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- Air fryer - Ultrasonic cleanser - used for pretty much anything including my invisalign retainers - Sodastream - Massage gun All these things have made my

by dmak 4y ago

- Air fryer - Ultrasonic cleanser - used for pretty much anything including my invisalign retainers - Sodastream - Massage gun All these things have made my life a lot easier.

jnsaff2 4y ago
The best investment was a connection hose for the sodastream that lets me use industrial co2 tanks. That 13kg tank has lasted me 1.5 years already and is so much cheaper and hassle free-er than the tiny things that cost 20 euros a pop at the supermarket.
- zebnyc 4y ago
  Mind sharing the parts involved and how to put this together? Wife drinks a lot of sodastream. Thanks
  - voisin 4y ago
    I’d be interested to know where you get the industrial tank too. I read it needs to be food grade. I wonder why no one has made an open source Soda stream that connects to the big tanks right out of the box in a thoughtful way. Or better yet, a system for refilling the sodastream tanks from a large canister so that the sodastream can still sit easily in your counter.
    - mikebowman 4y ago
      Not OP, but in my experience you can pretty much always buy food-grade CO2 tanks from homebrewing shops. They usually do refills and exchanges too, as well as selling all the hosing and gaskets and clamps and whatnot you'd need.
  - pcurve 4y ago
    Just make sure you're getting Co2 can from beverage suppliers (and not industrial places) You can get Co2 tank and parts from beer supply company. https://www.morebeer.com/category/co2-tanks-regulators-parts.html https://www.morebeer.com/category/co2-tanks-regulators-parts... plenty YT videos on how to put them together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb43p5dJBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb43p5dJBE
- candiodari 4y ago
  I'd never risk that. The pressure that builds up in such a tank, and what happens if you were to somehow dent the tank should scare the crap out of you.
  - jnsaff2 4y ago
    Have you handled any of the industrial tanks? They are absolutely massive. The tank that holds 13kg itself weighs about 30kg. So the amount of force to 'dent' that amount of steel would need to be ridiculous. The weakest part is (by design) the valve. Technically I rent the bottle and buy the gas. Each refill is an exchange of the bottle after which the bottle gets pressure tested, etc.
- dmak 4y ago
  I would love to see that setup! Can you share it please? I may want to do that as well
- jnsaff2 4y ago
  I got an adapter hose from co2 supermarket [0] that fits my local standards. I also added a standard regulator to my setup because I trust it more than the sodastream, tho the pressure rating of the sodastream should be enough. Then I got a tank of food-grade co2 from my local supplier. I guess welding grade co2 would be good enough as well, but as the price difference was non-existent it was a no-brainer. When you get a regulator, make sure you get the highest flow-rate you can find as some of them will be problematic to get enough pressure for your beverage. Mine does not go nowhere as high as the regular sodastream bottles directly, but the result is that it takes me an extra 10 seconds per bottle to get the same result. [0] - https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/adapters-for-co2-regulators-gc1.html https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/adapters-for-co2-regulators...
fbn79 4y ago
Asking to a pro if Air fryer worh buing he said: "think about professional kitchen. If you found something in a restaurant then can be helpful even for no pro. But I never ever saw air fryer in a pro kitchen. It s Just a low quality Owen. Just marketing. If you have a good Owen you dont need air fryer"
- JakobH 4y ago
  My selfmade chips are way better from my air fryer than the oven.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    > My selfmade chips are way better from my [tabletop oven] than the [integrated/under-counter/floorstanding] oven Something is different - it's not that one was sold as 'air fryer'.
    - JakobH 4y ago
      My air fryer has a spinning thing in the middle, wich turns my chips around, so i would say thats a plus! But yea, it is basicly a small oven. Maybe it uses less energie.
      - OJFord 4y ago
        By virtue if being smaller it does yes - there's an argument for using as small an oven as possible for sure - but the return on investment of that for having multiple different sized ovens is bound to be longer than the product's lifetime. (I broke my oven door, rather than pay £150 plus labour opted to pay £280 for a new oven. That was a Bosch, certainly not the cheapest possible.)
        ruste 4y ago
        Personally the return on the air fryer for me is a direct result of it being smaller. For most things my larger kitchen oven needs time to preheat. That's an additional step that isn't required when I just want to roast some vegetables / meat or heat some frozen potato products quickly in the air fryer. This time / extra step is well worth cost for me ($20 of fb marketplace).
J_cst 4y ago
It's not possible to fry without oil or another type of grease, and that's by definition. Did you notice that to use your air fryer you need to use oil anyway? There's a fantastic debunking video on YouTube about that. Unfortunately it's in Italian only. [https://youtu.be/kea9limMp7U https://youtu.be/kea9limMp7U]
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  Thus the term "air fryer." The idea is that you get results similar to frying but only via heated air. Does this marketing really merit "debunking?"
  - J_cst 4y ago
    Yes, exactly. Problem being that it does not fry with air, but with the oil that you need to put in it anyway to fry your chips. That's the thing to be debunked, that air can not fry anything and to fry you need oil or grease. Seems that almost everybody is blindly believing to the marketing name instead of actually realising that the item is still frying with oil. The oil that they put in it. C'mon.
    - UncleMeat 4y ago
      I don't understand. Is anybody actually confused by this? It is just a word. Do you get bothered by recipes that have you drizzle oil on vegetables and then roast them?
      - hooverd 4y ago
        It's about being correct.
        UncleMeat 4y ago
        Almost none of the terms we use are "correct" in some absolute sense. No queen has ever slept in my queen sized bed, nor am I aware of any rectangularly shaped queens. My airpods aren't made of air. When we combine words or even parts of words we don't produce meaning by simply summing the meaning of the parts. Absolutely zero harm is caused by calling something an "air fryer" rather than a "countertop convection oven", especially since "air fryer" more easily conveys the idea that you can cook things like french fries in one reasonably effectively without deep frying in oil.
gardenhedge 4y ago
What is good about the massage gun?
- dmak 4y ago
  Saved me from having to get massages. I use it for my neck from sitting at the computer all day. It's also been useful for super random things like punching cushions outside or some random thing. I've seen someone use it to help them sift flour easily.
  - bilsbie 4y ago
    I heard not to use them on your neck.
    - projektfu 4y ago
      Usually it's actually trapezoideus pain that you feel in your neck, so you don't have to pound your neck, just the trap muscles.
- dole 4y ago
  Just another good way to help relieve chronic pain. Amazon holiday sales and market oversaturation are bringing them down to US $60-70 now. Gave the spouse one for Christmas, she used it on her shoulders (rotator cuff) and back and didn’t turn it off for at least 45 minutes. I’d also recommend a TENS unit, can also be found for cheap ($20-40). Both can vastly improve pain management without relying as much on medications.
bilsbie 4y ago
Why massage gun?

by dmak 4y ago

- Air fryer - Ultrasonic cleanser - used for pretty much anything including my invisalign retainers - Sodastream - Massage gun All these things have made my life a lot easier.

jnsaff2 4y ago

The best investment was a connection hose for the sodastream that lets me use industrial co2 tanks. That 13kg tank has lasted me 1.5 years already and is so much cheaper and hassle free-er than the tiny things that cost 20 euros a pop at the supermarket.

zebnyc 4y ago
Mind sharing the parts involved and how to put this together? Wife drinks a lot of sodastream. Thanks
- voisin 4y ago
  I’d be interested to know where you get the industrial tank too. I read it needs to be food grade. I wonder why no one has made an open source Soda stream that connects to the big tanks right out of the box in a thoughtful way. Or better yet, a system for refilling the sodastream tanks from a large canister so that the sodastream can still sit easily in your counter.
  - mikebowman 4y ago
    Not OP, but in my experience you can pretty much always buy food-grade CO2 tanks from homebrewing shops. They usually do refills and exchanges too, as well as selling all the hosing and gaskets and clamps and whatnot you'd need.
- pcurve 4y ago
  Just make sure you're getting Co2 can from beverage suppliers (and not industrial places) You can get Co2 tank and parts from beer supply company. https://www.morebeer.com/category/co2-tanks-regulators-parts.html https://www.morebeer.com/category/co2-tanks-regulators-parts... plenty YT videos on how to put them together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb43p5dJBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb43p5dJBE
candiodari 4y ago
I'd never risk that. The pressure that builds up in such a tank, and what happens if you were to somehow dent the tank should scare the crap out of you.
- jnsaff2 4y ago
  Have you handled any of the industrial tanks? They are absolutely massive. The tank that holds 13kg itself weighs about 30kg. So the amount of force to 'dent' that amount of steel would need to be ridiculous. The weakest part is (by design) the valve. Technically I rent the bottle and buy the gas. Each refill is an exchange of the bottle after which the bottle gets pressure tested, etc.
dmak 4y ago
I would love to see that setup! Can you share it please? I may want to do that as well
jnsaff2 4y ago
I got an adapter hose from co2 supermarket [0] that fits my local standards. I also added a standard regulator to my setup because I trust it more than the sodastream, tho the pressure rating of the sodastream should be enough. Then I got a tank of food-grade co2 from my local supplier. I guess welding grade co2 would be good enough as well, but as the price difference was non-existent it was a no-brainer. When you get a regulator, make sure you get the highest flow-rate you can find as some of them will be problematic to get enough pressure for your beverage. Mine does not go nowhere as high as the regular sodastream bottles directly, but the result is that it takes me an extra 10 seconds per bottle to get the same result. [0] - https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/adapters-for-co2-regulators-gc1.html https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/adapters-for-co2-regulators...

fbn79 4y ago

Asking to a pro if Air fryer worh buing he said: "think about professional kitchen. If you found something in a restaurant then can be helpful even for no pro. But I never ever saw air fryer in a pro kitchen. It s Just a low quality Owen. Just marketing. If you have a good Owen you dont need air fryer"

JakobH 4y ago
My selfmade chips are way better from my air fryer than the oven.
- OJFord 4y ago
  > My selfmade chips are way better from my [tabletop oven] than the [integrated/under-counter/floorstanding] oven Something is different - it's not that one was sold as 'air fryer'.
  - JakobH 4y ago
    My air fryer has a spinning thing in the middle, wich turns my chips around, so i would say thats a plus! But yea, it is basicly a small oven. Maybe it uses less energie.
    - OJFord 4y ago
      By virtue if being smaller it does yes - there's an argument for using as small an oven as possible for sure - but the return on investment of that for having multiple different sized ovens is bound to be longer than the product's lifetime. (I broke my oven door, rather than pay £150 plus labour opted to pay £280 for a new oven. That was a Bosch, certainly not the cheapest possible.)
      - ruste 4y ago
        Personally the return on the air fryer for me is a direct result of it being smaller. For most things my larger kitchen oven needs time to preheat. That's an additional step that isn't required when I just want to roast some vegetables / meat or heat some frozen potato products quickly in the air fryer. This time / extra step is well worth cost for me ($20 of fb marketplace).

J_cst 4y ago

It's not possible to fry without oil or another type of grease, and that's by definition. Did you notice that to use your air fryer you need to use oil anyway? There's a fantastic debunking video on YouTube about that. Unfortunately it's in Italian only. [https://youtu.be/kea9limMp7U https://youtu.be/kea9limMp7U]

UncleMeat 4y ago
Thus the term "air fryer." The idea is that you get results similar to frying but only via heated air. Does this marketing really merit "debunking?"
- J_cst 4y ago
  Yes, exactly. Problem being that it does not fry with air, but with the oil that you need to put in it anyway to fry your chips. That's the thing to be debunked, that air can not fry anything and to fry you need oil or grease. Seems that almost everybody is blindly believing to the marketing name instead of actually realising that the item is still frying with oil. The oil that they put in it. C'mon.
  - UncleMeat 4y ago
    I don't understand. Is anybody actually confused by this? It is just a word. Do you get bothered by recipes that have you drizzle oil on vegetables and then roast them?
    - hooverd 4y ago
      It's about being correct.
      - UncleMeat 4y ago
        Almost none of the terms we use are "correct" in some absolute sense. No queen has ever slept in my queen sized bed, nor am I aware of any rectangularly shaped queens. My airpods aren't made of air. When we combine words or even parts of words we don't produce meaning by simply summing the meaning of the parts. Absolutely zero harm is caused by calling something an "air fryer" rather than a "countertop convection oven", especially since "air fryer" more easily conveys the idea that you can cook things like french fries in one reasonably effectively without deep frying in oil.

gardenhedge 4y ago

What is good about the massage gun?

dmak 4y ago
Saved me from having to get massages. I use it for my neck from sitting at the computer all day. It's also been useful for super random things like punching cushions outside or some random thing. I've seen someone use it to help them sift flour easily.
- bilsbie 4y ago
  I heard not to use them on your neck.
  - projektfu 4y ago
    Usually it's actually trapezoideus pain that you feel in your neck, so you don't have to pound your neck, just the trap muscles.
dole 4y ago
Just another good way to help relieve chronic pain. Amazon holiday sales and market oversaturation are bringing them down to US $60-70 now. Gave the spouse one for Christmas, she used it on her shoulders (rotator cuff) and back and didn’t turn it off for at least 45 minutes. I’d also recommend a TENS unit, can also be found for cheap ($20-40). Both can vastly improve pain management without relying as much on medications.

bilsbie 4y ago

Why massage gun?