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> Most people who trot out the line I have no idea what those people know, care about, or want, and I don't see how my comment has anything to do with them; it

by a1369209993 5y ago

> Most people who trot out the line I have no idea what those people know, care about, or want, and I don't see how my comment has anything to do with them; it certainly doesn't make your point. My point is that electric stoves are not suitable for (almost) any kind of cooking, presumably but not specifically including Chinese.

emodendroket 5y ago
I thought what I meant to imply was obvious enough, but maybe not. The idea that you can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nearly always made as bad-faith concern trolling and it is not correct.
- a1369209993 5y ago
  > The idea that you can't cook [specifically] Chinese food on an electric stove I never said that.
  - emodendroket 5y ago
    Your post contained a paragraph to this effect.
    - a1369209993 5y ago
      > Your post contained a paragraph to this effect. 0 > If your entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, just get a damn microwave and stop ruining things for everyone else. 1 > 0: Quoted in full because it disappeared while I was writing my answer. 2 > Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care. 3 > In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me. 4 > FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way. 5 > I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess? Which of those reads like "electric stoves are even worse at cooking chinese food (in particular) than they are at cooking most types of food" to you?
      - emodendroket 5y ago
        > And of course there are dishes (such as many Chinese dishes) which you simply could no longer cook. It was this sentence that I was replying to.
        a1369209993 5y ago
        That's a quotation, as indicated by the ">[0]" and even explicited mentioned in the associated footnote.

emodendroket 5y ago

I thought what I meant to imply was obvious enough, but maybe not. The idea that you can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nearly always made as bad-faith concern trolling and it is not correct.

a1369209993 5y ago
> The idea that you can't cook [specifically] Chinese food on an electric stove I never said that.
- emodendroket 5y ago
  Your post contained a paragraph to this effect.
  - a1369209993 5y ago
    > Your post contained a paragraph to this effect. 0 > If your entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, just get a damn microwave and stop ruining things for everyone else. 1 > 0: Quoted in full because it disappeared while I was writing my answer. 2 > Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care. 3 > In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me. 4 > FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way. 5 > I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess? Which of those reads like "electric stoves are even worse at cooking chinese food (in particular) than they are at cooking most types of food" to you?
    - emodendroket 5y ago
      > And of course there are dishes (such as many Chinese dishes) which you simply could no longer cook. It was this sentence that I was replying to.
      - a1369209993 5y ago
        That's a quotation, as indicated by the ">[0]" and even explicited mentioned in the associated footnote.