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#3249906 17-Jun-2024 12:28

Eva888:

Exactly my thought. A lot of burnt knuckles. You make it on a board then transfer to the unit.

I have never seen anyone make them that way, you have to put the lower bread in so you can push it down into the recess to take the sloppy contents. If you tried to put an egg or canned corn or something on it not in the machine, it would just fall out of it as you moved it into the machine.

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#3249927 17-Jun-2024 13:45

Eva888: Exactly my thought. A lot of burnt knuckles. You make it on a board then transfer to the unit.

It depends on what you mean by "make", part of it you assemble offline, part of it you do in the unit. Specifically, drop the buttered bread into the unit, pour in the filling, drop on the top buttered bread, close the lid.

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#3250303 18-Jun-2024 09:31

German toastie instructions always have the wurst-case scenario covered :)

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#3250310 18-Jun-2024 09:56

richms:

Eva888:

Exactly my thought. A lot of burnt knuckles. You make it on a board then transfer to the unit.

I have never seen anyone make them that way, you have to put the lower bread in so you can push it down into the recess to take the sloppy contents. If you tried to put an egg or canned corn or something on it not in the machine, it would just fall out of it as you moved it into the machine.

Ahh, misunderstood, I thought flat toasted sandwich of the Bacon cheese and tomato variety. Haven’t had a toastie in years and clean forgotten about them. When I was a kid mother had a very long handled single one that clamped shut and cooked over a gas flame on the stove.

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#3250340 18-Jun-2024 11:13

kingdragonfly: According to this NZ study, we're in an ok shape.

Auckland University: New Zealand's drinking water safe from harmful ‘forever chemicals’

New research shows low levels of PFAS in New Zealand’s drinking water – but caution is urged.

Indeed, but instead these chemicals are on our clothes, our food packaging, our cooking equipment, our toys, and pretty much everything else.

In fact you can even buy aerosol cans of these chemicals to spray around at will.

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#3250343 18-Jun-2024 11:16

neb:

Reading a Sunbeam toastie maker manual, which includes a pile of recipes. The first recipe has the ingredients and then:

I now make toasted sandwiches on a cast iron frying pan, in part to reduce my family's exposure to PFAS as per the previous unrelated (but now related) post.

Now I've got the hang of cooking on cast iron I can't imagine going back to teflon, it's superior in every way.

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#3250359 18-Jun-2024 11:38

Eva888:

Ahh, misunderstood, I thought flat toasted sandwich of the Bacon cheese and tomato variety. Haven’t had a toastie in years and clean forgotten about them. When I was a kid mother had a very long handled single one that clamped shut and cooked over a gas flame on the stove.

At some point I learned that this is called a "jaffle". Not sure if that's a regional word - but you can buy a jaffle at Bunnings.

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#3250390 18-Jun-2024 13:01

cddt:
At some point I learned that this is called a "jaffle". Not sure if that's a regional word - but you can buy a jaffle at Bunnings.

It's an Australian term.

Although probably one they stole off us at some point.

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#3250404 18-Jun-2024 13:28

Jaffle iron.

So called because it's a modification of the traditional waffle iron.

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#3250532 18-Jun-2024 18:15

View from the Wing: Hertz Nightmare: Customer Fined $436 Before They Even Rented The Car

A Hertz customer accomplished a new feat in the annals of rental car company disservice, actually being charged for a red light ticket before even renting the vehicle.

They rented the vehicle on May 15th at the Calgary Airport for a period of six days, starting at 10:30 p.m. However the agent at the airport logged the rental as starting at 10:30 a.m.

They were hit with an extra day’s charge, beyond the period they actually had the car for
And the previous renter “ran a red light at 2:33pm.” But since the system now saw them as having the car at the time, their credit card was hit with $436.50 for the bill.

It would have been impossible for the customer to have had the car at 2:33 p.m. because they were inflight on American Airlines. They provided copies of their boarding passes. Hertz agreed with them about the rental start time – they removed the extra day’s charge – but they still refused to budge on the red light ticket (or the extra fees associated the with the extra day – Hertz removed only the base rental charge). And now Hertz has refused to communicate further, it seems.

Much of the advice to this customer has been to just dispute the charges and that’s fine if you do not plan to rent from Hertz or any of their affiliated companies again. Even a righteous dispute might get you placed on their Do Not Rent list. Hertz has even been known to ban a customer’s descendants, too.

Considering the Hertz toll scam, charging customers who rent Teslas for failing to fill up the gas and of course a history of customers getting arrested just because they rented from the company – and Hertz refusing to admit its mistake lest the police stop believing them when they file false police reports, just getting charged for tickets written by police before you rented the vehicle doesn’t actually seem that bad in the scheme of things?
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#3250698 19-Jun-2024 07:28

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350314508/sign-times-case-partially-buried-road-sign

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#3250699 19-Jun-2024 07:34

That reminds me... what exactly is the point of having a 3-metre 50 km/h stretch of road?

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#3250800 19-Jun-2024 13:42

sir1963:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350314508/sign-times-case-partially-buried-road-sign

it, old road sign, was there to cover a manhole so they could easily remove the layer of asphalt.

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#3250830 19-Jun-2024 14:39

Does PB Tech use street address as a primary key or something?!

Our building has two organisations in it, two entrances, one street address. The other organisation ordered something from PB Tech but it arrived with our name on it, and the courier delivered it to our entrance. Whiskey Tango indeed.

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#3250869 19-Jun-2024 16:44

Spotted at the local Spotlight store. Let's see, would could either run the wiring down the wall on the right, or we could just drop a giant elephant's trunk of conduit down the middle of the store and run it through that.

They probably saved about 15-20 minutes work over having to do it properly.

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