++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Red Squirrel]

I find it goes bad too fast so I never end up buying it as it comes in such large quantities. I can't possibly use all of that alone. I tend to only bother keeping butter or coconut oil instead, lasts longer.

 

[sdifox]

Is vegetable oil not in every Canuck's pantry? Or do you just order poutines all the time?

I don't have vegetable oil. Peanut oil, palm oil, olive oil but no vegetable oil.


And I have never heard of oil in cake. Lard, butter sure but not oil.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't have vegetable oil. Peanut oil, palm oil, olive oil but no vegetable oil.


And I have never heard of oil in cake. Lard, butter sure but not oil.

This particular mix called for it. But I found online you could substitute for butter or coconut oil. I just went for the coconut oil as I did not quite have enough butter left. Forgot to buy some last time I did groceries. Butter tends to last me a while too but it just so happens I used most of it when I did my last recipe.

 

[Red Squirrel]

As a side note, coconut oil works well in the actifry too. Makes good fries. I have not taken that thing for a spin in a while, I might be due to make some poutine. Shredded cheese and St Hubert gravy and it makes a half decent poutine, at least for home made. Can't beat the proper poutine joint ones without a real deep frier and real gravy.

 

[IronWing]

For cakes: butter. For crusts: butter and lard unless for meat pies in which case lard. Never, ever is vegetable oil the answer.

 

[bigboxes]

I don't have vegetable oil. Peanut oil, palm oil, olive oil but no vegetable oil.


And I have never heard of oil in cake. Lard, butter sure but not oil.

I use canola. I do have some olive oil. Depends on what I'm cooking. But if I'm making pancakes or waffles, I using the canola. Got butter. Used to also have shortening, but I haven't been cooking that much since my wife passed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was just going by the instructions, it said vegetable oil.

 

[IronWing]

I was just going by the instructions, it said vegetable oil.

Those were the words of Satan. Satan hates humanity and wants us to suffer terribad baked goods.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I guess I'll see how it turns out, given I still went against it anyway just because I had none. lol.

I put it in the fridge, it's probably cool enough to put the icing now. I'm pretty sure the can I bought is for more than one cake but I'll try to use it all up for this one. You can never have too much icing.

 

[bigboxes]

I knew better than to start looking up new computer parts. LOL

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lol I often get the itch to build a new system and start looking at parts too.

I really want to build a new VM environment, I'm thinking something along the lines of 2 or 3 Ryzen based systems in a Proxmox cluster. But I also don't really have the money so I won't be building any time soon.

My last few builds were Supermicro which is pretty solid, but for the same cost of a single server grade system I can just build 2 desktop grade machines. Downside is no ECC ram though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I could also do the KISS approach and just build a single Threadripper system and have my existing VM server part of the cluster once I migrate everything over. I don't know if it's wise to mix AMD and Intel in a VM cluster though. The systems ideally need to be of similar vintage to work right or you get weird issues when trying to live migrate VMs.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Epyc would be better suited but on the way more expensive side.

 

[bigboxes]

I didn't do it, but I did make my way down the rabbit hole. CPU, mobo, ram. I was looking up QVL ram for the mobo when I knew I better step away.

 

[bigboxes]

Since when did all the high end ram become all RGB?

 

[shortylickens]

 

[sdifox]

Since when did all the high end ram become all RGB?

There are non rgb ram

 

[bigboxes]

There are non rgb ram

On the QVL?

 

[sdifox]

On the QVL?

for which board?

 

[IronWing]

I'm at nine dings in the windshield from dime sized on up to a bit bigger than golf ball but not quite as big as tennis ball sized. I'm beginning to think about replacing it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Since when did all the high end ram become all RGB?

I noticed that too, it's annoying. I don't need something generating extra heat for nothing. RGB in the computing world is super fragmented too, there is no real standard to it and you need crappy software to make it work. I avoid it. If I want RGB I will buy LED strips and control them with Arduino via serial port or something. At least that's more universal.

They even have RBG SSDs now. There is actually a review of one I saw where it had overheating issues and it turned out to be because of the RGB lmao. High output LEDs actually can get quite hot. Most of this RGB stuff is probably overdriving them too.

 

[bigboxes]

I was just looking at the QVL for an Asus board. The ones with the best timings seem to be all RGB. I don't ever plan on getting a window and couldn't care less about RGB. The only time I will look at the ram is when I'm blowing out dust bunnies or upgrade/repair.

 

[sdifox]

I was just looking at the QVL for an Asus board. The ones with the best timings seem to be all RGB. I don't ever plan on getting a window and couldn't care less about RGB. The only time I will look at the ram is when I'm blowing out dust bunnies or upgrade/repair.

Qvl just means they have tested it.

 

[bigboxes]

Qvl just means they have tested it.

I know what it means. I wanted to avoid the issues of my last build. I bought the tightest timings I could find. It's some beautiful ram. It had stability issues with my motherboard. I sent back both the ram and the mobo. The ram was past the 30 days so I had to rma them. GSkill was great. Had the new ram very quickly. I sent the Asus board back to Amazon for replacement. But this is all hypothetical as the spell has passed. I'll hold off a little longer.

 

[sdifox]

I know what it means. I wanted to avoid the issues of my last build. I bought the tightest timings I could find. It's some beautiful ram. It had stability issues with my motherboard. I sent back both the ram and the mobo. The ram was past the 30 days so I had to rma them. GSkill was great. Had the new ram very quickly. I sent the Asus board back to Amazon for replacement. But this is all hypothetical as the spell has passed. I'll hold off a little longer.

What were you building?