Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> posted:
On 2026-02-23, jmquown wrote:
On 2/22/2026 5:37 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
I was trying to not overcook it. Soft broccoli isn't for me.
Then maybe broccoli quiche isn't for you. It should not be
tender-crisp.
I suggest to both of you that you are using subjective
descriptors instead of the obvious objective ones.
If one of you could express the optimal 'done-ness' of broccolli
as a time integral of the inner product of the temperature
gradient and the water vapour partial pressure gradients normal to
the mean broccoli-surface, then none would be able to feign poor comprehension of broccoli descriptors like 'overcooked', 'soft', 'tender-crisp', or the old favourites I've seen on multitudinous
occaisions in the past. (i.e. 'lightly steamed', &c.)
And don't forget to use absolute temperature or I may become
needlessly supercilious.
Good cooks have always relied on imagination, intuition, and
experience. What you describe is how cooking will be done in the
future i.e., with robots/machines and instrumentation/sensors. Food
in the future will be modular and served in standardized units. My
guess is that would be right up your alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqdvpHIpnbY
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:22 GMT
dsi1 <user4746@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> posted:
On 2026-02-23, jmquown wrote:
On 2/22/2026 5:37 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
I was trying to not overcook it. Soft broccoli isn't for me.
Then maybe broccoli quiche isn't for you. It should not be tender-crisp.
I suggest to both of you that you are using subjective
descriptors instead of the obvious objective ones.
If one of you could express the optimal 'done-ness' of broccolli
as a time integral of the inner product of the temperature
gradient and the water vapour partial pressure gradients normal to
the mean broccoli-surface, then none would be able to feign poor comprehension of broccoli descriptors like 'overcooked', 'soft', 'tender-crisp', or the old favourites I've seen on multitudinous occaisions in the past. (i.e. 'lightly steamed', &c.)
And don't forget to use absolute temperature or I may become
needlessly supercilious.
Good cooks have always relied on imagination, intuition, and
experience. What you describe is how cooking will be done in the
future i.e., with robots/machines and instrumentation/sensors. Food
in the future will be modular and served in standardized units. My
guess is that would be right up your alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqdvpHIpnbY
Wow...Trek time:
"...a 3D printing food solution that combines the use of graphene
heaters and starch-based printing material with generative AI..."
Oh Guinan!
Mars Sellus <zed@is.dead> posted:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:22 GMT
dsi1 <user4746@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> posted:
On 2026-02-23, jmquown wrote:
On 2/22/2026 5:37 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
I was trying to not overcook it. Soft broccoli isn't for
me.
Then maybe broccoli quiche isn't for you. It should not be tender-crisp.
I suggest to both of you that you are using subjective
descriptors instead of the obvious objective ones.
If one of you could express the optimal 'done-ness' of broccolli
as a time integral of the inner product of the temperature
gradient and the water vapour partial pressure gradients normal
to the mean broccoli-surface, then none would be able to feign
poor comprehension of broccoli descriptors like 'overcooked',
'soft', 'tender-crisp', or the old favourites I've seen on multitudinous occaisions in the past. (i.e. 'lightly steamed',
&c.)
And don't forget to use absolute temperature or I may become
needlessly supercilious.
Good cooks have always relied on imagination, intuition, and
experience. What you describe is how cooking will be done in the
future i.e., with robots/machines and instrumentation/sensors.
Food in the future will be modular and served in standardized
units. My guess is that would be right up your alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqdvpHIpnbY
Wow...Trek time:
"...a 3D printing food solution that combines the use of graphene
heaters and starch-based printing material with generative AI..."
Oh Guinan!
I just love starch-based materials!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LuUy7iERw47sN83b7
I just love starch-based materials!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LuUy7iERw47sN83b7
On 2/23/2026 1:14 PM, dsi1 wrote:
I just love starch-based materials!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LuUy7iERw47sN83b7
That looks like gook food.
Since hells has openly and freely admitted the conviction isn't
mine
Only JESUS can offer salvation.
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