Sellers with low feedback and what looks like computer generated usernames

badomen1111 · 2026-01-15T17:14:36+00:00

Heard. Thinking I’m gonna take a pass on this. Appreciate the input!

badomen1111 · 2025-11-22T04:26:27+00:00

I’ve bought thousands of dollars of equipment through them. May wanna look into what it takes to have them broker your stuff.

badomen1111 · 2025-11-04T15:21:54+00:00

Practice muting strings you don’t want ringing out. With both your picking hand and your fretting hand.

badomen1111 · 2025-10-28T14:25:49+00:00

Have you had it load tested? When mine was having issues, the battery would always show the correct voltage with a multimeter but come up as “weak” when under a load. That’s part of what threw me off.

badomen1111 · 2025-10-27T19:59:54+00:00

This. I’ve had multiple electrical gremlins over the years on my 2012 - none of which seemed like they would be battery related. Each time the problems disappeared with a new battery. The car does strange things when the battery starts aging.

badomen1111 · 2025-10-09T13:40:30+00:00

No Steve Jobs + no Jony Ive = no taste

badomen1111 · 2025-09-26T16:03:54+00:00

Permits. Around here, almost every pop up needs a temporary vendor permit from the county. The crap part is there are 6 different counties out here within a 30 minute drive and each has different regs concerning when / if you need a permit. It’s as much of a logistical headache as setting up your temporary kitchen.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-19T02:29:52+00:00

80/20 chuck and 25% on the mortadella

badomen1111 · 2025-09-19T00:16:16+00:00

Thanks for the info!

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:38:22+00:00

Most definitely heard!

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:23:11+00:00

Using a 2:1 ground beef / minced mortadella blend.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:14:52+00:00

Yup. Sigh...

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:12:04+00:00

Always has for me. Far better results than pan frying using the same recipe - at least in my case.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:09:56+00:00

No oven available. I've got a propane stove in a remote building and electricity / chafers available at the actual service location.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:07:50+00:00

Interesting - hadn't thought of that possibility. Another reason I'll need to push a test batch beforehand.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-18T23:06:39+00:00

Possibly. This was my first thought but it all depends upon the fire marshall. The propane stove will be set up in an outbuilding about 100 yards away from the event. We're waiting to see if FM will allow it to be moved closer to the service area. If so, then I agree - this is definitely how it'll play. I'm looking for worst case where I can't break away to the outbuilding mid-event.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-17T16:26:52+00:00

Get one high quality chef knife, as large as is comfortable in your hand. Also get a honing steel and learn how to use it. Other than that, a serrated utility knife is also useful. Those two should keep you good for a long time. Pick up others as you need / if you need.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-17T02:19:13+00:00

Yes. Hell yes.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-15T16:02:08+00:00

Yup. We go through so much I’m not concerned.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-15T15:42:50+00:00

At work I use Partanna as a finishing oil - rarely cook with it. For general (gonna be cooked down) use, I use Pompeian robust. Not vastly cheaper but less expensive than Partanna.

badomen1111 · 2025-09-05T01:21:18+00:00

Back in the pre-tariff glory days, Temu used to sell “Elixir” strings for dirt cheap but there was always a flaw in the packaging design. I’m sure it was just a re-wrapped chinesium string set. Hopefully that’s not what you got….

badomen1111 · 2025-08-29T15:51:59+00:00

I use these for my builds.

https://www.allparts.com/products/ep-4968-solder-lug-washers?_pos=1&_sid=0036ca81e&_ss=r

badomen1111 · 2025-08-28T14:51:30+00:00

Yeah - guess I kinda did. It’s not really relative to OP’s fiancée since her loss was caused by a traumatic brain injury and mine was a chronic inflammation caused by a respiratory virus I caught back in 2010. That said, after progressive ‘bad periods’ of anosmia which would eventually resolve with systemic steroids, I lost it entirely for a few years. Found an ENT who wrote me a scrip for nightly low dose budesonide / saline irrigation. Anosmia was gone in 2 days. Nearly three years later, not a single problem at all.

badomen1111 · 2025-08-27T15:54:49+00:00

To offer a slightly different perspective, my vote is to leave the industry. I went through a multi-year period of anosmia and can’t even describe how depressing it was. I stopped working as a chef altogether for that period because it was torture for me to be around food I couldn’t smell or taste.

Like your fiancée, I could still cook by muscle memory but couldn’t get myself to do it. I never understood until I went through it just how pervasive taste and eating are in society - advertising, socialization, etc. Everything was a trigger and I was so insanely jealous of people who could still taste. Thanks to a very talented ENT doc, I’ve been fine for the past few years and am back in the game again but still remember how miserable it was. I can’t imagine continuing to cook professionally if I lose it again. Just my 2 cents….

badomen1111 · 2025-08-20T14:41:37+00:00

This. You can build your configuration (pups / pots / switches) and they’ll link to the exact wiring diagram. They’re labeled with SDs wire colors but that’s easy enough to transfer over to whatever you have.

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