Japanese, Sichuan, and Italian cooking; whisk(e)y, wine, Nihonshu. Comedy fan. Twitter Japan 2008-2022
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Seeing all the delivery, we can’t cook etc discourse makes me think more people need to learn how to make mapo tofu or buy a 90’s stir fry cookbook
First day of living alone in college I went to Borders, bought one and fed myself with stir fry and barilla pasta cheaply, easily
For those who don’t know, there was a kind of stir fry trend back then. I think the 90s elders were right about that one
About sun-dried tomatoes maybe less so (still good, but only so useful)
Fixed a broken screen door doing this, was strangely reassuring knowing there were a ton of Japanese videos about it
Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.
I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.
It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.
There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.
Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.
I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...
I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.
Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.
Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.
AI has legitimately saved me some time recently but alas still doesn’t have enough taste to help me find a proper gardener
All this cooking discourse reminds me of when I was in college and learned how to make mapo tofu. Recipe carried me through first crummy job, even impressed a few people. Still make it today
That and canned tomatoes (pasta and such) made for many cheap, easy, and good meals
Lived near a Trader Joe’s for awhile, went twice, never went again. Just not my thing, was never all that impressed, but maybe that’s because I’m a diva about food.
Trader Joe’s totes are being carried in Seoul, Melbourne and Tokyo. Because there are no Trader Joe’s stores abroad, the bags now sell on resale platforms like Depop, eBay and Korea’s Karrot market for up to $10,000. on.wsj.com/4jokWxX
