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Paul Zuvella posted:Tortillas are not hard to make. neither is bread or pizza, that doesn't stop people from buying machines and gimmicky tools for it
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Paul Zuvella posted:Tortillas are not hard to make. also this. According to the kickstarter tortillas have been made for 10,000 years. Must be pretty loving easy then. Human make fire then domesticate corn then immediately find flat stone and make tortilla.
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May 6, 2016 14:55
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Pomp posted:neither is bread or pizza, that doesn't stop people from buying machines and gimmicky tools for it Pizza is considerably harder to to make than tortillas. So is leavened bread. You need 5 things to make tortillas. Flour of some kind Water Salt oil A pan
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May 6, 2016 14:58
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I know every time I buy a $2 package of tortillas, all I can think is "there's got to be a better way!"
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May 6, 2016 14:58
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i just remembered that the first time i made pizza i basically got tomato soup on top of soggy crust and spent half an hour scrubbing the stone so i rescind pizza being easy
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May 6, 2016 15:02
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Pomp posted:i just remembered that the first time i made pizza i basically got tomato soup on top of soggy crust and spent half an hour scrubbing the stone so i rescind pizza being easy I find flattening the dough to be a chore, especially in a cramped kitchen but it's easier if you mix it with gluten poor flour, then it goes on a buttered or oiled up paper and in the oven on a grill
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May 6, 2016 15:07
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I know every time I buy a $2 package of tortillas, all I can think is "there's got to be a better way!" store bought tortillas ARE garbage, but lol at the solution being buy a 400 kitchen gadget with a tortilla pod subscription instead of taking learning a basic kitchen skill or just saying gently caress it and going to a decent mexican restaurant.
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May 6, 2016 15:09
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This is what happens when somebody watches Shark Tank and their response to the judges refusing to sponsor a product because it doesn't have some proprietary doohickey that will let them gouge the gently caress out of the price isn't "jesus christ business people are scum" but "they're rich so obviously they're right"
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May 6, 2016 15:36
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:my favourite bit is the insistence that food waste in the form of left-over tortillas is bad for the environment, but the recyclable pods somehow aren't. What a shame that nobody has ever invented anything to do with left-over tortillas. There's got to be a better way! chilaquiles and migas are delicious, or you can just make them into chips!
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May 6, 2016 15:38
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For a monthly fee I'll send you four prepaid mailers a month. Every week you stuff your leftover tortillas in the mailer and I dispose of them in an environmentally responsible way, feeding them to ducks. Please back my kickstarter.
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May 6, 2016 15:45
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What "entrepreneurs" don't realize is that Keurig was successful because it replaced a device you already used, with a similar footprint on your countertop. No one is loving the idea of a giant machine that takes up a quarter of your limited space just for making something like tortillas or juice.
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May 6, 2016 16:15
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Exactly. I think for the Kickstarter audience the amount of coffee they need to make daily is quite a bit higher than their tortilla requirements.
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May 6, 2016 16:22
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Germstore posted:For a monthly fee I'll send you four prepaid mailers a month. Every week you stuff your leftover tortillas in the mailer and I dispose of them in an environmentally responsible way, feeding them to ducks. Please back my kickstarter. the mailers are twice as big as regular mailers so you might have trouble posting them but they hold more stuff
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May 6, 2016 16:24
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Food with DRM is a cyberpunk concept no one predicted, I'll give em that
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May 6, 2016 16:29
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Gann Jerrod posted:What "entrepreneurs" don't realize is that Keurig was successful because it replaced a device you already used, with a similar footprint on your countertop. No one is loving the idea of a giant machine that takes up a quarter of your limited space just for making something like tortillas or juice. Also you probably make coffee every day. You aren't going to be making tortillas constantly.
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May 6, 2016 16:31
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http://www.amazon.com/Victoria-8500...=tortilla+press Tortilla press. $28. No loving pods needed.
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May 6, 2016 16:32
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Noyemi K posted:A tortilla maker with DRM. http://www.businessinsider.com/fred-bould-nest-roku-gopro-2014-1 This is who they hired to design it, they must already have some deep pockets.
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May 6, 2016 16:34
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WampaLord posted:http://www.amazon.com/Victoria-8500...=tortilla+press Pffft, that thing makes 8 inch tortillas of typical thickness instead of 6 inch tortillas of double thickness which is superior because- hand waving.
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May 6, 2016 16:35
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Germstore posted:Pffft, that thing makes 8 inch tortillas of typical thickness instead of 6 inch tortillas of double thickness which is superior because- hand waving. *Hank Hill voice* Taste the bread, not the filling
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May 6, 2016 16:40
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finally, a subscription based tortilla
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May 6, 2016 17:05
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Gann Jerrod posted:What "entrepreneurs" don't realize is that Keurig was successful because it replaced a device you already used, with a similar footprint on your countertop. No one is loving the idea of a giant machine that takes up a quarter of your limited space just for making something like tortillas or juice. Man, if ~200% funded at over $100k with 27 days left is the new definition of '"idea that no-one loves", i sure wish my ideas were similarly massive loving failures!!   (devil's advocate or whatever, i don't care for tortilla-bot myself)
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May 6, 2016 17:18
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lorn Wayne posted:Man, if ~200% funded at over $100k with 27 days left is the new definition of '"idea that no-one loves", i sure wish my ideas were similarly massive loving failures!! This will probably end up like The Coolest. They won't be able to produce their idiot $400 tortilla bot for the $200 Kickstarter price and make any sort of profit and no one will want one at $400, so everyone is stupid and hosed.
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May 6, 2016 17:24
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Germstore posted:This will probably end up like The Coolest. They won't be able to produce their idiot $400 tortilla bot for the $200 Kickstarter price and make any sort of profit and no one will want one at $400, so everyone is stupid and hosed. They at least limited the 'early bird' cheap tortillabots to under a thousand, The Coolest didn't put any limit on their cheap Kickstarter coolers and ended up with over 60,000 people pledging for them https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryangrepper/coolest-cooler-21st-century-cooler-thats-actually/description
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May 6, 2016 17:42
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Paul Zuvella posted:Tortillas are not hard to make.
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May 7, 2016 14:44
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Zereth posted:Pretty sure corn or wheat flour have much longer shelf lives too. masa harina, gringo
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May 7, 2016 15:36
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Germstore posted:masa harina, gringo Masa means dough, esse.
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May 7, 2016 15:47
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Non Serviam posted:Masa means dough, esse. and masa harina means flour dough, but it generally refers to flour made with hominy which is corn processed with slaked lime, an extremely important distinction nutritionally.
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May 7, 2016 15:53
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Guy Mann posted:People who bring board games to bars: finally someone that the people who bring books to bars can look down on. People who engage in social activities with their friends in bars: finally someone that the people who sit alone in bars never speaking to anyone other than the guy taking their order can look down on.
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May 7, 2016 20:00
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I've never actually seen someone reading a book in a bar. If only there was some place I could read and drink but also pay a 400% markup on the drinks.
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May 7, 2016 21:12
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Germstore posted:I've never actually seen someone reading a book in a bar. I used to go read in a bar on my lunch breaks whenever I was working in an office within reasonable proximity to a bar. Not so much in the evenings.
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May 7, 2016 21:18
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Guy Mann posted:Genuine question, what should the Oculus people have done? Kickstarter backers aren't investors and were entitled to nothing, if anything the fact that they gave them a freebie after the buyout is above and beyond what anyone would expect from a tech startup. give them money.
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May 7, 2016 21:35
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Groovelord Neato posted:give them money. lol why?
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May 8, 2016 01:32
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I don't understand why they thought they should get money at all. Was that part of the deal? Why would they think that? It seems like not only was the Kickstarter handled well, but they went above and beyond giving them the final version for free.
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May 8, 2016 01:42
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The entire recent VR movement was spearheaded by a guy who thinks minimum wage should be abolished, you throw your money in with silicon valley libertarian assholes and you get what you deserve.
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May 8, 2016 01:55
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b-b-b-b-b-but facebook!!!!!
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Busco Quadnary retard thinks he knows physics despite never being educated in physics in any way.
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May 8, 2016 20:14
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laserghost posted:Food with DRM is a cyberpunk concept no one predicted, I'll give em that Next Shadowrun expansion sounding.....ok actually.
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May 9, 2016 00:35
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"This expired DRM food gave me the Shadowruns."
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Pomp posted:neither is bread or pizza, that doesn't stop people from buying machines and gimmicky tools for it yeah, but we didn't have to pay for them to make it
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Athletic Footjob posted:"This expired DRM food gave me the Shadowruns."
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