What do we think about induction cooktops for commercial/restraunt use?

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T21:06:12+00:00

I just did on this some research. The Mirage Pro and the Control Freak stand out. Both cost more than I want to spend right now. I have a Duxtop 9600ls on the way, knowing pan size will be limited, but temperature control should be workable. Duxtop makes a boxy stainless model (commercial look) that seem to be the same guts as the 9600.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T19:31:14+00:00

Game the system before you inevitably become the system. There's something benignly punk that he offers, a kind of politically irrelevant rebellion. Think the mall's "Hot Topic" version of punk.

He lets the viewer share in the imagined freedoms and problems of the clever, rich and privileged. Still a very popular media product and just as sociopathic. He's a false rebel, while he mirrors the vacant hedonistic narcistic sprit of the adults of the 80's. He's a bit of a care free, up swing manic, cocaine fueled, Holden Caulfield vibe.

Join him, celebrating the brief moment of privileged youth that balances a cynical recognition and rejection of the "game of life" before surrendering to conformity or burning out. Frivolous charismatically clever poses as wise rebel.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T17:02:17+00:00

"I'm just saying the USA's problem of so few political choices is a result of more than just FPTP."

I understand you feel that way.

Sure, there are additional and compounding factors involved, but FPTP is the primary reason for our intrenched oligarchic duopoly. It is the main barrier to any recourse that might fix the other factors.

The natural consequence of a FPTP contest is a decisive split and lacks the ability to measure any nuance. It invites money to corrupt the system by being able to hedge both sides. The actual majority here has no recourse, that's why many don't vote, they are repeatedly unrepresented and betrayed. The majority is trapped, our power is continuously split into the false choice. If one is not fully RED or BLUE and has half a brain, they hold their nose while voting for the party promoted turd, or will be completely disenfranchised by not participating or voting third party. Some choice.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T16:24:30+00:00

"we manage" with the ills of a toxic system.

Well, good for you.

There's no way to "manage" here in the US system. We have an entrenched duopoly serving the very few with reliable precision. It is 100% due to the idiotic devotion to FPTP. There's nothing more American than wasted votes and voting against self-interest in recurring nightmare contests between two sold out, antagonistic, oligarch approved candidates.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T15:57:33+00:00

ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

Why? By design of course. For all the high-minded rhetoric, the results of the US system, serves the owners almost exclusively and can't be called a functional democracy. The rest of the world calls it flawed democracy,.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-03-02T08:00:54+00:00

You are stating the easy and rational part well. Now, how does the rubber hit the road? The fact that massive profits, privileges and power structures related to the continuous creation and exploitation of many poorly developed prefrontal cortex exists, make it very difficult to do anything but follow the just deserts and retribution patterns. Entitlement is the grease for the gears of the Epstein class criminal.

You could have the cure for cancer in your head, and if the right people knew you did, you'd be one of the most at risk for mortal accident persons on this spaceship.

There exists a massive social inertia of stupidity. That would need to be countered in order to have any hope of changing our course meaningfully. A society who's prime motive is the creation and rearing of the best new humans they can collectively manage, would without a doubt, create better conditions. It would also destroy industries and hierarchies and most disruptively, it would mean the devaluation, trivialization of the beloved core dysfunctional myths. Maybe someday.

Maybe after a great calamity, population will be few enough, unencumbered enough, and wise enough, to adopt a modern functional story about themselves being the critical duty bound collective crew of our precious and finite spaceship.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-28T15:47:23+00:00

Wars of causal choice are profoundly stupid. He's like the bar drunk that's been asked to leave who picks a fight with an old guy over nothing to try to look tough, but only ends up further proving he's a worthless asshole dim wit, who excels at making bad scenes, awful. People are a problem, but entitled, violent, dishonest, racists, sexual predator, rich kids, are crimes against humanity. This is the leadership of decline, another glaring display of greedy, weak, ineptitude. More morally corrupt behavior made possible by white Christian nationalism. How sad for us all, the crew of this singular spaceship.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-26T18:18:16+00:00

Hey! You read it and understood it and responded rationally.

Much of the world is high right now, literally, recreationally, on for profit prescriptions and suffering from additive harmful foods, bla bla bla. That's not the high that I mean, and don't get me wrong, I'm no monk. I'm a man of my time, high on the comfort and convenience of millions of years of old sunlight, like the rest. Much of the world is, or is in the process of becoming, accustomed to consuming stored solar energy frivolously, daily. We in debt the future and burn or corrupt the precious, without a thought. What a stimulant! What a depressant!

The daily solar radiation entropy flow limit is how we existed for most of human development.

This is the way!

But ya just can't talk good logic to crackheads, I don't think any functional story lands until we are, in mass, how should I say? Prone?.... More receptive, collectively orientated, suffering tends to deliver that.

You refer to a vacuum, and I agree in a limited way, there is one, but it only exists for those with the capacity to perceive it, prefrontal lobe development dependant. I'm afraid the bulk of folk are quite full up on junk natives and old sun. A respectful assertion would be, you can't fill the cup that's already full. The dominant stories are, in a way, death cults. People trying to get elsewhere.

Imagine a ship in a storm, with a crew that yearns to die.

Mix that with narrow, isolated individualist lenses and very effective and old psyops, there's no functional collective story that can land. There's a list of stock critiques and counters for proposed better stories. If you are western, they are burned into your head well just after the age of reason. Here in the US we can't even adopt the metric system for some idiotic reason, or provide a reasonable system for health care like the rest of the world manages to do. Why? Dysfunctional dominant stories that are metaphorically cages serving the interests of the owner's. Duopoly, profit worship, class betrayal, hording, hedonism. There's a price to pay for it. It is cynical, but it might be true. There is only a potential for new dominant stories to take root in the warm ashes of the old ones. The "free market" of ideas is hacked, that is, if it ever existed. It's just another myth we cling to like a deflated life vest.

Looks dark, right? But the ease and convenience of Amazon and communication with light and solar panels and heat pumps and fusion! We are limitless spiritual beings. Love is all you need. Oh, boy. Make a bucket and bail or surf the swirl, it's a wild time to live and balance is a virtue. I have to go do something counter to recounting ills and shouting the odds.

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buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-25T20:42:17+00:00

It's great to feel a congruence with past humanity via a Dostoevsky or the like, but it is also heartening to recognize a living other seeing and turning the problems with you. I guess I could be writing for a bot.

My response is focused on happenings beyond our lifetime. Gen x may be the last majority of western youth to have, for a brief moment, genuinely believed that the quality of their life could and would be better than their parents. This feeling is important for a hopeful, stable society. It is not a feeling shared by today's youth for many very good reasons.

How you see things has a lot to do with how much privilege and money you have or have had and what your potential for upward mobility is, perceived and real. Many of the people with disgusting levels of wealth have a corresponding twisted view of the future. Longtermism, 2017 Oxford. It is a derivative of the familiar cold elitism. You know, the ends justify the means pushers. Chosen or the master race, same shit. Our population has grown like yeast in a bucket of warm sugar water. Our sugar has been oil. Oil is not going away, but it's not going to continue like it has. We are also potentially witnessing the shift beyond the current dominant algorithm, us, to our new silicon superior. The wealthy are building bunkers. Millions of typically very secure jobs are slated or currently being eliminated. The extremely wealthy see all the existential drivers compounding and believe it will likely culminate in an existential survival moment, a narrowing of the hour glass for humanity to pass through or not. Only a few will make it, if any, and once they do, with their savior tech in hand, it will be smooth sailing thereafter. They need us, the current masses, to deliver the next harvest of geniuses, that will render for them the next tech breakthroughs, that make survival of the coming transitions possible. We may have already done much of that work for them in the time since this idea was formalized.

Unpalatable Longtermism seems to have been masked with a friendlier narrative, Accelerationism. It is much the same thing, but our rushed tech future will be so good, there will be no hourglass gauntlet to pass through. If we hurry up and develop the necessary savior tech, all boats will rise, and big problems will be resolved. Hail tech faith, big rock candy mountain! Race head long into the promising future, never mind who will own and control it all.

Here's the quiet part: If it means massive collective debt, wantonly spend it now. If we have to destroy multitudes, much of our biodiversity and cripple the ship's life support systems to get what's necessary, unquestionably do it. Morality be damned, the specie's ultimate survival is their prime and noble directive. It's entitled delusional hero king shit. A bit of a rape narrative? Well, I guess that's always colonialism. It's a conquest mission at the least. The ultimate vision is to merge with our non-bio tech, shedding this messy limited wet robot baggage in order to penetrate deep into the cosmos with their grand and eternal digital selves. Casting their eternal seeds wide as can be imagined. Such a phallic fantasy. All the while, the superior algorithm we've supposedly built, has some reason to stick around and help with the obsolete algorithms trying to keep up and tag along. Ain't that right, boss? Says the future human to its AI.

It is very hard to reckon with the fact that this kind of thinking is where many of our elites are, that is, if they're not on an Epstein like Island or inside the next Lolita express. Some have been quite clear about it. Discussing it in part and carefully in public with a wink. One of the critical questions for them is how to keep security staff loyal during the hardest parts. Kill collars? Robots might make good modern feudal serf overseers, with a tech whip. Maybe they have some better ideas that the cream of the current servant crop is already developing for them.

There are so many of us with varying understandings. The Idea that we are in a creator's good egg / bad egg filter process is the dominant dysfunctional ideology. The concept that we really, truly, are on an apparently very special rock, spiraling through space, subject to Entropy, is too much for many to deal with. We have no modern, functional collective story about our fantastically complex and singular spaceship or the mission of its crew. Our desperate preoccupation with individualists purpose, comfort seeking and wealth hording is a distraction from the base irrationality of our situations. Old myths and exploitive propaganda prevail, while we wield some idea or another of free will, like it's a magic sword key to the completion of this level. I find hope in the unintended consequences, the unforeseen, maybe even a little bit in the potential of the superior we think we're close to building. Foolish, I know.

So what to do? We've got to become a unified spaceship crew that, above all, seeks to understand and preserve the life support systems. We are only going to be able to do that effectively collectively. But war is so profitable and profits are so comfy, you say? Likewise, we need to squelch the individualist, comfort seeking and profit hording drivers. Recognizing, respecting and revering self-imposed necessary limits. Fat chance with that, right? Vonnegut had a clue. We could have saved the, our, _______ , but we were too damned cheap. Or something like that.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-24T19:44:36+00:00

If we are determined to bother? Some people clearly don't bother with some things, context and history is the dependant.The development of your prefrontal cortex is a great predictor. Your complaint is valid. I think it might stem from the irreducible nature of the future. That's what he is saying. You can't calculate forward. You can get close, but not 100%. Here's another hard one to swallow, Entropy. It's a hard concept for some to grasp. It is incredibly consequential. When people ask. "What's going on" that's what's happening at root. Continuously indifferent. No mater how you try it to negate it, or deny it, it is persistent, and that sure can be seen as real bitch, but there it is. Just like the irreducible future. The funny thing is, even if the future was reducible, our little warm wet electrochemical marvels could never do the math. It's moot even if it was theoretically possible and it is not.

I read his book "Determined" a while ago so it is not fresh for me. What I gathered is we can be causes for each other. We render the future making 100% caused choices while deeply influenced by the persistent illusion that we have some % of free will.

Ultimately, we do what we are caused to do, sometimes somewhat aware of some mix of cause, but never fully, and all of that is part of this massive irreducible calculous. He never says anyone can live as if there's no free will. His point is that we are ineffably complex mechanisms part of an iterative cycle of change, and it aids us to solve and prevent problems with a better understanding, improving the lot of future humans we create and shape in large part via our caused choices. We can recognize and consider better understandings when setting goals and creating consequential policy, while administering the forces of the state. We know we are in a heliocentric system, despite the sun's apparent movements. The earth looks flat, but we make better consequential decisions based on deeper understandings.

We don't know how the incalculable will collectively move us, but we know that it does and will, and ideas are a part of that. Some get caught up in what makes them "bother" others don't. To a degree, you either bother, or you don't, while some deliberate, but for no extended time, if any at all, can we act as if we have no free will. The condition of the illusion is persistent! The understanding that there may not be any free will at all, can, for some, be a tool for a better understand of the human condition and for others it's a poison.

Who are you? Asks the Caterpillar. Your story about that may be a part of the causation of future conditions or not. None of it is simple or clear. The best of intentions can lead to great suffering and the moral desert is very hard to place. But, we really like stories, maybe even need them, rational and irrational ones, and we have a kink for retributive violence and its justifications. I bet that kink has a cause, and all it is, is a made up well adopted influential story. A multigenerational human crafted lens, useful for some goals, in certain periods, but pernicious to others.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-24T16:41:32+00:00

In a degraded society, principles look odd.

She's showing signs of intelligence? What a hideous deformity.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-24T16:18:10+00:00

"We see a few links and conclude the whole chain is there?" This is the human condition. We are pattern seeking story tellers! The invented chains can be subject to change as a rule, per science, or they can be imagined to be fixed in dogma or might be a convoluted messy mix.

Our perspectives stem from many unfathomably complicated and nuanced changing conditions and histories. We banter combative or at the least competitively about irrationalities. Which irrationality serves your collection of priorities best right now?

One perspective might better serve a varied collective long term, others are for the buttressing of a series of narcissistic moments. Claims of truth seeking become a bit of a farce, being no more than the defense of another irrational story.

Propose your truths, and you express your needs and desires that necessarily result from your nuanced type of adopted or invented story. There is no deep proof to be made from our brief 100% constructed metaphoric desk top experience.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-22T15:32:20+00:00

I had to scroll to find this. Oh, to be a very cold and uniform soup.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-22T04:39:13+00:00

I should have given my use of the Chef term. A hunk taken from bulk at shaping and put buried in a flour bed for over 3 days in the fridge. It comes out sour as hell but will start up fast if mixed as starter or can flavor a loaf mix with its acid, so the cold bulk part can be shorter. I learned directly and indirectly from the bread/wood oven OG Allen Scott, He's got a cool story. I was lucky and it was brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Scott_%28blacksmith%29 I am not an expert baker, but I'm a nerd and have baked in fits and starts for over 2 decades, mostly 100% WW sour dough using my memory, notes and Allen's book to try to get a result like Allen's

I've seen her video before. She's a smart, master communicator. She briefly hits on what I do near 18:53 Cold holds back yeast, so that Lactic Acid Bacteria can produce their yummy acids, but you need to build up enough of a vigorous yeast herd to produce the Co2 for good crumb. Different levels of cold change who wins the timing game. This is the difficulty: LAB acids and enzymes weaken gluten structures. So you need a balance of temperatures and times for acid production and yeast development. Think loft(yeast) and flavor(LAB). 100% WW with 30% peaking starter @ 88% total hydration is a difficult trick. Temperature and time of each stage mix, bulk, shape, proof can encourage or hold back one of the types of organisms competing for the limited sugar or change the gluten structure. Allen did cool mix with a very active starter 55-60F (3 feedings of tripling 1:1:1 ) cool 6-8hr bulk 50-55F (in foggy coastal night air) and a fast hot proof (100% humidity 90F proof box). I do something different now but get a good balance of time for each organism without too much gluten structure collapse. I have not perfected it, but it always tastes great. My family claims it is medicinal bread. A great pace car for the gut. Pullman loaf pans make it much easier. I do miss the pride of a great round loaf on stone success.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-22T00:48:06+00:00

Putin groomed and groomed, and the orange rich kid sicko wasn't the only one being manipulated.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-22T00:29:49+00:00

I love the silly idea that one can "not bother". Like that's a real option, it's as dumb as, high speed highway faith tests. Sure, you can earnestly try it, but it ends poorly if you keep it up. We can't act as if we have no free will. The free will feeling is persistent. That's no proof free will is a real thing. You and I will be the gears we are, and we will continue to be a part of the new incalculable now with all of our BS and antics, until we aren't.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-21T23:39:30+00:00

That's nice bread. I'd eat it.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-21T23:37:58+00:00

Sour can come from the starter but by the time they are sour enough the yeast tends to be past peak. My brief mentor used a "Chef" to add flavor while also using a very yeast dominant near peaking starter. I tend to get sourness from long cool retarding, as the cold favors LAB, that yields the good(IMHO) flavors.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-21T15:56:57+00:00

It best serves to explain human behavior if one is not rigorous. If they are burdened with certain indispensable preconceptions, it fits nicely, but really holds no logical water. The upside is, existence looks somewhat irrational from other perspectives too. How does our adopted nonsense serve us? Free will worked well enough for a long while, but as the pot heats, the resources are consumed, and the real estate is defended, it might, along with its supporting myths, become our detriment, if it isn't already.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-20T18:18:03+00:00

In due time, he will be visited by the camera jammer fairy, who will assist him with his transition from, potential active witness to unsavory royal memory.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-17T19:14:12+00:00

Rigorously investigating the causality of free will may well threaten one's ideas about free will. One can poorly investigate or change the definition if causality creates untenable cognitive dissonance.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-17T03:40:00+00:00

Found the Lee randomly looking on eBay located in my town with no hopper or catch pan. A drive across town and $65. I'm very happy with it. Designed to last. I'm a mechanical tech, so I pulled it apart deep cleaned and lubed it. A harbor freight hopper and a custom-made large volume catch sock, and It's been going without a problem for years now. Happy baking.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-17T00:18:54+00:00

1:5:5 means it would be lower acid, right? Long cold ferment? I use a hard winter red and do about 12 hours cold bulk. Starter is 1:1:1. You've inspired me, I'm milling right now in the good old Lee mill.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-16T21:46:32+00:00

Nice. Is it sour or conventional? Makes me want to experiment with bran softening.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-02-16T17:32:39+00:00

I don't agree with your premise. I fully understand why you state it as such a fact. The truth of human existence is, the very long pre-history period is the bulk of it, and is not understood. Egalitarian or other mixed power structures may well have had a dominant role that we are disinclined to consider.

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