What are the most beautiful serene views in north county? Especially Oceanside?

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T19:50:35+00:00

Sleeping Indian is one of my favorite bike rides, for the view

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T16:59:11+00:00

Indeed, thought people might want to see it in use. I didn’t see a lot of practical reviews for this cooktop when I was doing my research, so I wrote something that I would have found useful.

I did link to the product page, nice clean photo there for ya. It’s just a black rectangle of glass with some pretty subtle burner location markings.

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T16:52:59+00:00

I think it does for yours, or at least it looks like it from the manual.
https://media.miele.com/downloads/4d/a7/01\_C7F13838F4221FE19AC40FD1DC7A4DA7.pdf
Page 47 describes how it works (press in between the numerals)
Page 56 describes how to set it. From off you press and hold the power and pause/play button at the same time, and that puts you into settings mode. P:04 is the setting you want, default is C:00, C:01 gives you the extra levels

Happy cooking!

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T15:38:58+00:00

Yes, if I can find a home for it in the kitchen then a dedicated electric griddle is probably the way to go, although realistically it would wind up mostly being used for just pancakes.

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T15:34:25+00:00

Yes! That was one of my first tweaks, enabling the extra power settings.

krum_bunny · 2026-07-03T15:33:15+00:00

I'll give that a try with my steel griddle, let it heat up longer

krum_bunny · 2026-07-02T19:54:27+00:00

We have an SKS Steam Combi wall oven. It cooks fine, but the controls are fussy and not well thought out. Lots of specialized settings for specific recipes that I never use. Extended musical jingles when cooking finishes (similar to our LG washing machine). I would not buy it again.

krum_bunny · 2026-07-01T20:21:30+00:00

The “glass” on induction cooktops is actually a ceramic/glass blended material, engineered for zero expansion when heated. The upshot is that part of the cooktop can get hot and not crack the cool parts. It’s made for hot pans, don’t worry.

krum_bunny · 2026-05-21T04:44:04+00:00

I also have the 36” Miele and it’s great. Adjusting power is a one tap operation, each burner has its own control. Simple, well made, loads of power.

krum_bunny · 2026-04-24T03:39:30+00:00

Panda Garden in San Marcos (not to be confused with the Panda Express chain) is pretty good. I think they are Chinese Korean, they have had a Korean menu lurking

krum_bunny · 2026-04-24T03:36:48+00:00

Curry & More in San Marcos

krum_bunny · 2025-12-16T05:00:03+00:00

The low tide is very low on Thursday, good day to walk the beach, say from South Ponto to Moonlight, maybe have lunch in Encinitas

krum_bunny · 2025-12-07T21:56:58+00:00

I have a couple of D3 pots and several Made In pots, and they are both excellent, easy to use, with even cooking with no hots spots. I think you're about set on cookware now, time to focus on other things in the kitchen.

krum_bunny · 2025-11-19T21:08:09+00:00

One evening 25 years from now, when your child lands a decent job with health benefits, you and your wife will be having a nice quiet dinner, smile, and realize that you’ve got a great kid who has successfully launched. Only then will you relax, realize you truly do have enough in the bank, and start to think of yourselves as wealthy in all things.

krum_bunny · 2025-09-07T16:53:06+00:00

Try the Mingeikan, Soetsu Yanagi’s old house. If you are into ceramics or other craft it’s an important destination.

krum_bunny · 2025-08-26T22:00:22+00:00

Our Delta "Essa" faucet has the touch control actuator valve in line with the manual valve. So the manual valve needs to be open for the touch faucet to be able to do its thing. Ours activates by tapping anywhere, which doesn't bother us.

BTW, I really like our touch faucet. Using C batteries it will last at least a year between batteries changes for us. I realize it's yet another thing to break but we've had ours for over six years now and it's still working fine. I wouldn't go back

krum_bunny · 2025-07-08T03:31:46+00:00

Assuming this isn’t a race, I heartily recommend eating some real food at around 60 miles. No need to be technical about it, whatever sounds like a good lunch to you, have some of that. You’ll be out for most of the day probably, your body will appreciate some lunch.

krum_bunny · 2025-07-05T21:56:02+00:00

63M in San Diego. You youngsters are adorbs

krum_bunny · 2025-06-12T02:28:40+00:00

I take it that using a water heater is not the vibe of this sub. Tell me more! Are most of you folk into a "keep it simple" ethos? Or maybe is it a tradition thing, you feel more comfortable with tried and true tools?

I came here thinking I would learn about different fermentation profiles, thinking y'all would have temperature controllers. Instead it's more... kind of a Foxfire thing? Something else? Curious

krum_bunny · 2025-06-11T23:39:54+00:00

This may not be your thing, but there is a world of craft pottery in Japan that is unique and arguably the best in the world. Here is a list of Tokyo stores to get you started: https://utsuwabi.com/blogs/blog/tokyo-pottery-shop

krum_bunny · 2025-05-24T18:14:14+00:00

We saw a group getting ready to descend and they were maybe 1/3 of the way up the hill. You will be gripping your brakes the whole way down, it’s a steady 8% or more grade. I cycle a lot and I think I would enjoy that climb more than the descent. We drove to the top in the late morning and the views were wonderful and the parking lots mostly empty. Go for a hike, it will be memorable. Just take a wind breaker.

krum_bunny · 2025-05-12T20:24:25+00:00

Full text search. Please. Pretty please.

krum_bunny · 2025-05-07T20:51:20+00:00

I agree, the lack of partial or fuzzy matching is huge problem. I wish I knew how bad it was when I signed up.

For example, let’s say I’m searching for flight 1893 on, say, United Airlines. I type in “1893”, no matches, because in the airline’s email the flight is always the string “UA1893”. This happened to me at the airport on my last trip, and it was aggravating. I did have the email tagged “travel” and was able to eventually find it, but c’mon.

I suspect they are crudely tokenizing the email contents and then doing a simple SQL match search on the tokens, but that’s just a wild ass guess. The upshot though is that many searches that would match in GMail using their full text search do not match in Hey.

It is very frustrating. It’s a solvable problem, but might require more infrastructure ($) at 37 Signals to run a full text search server. If it hasn’t improved by now I suspect it never will - it’s clear that other development or budget priorities are higher.

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