOPtoCast Iron@lemmy.worldPan pizza night
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    9 months ago

    Yep, it makes shaping to the pan easier (and safer), though I’m still working on getting a crispy crust with this method.

    I used to proof it on the counter before dropping it into a hot, oiled pan, and that produces a great crispy bottom. This method is lazier, though, and with butter, the dough hasn’t stuck at all for me.

    I’m using roughly this method, though with my own dough recipe.

    I suspect my crust doesn’t come out as good because my oven has the heating element on top. The linked recipe suggests putting the pan on the bottom rack, which makes me think they assume a bottom heating element.