Same here. My balcony faces North. No way I can grow my own peppers, but I know some places where I can at least get decent quality habaneros, scotch bonnets and jolokias.
Recently made a mango habanero sauce using fermented yellow habaneros. Lovely stuff.
Well, I don’t like it, but you definitely have a point. :)
Definitely. I have stopped using extracts altogether, I go for best taste now, make my own sauces, I frequently attend Chili Festivals here in Berlin and I’ve tried hundreds of hot sauces. It’s become a hobby.
But I will never, ever again participate in a hot food contest.
To be honest I only backed out because some medics who were present took my blood pressure and emphatically recommended that I stop.
PS: While I didn’t win the solo title, my team got the most points, so at least I won the team title, which is nice.
PPS: Rank one and two had a decider - pure The Source wiped from the plate with slices of dry bread. Painful to watch.
That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There’s a British manufacturer called Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren’t bitter, but “The Source” will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.
Um… thanks, I guess. I’m one too…
So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville units. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach about 2.5 million Scoville (Reapers weren’t around at the time either, hottest pepper was the aforementioned Bhut Jolokia).
I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will just inflict immense pain.
It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.
I once participated in the German Hot Food Competition, it started off with having to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia chili and only got worse from there.
I’m a software architect. I work with large amounts of data. And a sizeable RAM disk is generally useful for many purposes. And yes, I also run AI locally, though that’s what my RTX 4090 is for.
IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there’s not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.
Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.
For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.
Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files in a continuous, reliable data stream without any interruptions from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.
Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.
Built my new PC in late 2023… so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM…
Whenever I read Schopenhauer’s name, I’m instantly reminded of this part of a song by German punk pop band Die Ärzte.
As a fan of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful discworld novels, I would love Mango Mussolini to meet someone who speaks just like he writes his crap on Truth Social - in all caps.
In Germany, we have the word “schönsaufen”, which means something along the line of “drinking until something or someone ugly looks pretty” and I think that’s beautiful.
Yeah, which means you can’t just use any Linux you want… sounds almost like, I don’t know, a vendor lock-in.
just fine
Provided it’s an older one with an Intel CPU.
It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.