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Just before this thread gets ditched, can I just ask how many of our transatlantic cousins are aware of this?

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Exchemist has mentioned the most important point, dropping pasta into defined temperature creates the most reproducibility. Now there is quite some chemistry related to pasta cooking and generally speaking, the first process is controlled by water penetration, starch gelatinization and protein coagulation. These steps are all temperature dependent but not all aspects are impacted equally (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2007.03.018). For example water penetration occurs at low temperatures, but protein coagulation generally requires higher temperature for homogenous coagulation. Yet, that is also dependent on the way the gluten network is developed during the production of pasta (https://doi.org/10.1080/10408390802437154). Another aspect is the rate of starch gelatinzation to protein coagulation. If coagulation dominates and is done faster than than gelatinzation, starch particles will be trapped in the gluten network resulting in more firm pasta (which is usually desirable). Conversely high starch swelling with an incomplete network allows starch to escape to the surface (and cooking water) which results in soft and sticky pasta (https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/foodmicrostructure/vol2/iss1/2). As gelatinization starts at lower temperatures, cooking from cold will release more starch. That all being said, for dried pasta it generally does not matter unless it has a large surface (e.g. fettucine) where the released starch can make things rather sticky and where cooking in boiling water accelerates protein coagulation. Otherwise, one can do the opposite for example soak pasta at low temps (before starch gelatinization, so <45 ish or so C). This takes care of the water penetration part while gelatinization and coagulation does not occur yet. You can then then just heat it up (e.g cook in sauce) to rapidly induce coagulation without the release of excessive amount of starch.

To dim this is a parlour game, not to be taken seriously. I actively engage with Zionist-type morons elsewhere everyday, who come out with the most ridiculous rubbish and gutter-level insults, so I have developed somewhat of a thick skin, but, yeah, finding a reply from him is like finding dogshit on your shoe most of the time. If he can brazenly come out with the stuff he does, I can respond in kind, like now. I've done my bit reporting, but it's up to the mods.

I came to the conclusion this person was a waste of space a long while ago and put him on Ignore to save annoyance. I recommend it.

Would you prefer that I offer friends to whoever can solve the problem? I think mine might object to being given as a prize.

What if I told you ... Go peddle this crap elsewhere.

This POV raises a lot of red flags with me. It's exactly what some American oligarch heavily invested in arms manufacturing would say to me so Shapiro keeps the supply chain open to Israel. The outcome is very important, but this is also the time when the unscrupulous take advantage of populous fervor. I don't want to be blinded by the bigotry and hate to the point where I trade one set of manipulators for a similar set. I've made several points here that you ignore in order to label me. We used your technique wrt Clinton, and we got TFG. Address that instead of standing on the same old soapbox.

Typical behavior for those who aren't populists. Stop being critical and you get trumped on. But it was doubtful he could beat Slump after the debate. It doesn't matter how much better he is as POTUS if he can't do better than break even against someone so odious. Absolutely. Compromise with the DNC gave us Clinton. And there ARE better choices for VP pick if you're looking past just beating Slump.

OK, I'm not an astronomer either, so the little I have learned about Dark Matter also comes from magazine articles and the internet. I can summarise what I have learned as follows: - Dark Matter is a just a placeholder label, for something we can't yet explain, - the evidence for it is that the observed rotation rates of galaxies do not fit with the estimates of mass one gets by adding up the visible stars they contain, - there is something going on that seems to cause them to have extra gravitation, presumably extra mass, but which is invisible and transparent to EM radiation. - so the simplest explanation would seem to be that there are forms of matter out there which do not interact with EM radiation, but do exert gravitational attraction. (There are some further cosmological arguments to do with General Relativity and the cosmos but I have not followed those.) Is your understanding the same or different?

Yet the majority of new electricity generation being added globally is now RE by a very large margin. If you want the impression nothing much has changed look to existing generation stocks - and dismiss 29% as a small amount. But for projecting forward look at the relative rates of growth. It isn't primarily driven by climate concerns, though those are there, so much as driven by demand for electricity generation at least cost - a profound underlying change, a tipping point crossed where nothing is the same after. Not that long since almost no-one would've believed that was possible - with a lot of people who still don't, let alone get a sense of the significance of that. EU is above 40% RE electricity (44% last year). Here in Australia, around 35% - where almost nothing apart from RE is being added. And adding more has never been cheaper. Global solar cell production looks set to reach 1TW a year within the next two years - at 20% capacity factor (GWh terms) that much solar is like adding 200 1GW nuclear stations a year. And now there are growing fears Chinese makers are tooling up to flood the world with cheap EV's as well as cheap solar panels.

We need to talk about Dim. Who tf does he think he is? Coming onto threads, openly admitting he isn't reading anything longer than a few lines of text and shitting over everything anyone has to say half the time. It's trolling plain and simple. If I openly claimed I wasn't reading half of what any of you were saying and was just being purely reactionary to whatever words I happen to understand and just delivering thinly veiled insult all the time I'd have been banned. Is anyone else picking up on this behaviour or is it just to covert for anyone but the people who have had to live with people like Dim their whole lives? Honestly every time he comments I just want to stop engaging and I feel like he just ruins so many good conversations and riles people up and for what? When does he ever say anything particularly useful or insightful? Once in a blue moon? Honestly I really enjoy coming here and talking to the majority of you but he makes this place miserable.