/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15605610]

i bet you guys who kept saying induction is better than gas wish you had gas now that your power is out.

[Anonymous No.15605616]

My power is not out

[Anonymous No.15605617]

>>15605616
it will be soon

[Anonymous No.15605624]

>>15605610
your kitchen looks too clean and suburban, leave 4chan please.

[Anonymous No.15605632]

>>15605624
Not OP, but you clowns always are down on nice kitchens. Someone posts a hotplate in a shithole and you call it cozy

[Anonymous No.15605636]

>>15605632
Because we must always be contrarian and against reddit-mentality.

Redditors have expensive kitchens? We hate it.

[Anonymous No.15605643]

>>15605610
I have power and a gas stove. I wish they made a hybrid stove. I wish I had 1 induction burner, the rest gas, electric oven with a gas broiler. I dont feel like I have enough control on a gas burner sometimes. It takes too lomg to boil water and it wont get low enough for a low simmer

[Anonymous No.15605648]

You in Texas or Oregon? I'm in Oregon an boy howdy has this been fun. The plebs are all huddled together frozen in their darkened powerless little apartments but I've been comfy as shit. The wife and I are both Slavs that snow camp all the time so we have enough gear, food, wodka, and a racial bonus that gives us a natural resistance to cold. A week of snow and ice storms with no electricity is basically a vacation to us. We've been grilling outside and cooking stew over a firepit. Its been great.

[Anonymous No.15605649]

>>15605610
Where the fuck is the exhaust fan?

[Anonymous No.15605652]

>>15605636
I know nothing about redits kitchens, but its hard not to like decent stuff

[Anonymous No.15605655]

>>15605610
This is what a modern stove looks like. And it's beautiful. And it's great. And fuck you.

[Anonymous No.15605658]

>>15605649
He prob has the microwave exhaust fan

[Anonymous No.15605662]

>>15605648
Is everything shut down?

[Anonymous No.15605743]

>>15605662
Well I am in Portland up in the west hills and a lot the city doesn't have power so many places are closed. Grocery stores are very empty. Many people do not know to deal with cold without electricity. The actual weather event was basically Sunday but the ice stuck around and downed so many trees and power lines that its pretty bad for most people. Sucks to suck I guess

[Anonymous No.15605754]

>>15605662
Further more, a good chunk of my neighbors literally left town at the very threat of snow. Actually fled their homes, because of less than a foot of snow.

[Anonymous No.15605772]

>>15605655
Induction has a way higher rate of first year service calls than any other cooktop

[Anonymous No.15605779]

>>15605610
I like gas better because I am used to it, but in defense of induction fans, if they're not poorfags they'll have a generator.

[Anonymous No.15605795]

>>15605754
Weaklings. Im in Iowa and it has been below 0 every night and we got about 8-10 inches of snow on the ground. You just gotta suck it up. A northern european once told me hard winters make hard men

[Anonymous No.15605834]

Cooking a big pot of stew in the dark while I was huddled next to my fireplace was comfy the first night. The other 40+ hours of no power were pretty shit, but gas basically kept me alive during all of this.

[Anonymous No.15605842]

Literally no one thinks induction is better. Induction fags just say that because they live in a house that doesn't have gas or it's too expensive to convert to gas.

[Anonymous No.15605862]

>>15605834
You have to change your point of view. It is an experience. It wont last forever, but the memory may.

[Anonymous No.15605900]

[Anonymous No.15605904]

>>15605900
Is he really a mayor? Why did he even get elected if he doesn't believe in organized society? Ego trip?

[Anonymous No.15605912]

>>15605904
Search up his name, Tim Boyd. He literally resigned because of his retarded facebook post.

[Anonymous No.15605914]

>>15605900
Sounds like a Qanon fucking retard. I hope a coon breaks into his house and 911 says deal with it loser

[Anonymous No.15605919]

>>15605914
Don't mayors have security guards and gates at their house?

[Anonymous No.15605952]

>>15605900
>Colorado City, TX
>Population: 3,920

barely even a town.

[Anonymous No.15605975]

>>15605912
That’s good. Clearly he doesn’t need his government handout paycheck

[Anonymous No.15605987]

>>15605610
Gas appliances are utterly based. Gas oven and stove, gas washer and dryer, gas water heater, gas air heating, gas fireplace... feels good that power outages barely affect me.

[Anonymous No.15605999]

>>15605900
Holy based, I want to live there.

[Anonymous No.15606005]

>not keeping a portable gas burner like pic related
Shiggy.

[Anonymous No.15606008]

>>15605999
go be homeless, its the same experience

[Anonymous No.15606333]

>>15605643
If you have the space and money, you can get all that. Not exactly one slick unit, but you can certainly get a dual fuel range (gas burner, electric oven), mount an induction drop in to one side, and a gas fired salamander above it.

[Anonymous No.15606717]

>>15605900
he's absolutely right when he talks about the conflation of people truly in need of support and people who simply drop out and live off of handouts when they could live by their own work without issue.

[Anonymous No.15607068]

>>15605610
>My country wants to ban all gas cookers and stove tops by 2030
Fucking feels bad man. Gunna have to literally use a barbecue for everything

[Anonymous No.15607107]

>>15605610
You gas fuckers better have a propane conversion kit handy because I have news for you.

[Anonymous No.15607120]

>>15606717
How does that suddenly mean i'm supposed to invent water and electricity for my family when his and other local elected officials' lack of planning is the reason I'm in that situation to begin with?

Aren't I paying taxes to you dumb fucks SPECIFICALLY to deal with these kinds of things so I'm NOT the one that has to do this shit?

If you're not going to provide me a basic level of services, I guess I shouldn't be paying any local taxes. They're obviously not going towards anything but lining the local politicians pockets.

[Anonymous No.15607124]

>>15605655
Ugly and takes longer for heat adjustments than gas

>>15606008
>wanting daddy government in your life

[Anonymous No.15607135]

>>15606717
He's been elected to work for the people of his town. If he doesn't do the job he deserved to be fired, and give back his salary.

[Anonymous No.15607139]

>>15607120
>Has power and water and gas 362 days of the year.
>Power, water go out due to unprecedented weather event. 100 year old records for cold broken by large margins.
>Uses this as an excuse to throw up his hands, bitch about local government who have been supplying utilities for decades with relatively few problems.
>Muh taxes.

Grow a pair of balls anon. Man up and help yourself, then help those who cannot: The elderly, the sick, the handicapped. That's how it used to work, but oh no... Not anymore.
>

[Anonymous No.15607141]

>>15605643
>it wont get low enough for a low simmer
FINALLY someone who understands
You inductions fags will never ever be able to simmer and you know it.
SEETHE
COPE
THEN
ROPE

[Anonymous No.15607154]

>>15605900
BASED AND CHECKED

[Anonymous No.15607165]

>>15605643
get a simmer plate

[Anonymous No.15607166]

>>15607141
read his post again he was talking about gas. ahaha you're such a dum-dum.

[Anonymous No.15607184]

>>15607107
What news?

[Anonymous No.15607187]

>>15607166
Ah dang dont I feel stupid. Hmm I guess I should leave
>exit stage left

[Anonymous No.15607191]

>>15607184
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/natural-gas-supply-is-critically-low-in-texas-are-rolling-gas-outages-next/ar-BB1dMr4E

It's candle cooking and tealight coffee for you guys!

[Anonymous No.15607210]

>>15607191
Thankfully I don't live in Texas and instead live somewhere that prepares for a bit of ice and snow collecting on the most important fundamental public infrastructures in the winter.

[Anonymous No.15607215]

>>15607191
>he didn't start a hobo barrel fire

[Anonymous No.15607219]

>>15605772
Yeah, it's called "first-time owner retardation".

[Anonymous No.15607230]

>>15607210
You really can't expect a state like Texas to have 500 snow plow trucks on yearly standby for the once in a decade they actually get snow.

But the power plants? Well that's a whole different ballgame. They need to be able to work in all weather, and should be prepped to survive in colder weather than is ever expected. Had they done that, all would have been well, but no....

[Anonymous No.15607250]

>>15607215
Nothing as comfy as a hobo barrel fire. I drove by Camden NJ a few years ago, and they had them going full tilt on every block of the place. Happy hoboes and hoboesses dancing and singing in the streets. Little hoboeletts not in school joining in the fun as well. A good time being had by all.

[Anonymous No.15607258]

>>15607230
>You really can't expect a state like Texas to have 500 snow plow trucks on yearly standby for the once in a decade they actually get snow.
Of course, but I'm referring to the power lines, water lines, gas lines, and the corresponding plants and stations for all of them. The idea that they're risking a natural gas shortage for the whole state because "the equipment wasn't prepared to be this cold :(" seems completely unacceptable to me. I understand when frozen trees and branches fall into power lines and transformers or things like that which you can't entirely control, but that article is literally saying that the equipment they use for the natural gas pipelines in Texas simply can't handle too low of ambient temperatures.

[Anonymous No.15607259]

>>15607230
Even ignoring the fact that they fucked up, the mayor is still retarded for saying the government has no responsibility to do anything when people pay taxes and pay him a salary to deal with this exact kind of shit

[Anonymous No.15607315]

>>15605900
He's right but also kind of a dick

[Anonymous No.15607345]

>>15607259
What exactly do you expect the local government to do? I'll bet the mayor has no power either. It's not local government that's to blame. it's the state and the utility companies. And the people too. Some of them decided to get their power through an arbitrage dealer setup, who charges them 10 bucks and supplies power at spot market prices. Most of the time it's cheaper, but prices can fluctuate. Some of these people now fact power bills of 400 bucks a DAY. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dollar5152-power-bill-texas-winter-storm-hell-only-gets-worse/ar-BB1dLKDE

Cooking over candles seems cheap by comparison.

[Anonymous No.15607349]

>>15605610
I live in the midwest and we already got our 12 inches of snow, no power outages, but I have a wood cook stove and a propane grill just in case.

[Anonymous No.15607390]

>>15607349
>I have a wood cook stove and a propane grill just in case.

Here speaks a wise man.

[Anonymous No.15607608]

>>15605610
Imagine being so retarded that you don’t have a camp stove that’s utterly reliable because it only has one moving part.

[Anonymous No.15607676]

>>15605610
>i bet you guys who kept saying induction is better than gas wish you had gas now that your power is out.
gas is better, and i wish you faggots would stop reminding me of this shit. my power isn't out, but i'm at college most of the time which means no gas stove like i have at home. >:(

[Anonymous No.15607679]

best

[Anonymous No.15607690]

>>15605610
>>15607676
>muh gaseriono oven
Enjoy your sneaky CO, CO2 and NOx poisoning, m8s.

[Anonymous No.15607693]

Nah, I have a wood stove too

[Anonymous No.15607711]

>>15607679
It’s a piece of shit toy for children. Optimus, Coleman 442, or go home.

[Anonymous No.15607769]

> the south will rise again

[Anonymous No.15607781]

>>15605655
Blu flamez wuttt?

[Anonymous No.15607785]

>>15607711
Campingaz is superior to any Coleman and Optimus shit, proofed for decades. Daal with it, Mutt.

[Anonymous No.15607789]

>>15605900
Undeniably based

[Anonymous No.15607815]

>>15605648
its the culture of america yet you have kids even in this thread right now complaining lol. i bet back then you could be civil and neighbors about it and have bbqs and donations cause the economy was doing great

[Anonymous No.15607817]

>>15605900
>>15607815
wrong

[Anonymous No.15607845]

>>15607345
>What exactly do you expect the local government to do?
They could have done some basic planning for catastrophic events like every country (and state) that isn't a 3rd-world shithole, or at least not pull the 'muh personal responsibility' card when the people who are pissed are getting pissed when a critical service that they actually pay for isn't getting delivered.

[Anonymous No.15607869]

>>15607230
I don't think you understand how much it would cost to be actually prepared for this weather at the power generation stations. It would be the equivalent of Texas having hundreds of snowplow on standby in the event that this happens once in every 35 years.

[Anonymous No.15607879]

My power is not out schizo

[Anonymous No.15607886]

>>15607785
No it’s literal trash. Look at that faggot construction. Fucking plastic and cheap pot metal. Plus it burns those gay disposable canisters. That fuel isn’t efficient and it’s sucks in extreme cold. White gas works anywhere.

[Anonymous No.15607903]

>>15605616
Op fucking finished

[Anonymous No.15607912]

>not having a wood burning fireplace
>not having a wood burning stove
Gas can fail too.

[Anonymous No.15607960]

>>15607845
I think you misunderstand the situation. It's not a government owned agency that runs the power supply. Those are all private companies. The water utility is perhaps run by the local town, but if the utility company shuts off the power and the lines freeze, what the hell is the mayor supposed to do?

The mayor is a dick, but he's an impotent one.

[Anonymous No.15607967]

>>15607869
Yes, I thought as much. Yet amazingly, in Canada, we still have electricity. The only thing that seems to bugger us up, is when freezing rain collapses the electrical transmission lines.

[Anonymous No.15607975]

>>15607608
I have a pair of those. They make a lot of noise.

[Anonymous No.15607982]

>>15607886
Why is Campingaz world market leader for many decades? Because of best quality, durability, sustainability, stamina and heating power/efficiency compared to weight/size. Deal with it. Or look at Rothenberger.

[Anonymous No.15607992]

>>15605610
how do you expect the piezo to work gasfag?

[Anonymous No.15608005]

>>15607869
they fucking zoom called the winter inspection of the generators

all ERCOT fags should freeze to death

[Anonymous No.15608082]

>>15607982
It wasn’t. It eventually got bought out by Coleman.

Just look at the absolute state of that plastic trash stove. The fucking thing’s structure is a disposable soda can full of adulterated lighter fluid for fuck’s sake. Using that thing will turn you gay.

Here look at this. An actual stove.

[Anonymous No.15608109]

If your power is out for a long time cooking would be the least of your problem.

[Anonymous No.15608112]

>>15608109
Depends on how diverse your particular area is.

[Anonymous No.15608118]

>>15608112
I was thinking of heating

[Anonymous No.15608119]

>>15607975
They are the most reliable stoves ever made. All you need to do is keep it filled up and make sure not to run it dry.

[Anonymous No.15608128]

>>15608118
That would be the least of your problems in a high diversity area.

[Anonymous No.15608139]

>>15608128
Not really. Without heating you're dead.

[Anonymous No.15608142]

>>15608139
You can simply put on more clothes, or a couple blankets.

[Anonymous No.15608147]

>>15608142
You obviously don't live in a cold area. Freezing temperatures will kill you within hours.

[Anonymous No.15608155]

>>15605919
It's a 3000 person village. They aren't hiring shit for him and he already resigned. Hope his house burns and he dies inside.
>a product of the socialist Texan government
>no-one owes you anything, not even the government you pay taxes to or the privatised shit tier electricity company taking money for a service
>god will save us, apart from all the people who die, but that's their fault, apparently god doesn't care about them

[Anonymous No.15608161]

>>15607139
>population collective pays billions of dollars to electricity company
>it gets privatised and removed from the federal grid to make them more money
>they don't bother to do their fucking jobs properly, don't winterise the equipment that people have been telling them to do for decades and then go "oh well" when it fails.
>blame wind for it on fox news to confuse the boomers

[Anonymous No.15608185]

>>15608147
Not if you’re under a blanket or three. I’m from Minnesota. I would often camp in the dead of winter as a scout.

You sound like a bot, or some kind of cosmopolitan, rootless individual who never even saw the outdoors except on TV. M directly calling you a retarded faggot, you like that?

[Anonymous No.15608189]

>>15608185
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, you're some city faggot who thinks he's Rambo because he saw some movie.

[Anonymous No.15608198]

I'm on the same power grid as TWO hospitals. I'm immune. I'm going to get an ungodly electric bill at the end of the month, but I am warm and fed.

[Anonymous No.15608207]

>>15608189
I’m an Eagle Scout. Imagine if they still trained military people how to survive in the outdoors like they used to. That’s what every Cub Scout learns by the time they’re 12.

I know it’s hard for you to imagine that people can just wear more clothing and live, but there are entire regions filled with people who put on warm clothes every day and work out in the cold, no heating.

Don’t you get bored of being so stupid, my rootless cosmopolitan friend? Or are you just sad that nobody’s clicking on your latest promoted thread and you’re just sageing the threads that are getting replies?

[Anonymous No.15608209]

>>15608161
>things that never happened
Texas always had privately owned power generation.

[Anonymous No.15608212]

>>15608207
If you actually were some eagle scout and not just a faggot, you'd understand that the most important part of surviving outdoors for a long period of time in freezing temperatures is to make a fire.

"Just put on a blanket" LMFAO

[Anonymous No.15608215]

>>15607975
>They make a lot of noise.

[Anonymous No.15608221]

>>15608212
But people aren’t outdoors. They’re in their homes, with piles of towels, blankets, clothes, etc. and you don’t just make a fire, you find a suitable location first.

Don’t worry fag, I’ll bump this thread every time you sage. Best bet is to slunk back to your McChicken thread.

[Anonymous No.15608226]

>>15608221
It doesn't matter if you're inside a box if the box is the same temperature as outside. Are you merely pretending to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.15608239]

>>15608226
If you’re inside a box your own body heat will warm it up. If you get under a blanket or some towels or whatever you have, your body heat warms the air trapped under the blanket, warming you up.

People figured all this out before written language existed. Now hurry back along to the paid, promotional thread you’re so desperate to get bumped.

Though I do like this, I really do think you’re actually as dumb as you come across. People often forget that half the population has a sub-100 IQ. You’ve graciously reminded us that it’s a fact.

[Anonymous No.15608254]

>>15608239
Your body temperature is never going to be able to heat a big house. Creating an insulated cocoon like that could work for a short period of time, for example while sleeping outdoors but you wouldn't survive like that long-term. Eventually you need a heat source to heat up and dry your clothes. This is like retard-level survival skills and you claim to be an expert LMAO. You're so clearly wrong, anon.

[Anonymous No.15608256]

>>15608254
You don’t heat the house. You heat your little blanket nest.

Keep showing us how low your IQ is. We gotta keep this thread bumped, together.

[Anonymous No.15608267]

Page 1. Might as well pin and or sticky this.

[Anonymous No.15608268]

>>15608256
It's still not gonna work for a long period of time, that kind of cold will eventually get to your core. Anyone who has spent any time in the wild would know that you can't just put on a blanket and survive anything. Fire is older than humanity for a reason, they didn't cut down forests and started fires for fun like you seem to believe.

[Anonymous No.15608270]

>>15608268
Yes that’s why you eat. Look up Will Steiger’s Antarctic transect. They spent months crossing that continent without any heat at all, for the entire journey.

You’re probably just bugging your eyes out of your chocolate face in disbelief, but it’s true.

[Anonymous No.15608279]

>>15608226
>>15608254

[Anonymous No.15608280]

>>15608270
Yeah but those were white people.

[Anonymous No.15608298]

>>15608279
Pretty sure it’s one of those auto-sage bots which drives non-paid threads down the catalog. Notice it isn’t even attempting to make any sense.

[Anonymous No.15608309]

>>15608298
i just don't understand why he'd just handwave shelter away as if it doesn't make any difference and keeps going back to muh fire. maybe he had a point at first but he got lost along the way and now he thinks he can't back out of his position

[Anonymous No.15608311]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.15608312]

>>15608270
I looked it up, they brought alcohol-fueled stoves with them which is a heat source.

[Anonymous No.15608315]

>>15608309
It’s either some penny a post shit holer, or a bot. Either way, it doesn’t like this thread because it’s not advertising something.

[Anonymous No.15608321]

>>15608309
>>15608315
>replying to yourself

pathetic

[Anonymous No.15608324]

>>15608312
For cooking, not to warm their bodies or tents. You can look that up too.

You really are a bot aren’t you!

[Anonymous No.15608327]

>>15608324
>F-for cooking

You mean like how people use fire for cooking? Are you even trying anymore? Even people who moved around constantly brought a fire source. The most extreme example you could find supported what I said, LMAO!

[Anonymous No.15608335]

>>15608327
You can’t even keep your original statement straight. But it doesn’t matter because I will bump this thread every time you sage.

[Anonymous No.15608354]

>>15607690
>his house is fully insulated

[Anonymous No.15608373]

B u m p
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[Anonymous No.15608662]

Take the masao pill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46Dwh4TMGA

[Anonymous No.15608788]

>>15607139
I get what you mean, but still.
I pay (taxes) a governing body to also be ready for worst case scenarios, ie: floods, fires, etc.

[Anonymous No.15608793]

>>15607258
>but that article is literally saying that the equipment they use for the natural gas pipelines in Texas simply can't handle too low of ambient temperatures.
fucking texans, mang
most corrupt and stupid government

[Anonymous No.15608800]

>>15607960
>give control of major infrastructure to private companies
>line your own pockets
>don't control the infrastructure of said private company
>line your own pockets
>private company fucks up, because of course
>I DIND DO NUFFIN WRONG!

[Anonymous No.15608807]

>>15605610
why not both

[Anonymous No.15608847]

>>15605610
I live in FL

[Anonymous No.15608849]

>>15605658
the what?

[Anonymous No.15609480]

>>15607679
>oh damn the power is out?
>*rattle**squeak*
>*--f--f-fffffschhhhhh*
>*clack**clack**WOOFSchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*
>okay who wants warm food?

[Anonymous No.15609581]

>>15605610
Love how retard prepper types think they're badass for having natural gas appliances. What happens when the gas trucks stop delivering your annual fill-up? You die. Whereas electric can alternatively run off a generator, solar, wind, etc

[Anonymous No.15609600]

>>15609581
you literally can just keep your farts in there you fucking retard. i havent farted outside of my tank in almost 3 years and i havent had to pay a dime for gas outside of food costs.

[Anonymous No.15609614]

>>15605900
They hated him because he spoke the truth
>government save me wahhhh! Wtf!!

[Anonymous No.15609632]

>>15607967
Because it snows and ices every winter in Canada and doesn't in Texas. Of course you're prepared and westherized for it.
I swear people are trying their hardest to NOT grasp what's going on in Texas.

[Anonymous No.15609649]

ITT: murica 3rd world shithole.

[Anonymous No.15609652]

Oregon is still pretty fucked. 6 days of no power for lots of city. Grocery stores are closed. I'm still chugging bloodys and staying at maximum comfy. The real question is how long can my liver holdout?

[Anonymous No.15609721]

>>15609632
The equipment should always be prepared for the worst possibility. Not doing this is a failure. They shouldn't just say "Well, it hasn't frozen over in a few years so we'll just prep everything based on how cold it was these last couple years," they should instead be saying, "What is the historically lowest temperature and worst winter weather conditions ever recorded in this area? Prep the equipment to withstand that or worse." I would understand if this weather was shattering all-time record lows, you can't be expected to prepare for things that should be impossible, but it's not even close to doing that and there's no excuse. This weather is KNOWN TO BE POSSIBLE in that area, therefore it should be prepared for even if it's rare.

[Anonymous No.15609745]

>>15609600
(you)

[Anonymous No.15609783]

>>15607679
>has superior fuel versatility in your path

[Anonymous No.15609788]

>>15605636
>t. contrarian faggot justifies why he sucks dick

[Anonymous No.15609798]

>>15609581
>natural gas
>What happens when the gas trucks stop delivering your annual fill-up?
You're confusing natural gas (supplied by city pipelines) with propane (filled in a tank on your property). Natural gas doesn't rely on trucks and all the pipes are underground and unlikely to be affected by the weather, so when the electricity goes out and the roads are shit you still have your gas supply from the city running just fine.

[Anonymous No.15609806]

>>15609798
Unless the pumps at the station fail.

[Anonymous No.15609811]

>>15609806
Then just live somewhere that the infrastructure doesn't shit the bed over a bit of snow and ice.

[Anonymous No.15609817]

>>15609721
Again, I swear people are trying their hardest to NOT grasp what's going on in Texas.

[Anonymous No.15609823]

>>15609806
Congrats your hypothetical peppers are getting btfo in your hypothetical situation. What are you trying to prove?

[Anonymous No.15609827]

>i bet you guys who kept saying induction is better than has wish you had gas no-

[Anonymous No.15609830]

>>15609806
Which is exactly what's happened in Texas. On the supply generation side wind failures are a tiny fraction. It's big failures in gas generation (and nuclear).

[Anonymous No.15609834]

Is it true that Americans drive large cars to be better protected in case of a gas explosion occurring?
Is it true that gas explosions are so common that they manage their anxiety by eating a lot, hence the obesity issue?
Is it true that the constant large noises coming from gas explosions are impacting their brain, making them less intelligent and knowledgeable than residents from countries where non-archaic technologies like induction are deployed?

[Anonymous No.15609839]

>>15609827
this. What retard wants to live on top of a bomb

[Anonymous No.15609841]

>>15609830
t. Dude trust me I read some tweets so I'm now an expert
I swear people are trying their hardest to NOT grasp what's going on in Texas.

[Anonymous No.15609854]

>>15609841
what the fuck is a tweet?

[Anonymous No.15609856]

>>15609811
>Then just live somewhere that the infrastructure doesn't shit the bed over a bit of snow and ice.
Then it's the same argument for electricity isn't it? In 30 years in my country I never experienced a single power cut. So for me the argument of how induction is useless in case of a power outage is just another proof of how much of a shithole America is.

[Anonymous No.15609876]

>>15609745
thanks

[Anonymous No.15609904]

- It smells weird don't you think?
- Yes. I hope you didn't again forgot to turn of- *BOOOOOM*

[Anonymous No.15609907]

>>15609827
>>15609834
>>15609904
KEK

[Anonymous No.15609925]

>>15609817
Are you defending the faggot corporations making millions in profit who didn't properly winterize their equipment for a possibility that is known to have happened in history? Why don't you enlighten us as to what's "really going on" then? Because to me it seems like lazy, greedy fucks who looked back a couple years and decided they didn't need to prepare for the worst.

[Anonymous No.15609935]

>>15605610
1)fuck you 2)I'm not a chef 3) fuck you

[Anonymous No.15609949]

>>15605900
These are the words of a man whose salary is paid with taxes.

[Anonymous No.15609950]

>>15609856
Not exactly, no. I live in the north and we still get power outages occasionally. Sometimes you just can't help a tree falling into a transformer because it got heaped on with too much ice, for example, but we have NEVER had a gas outage or a water outage.

[Anonymous No.15609954]

>>15609925
>once in a century storm
>WHY DIDN'T THEY KNOW!
I don't argue about politics online that's incredibly gay and for women and fags who make untrue dishonest claims like you're doing right now.
Have a great day

[Anonymous No.15609995]

>>15609950
>Sometimes you just can't help a tree falling into a transformer because it got heaped on with too much ice, for example
That's cringe. Most off our power lines are underground as it should be. So this kind of shit never happen... How often do you think there would be serious incidents with gas if it was not underground?
You just cheap out on infrastructure, that's why you have issues.

[Anonymous No.15610007]

>>15609954
So you're saying that they shouldn't plan and prepare for the worst? The gas pumps are failing because they can't withstand the cold or ice, but they are not experiencing a level of cold or ice that has never happened before. They should plan for the most extreme possibility. Again, I would have sympathy if this storm was actually breaking all-time records, but it's not.

[Anonymous No.15610120]

>>15609954
The cost of insulating pipes/buildings for cold weather is negligible, and even the poorest shithole states prepare their energy infrastructure for 30-year events. This is literal 3rd-world short-term planning in effect.

[Anonymous No.15610138]

>So you're saying that
Definitely a woman.

[Anonymous No.15610197]

>>15610138
So because I'm a woman my opinion has no value? You guys need to tone down on the mansplaining.

[Anonymous No.15610230]

>>15610197
>I'm a woman

[Anonymous No.15610265]

>>15608800
Yes, that's all true, but it's been going on for literal decades. Since the 60's. Longer than most people who post here have been alive.

Even in Canada where I live, what was once BC Telephone has been sold, long ago and is now part of "Telus". What was once BC Ferries is now a private corporation - in partnership with government, which is why the service changed from being utilitarian, as they still have in Washington state, to the point where we now have the equivalent of cruise ships as part of our highways system.

Privatization and deregulation have been around a long time, and sped up dramatically during the Regan administration.

[Anonymous No.15610296]

>>15610007
But the storm is actually breaking all-time records. This doesn't make your arguments incorrect however. Had they done prep work over the years, they still might have had problems, but they would have been less severe than they are now.

[Anonymous No.15610307]

>>15610007
You cannot prepare for acts of god.

[Anonymous No.15610332]

>>15610307
>>15609954
It's funny how Texans act all tough and all and mocking California all the time about minor things but when something bad like that happens in their state they're looking for all kind of excuses instead of acting like men and owning their mistakes.

[Anonymous No.15610345]

>>15610332
I'm not a Texan,
I'm not into politics,
all I said was,
>You cannot prepare for acts of god.

[Anonymous No.15610348]

>>15610307
but you literally can. expect the unexpected.

[Anonymous No.15610370]

>>15610332
Shut the fuck up dumb bitch, this is a cooking board

[Anonymous No.15610493]

>>15610370
Every controversial 4chan thread always ends up in a discussion sounding like its from /pol/.

[Anonymous No.15610586]

>>15610493
Or it gets Godwinned. Such is the way of things.

[Anonymous No.15610646]

>>15610307
>massive earthquake happens
>city with earthquake-proof buildings suffers minimal damage and loss of life
>massive snowstorm happens
>city with weather-proofed infrastructure doesn't lose power
you have a room temperature IQ

[Anonymous No.15610690]

>>15610646
And what can be learned from this? Every structure and every power installation should be built with at least some earthquake resistance and some weather proofing.

Or shall we just ignore possibilities and base everything on whether or not it will turn a profit?

[Anonymous No.15610700]

>>15610646
Changing the whole construction, housing, and manufacturing industry of Texas for an unlikely chance of a snowstorm is not practical.

[Anonymous No.15610735]

>>15608807
a portable stove is not both.

[Anonymous No.15610774]

>>15610700
This is absolutely retarded. The cost of insulating pipes is extremely low, extreme weather events are guaranteed to happen in Texas at least once every few decades, and the damage to infrastructure in events like these likely far outweigh the costs of weather-proofing them. Cities built on fault lines earthquake-proof their buildings despite the low risk that a major earthquake will occur in any given handful of decades because disaster prevention is far cheaper and easier than cleaning up after a gigantic preventable mess. Apparently Texans are too stupid and incompetent to do the same.

[Anonymous No.15610787]

>>15605648
I also have the racial bonus. Unless it goes below 20f it's shorts weather.

[Anonymous No.15610803]

>>15610787
Russian?

[Anonymous No.15610826]

>>15605610
We had a water main break at my apartment complex. I haven't had water in 24 hours. They turn it on just long enough to flush the toilet and shut it off again. Guess the pipes must have frozen.

t. Denver

[Anonymous No.15610878]

>>15610774
STOP TRYING TO DESTROY SHAREHOLDER VALUE/DIVIDENDS!

Investors demand higher returns. The needs of some pension fund in Florida come FIRST!!!!

[Anonymous No.15610893]

>>15610787
You have Cold Resistance Privilege. in a fair and equitable world, you should be required to live in Florida every summer.

[Anonymous No.15611104]

>>15610878
I can't believe so many god damn commies are asking that the critical services they pay for shouldn't be completely disrupted by a few inches of snow. Instead of asking for hand-outs these SNOWFLAKES should build their own electrical grids.

[Anonymous No.15611786]

>>15607345
>What exactly do you expect the local government to do
He literally said the city, county and power providers owe people nothing

[Anonymous No.15612173]

>>15611104
In an unreliable world, you might actually consider it anon....

https://www.generac.com/for-homeowners/home-backup-power

[Anonymous No.15612844]

>>15609721
>>15609925
>>15610007
>The equipment should always be prepared for the worst possibility. Not doing this is a failure.
>They should plan for the most extreme possibility
I guess we'll all increase our taxes to pay for thousands of snowplows in Houston, dipshit.

[Anonymous No.15612932]

>>15612173

>the world is unreliable

The world is entirely reliable. It's your expectations and mindset that are fucked.

[Anonymous No.15613074]

>>15612932
Yes, you may fully rely on it to fall apart at the slightest touch.

[Anonymous No.15613084]

>>15605643
Gas is one of the best for simmering though

[Anonymous No.15614360]

>>15609904
we got too cocky gasbros

[Anonymous No.15615084]

>>15610735
it's an induction cooker and it gets way hotter than the gas range so i use it for various purposes

also, out of desperation just signed into a new house for 12 months and the stove is electric

fucking kill me

[Anonymous No.15615096]

>>15605610
>tfw your mom was too scared to use the gas range with the power out with a match/lighter thinking it would blow up the house

[Anonymous No.15615107]

>>15615096
mum's ngmi

[Anonymous No.15615558]

>>15605643
This. I would buy the shit out of this

[Anonymous No.15615577]

>>15607781
witchcraft

[Anonymous No.15615727]

>>15607258
Because they can't. The lines are not insulated.

[Anonymous No.15615756]

Worked in a restaurant for 5 years and I can't fathom how anybody would ever choose induction over a flame.

>Takes forever to warm up your pots/pans
>Takes forever to cool down when you want to lower the heat mid-dish
>No flame means it's way harder to judge how hot a certain setting is going to be, making it way harder to adjust the heat.

[Anonymous No.15615839]

>>15615727
They SHOULD BE.

[Anonymous No.15615875]

>>15615756
Basically the only benefit of induction is that its easier to clean and it looks nice and modern.

[Anonymous No.15615939]

>>15605610
I have a gas stove and an induction for my cast iron. Suck it.

[Anonymous No.15616138]

>>15615939
You can't use a regular gas stove for your cast iron?

[Anonymous No.15617041]

>>15610230
i came in 5 seconds

[Anonymous No.15617111]

>>15617041
UwU

[Anonymous No.15617124]

Gas stove, gas furnace (with propane backup genny for blower), gas dryer, gas water heater. I'm all set. It's really amazing to me how a miniscule amount of home explosions can scare everyone away from it. As long as you aren't a complete moron you're fine. In the case of a mass power outage I'll be the one la-

[Anonymous No.15617745]

>>15615084
At least you got that bench space.
I keep getting nervous looking at new homes and seeing how many have just two small squares for actually handling food on between the sink and the stove.

[Anonymous No.15617753]

>>15605610
gas is the GOAT anyone who says otherwise is deluded

[Anonymous No.15617757]

>>15614360
In soviet america, gas oven built by jews kills you!

[Anonymous No.15617778]

>>15610197
>So because I'm a woman my opinion has no value?
quite literally yes

[Anonymous No.15617786]

>>15610307
every american i know has an umbrella in there house you absolute mong

[Anonymous No.15617791]

>>15617778

[Anonymous No.15617797]

>>15617778
agreed womens opinions should be ignored

[Anonymous No.15617934]

>>15617786
An umbrella isn't really the solution though.

[Anonymous No.15617978]

>>15617934
Rain is an act of God, an umbrella prepares you for it.
"You cannot prepare for acts of god" = false

[Anonymous No.15617994]

>>15617978
Well obviously not in all cases.

[Anonymous No.15618053]

>>15617994
The temperature in Texas barely went below freezing and it caused mass failures of vital infrastructure that could have been insulated against those temperatures. Winters in that region of the state are known to be icy and go below freezing, not preparing for that is an utter failure and the people who fucked up by cheaping out and not properly insulating those vital infrastructures should be held accountable.

[Anonymous No.15618092]

>>15618053
If the winters in the region are known to be that way, why were they so vastly unprepared. America's largest state and second largest economy can't put the blame on basic incompetency can it?

[Anonymous No.15618101]

why dont texans just turn their heaters on lmao

[Anonymous No.15618198]

>>15605610
*ahem*
>free fuel (just go and get some logs in the woods
>heats your house
>uses real fire
>won't blow up your house

[Anonymous No.15618255]

>>15618092
>If the winters in the region are known to be that way, why were they so vastly unprepared
Because it saved money and boosted profits at the time. Looks real good on the books when your infrastructure is 25% less expensive to build and maintain due to not being properly weatherized.
>America's largest state and second largest economy can't put the blame on basic incompetency can it?
The entire state didn't lose power, only certain rural communities. And in those communities, the utilities were privatized to the lowest bidder who probably got the bid so low by cutting corners. I'm not saying it's incompetence, I'm saying it's intentional greed-driven negligence.

[Anonymous No.15618269]

>>15618255
>I'm saying it's intentional greed-driven negligence.
Will there be justice?

[Anonymous No.15618353]

>>15618269
Nope, probably not. It'll probably just happen again in a few years.

[Anonymous No.15618462]

>>15618198
>makes you wheeze

[Anonymous No.15618466]

>>15618462
and thats a good thing!

[Anonymous No.15618511]

>>15618269
>>15618353
It reminds me of how every summer the UK news is full of stories about the crazy "heat wave" they're going through and how old people in non-air-conditioned homes are dying of heat stroke and it's seen as some horrible, unprecedented event. You ask them, why don't you just install air conditioners (which ARE for sale in the UK) in your homes? The answer: Because it's SO RARE and this NEVER HAPPENS and EVERY UK SUMMER IS MILD! How could you expect someone to pay for an air conditioner for something that rarely ever happens?! But then you go to Google and search "UK heat wave 2020," "UK heat wave 2019," "UK heat wave 2018," "UK heat wave 2017," "UK heat wave 2016," and so on and you'll find articles describing the exact same level of heat wave EVERY SINGLE YEAR, but somehow the population there is just in such denial they think it "never happens." Same shit in Texas, it gets cold and icy there every winter but no one wants to admit it and prepare for it for some dumb reason.

[Anonymous No.15618558]

>>15618511
Many people can't afford to install air conditioning, its quite expensive.

[Anonymous No.15618579]

>>15618558
I mean just a window unit, not full central air, which you can buy for just a couple hundred pounds on the low end in the UK.