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The "Shit I just bought" thread
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TJT
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Needed to replace my big mousepad I got in 2018. I was reminded about this after seeing the merch store for Monsters and Memories. Buuuuttt I didn't want anything they had.
As I am a full on Texan at this point, I really like leather and the patina it builds up in boots, wallets, flip flops, and stuff in general. I found you can just get big pieces of tanned hide as a desk sized mousepad. Came in the other day and it is great, feels good, smells good, and looks cool.
As I am a full on Texan at this point, I really like leather and the patina it builds up in boots, wallets, flip flops, and stuff in general. I found you can just get big pieces of tanned hide as a desk sized mousepad. Came in the other day and it is great, feels good, smells good, and looks cool.
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Says it's frequently returned due to quality issues. I'm not sure what the inference of 'shit' is?
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So genuine question (not poking at ya at all). Why a mousepad? I'm assuming that is a laser mouse. They don't need one. The leather part sounds nice.
When I bought my very first MS laser mouse (wired and probably PS2/4 ? back in the day and didn't need a surface for the ball to track I got rid of it. Maybe it was my profession, Rather than take off drawings with paper and a pencil, I would enter the amounts in a speadsheet and my office would look like a bomb went off on a full size set of drawings. With a wireless KB & mouse I could put them ON the drawings and do my work.
Noodleface
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Can't speak for TJT but I prefer a mousepad too, I like the friction of a cloth mousepad
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Lanx
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yea at least some form of a uniform surface, i've been using a mouse for the htpc (along w/ kb and trackpad) and i'm just using it raw dog on a wooden table tray and it feels so icky
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My hand feels naked without a mouse pad, and too smooth a surface lowers precision imo. The texture makes judging distance more accurate.
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TJT
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I like the tactile feel. No other reason. I had a bare university science desk as my office desk for 8 years. Like I said, I like leather, I like it's feel, and I like that it develops a patina of getting worn in.
I could just use my bare desk, but I don't need to.
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TJT
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When I was younger and much poorer I bought a set of Lodge cast iron pans. These pans started rough but after a decade of seasoning they are excellent. However my wife and my MIL hate how heavy they are and I admit they are even a bit heavy to me. My MIL complained about this so I thought okay what are some better options. Something better than the ceramic ones my wife buys periodically after they wear out.
I bought this.
Absolutely fabulous pan if you like cast iron (and you should if you like cooking anything). Not even half the weight of a Lodge pan of the same size.
I bought this.
Absolutely fabulous pan if you like cast iron (and you should if you like cooking anything). Not even half the weight of a Lodge pan of the same size.
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When I was younger my roommate literally found an old rusted frying pan in the woods, brought it in and cleaned it up. We used it for years. I did like using it, I did not like maintaining it. But that said, I really don't like cooking. I'll show those to the wife see if she is interested. The whole, don't use metal utensils on our good pans thing eludes her for some reason.
BrutulTM
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If you rinse it out while it's still hot most of the time you barely need more than giving it a spray in the sink. Takes about 10 seconds and then I set it back on the (turned off) burner to dry in about 10 more seconds. It's really easier than putting it in the dishwasher since you have to rinse it for that as well. Sometimes you get some cooked on shit that you have to scrub with the chain mail but it's not like the dishwasher would have gotten that off without scrubbing either.
If the cast iron is too heavy for you, you can use carbon steel the same way although those are pretty heavy too. I do like a cheap shitty Teflon pan for sauteing vegetables and such because you can easily pick it up and toss things around in it.
If the cast iron is too heavy for you, you can use carbon steel the same way although those are pretty heavy too. I do like a cheap shitty Teflon pan for sauteing vegetables and such because you can easily pick it up and toss things around in it.
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Noodleface
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Whenever I hear about seasoning a pan I basically translate it to the sounds of a dude sucking another dudes cock. I mean I've never heard that... But if I had to imagine it.
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BrutulTM
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TJT
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Seasoning is real. In the context that if you bought cast iron pans in the USA in the 00s or 10s.
If you bought Lodge Cast Iron in 2011 at Walmart or some other chain store like I did these were solidly made cast iron pans. But they were effectively raw. It took me six months of cooking eggs on them before it stopped being terrible. Eggs stuck no matter how much butter I used. After like three years the pan was seasoned and when it was heated enough an egg would cook perfectly and not stick at all even if I didn't add some butter.
Higher end cast iron you can buy today in the 20s from Japan like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TDRMK4S?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_5
Are perfect from day one and don't require a seasoning time at all.
If you bought Lodge Cast Iron in 2011 at Walmart or some other chain store like I did these were solidly made cast iron pans. But they were effectively raw. It took me six months of cooking eggs on them before it stopped being terrible. Eggs stuck no matter how much butter I used. After like three years the pan was seasoned and when it was heated enough an egg would cook perfectly and not stick at all even if I didn't add some butter.
Higher end cast iron you can buy today in the 20s from Japan like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TDRMK4S?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_5
Are perfect from day one and don't require a seasoning time at all.