Most importantly: it stays stuck with the voltage turned off. It’s stable for MONTHS. Reverse the polarity of the electrical flow and it unsticks. YES REALLY. This is some literal “Alessandro Volta playing around with bananas in a shed” science AND YET it WORKS and we DID NOT KNOW.
Sadly I think skin will be a fairly poor use; you’d have to go down multiple dermal layers before getting to tissue that I think might work, and even then, you’d be dealing with new layers of skin growing out and old layers being pushed off and dying.
The handle is cast iron or steel of some kind, despite being silver. The handle is also magnetic and heavy. The actual pan part, however, is aluminium, with no hint of magnetism, and also quite heavy – heavier than I feel it should be, like it has a slab of copper sandwiched inside layers of aluminium. There are three big thick bolts holding this thing together.
This is an object I feel like had to have been made with a purpose. I don’t know what that purpose was. And despite being a decent baker, I am no chef, and am merely an adequate cook in the sense of “I can follow directions correctly and produce the intended meal.”
So what the hell is this for?
Am I wrong about it having a special purpose? Is it in fact really cheap? Because it looks cheap. But it doesn’t feel cheap, and I think that’s important here.
Is it some sort of esoteric camping kit? Is that it? Feels way too heavy for that but it is nicely small.
What’m I missing here, Gastrodonians? Is this some sort of special #cooking implement? Or is it just a weird kind of cheap pan I’ve never seen before.
It’s weird. Particularly with this combination of materials and the confusing combination of crudity and heaviness.
I thought at first it was just stainless or something and maybe there’s a very thin layer of that on top but… I doubt it. There’s no magnetism on the pan part. With a set of very, very strong rare earth magnets there might be a hint of it on the smooth side, but maybe not. And definitely not on the very very clearly aluminium side.
The back is definitely aluminium. Or if not, it’s doing a great job of faking aluminium oxidisation. I’ll reply from my primary mastodon account with a photo.
Should I keep posting excerpts over for Federation, or would it be better if I just federated entire posts?
This isn’t Patreon I’m not getting paid and there isn’t any exclusive content. (Tho’ I do maintain a Patreon, sorta, if anyone wants to throw me money, and a few people do and I very much appreciate that, thank you!)
Thanks! This is the sort of thing I was thinking about, whether that might be a help for people. I’m not fond of the idea of massive-spamming people’s timelines, obviously, but since the official interfaces put on a “read more” and at least some of the clients (Ice Cubes also) does…
I wonder if Ivory does?
(Also, I love that I’m just replying at the blog and you’ll actually get the reply because both-directions federation works in 2.0 it is amazing xD