But plenty of people will find complaints when they try to drive their car beyond its design specs and more or less everything starts failing at once.
I sous vide now and then, about twice a week for 6 hours each, so around 12 hours a week. That works out to roughly 15 years of usable machine time for the average person.
Not bad at all.
And yes, 15 years is bad. I don't want to replace my entire household every 15 years FFS.
Personally, most of my headphones I look for metal mechanical connections instead of plastic and I buy refurbished when I can. I think I pay about as much as he does or less, but we haven’t really hashed out the numbers together. I’m typing this while wearing a HyperX gaming headset I bought refurbished that’s old enough that I’ve replaced the earpads while everything else continues to work.
Computers and computer parts often have, in my experience, a better reliability record competently refurbished than when they first leave the factory too. I wonder if sous vide cookers would.
This is a fine example of what I meant about people complaining when they use products beyond their design parameters.
I'm on a mostly carnivore, mostly ruminant meat diet and for costs tend to do a lot of ground beef... I sous vide a bunch of burgers in 1/2lb ring molds, refrigerate and sear off when hungry. This lets me have safer burgers that aren't overcooked. I do 133F for 2.5+ hours.
I also do steaks about once or twice a week. I have to say it's probably the best kitchen investment I could have made in terms of impact on the output quality.
- the product doesn't break and you don't buy a replacement from them because you still have a working product
- the product breaks and there is a greater than 0% chance that you will buy a replacement product from them
Of course in practice it's more complicated but I wouldn't be so quick to declare that the math doesn't work out.
Sous vide is generally not a bacterial growth risk above 140F. At 150F throughout, you get decent pasteurization in under two minutes. Two days of that is such extreme overkill that I'm concerned about the nutritional effect of over cooking.
The Food Saver style vacuum sealers fail fast for me, so I bought a $400 chamber sealer, and I'm on year 5 with it.
Short rib is shocking where I am. Even chuck is pushing past $15 a pound.
What are you doing for sides/sauce? Generally when I think braise/sous-vide I think some rich, flavourful sauce, but that seems unpractical for daily consumption.
I crisp it up in an air fryer before serving. Here's the full ingredient list: meat, butter, salt. After five years I still look forward to every repeat.
I just replaced an air fryer that lasted two years of daily use, a personal record. I was ready to replace it anyway, because they accumulate grease where you can't clean, and the smell gets interesting.
Or if you want something even beefier: https://sammic.com/en/smartvide-xl
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/aluminum-extrusion-m...
I'm chuckling at the thought of barely building something. (All in good fun, thank you.)
After two weeks, the Infrastructure department changed the sign allowing up to 45t.
Wasn't F1 teams basically doing this by replacing their engines and transmissions until the rules introduced penalties for component swaps in 2014?
You can see this really on display with the AMG ONE. It's a "production" car using an F1 engine that requires a rebuild every 31,000 miles.
The BMW turbocharged M12/M13 that was used in the mid-eighties put out about 1,400 horsepower at 60 PSI of boost pressure, but it may have been even more than that because there was no dyno at the time capable of testing it.
They would literally weld the wastegate shut for qualifying, and it would last for about 2-3 laps: outlap, possibly warmup lap, qualifying time lap, inlap.
After which the engine was basically unusable, and so they'd put in a new one for the race.
It still does. New Zealand has a crop of tobacco funded politicians.
when they leave politics do they just rapidly age and dissolve like that guy in the Indiana Jones film?
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
(John 12:24)
"The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts."
Games fit this philosophy, compared to many other pieces of software that are expected to be long-lived and receiving a lot of maintenance and changes and evolve.