I hope you like it.
I strongly suggest you test it outside, in the dark, so you understand how far the flames project. It’s hard to appreciate. Also, get a base, because these things are tippy.
Report back on how you like it.
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I did order the base for that reason. Even ordered their torch to see what they were coming up with. I’m not quite sure what the deal is with that, but figured they’d have something up their sleeve since they didn’t just default to recommending the Benzomatic this time. Will report back if it ever arrives (already 1y late, but hear they are shipping)
I think the phenomenon you are identifying is the difference between breakthroughs and advancements in current state of the art.
We are just currently in a period of advancements of current technology.
At some point, one at which no one can really know or pinpoint, there will come a breakthrough.
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Not that I recall, but I’ve seen similar contraptions being used. The concept is fine, a superficial sear, but I don’t like the smell. I’m old. Take it for what it’s worth. My sense of taste and smell seem to have become even more acute (perhaps to a fault) as I’ve gotten older. Kinda weird.
I am the same way. I have to light a cigar with a wooden match. A lighter tastes off. Even $100 bills are just not right! (I found a very convincing prop $100 in the street the other day. I am saving it to shock someone. I usually have cigars on Thanksgiving and July 4. This year I may add April first. )
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The only way to light a fine cigar or a pipe is with a wooden match, and a very high quality one at that.
Cheers,
Charlie
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This is a distinction worth drawing, since true breakthroughs are exceedingly rare.
However, we are in a period–IMO–when even advancements are few and far between. It’s almost as if the makers have stopped trying.
Perhaps it relates to the prices high end pans are commanding. If they thought they could jump from $400 to $600 per pan, they might try to find the innovation that would get them there, assuming margins held up.
I think you’re generally correct. It’s economics and economic projections that drive the market.
Still, there must be more at work. In other sectors, luxury (here, read “aspirational”) goods are hotter than ever. My hunch is that online, touch-unseen buying and a general downturn in recreational, time-intensive cooking have shifted market expectations-- I might prefer “dumbed down”. Unfortunately, when you dumb down the market, so go consumers.
Actually there is a very distinctive advancement of cooking but people simply don’t like it. Microwave. It is actually very different than all the previous cooking techniques of direct heat from flame, pan frying, deep frying, steaming, baking… Micorwave as a cooking technique (using microwave radiation) is quite different.
Of course microwave has been around a long time now, too , but there have been plenty of advances in kitchen appliances. Coffee makers are much better. Lots of uses for chips, some dubious, some good,
Eventually, there will only be ‘smart’ appliances, because then the consumer is no longer buying something. They’re renting it, and it can be bricked from afar. Didn’t keep up your $4.99/mo subscription to LG.com? Your fridge is now in ‘basic’ mode, good only to 45F. Freezer functionality is only available to current subscribers. If you upgrade to the $5.99/mo package, we’ll also turn on the water dispenser and ice maker functions. Please note: your LG fridge is only compatible with items purchased through our corporate partners at Amazon.com or Walmart.com. Attempts to cool unauthorized items without the correct ID chip in the packaging will result in your appliance reverting to ‘basic’ mode.
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As a cooking technique, they are probably the last and latest revolution cooking, or do you mean microwave as in engineering/scientific tools? As a cooking technique, microwave only started in 1950 at best. Whereas grilling, pan frying, steaming, blanching have thousand years of history behind them.
As for coffee marker… that is a good point. I think are we talking about cookware or cooking method. I was thinking about cooking method. In my mind, coffee maker is a new automatic and systemtic way to cook/prepare something but based on existing method.
John Deere enters the chat
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Yup. I only WISH my hyperbolic scenario above was MORE ridiculous sounding. It’s a terrifyingly plausible future.
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Agreed. I’ve not hooked up any of my current appliances, even though they all have connectivity. It’s a big enough security risk without the John Deere scenario. And a shout out to all the printer mfgrs whose printers brick if your 3rd party toner cartridges don’t have their chip.
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This makes my little heart glad.
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This will only happen if we the customers allow them
I wish I had your confidence that 1) consumers would protest sufficiently to prevent such a fate and 2) that corporate power wouldn’t just do whatever it wanted anyway, because we have ceased meaningfully regulating it for the last 50+ years.
