Canada Election 2021

[Josephus]

I saw a twitter thread (by some rando) bemoaning that abortion rights are at risk in Canada and how important it is not to elect the Conservatives.

This when O'toole openly describes himself as being pro-choice.  When the party platform says nothing about abortion.  Where the party platform explicitly promises not to regulate abortion.  Where, under Harper's majority, they passed no laws about abortion.

So please tell me what threat the Conservatives are to abortion rights in Canada?

If you're upset by some rando tweet, you have issues.
I mean Twitter says all sorts of things about Trudeau.

[Josephus]

Maybe we should just use this thread to talk about food and kitchen appliances.  It seems more useful than everybody just piling on Beeb, viper posting random stuff about how everyone hates Quebec and everybody else talking about how their vote is ABC.  Then it would be something that everyone can enjoy.

You know Fidel Castro once promised a rice cooker in every Cuban household. How come Trudeau doesn't promise that?

[Jacob]

The single use appliances that get the most use in my household are:

Hot water kettle
Milk frother
Espresso machine

The rice-cooker, as mentioned in my previous post is not really a single use gadget in my house, though the primary use is for rice. It also gets used almost daily.

We also have a big noisy gadget that can be used to make smoothies and any kind of bean and nut milk (soy bean milk, red bean milk, almond milk). It gets some use, but it takes up a lot of counter space.

Other than that, every other kitchen gadget is in a cabinet somewhere and basically doesn't get used.

[Neil]

A rice cooker is good for all kinds of steaming applications. In my house we use it for steamed vegetables, mantou, some meat dishes, congee, and also for reheating food as well - especially rice dishes.

A brief search shows a bunch of other dishes that can be cooked in a rice cooker - okonomiyaki, various rice dishes (as opposed to plain rice), cakes (including Japanese cheesecake), and even Mac & Cheese.

I have the manual steamer that you put into a pot with some water, which you then proceed to boil.  Does a rice cooker work in the same way? 

Obviously I'm not going to buy another appliance, (although I'll likely steam plenty of vegetables for dinner when winter comes) but I'm curious as to if it would do the same kind of thing. 

[Jacob]

You know I tried to be fair and accurate...

Nicely done. Too bad you poisoned the well immediately before your attempt at fair accuracy.

Look you could have said...

And you could've gone with all kinds of versions of "actually you're wrong" from the diplomatic to the abrasive, but you went straight to "you're intellectually dishonest" and "you're arguing in bad faith."

I simply don't have time to waste on you in this context. Especially given your own petulant behaviour when a discussion doesn't go your way.

But you don't get to be upset at me for calling you out for mischaracterizing the bill.

I'm pretty sure I'm the one who determines what I'm upset at, at that very much includes you being a fucking pissant.

In conclusion, you're on time-out for at least fourty-eight hours. Go fuck yourself.

[Jacob]

I have the manual steamer that you put into a pot with some water, which you then proceed to boil.  Does a rice cooker work in the same way?

It does... though, I think a key part is that the timer and the measurements make for very consistent results. I don't know if that's the case for manual rice cookers?

Obviously I'm not going to buy another appliance, (although I'll likely steam plenty of vegetables for dinner when winter comes) but I'm curious as to if it would do the same kind of thing.

In principle I don't see why not but I don't know enough to say. With the rice cooker, I do think it's very much a "we have this for rice because we eat a lot of it - so lets figure out what else we can use it for as well" thing.

[Sheilbh]

The single use appliances that get the most use in my household are:

Hot water kettle
Milk frother
Espresso machine

Kettle (tea and aeropress or pourover coffee), rice cooker, microwave - I eat rice most days

Microwave is normally for re-heating whatever is going with the rice.

Edit: Oh and I have a coffee grinder and a hand blender for soup-stuff. Coffee grinder is on the counter, blender lives in a drawer.

[viper37]

No way.

This is what you need to make fries at home.

https://www.amazon.ca/T-fal-FR800051-Ultimate-Clean-Fryer/dp/B00QC2XBYM/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=deep+fryer&qid=1630607321&sr=8-6

I haven't tried yet with real potatoes, so I don't know. But with frozen McCain fries (I reserve the right to be a Canadian patriot when it truly counts), it tastes just as good and is a lot easier to clean.

[Neil]

My cheese wire broke tonight, after almost fifteen years of service.  I am unreasonably devastated and will have to make a trip to Homesense tomorrow. 

[saskganesh]

I work in a kitchen and have pulled off some quite awesome vinaigrettes recently. I'm happy with those. Otherwise, it's pretty mundane stuff. Today I made 76 hamburgers (halal, beef and veggie), 50 cheese sandwiches, 2 pans of steamed potatoes, a tuna salad, an egg salad and packaged and shipped out 400 meals.

I got to take home a pile of leftover steamed eggplant and veg, some perogies, a bean salad and a pasta salad. Later this weekend I look forward to roasting some beef.

Worst election ever. For the first time in my life, I may not be voting. If I do, I'll be voting for Singh & co.

[Barrister]

Worst election ever. For the first time in my life, I may not be voting. If I do, I'll be voting for Singh & co.

You should go with your first instinct.

[Neil]

I had to look at three different stores for a new cheese wire.  For some reason, stores carry worthless cheese planes, but not useful cheese wires. 

[viper37]

I'm getting slightly annoyed by so many phone polls.  I just had the fifth one this week, the second one today.

[Neil]

Justin Trudeau is on my television, telling me that a tax on the big banks is going to help make home ownership more affordable.  Won't banks just increase the cost to consumers to pay the tax while maintaining the margins that investors expect of them, frustrating the whole purpose?  I guess the tax code is all they have, since decreasing regulatory bars to allow people to spend ever-greater portions of their incomes on housing is pretty unwise, and a lot of the supply restrictions are because of municipal governments.  At the same time, I guess substantive action is tricky, since you want to drive home ownership in a way that doesn't make landlording impossible, since we don't want the people who will never be able to handle owning a home to become homeless. 

[crazy canuck]

Worst election ever. For the first time in my life, I may not be voting. If I do, I'll be voting for Singh & co.

You should go with your first instinct.

Good old fashioned conservative voter suppression