Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Looks amazing.

    Today was actually the first day this week that I didn’t make myself a pizza…

    I’m taking a couple weeks off work, and I wanted to start off with making a pizza. The store was out of small size tomato puree packs for the sauce, so I got a big one. Spent all week making pizzas to use up all the sauce before it went bad.

    Funny enough I didn’t get tired of eating pizza tho. Might make another tomorrow.





  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPtoFoodPorn@lemmy.worldCast Iron Pizza
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    6 months ago

    Well yes, but that’s the kind of unavoidable material wear that any interacting materials made of molecules experience. The fact remains that softer things cannot scratch harder things, except in the sense that they can wear off molecules, which you might eventually notice under a microscope.

    To get visible scratches, you’d need to drag something made out of equivalent or harder material than the ceramic, along its surface. Most notably in a kitchen, that can be any crystal food ingredient, like salt.

    Hence I do keep my stuff clean, because a single salt or sugar crystal between pot and stove can produce the kinds of scratches you can’t unsee. And as a fine powder it can work as that grit, turning the surface cloudy.

    It’s not the roughness of softer materials that can cause scratches, but the fact that harder things can end up between the two. And that’s when rough things “may” cause scratches.

    As for the improvement in movement, I’m sceptical. One of the properties of a smooth extremely hard surface, is that other, softer things slide along it just about the same, because the surfaces cannot interact. Think of the way you can slide a knife along glass, sideways, frictionlessly, because there is nothing for it to cath on. I don’t really notice a difference between my scanpans and cast irons, aside from the weight.

    If you did, you may have had some trace amount of harder material in there, as that would have then been interacting with the ceramic, causing friction.


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    No it won’t. Induction stove tops are ceramic. Ceramic on mohs scale is “hard as fuck”.

    Unless you have rocks (or salt crystals) stuck in the seasoning, neither polymerized oil nor any metal is hard enough to scratch it. They literally can’t.

    That would be like a metal knife scratching a glass cutting board, which famously can’t happen, and is the reason why glass cutting boards are a terrible, knife destroying, idea.


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    6 months ago

    I have no clue.

    It’s a POS ikea convection/microwave combo thing. The convection mode maxes out at 250 °C, which is pathetic, but for pizza I put a sheet pan in the middle and blast the grill mode which uses a heating element in the top of the oven.

    This halves the volume of the oven, and the grill mode doesn’t take a temperature, just one of three heat settings.

    So I set it to MAX and let it preheat for a bit, and the result is pretty good.


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    That was my starting point. I slowly tweaked my way to a tomato sauce based on the pureed tomatoes I can get from my nearest grocer, and figured out exactly how to best get the stove phase done.

    Once I discovered that this spicy snack sausage I can get here is insane on a pizza, I haven’t wanted to make it any other way.



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    I’m confused.

    Why would removing the seasoning improve the performance of cast iron on an induction stove?

    Polymerised oil in no way interferes with a magnetic field. The cast iron heats up from the inside out, just the same.

    Or did you just do it to keep your stovetop clean?

    My griddle, due to the edge on it, doesn’t sit flush on my stove, there’s about half a centimeter air gap. Yet, because induction is just a powerful switching magnetic field, it heats up just the same. It just needs to be close enough to the electromagnet below the stove surface.










  • Oh I’m not against the interoperability, the opposite, I want it to be better.

    Comments do work.

    Right now it’s really convoluted and I’ve seen people accidentally post to lemmy while thinking they were just pinging a user, when it actually was a community.

    And following communities from mastodon is a mess because they obviously then fill the feed with way more posts than a single person would. And they all look like they’re posted by the user/community instead of the actual user that posted them TO that community. Not to mention they don’t see votes and have to no good way to sort community content, except chronologically.



  • Good! But it definitely didn’t back when I implemented it in Thunder half a year ago.

    And the way I want it to work is the way it did in Relay. The button dismisses currently loaded read posts, but scrolling further will still load in read posts, and refreshing brings them all back.

    They don’t get permanently hidden, nor do you need to untoggle a setting to see them again next time you refresh.

    Is that how Voyager does it?