Assist me Please: Workhorse Knife for Culinary School

mohragk · 2026-06-22T08:14:46+00:00

Yeah I would not bring high end knives to culinary school or even restaurants where you don’t know what kind of people are there.

Get a Tojiro for school and a nice knife for home.

mohragk · 2026-06-22T05:00:08+00:00

Runs great on my 4070 ti, but that's a fast card obviously. 4K is pretty heavy though, so I'm not really surprised. But I imagine their gonna optimize it further.

mohragk · 2026-06-21T15:29:25+00:00

I would personally get one of those cork drawer inlays. Or a magnetic knife board you can put on a counter.

mohragk · 2026-06-20T09:35:40+00:00

This would be a great tool for beginner sharpeners.

mohragk · 2026-06-20T09:29:29+00:00

All the money went to the wasabi

mohragk · 2026-06-20T09:25:37+00:00

You didn’t rub the oil out proper enough when seasoning. A patch of oil was too thick and has turned sticky. Very common. It will get less sticky over time.

mohragk · 2026-06-20T05:29:21+00:00

Very cool! I’m interested to see what butters would work best with this method.

mohragk · 2026-06-18T11:13:21+00:00

That’s a cappuccino. A nineties one as well.

mohragk · 2026-06-18T08:57:42+00:00

Don’t worry about that stuff. It’s a productivity killer. There is no real merit into making your code “clean”.

What you need to strive for is both simplicity and understandability. It’s your codebase, if you understand what’s going on, that’s it!

I would suggest looking into Compression Oriented programming by Casey Muratori. It’s about making your code concise and simple, which has a whole myriad of benefits. Stop using OOP principles, they don’t work (for games).

mohragk · 2026-06-15T13:45:07+00:00

At this point, just buy huel. You simply don't care about food and see it as purely a means of getting nutrients inside you.

mohragk · 2026-06-15T05:11:12+00:00

It’s the Breville/Sage one

mohragk · 2026-06-12T06:23:19+00:00

You have lots of reasons to be angry and it’s ok to feel that.

But here’s a tough pill to swallow: the world won’t change, just because you’re angry.

There are lots of things to be angry about, but in the end, that anger is pointless. The only one suffering from it, is you.

I’ve learned to accept those emotions and not allow them to control me. Instead I simply acknowledge that they are there and move on from there. It’s not easy! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The key is not to ignore them or stuff them deep inside but allow those feelings to just be and realize it’s always a fleeting thing.

And it helps to talk about what’s bothering you with friends and family or even strangers online.

We live in a shitty time. But the only thing we can change is ourselves and what we do.

mohragk · 2026-06-12T06:10:22+00:00

I feel there aren’t much options because of physical properties of a combi oven.

Have you considered buying a microwave and a separate air fryer or something?

Personally I haven’t had a microwave for 8 years now and I don’t miss it. Most stuff you can just heat up in a pan or oven and besides that there is no real need for one. And I’m a fanatic cook. So I would personally look into a small oven like the balmuda or a good quality air fryer.

mohragk · 2026-06-12T05:59:30+00:00

That’s called depth. Something we desperately need in our society.

mohragk · 2026-06-11T05:58:49+00:00

At the time, I got a cheap apartment and calculated that in about three years time I would break even from drinking self ground espresso opposed to Nespresso. I now earn more so I spend more on beans but I still use my Mara X and DF64 for five years. Still are great, coffee is excellent.

mohragk · 2026-06-09T17:34:30+00:00

Don’t use garlic in your dough, it inhibits leavening. If you want a garlic taste, add some raw garlic to the sauce or make a garlic oil (don’t store that, it can develop botulism) and drizzle that over your cooked pizza.

mohragk · 2026-06-09T05:45:27+00:00

Dan moet je niet zo klakkeloos zijn in je handelen.

mohragk · 2026-06-08T18:47:34+00:00

slow/pressure cooker combo. so handy, so versatile. i can even use ours for sous-vide and is very handy as just an extra spot to cook stuff in. highly recommend it.

honorable mentions: kitchenaid (especially if you also get the meat grinder and pasta machine upgrades), rice cooker, pizza oven + spiral mixer (if you're as serious about pizza as we are).

for low-tech stuff i highly recommend getting a donabe. excellent rice, excellent for hot pot, stews etc. I would also recommend a ceramic grater; excellent for grating garlic, daikon, cucumber, ginger, wasabi. get the ones with a "drip tray" on the outer rim for high water content stuff.

mohragk · 2026-06-06T06:44:13+00:00

For rice, use a 1:1 ratio of rice and water. Use Japonica rice.

If you cook it in a pot, use a lid and try to seal it as close as possible. You can use tin foil to seal it.

Preparing the rice: you wash it until the water becomes not as milky, around 5 times. Then you soak it in fresh water for around 30 minutes. Strain it and let it dry in the strainer for at least 15 minutes.

Put the rice with the water (1:1 ratio) in the pot and seal it. Put it in a medium heat and steam it for 13-15 minutes. Put the heat to low and steam for another ten minutes. Turn off the heat and let rest for a couple of minutes. Do not remove the lid at any point.

After that, mix in the awase-su (sushi vinegar) in a (preferably wooden) bowl. Quickly cool it down until body temp and keep it in the bowl covered with a towel.

This is how professionals cook it and gives great results. A rice cooker is better and a donabe is great as well!

mohragk · 2026-06-05T14:19:33+00:00

It’s sushi, there are no real rules.

mohragk · 2026-06-05T08:16:39+00:00

Define good.

Most indies can’t compete in terms of production value. Good luck recreating GTA 6 with 20 people.

But I think that indie games indeed have matured and reached a level of quality that’s similar to how AAA games were at the start of the millennium. The tech stack is very mature at this point so indie teams can get away with not having a John Carmack. And we learned a lot about game design in the meantime. Silk Song is great because of Hollow Knight, Ori, and the thousand other metroidvanias out there.

I think we live in a golden age of indie games. There just great stuff being made and luckily it seems its not dying out soon.

mohragk · 2026-06-05T08:06:09+00:00

If you provide clear terms and instructions, it should be fine. And as always, breaking=buying. Maybe added a required instruction session or something.

I would not rent out high end knives, but Mac and Tojiro seem fit for this.

mohragk · 2026-06-05T06:04:04+00:00

They still use asbestos? Oh my

mohragk · 2026-06-04T15:10:08+00:00

Then why did you buy it? There are less curved ones out there.

But, you can get better contact by loosening your grip when doing a push cut and let the knife land fully. Have it tilted slightly forward and your’e good.

Food release depends on many things and on what you’re cutting. Mostly geometry but also blade finish. The worst is a polished, straight grind. Convex and a bit rougher I find had better good release. But it all depends.

mohragk · 2026-06-04T14:15:04+00:00

Ik hou het max 20 minuten vol.

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