Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Snidely Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:55:51 -0700 Organization: Dis One Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <10pe83m$3rg2l$1@dont-email.me> <10ppr5m$3m2br$1@dont-email.me> <10pr6gg$2t5v$1@dont-email.me> <10pv2af$1eb4h$2@dont-email.me> <87zf3wx1jt.fsf@parhasard.net> <10pvhqb$1j2vg$1@dont-email.me> <1rsjtwr.9h8wo7a6jjujN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10q2o7j$nr7l$1@news1.tnib.de> <1rsostx.1fumdje1pdrftiN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <1rsoqz0.19zzbh71ebfb7bN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <18a11176d0ed8bfb$1717$2710841$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10q9dle$u3sq$1@dont-email.me> <18a11e5c3372a392$492$2653793$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10qatq5$1arse$6@dont-email.me> <10qauv2$1gh74$1@dont-email.me> <10qdpi9$2cbhu$24@dont-email.me> <10qf43b$2u3hg$1@dont-email.me> <10qfib3$32291$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: snidely.too@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93a0224b7a90920bc79e1d54c729f34f"; logging-data="3911657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DP74IOCeJ2WvP+BASVInlP1R2T8fsLOU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:oR6vqROwa9r0zK5QfWq6mzBFVrY= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 543516788 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84931 alt.usage.english:1141877 Bobbie Sellers suggested that ... > > On 3/30/26 20:52, rbowman wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:22:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >> >>> Now any literate person can find a cook book >>> and be one if they can maintain attention. I have a younger friend who >>> can drive very well but cannot cook because of a severe head injury in >>> youth. >> >> I don't think it was a troll but purportedly 31 year old woman posted on >> the local subreddit looking for someone to hike with. In her tail of woe >> she said she'd just broken up with her boyfriend. He did all the cooking >> and she didn't know how to cook. >> >> I don't know if a head injury was involved. I used to do fancier stuff but >> I noticed most cuisines use the same basic ingredients so now I throw >> stuff into a Dutch oven until it's full and turn the heat on. > > Dutch ovens are great. I do not use mine as you do but I cook > batches in the big Dutch oven and use my smaller one to prep meals > from the stuff I cooked it batches and other stuff. Tonight I had a > baked potato from the microwave and broccoli as well from that, in the > small Dutch oven I browned a chicken sausage and had a simple > but delightful meal. > I have to watch my diet because I cannot burn the calories > off with activity any longer. Used to hike all over the West Side > of San Francisco but no more. I'm curious as to how you use a Dutch oven. My thinking is shaped by the idea that you bury it in the coals of the fire, or even bury it in the soil and build the fire over it. That comes from scouting stories and TV programs about pre-industrial cooking ... on the prairie with no kitchen and in colonial (America) homes where the fireplace was a big part of the kitchen. Of course I'm familiar with casserole crockery in a modern oven, and the "portable oven" of a Crock Pot (still a TM, I think, although nearly genericized). The microprocessor-run super pots ... I haven't much experience with. I'm a little closer to understanding air fryers; I know someone who uses one, and I have a convection oven that is somewhat the same idea (I have the low-end Cuisinart toaster/convection oven). I also have steamer baskets (stainless steel ... I should run by an Asian market and look for the fiber ones). /dps -- There's nothing inherently wrong with Big Data. What matters, as it does for Arnold Lund in California or Richard Rothman in Baltimore, are the questions -- old and new, good and bad -- this newest tool lets us ask. (R. Lerhman, CSMonitor.com)