A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

Post by LEARAX » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:13 AM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #25

dx87 wrote: post #5

That's actually how a lot of businesses in rural parts of Alaska work, even places that don't require a boat or plane to access. My dad lives right off the highway in a small town in Alaska, and the closest thing to a grocery store is an old airplane hanger that one of the locals runs a general store out of. The owner makes weekly trips to Costco, which is ~4 hours away, and buys as much as they can fit into a big U-…

Rural Croatia too, except it’s a truck that comes to all of the villages 3x/week with staple items. Plays ridiculously stereotypical Croatian music through a loudspeaker to announce his arrival. And then a meat truck once a week and a fish truck more irregularly. Took requests as well. I think of it like villages having Amazon Prime starting in the late 90s.

Post by propogandist » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:20 AM UTC

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>> I would have thought Croatia to be small enough to not need such a system; i.e. supermarkets not further than half an hour drive away. I still think about the UK. I cannot imagine anywhere in the UK being more than an hour or two from anywhere else.

I’m American but was living in Seoul at the time. A couple friends and I took an overnight trip to Busan. We were having lunch at a small restaurant, and my friend asks the staff if she can order takeout and have it sent back to her home in Seoul. Mind you Busan to Seoul is 325km. This was mind-boggling to me. I asked her, “How long is that gonna take to get there?!” She was puzzled, looked at me and said, “It’ll be…

Post by wolco » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:24 AM UTC

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On what planet does anybody pivot to eating home-baked bread without consuming substantially more of it?

If it works, it's delicious and you end up eating heaps more than usual. If your first two or three attempts a baking bread fail, then you end up becoming one of those people with 85% of a 20lb bag of flour in the cupboard waiting for the weevils to move in... (The temp calibration on my oven is way out. Doesn't matter too much for roasting chickens or cooking lasagne, but baking is more temperamental than that, and…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:28 AM UTC

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This only helps much if the calibration is off linearly - in my case not only is the calibration off but the temperature flux up/down is more pronounced than it should be. I still make do, but it's definitely very easy for stuff to come out burnt or undercooked as a result.

Hate to be the one the point it out, but have you considered you might not be great at baking?

Post by adrianN » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #108

kevingadd wrote: post #93

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This only helps much if the calibration is off linearly - in my case not only is the calibration off but the temperature flux up/down is more pronounced than it should be. I still make do, but it's definitely very easy for stuff to come out burnt or undercooked as a result.

> but the temperature flux up/down Have you checked if your air vents are blocked? Ovens don't have adjustable fires, they are always on/off. I can't think of any kind of failure that would cause unusually high swings.