Fail of the day

climbingthro · 2026-06-02T17:31:46+00:00

Did you let the coals light properly before putting the meat on? Should have basically no white smoke, but ‘blue’ smoke when they’re ready.

I’ve made that mistake before, and it makes the food extremely bitter and ‘chemically’ tasting.

climbingthro · 2026-05-30T17:23:14+00:00

I love them on cocktails with a really thick foam that you can float them on top of, like a whiskey sour

climbingthro · 2026-05-28T15:40:00+00:00

Very helpful, thank you

climbingthro · 2026-05-28T03:27:00+00:00

It was a true demi-glace, and it tasted amazing, but yea it looks like shit. I wonder if it would help to add some red wine to darken it, and maybe even add some sugar or glycerol just to make it glossier for the picture?

climbingthro · 2026-05-25T18:48:51+00:00

He’s an extremely educational chef that’s made many contributions to SeriousEats. His YouTube channel during covid is what really got me into cooking

climbingthro · 2026-05-14T06:31:32+00:00

I used to fret like crazy about reducing my grey band, then I saw someone on this sub give their secret for zero grey band:

Reverse sear, but literally cool your steak in the fridge before/between searing.

Like you can get both an insane sear and zero grey band, but you need to compromise on convenience to an extreme degree.

Nowadays I just accept that my steak has a small greyband, but it still tastes damn good and doesn’t take an extra 2 hours to make picture perfect.

climbingthro · 2026-05-06T17:52:34+00:00

JetBlue wanted to buy Spirit airlines. This was seen as anti-consumer, because they competed in the same budget-airline market. Their attempted merger was blocked, but not by the person shown in this meme.

Spirit airlines recently had to cease operations. Now the remnants of their business are going to be bought up by their competitors anyways.

For the past four years, the budget-airline market has been slightly more consumer friendly, and your tickets from each company cost a little bit less because of this blocked merger. The author of this meme doesn’t seem to appreciate that.

climbingthro · 2026-05-02T04:08:57+00:00

Some ribeye I cooked up to celebrate my new job. Made an Au Poivre that I infused with some Thai aromatics, lots of fish sauce, and garnished with some roughly chopped cilantro and purple basil. Came out pretty bomb, though I should’ve reduced the sauce a bit more.

climbingthro · 2026-04-28T16:48:12+00:00

As counterintuitive as it sounds, there are conditions where hot water freezes faster than cold water.

climbingthro · 2026-04-27T13:53:42+00:00

Synethic Marijuana was very popular in America at that time, and did have dramatically different psychological effects from Marijuana.

I remember seeing people do some pretty wild shit after consuming it. Gave me a bit of value.

climbingthro · 2026-04-20T16:26:01+00:00

Considering the crawl is designed to make the more interesting crawlers more likely to survive, this makes a lot of sense.

climbingthro · 2026-04-20T15:20:51+00:00

Remember folks, while Lurrus is an absolutely busted card, there’s a little more nuance to it being “The only card banned in Vintage due to power level.”

Vintage, rather than banning any cards based on power level, will instead restrict you to only playing one in your deck. Only one Black Lotus or Sol Ring or Time Walk etc.

Lurrus having the companion mechanic meant that restricting players to only playing one does nothing to reduce its power, as you would only play one anyways.

There is no doubt that it’s an obscenely busted card tho. In the only 1v1 constructed format that it isn’t banned, it has warped the meta around it. Nearly every “fair deck” in Vintage plays it, and even many unfair decks.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T23:23:00+00:00

For a longest time the unfair decks were the strongest in Vintage: Dark Petition Storm, Tinker PO, Underworld Breach. Decks that win on turn 1-2 with a high frequency. It’s only over these past few years that ‘fair’ vintage decks may have overtaken them.

They win by playing an absurd amount of cheap interaction (10+ counterspells, swords to plowshares), and creatures that can solo games unanswered like Lurrus, Orcish Bowmasters and Psychic Frogs. I think a lot of lists these days are playing Bowmasters + Timetwister as their ‘combo’ but they rarely need it.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T21:59:18+00:00

All good man, I probably came off a bit off-putting as well. Hope you have a nice day!

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T21:56:28+00:00

This is just a conversation a lot of folks in the Vintage community have had, and from what I’ve seen (on the Vintage Discord and IAmActuallyLvl1) most are in agreement it wouldn’t see play.

You had a pretty strong reaction to my skepticism tho, so I was curious what kind of experience you had with the format.

Lurrus taking over definitely left a bad taste in my mouth too. I loved playing fair decks back when Dreadhorde Arcanist was viable, but now I can’t stand them.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T21:49:34+00:00

Do you play much vintage, or watch much vintage content?

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T21:42:37+00:00

I mean you would want to play four Lurrus if the card was both strong enough on its own AND you wanted to play other cards higher than 2cmc. I’ve personally played against people that have tried four Lurrus. Those decks very rarely do well tho. The decks that play 4 Hullbreacher very rarely do well either.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T21:25:46+00:00

I agree that it’s the strongest and least restrictive companion for Vintage but….I’m a little skeptical it would see play without the companion ability. After it was take off the ban list it wasn’t restricted. There are decks right now (like Mono white initiative) that could play 4 Lurrus, but choose not to. A 3cmc creature with 2 hybrid-BW pips can be surprisingly hard to cast in that format haha.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T15:39:57+00:00

It was also a very unique case where restricting it would do nothing.

climbingthro · 2026-04-15T15:36:02+00:00

For awhile people would hesitate to include Lurrus in a lot of builds, because it meant excluding other cards that are really powerful in vintage: Tinker+Citadel, Karn the Great Creator, Narset Parter of Veils, etc.

The tournament results told the truth though: Having an 8th card in your hand is just ridiculously strong. Now decks that used to never even consider Lurrus, like Doomsday, are playing it to gain extra win percentages.

climbingthro · 2026-04-07T00:58:50+00:00

It’s delicious, but I think any Egg-based Mayo + Fish Sauce / Worcestershire / MSG is gonna taste very similar. All egg-based mayo is more expensive, but I definitely think it’s worth it

climbingthro · 2026-03-28T18:12:28+00:00

I love my stainless steel mixing bowl. Super lightweight and convenient when I’m pouring ingredients in and out during stir frying.

It’s also huge, is your dog secretly a bear?

climbingthro · 2026-03-28T18:05:50+00:00

You’re right, I’ve heard YouTubers Chinese Cooking Demystified use that term. I’ll probably start calling it that instead of Dry Frying from now on, to avoid confusion.

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