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  • chunkystylestome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    8 days ago

    Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter’s channel. The videos of him just cooking.

    I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.

    Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn’t feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because…why would he be weird about that?

    But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, “Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway.”












  • While on the surface, that is true, it’s also true that for the most part, it comes down to learning your particular equipment. You know what your stove is going to do based on which pan you use and what the flame looks like. And it’s basically the same on induction. You know that if you put it on a specific setting with a specific pan what it will do. At first, it might be weird and confusing not having that visual feedback. But you still get all of the other feedback you normally get.

    And here’s a big one! You get extra feedback when you aren’t using gas. You can actually smell what’s going on in the pan. With gas, the fumes go up around the outside of the pan, cover up, and carry off the smells from the pan. That was something we didn’t think about when switching from gas to induction, but it’s something my wife noticed and pointed out to me.

    I could go on about induction for a long time. I think it is hands down better. For background, I’ve always had electric stoves, and found the newer glass top style to be perfectly adequate. We bought a bed and breakfast that had a gas stove, and I was really excited to “upgrade” to gas and I was shocked at how much I actually hated using it. We had a cheap induction burner from Amazon for years and liked it a lot, so we decided to get an induction stove and it’s been amazing.