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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • ozebb@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAnti-Caking Rule
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    11 months ago

    There’s a trick to using box graters that most people don’t know (I certainly didn’t until recently)

    • Lay a towel or some parchment paper in a sheet pan (optional)
    • Lay the grater on the pan
    • With your non dominant hand, hold the handle of the grater and the rim of the sheet pan
    • With your dominant hand, grate, pushing away from you + into the countertop

    The mechanics of pushing down/away are much better than holding the thing upright, dangling it over a bowl or whatever. Easy to just push with your palm too (and keep your fingers out of the way).


  • scientifically proven ecological collapse

    This is a pretty specific thing, but the general “we’re all doomed” vibe is definitely not unique to today. Boomers and older had the threat of nuclear annihilation looming over them, and before that… well, disease and famine and death and destruction due to war have historically been the norm.

    Imagine how you’d feel living in the Americas in the 16th or 17th centuries and either watching the destruction wrought by European settlers firsthand or, maybe worse, watching your peers die en masse of the diseases introduced by those settlers. Imagine living in Eurasia in the 13th century and watching the Mongol army sweep through.

    None of this is to say that today’s challenges aren’t real and serious. Just that we’re not the first to face such challenges.