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Pio1980
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Una O'connor, Fay Wray?
SolderIron
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I will be rich, handsome, and smart in next incarnation.
One of my roommates has an air fryer. I guess that's good if you like fried air. Personally, I prefer my air raw, but to each his own. 
Bill Ferris
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That`s funny, Superjazzyja !One of my roommates has an air fryer. I guess that's good if you like fried air. Personally, I prefer my air raw, but to each his own.
I find it odd, that "air fryers" are really convection ovens (a fan blowing across a resistive heating element), and I`ve been using Sharp brand counter top combo microwave/convection ovens since 1991 (the first was a Christmas gift from parents !
Haven`t used my kitchen`s regular big oven in over 20 yrs. and just use it as storage for various large cooking pans, etc.
So I guess I was "air frying" before air frying became became a popular buzz word and product offerings for heathier cooking with "convection" heat.
I still own and use that 33 yr. old smaller Sharp combo as a larger meal preparation/cooking overflow when needed, that now resides in my sunroom, with a much greater capacity Sharp combo in the kitchen for daily use when needed.
Quadman2
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I hear you B, on that "popular buzz word" from the gotta-have-crowd.
The "Insta-Pot" was the rage for some time up here. It came out like a new Culinary Wonder, but in fact it was based on the a lot older tech way of speeding up the cooking time by putting the intended food under pressure. And have heard that the company who made this product has become bankrupt...but the ones who started it out, remained insta-millionaires.
Just goes to show ya, if you wait around long enough...the same bus comes around, but with a different paint job.
Random thought just now: 'What could I re-invent with a different twist?'
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That's what I was told. I never used one and this particular roommate doesn't like anyone using his stuff. Yet, he wanted to use my Bluetooth speaker last night which is one thing I am not too keen on lending out.
The other guy is very cool about it. He's an older guy like me.
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Advise him that "trustworthy" borrowing is a two way street !
Maybe in the case of the air fryer, he may have had past problems with letting somebody else use it, or similar cooking devices, and they didn`t clean it properly after use, like any borrower of cooking appliances are ethically supposed to do when through using it ?!
I don`t like to borrow anything from anybody more that a CD to rip from a friend, and will make damn sure that it is returned no worse than received, often cleaner than received, and if need be any scratches polished with my DVD/CD polishing device, but that`s just my old school responsible way of living.
EDIT: I forgot to mention above that I always burn a backup CD copy, as well, and has on occasion helped out the friend when something happened to the friend`s borrowed CD, thus I could provide them with a free replacement.
Back in 2004 I needed to dismantle my 1999 purchased whole house generator`s housing, as it was starting to develop some rust, and I wished to quickly do the sanding/rattle can repainting, and only had one orbital sander, and a neighbor was offering to help me do the the sanding and prep work on the genset`s housing cabinet sections.
So a long time friend who lived some distance from me offered to loan me his older and well used back up orbital sander so my neighbor could assist..
Well guess what happened the borrowed sander failed shortly after being used, so I informed my friend that I was going to replace it, and he said don`t worry, but I couldn`t deal with that, so I bought 2 new upgraded model ones..
One to replace my friends (who chastised me for doing so), and one for my neighbor to assist me.
So, I now have 2 orbital sanders, but my friend has a fresh new one, and a backup to loan out to one of his friends or family member, if needed, and my mind is at ease.
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nailer
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The wheel?
nailer
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I tried explaining this to a "youngster" who recently painted my house. His eyes glazed over.
My experience so far is that more old schoolers are irresponsible than not.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
The wheel?
That's a "wheely" good thought, but I think it's been covered, no?
Like a square wheel, getting better gas mileage? Driving times would sure be cut back, eh?
Q
I do not like borrowing anything from anybody, especially yard equipment. The few times I borrowed my neighbors big push leaf blower, I changed the oil, spark plug and a full tank of fresh gas and washed it. Same with cleaning his chain saw when the one I had was needing a repair. Most importantly was returning them promptly when I was done.
I lent my other neighbor two big Hav-A-Hart traps he then let his son take them, that was over five years ago, still have not got them back, he had the balls to ask to borrow my ladder, I told him to go pound sand.
He's rather OCD about having everything just so. I get it because I used to be that way and still have probably 10% of that going on. I just don't like lending out BT devices because it's often a PITA to get them back to my phone. Also, you can use it without the app, but it works better with it.
I don't like borrowing things either. I used my older roommate's bicycle twice. I didn't like doing so because he doesn't have a lock for it. I would have felt really horrible if it had been stolen. He's like "Nobody's gonna steal it." There are a lot bike thieves in Hyannis. Thankfully it wasn't stolen either time.
Most things I don't mind lending out as long as the borrower takes care of it, doesn't lend it out to anyone else, etc.
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Equivalent or better when "promptly returned" !
Or any future "loaner" considerations are herby revoked !
Had similar experience with my electric spray painter, that I bought in the mid nineties so a house painter by profession guitar amp repair customer could paint my house, that I paid him to do.
He did a excellent job and I was happy.
Some time later he wished to borrow the sprayer for several weeks, but I found out much later that he either loaned it out to someone else, or went brain damaged and forgot to thoroughly flush it with water to completely to clean all the latex paint. that I found out some yrs. later when my next door neighbor B-I-L wished to borrow it, and of course it was ruined no matter how much time my very mechanically skilled B-I-L worked on dismantling and soaking the pump, hose, etc. as he was on a limited vacation time crunch to prep and paint his house !
So I knew the always broke and living with his mother musician/ painter didn`t have the money to replace the paint sprayer that functioned perfectly after he painted my house, because I flushed the crap out of it in his presence after each day of use while he was painting my house, and explained how very goddamn important it was to do this !
I never talked to the POS painter/"Loscian" (loser musician) ex-customer since, and in 2002 I had my whole house vinyl covered, so no painting is required anymore !
Pio1980
AK Member
Air fryer= small convection oven.
Convection oven= large air fryer.
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Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
"Convention" ?
A misspell ?
