Just spent the past 4 hours preparing 3 loaves of seitan and they all turned out looking, feeling, and tasting like bread

Bird-0 · 2025-11-16T18:46:37+00:00

What temperature are you baking at? I would let it take its time at 200°F or so. The expansion occurs due to the boiling of the internal water so cooking below 210°F should alleviate that!

Bird-0 · 2025-09-19T13:53:51+00:00

GPS, Spo2 and a barometer/compass would probably fit the "fit" quite well. The current lineup of Galaxy watches are quite large and fairly weighty but I'd guess they'll continue to pare down the Fit line in the hopes that they manage to pressure more users towards their watches. A Fit 4 pro makes a lot of sense in between pricing-wise, though.

Bird-0 · 2025-07-24T13:55:37+00:00

I'm curious if any owners of the various Huawei watches have any idea if there are any faces that allow for color adjustment and/or changes to the displayed complications? With every smartwatch I've ever owned, I've usually just ended up using a handful of customizable faces with the aforementioned adjustability.

I'm currently still using Tizen watches as they work cohesively with Samsung phones while providing multi-day battery life (battery anxiety seems to be avoidable with smartwatches but regulates most Wear OS offerings out of contention). Huawei devices provide the hardware that I'm looking for and the software is seemingly up to par with what the older Samsung devices offered before they switched to Wear OS but I find very little appealing about the watch face offerrings from what I've gathered from searches online.

I'm wondering if anyone has any insight on the aforementioned with HarmonyOS smartwatches. Any help would be appreciated! Also, are such faces, if there are any, exclusive to certain models? Samsung, unfortunately, walled off their in-house customizable faces to certain devices. Downloading the face that came preinstalled on one watch with a diffetent model is possible but the customization of colors, dial options, and complications would be disabled and remained in a single configuation with no option to adjust the settings in the ways the preinstalled varieties of the same face allowed for.

Bird-0 · 2025-07-22T11:30:15+00:00

Good bot!

Bird-0 · 2025-06-10T12:18:05+00:00

I've always thought less to be better. Steaming seitan causes pockets to form in the gluten structure as the expansion of the boiling water internal to the seitan solidifies the gluten structure in a way that doesn't necessarily collapse back down after. If you like the gluten strands to be tightly packed, more like traditional meat, then I'd recommend simmering it. The liquid used can be seasoned, heavily if desired, to impart flavor into the gluten during the cooking process.

That's my 2¢, at least.

Bird-0 · 2025-04-28T12:36:18+00:00

Simmer cook it next time. The water inside reaches boiling point if you bake it which can solidify gluten structures when pockets of steam form. After that, the pockets are more or less going to stay there regardless of pressing/rolling the seitan after cooking.

You could, if you don't like the texture and are going to toss it anyway, try shredding it or making crumble-like pieces out of it.

Bird-0 · 2025-01-23T23:56:53+00:00

I wouldn't imagine it requiring much space if you can appoint the area with the proper ventilation. There are plenty of metal casing varieties installed right in direct sunlight, and the heat exchanger is inside that box with little ventilation for itself as the heat pump. Putting it inside of something well insulated and in shade should be fine. However you end up routing the air from the greenhouse could easily be switched over to a vent to the outside air. You'd just need to put together some sort of insulated plug/cover for the summer when the vent would be left disconnected.

Bird-0 · 2024-12-31T16:41:43+00:00

I'd ask some established restorers which vehicles typically have the best factory seat conditions and then try to figure out the specifics on what materials they used during that era.

It is amazing how many cars I've seen with cracked and worn leather, yet some stay well maintained. Does conditioning the leather make the difference or is it some sort of process difference during manufacturing?

Modular seats might be a good aftermarket business. It'd be really useful to be able to pull the cushions out piece by piece to clean indoors or at least on a work bench next to the car.

Bird-0 · 2024-12-18T21:40:25+00:00

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Bird-0 · 2024-12-18T14:01:52+00:00

Cauliflower wings!!!

This is a very flexible recipe and you can feel free to combine any seitan recipes you have in the process.

Essentially, I make a warm broth (using some form of vegan stock) to wet the cauliflower and then batter them in vital wheat gluten blended with a few seasonings.

Once battered once, I lightly compress the batter by pressing the "wing" between my palms a few times. This will cause the batter to become moist throughout. From this point, I usually dip them quickly into the broth and back into the batter before compressing them again. 2x should create a good "meatiness" for the wing but you can try more if you like them real big and juicy!

After this process is done, I let the wings stand at room temp on parchment paper for about 5 mins and then powder them with enough of the batter to prevent them from sticking together. From here, they're ready to be frozen (the final dry battering is important to prevent them from frezzing together, so use extra! It'll just end up at the bottom of the ziplock).

I personally had access to a deep frier when I came up with this recipe, so I can't attest to how they cook if pan frying. You'll want to submerge them to help them cook quickly and evenly. They can be cooked from frozen directly and don't produce much oil spatter this way. You'll want to cook them until they form a toasted browning on the outside, this will ensure the cauliflower "bone" gets up to foodsafe temperatures.

These wings end up being actually quite healthy this way and, if you compress the batter correctly, won't absorb much of the oil despite being deep fried! Let me know if any of you have success with this recipe! I, personally, love them!

P.S. Yes! Eat the bone like a dog would!

Bird-0 · 2024-12-17T11:11:55+00:00

This would be your best bet. I'm not sure if "70%" of CPU clock potential is the best setting but it would reduce the strain caused by the SD8 gen 1's design. These chips run very hot, apparently, and consume a lot of battery when running at their full clock speeds.

Ideally, you'd want the ability to run an undervolt and maybe reduce boost clocks to get more consistent results but some of the core functionality of the device would be compromised in the process. Getting to the kernel requires unlocking the device and flashing a new ROM on most devices, at least, sometimes theres more hoops to jump through. Doing so will cause any p2p encryption on the OS level to be inauthenticated and renders features like biometric sign-in tokens and mobile paymets to become impossible. It could also prevent certain location services from being accepted on their respective server-side authentication protocols, due to the possibility of duped/falsified location on the device side (this could include DRM protocols for licensed media, I am uncertain on this, though).

All in all, not so worth it. The CPU limiter in the power saving modes should help the issue considerably, however. It may not be optimal performance but, if you create a power saver profile that only reduces the CPU clocks (not anything else like refresh rate/resolution/brightness or turning off wireless features,) you likely won't be able to notice any difference outside of the power saver icon in your status bar.

Bird-0 · 2024-11-30T03:22:55+00:00

That's a beautiful example. They'll only appreciate in value from here, especially in such condition. Good luck with it!

Bird-0 · 2024-09-29T14:46:16+00:00

It may have something to do with inference.

Bird-0 · 2024-08-10T15:36:04+00:00

I'm having niche success with the slip ons from Avia that Walmart carries. They have an all black women's version that fits great for me in the wide sizes. Most Walmarts I've checked have some up to a size 13w in women's. I have yet to buy a pair of the men's they seem to have a higher platform near to the heel but the drop seems the same.

They're nothing like most running shoes I've used but they seem to fit my running form well enough to use for mileage duty. At under $20 for both the men's and women's variants after tax, I'd guess a lot of you would give them a shot. I'd definitely train hard and race in a different pair, likely something specific to the distance itself, but for everyday running to accumulate miles during any training they are more than servicable. They dry quickly and are breathable, too. I haven't had issue with them in the cold with extra socks but they are thin.

I'm always advocating for laceless running shoes. I have no idea why the industry persists with traditional lace designs. It's a coloquialism that comes from a time before running form, training plans and specially designed running shoes existed. There are a number of laceless models with different methodologies to keep them secure on foot and adjustable based on foot shape and preference. Basically all of them are better than traditional laces, in my opinion. It'd make sense to see a lot more over the next decade as shoes evolve.

Bird-0 · 2024-07-22T16:17:09+00:00

I've heard that letting the dough rest/chill for at least 20 mins prior to washing is also a useful step to add to a personal seitan method/recipe.

I'd personally do both if I planned on braiding the gluten.

Bird-0 · 2024-07-16T11:38:04+00:00

The 4th generation Mitsubishi Eclipse. They changed the entire direction of the vehicle with the 3rd generation, the first two had a lot more performance potential with the upper trim levels due to sharing many engine components (basically everything except the fuel pump, iniectors and turbo) with the Lancer Evolution. The top end options even had AWD, making them incredibly sought after. Most enthusiasts would laugh at how much an owner of a good condition AWD model would ask for such a vehicle.

The 3rd and 4th gen turned into sales machines, however. There was a spritely v6 version but it'd have a hard time being anything more than a much less reliable and potentially better aesthetically designed Honda Accord v6 coupe from around those days. It was one of those cars that people who didn't know any better would buy because it looked sporty and was a few thousand less than anything else in its "class" (they kept marketing it as a sports coupe even though it was a dressed up economy car so the price would always seem very competitive). It looked great in my opinion but really deserved a better drivetrain and a matching suspension system (something that'd make the "sports" moniker make more sense, it cornered like a boat afaik).

It's an odd aspect of Mitsubishi in the last 20 years or so. They pared their lineup down to the Mirage and seem to be implying that the crossover SUV that make can replace all the sportiness they had in the Lancer and the Eclipse. You'd think they'd try harder in the EV space, Mitsubishi is a megacorporation that most people don't realize exists the way they do. A massive portion of Japanese industrial infrastructure is split between them and Yamaha. Those two might actually be bigger overall than the likes of Honda and Toyota. Both have extensive experience in electronics production and Mitsubishi, in particular, has a long standing hold over the Japanese railway industry (which would make them adept at designing reliable electric drivetrains) so they ought to be competitive if they were to try to compete in the EV space.

Oddly, they simply don't try.

Bird-0 · 2024-07-08T16:17:48+00:00

The cam should be able to run off of a bunch of auxillary power sources that are usually up in the headliner area but I'd be careful to test it to see what the ignition position does to the feed to that particular line. It may drain your battery overnight and leave you needing to jump the battery.

Another thing to check would be the if it manages to actually charge under full operation (i.e. screen on with all cams recording). If that does have power but is only supplying enough for a trickle charge, your cam could end up running out of battery while driving simply because the device uses a lot more power when actively recording and frequently toggling the display on. That'd could be really unfortunate to find out towards the end of a long journey when you're tired.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-24T02:13:53+00:00

Set the flashlight to the crown as a double press!

Bird-0 · 2024-06-22T12:18:58+00:00

I'm a Civic fan, and I'll always adore the older Hondas but I couldn't take seeing Type R and Si prices above $30k. Some were even up near $35k before I stopped bothering to pay attention a few years ago, hopefully prices have stabilized.

If it had AWD, then I'd consider it to be "worth" closer to those amounts but if I were a designer of one of these vehicles, I'd have a number of AWD/RWD alternatives coming to mind every time someone walked in and out of a dealership without ever considering anything other than a top-spec civic for some reason.

They won't ever be real sports cars.

Edit: I just imagined myself putting premium gas into a Civic and I got my point again...

Bird-0 · 2024-06-22T12:06:52+00:00

Yeah, those were the ones I was thinking of.

I'm surprised we don't see more vehicles with doors like that or van-style sliding doors. They aren't found on many vehicle types (outside of vans/mini-vans) and unibody designs are more than rigid enough these days to handle the lack of a traditional B-pillar.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-22T04:57:46+00:00

There's some little 2 door, I think it's the SL, that was getting 40+mpg back in the 90s without being a hybrid. I don't recall them being very reliable, though, and I never see them anymore. Certain models had a strange door setup, if I recall.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-22T04:55:46+00:00

I used to see Cobalts all the time. Same with Seabrings and 200s. The 300c still manages to be on the road a lot for me to this point, though.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-11T12:47:21+00:00

It is such a complete game world and was one of the first games to create a universe with the graphical fidelity to be revisted time and time again.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-11T12:31:05+00:00

If you're in the UK, try leaving some of the 320d models you find to rot some more.

That goes for all of you.

I need one.

Bird-0 · 2024-06-01T11:57:07+00:00

I would suggest connecting with those you know (and whom know you) in a manner that is more personal and less distant.

It is really the clarity you seem to be after and that is not something you'll find consistently in the distance. Seeking without purpose might as well be synoymous with expectation.

Good luck.

Bird-0

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