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Choco1980 posted:I don't get how keeping your ice cream in a ziplock bag is supposed to keep it soft. Robzor McFabulous posted:From a couple of pages back, but this actually does work. Kept a tub of ice cream in a plastic grocery bag in our freezer for a couple of days, was soft enough to scoop easily. You can just put cling film over the ice cream before you lid it and put it back in the freezer. It keeps my Haagen-Dasz spoonable and that stuff usually freezes rock solid. LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 01:04 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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The Ice cream thing is probably water vapor freezing into ice more than it is keeping it warmer, to be honest.
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Oct 7, 2014 01:01
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The softness/hardness of ice cream has to do with the size of the ice crystals that form. Bigger ice crystals = harder ice cream (generally). This is why making ice cream involves a lot of stirring; to try to break up the ice crystals as they form. As the ice crystals form, the non-water components of the ice cream (sugar, milkfat, etc.) becomes more and more concentrated. The more concentrated these components are, the lower the freezing point of the remaining water. Generally, this means that ice cream is a mixture of ice crystals and liquid concentrated sugar/milk. This holds true until you get to much lower temperature than your freezer can maintain. What causes ice cream to harden over time is that your freezer does not stay at constant temperature. Your freezer heats up a few degrees whenever you open it, and even when you keep the door closed, the compressor spends some time off and some time on, leading to natural temperature fluctuation. The problem is that when the temperature is going up, some of the ice melts, and when the temperature goes down, the water freezes. During the re-freezing, ice crystals can freeze together, resulting in bigger ice crystals, and therefore harder ice. The plastic bag helps this in two ways. First, as has been debated here, is insulation. Not in the sense that it keeps the ice cream warm, but in that it keeps the ice cream temperature steadier, leading to less severe re-freezing. A second way it could help is by blocking humidity. Since the liquid component of ice cream is this highly concentrated mixture, its equilibrium partial pressure of water is going to be lower than even that of your freezer. Your ice cream will pull water into it, which again freezes, fusing ice crystals.
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Oct 7, 2014 01:44
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pik_d posted:I cannot find any set of numbers that it doesn't work for, but as cowboythreespeech said, it becomes increasingly less easy to do in my head. Strudel Man has a new favorite as of 03:53 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Oct 7, 2014 03:48
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Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept.
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Oct 7, 2014 05:03
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I tried the one hand T shirt thing and it is rendered utterly and completely useless by a) my glasses and b) shirts that fit properly. I can't get an elbow and hand in at the time time without feeling like it's going to tear open.
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Oct 7, 2014 07:03
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. I guess if you have two hours to kill and don't have moral qualms about lying to and manipulating strangers to get get free goods and services, then this is a good way to get awful food for free a small portion of the time. #lifehax
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Oct 7, 2014 07:06
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. I think in the time that this took, you'd be able to find enough money to get a dessert by looking around the Chili's parking lot, plus you wouldn't be a terrible person for taking advantage of people! #lifehackhacked
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Oct 7, 2014 07:15
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. Sick of spending two hours waiting for a pretend-person to never show up so that you can get a free, lovely meal out of emotional manipulation of total strangers? Lead a more productive live! You can earn that meal in less time than it would take to perform your lovely act, so in the end it all evens out! You can even do this multiple times at the same restaurant! #Lifehack
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Oct 7, 2014 07:35
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Make enough money that your time is more valuable so you'd never waste 2 hours to scam 1 hours' pay worth of free food #Lifehax
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Oct 7, 2014 08:00
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. If you are pathetic already, why not get a free meal out of it!
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Oct 7, 2014 09:14
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. Wrong thread. This looks like poo poo that didn't happen. Pretty funny, though. I look forward to hearing about people who try this and get nothing for their effort since most waiters don't give a poo poo about some random schmuck wasting valuable seating for that long.
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Oct 7, 2014 13:27
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. Finally got that splinter out of my hand, time to tell everyone who's interested in darkroom photo processing! #silverdevelopment
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Oct 7, 2014 17:28
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walrusman posted:I guess if you have two hours to kill and don't have moral qualms about lying to and manipulating strangers to get get free goods and services, then this is a good way to get awful food for free a small portion of the time. #lifehax The black family across from me noticed me taking pictures of the empty glasses and told it "it's ok I'm sure the likes will come"
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Oct 7, 2014 19:08
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Buh posted:I tried the one hand T shirt thing and it is rendered utterly and completely useless by a) my glasses and b) shirts that fit properly. I can't get an elbow and hand in at the time time without feeling like it's going to tear open. Lifehack! Be born with perfect vision so that you don't need glasses and you can take your shirt off however you drat please.
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Oct 7, 2014 19:44
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Bodanarko posted:See, that method is way shittier than the one that i use, which i probably picked up as a "lifehack" at some point. Just reach across your torso to the bottom hem opposite the mobile arm, and just keep your other arm up/over your head and pull the shirt up over your head and then down. Probably wont work if you have glasses still, so just don't be such a flawed human being i guess.
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Oct 8, 2014 01:10
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lifehack: Remove your shirt like a normal loving person what the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Oct 8, 2014 01:14
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Lifehack: get a six pack and stop wearing shirts.
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Oct 8, 2014 01:31
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Wooper posted:Lifehack: get a six pack and stop wearing shirts. Life Jack3d!
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Oct 8, 2014 01:57
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Wisecrack: tell them you have a whole keg and you won't have to work out
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Oct 8, 2014 06:39
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. I wouldn't call it a free meal if you basically had to act your way through it. That's not free, you just got paid for your performance is all. People don't seem to get that if you put a whole buncha time and effort into doing something, it's working for it; just because actual cash money didn't change hands doesn't mean you got it 'for free'. Dude just worked hours for like a $20 meal. Good job at way undervaluing your time I guess.
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Oct 8, 2014 06:55
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No but it was really funny!! He was sitting there talking to himself and tweeting and everyone thought he was pathetic, but he wasn't really. He wasn't really.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I wouldn't call it a free meal if you basically had to act your way through it. That's not free, you just got paid for your performance is all. People don't seem to get that if you put a whole buncha time and effort into doing something, it's working for it; just because actual cash money didn't change hands doesn't mean you got it 'for free'. Dude just worked hours for like a $20 meal. Good job at way undervaluing your time I guess.
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Oct 8, 2014 08:09
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Pistoph posted:Really stupid lifehack with bonus lovely proof of concept. As a waiter, I'm more likely to be pissed that I had a 1-top take up my table for two hours waiting for his imaginary girlfriend than sympathetic. There's no loving way he'd get anything for free even if it's his loving birthday. Which reminds me, why not just pretend its your birthday if you really want a free desert, its not like I give a gently caress. And you can do it with friends.
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cobalt impurity posted:lifehack: Remove your shirt like a normal loving person what the gently caress is wrong with you? lifehack: have absolutely no sense of humor. you will feel superior at all times to those that are amused by simple things.
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Oct 8, 2014 09:24
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Hungry? Eat cheap poo poo! http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/10/dealhacker-the-kfc-popcorn-chicken-box-is-5-of-fatty-goodness/
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:Hungry? Eat cheap poo poo! Holy gently caress, 2300 cals for lunch?? Good job life hacking your life expectancy I guess!
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Oct 8, 2014 14:59
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That's more than I need in a whole day.
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Oct 8, 2014 15:12
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Samopsa posted:Holy gently caress, 2300 cals for lunch?? Good job life hacking your life expectancy I guess! The article lists kilojoules, so it's actually about 700 calories.
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Oct 8, 2014 15:20
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:Hungry? Eat cheap poo poo! Goddam, fast food marketing has gotten weird. Advertising your food as low quality (i.e., cheap) and gross on a small scale would kill your business, but it seems to be the new wave for huge American chains.
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Oct 8, 2014 15:42
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The $5 late night box at Jack in the Box owns tho. Also fast food tends to try to appeal to the poor in America by giving the most food (no matter how bad for you) for the cheapest price.
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Oct 8, 2014 16:46
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Goosed it. posted:The article lists kilojoules, so it's actually about 700 calories. Still pretty terrible considering the only food item not deep fried is covered in gravy. Also if that was being sold in the US it would include a 32 or 44 oz fountain drink instead of a 12 oz can, and they'd probably toss in a 200 calorie biscuit just for good measure. Geoj has a new favorite as of 16:56 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 16:53
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Samopsa posted:Holy gently caress, 2300 cals for lunch?? Good job life hacking your life expectancy I guess! Dying from a heart attack at 40 is a life hack because you'll never have to save for retirement!
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Oct 8, 2014 17:33
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Samopsa posted:Holy gently caress, 2300 cals for lunch?? Good job life hacking your life expectancy I guess! *2800 *kilojoules Or about 670 Calories. edit: beaten raw. FaradayCage has a new favorite as of 18:03 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 18:01
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:Hungry? Eat cheap poo poo! I have to imagine that someone in KFCs marketing department wrote this
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Grey Fox posted:Goddam, fast food marketing has gotten weird. Advertising your food as low quality (i.e., cheap) and gross on a small scale would kill your business, but it seems to be the new wave for huge American chains.
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Oct 8, 2014 20:17
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Strudel Man posted:Really. Advertising food as being inexpensive? What the hell is this country coming to?
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#lifehack read the article
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life hack ack ack ack ack ack ack
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