i think the point was this loser with his overpriced mr. coffee and multiple opened bottles of expensive oils he doesn't know how to use has entirely too much money. maybe we need to relieve him of his wasted millions so it can be redistributed to people who need healthcare.
Breville machines are generally pretty good. Your non-touch is likely much better than this version.. And it sounds like Altman is likely partially responsible for the continued manufacturing of his lemon. 😂
People in the tech entrepreneur sphere are...very casual about money. They are used to having infinite supplies of it around, thanks to venture capital.
Whereas you or I would look for the most efficient use and be proud of a good deal, they will buy either the "market leader" prestige item or the cool gadget that someone pointed out that they had to have. Or whatever happens to catch their eye.
I'll bet Altman wouldn't know the difference between a perfect handmade espresso and a mediocre one made by an expensive machine. (The machine is to be preferred for status; skill takes a long time, doesn't scale, and is poorly paid.)
The only thing he knows about olive oil is that it's supposed to be expensive, all the people he knows say this brand is best, and they come in different colors.
Anyone remember the dotcom bust? The Aeron chair? Everyone bought the "best", most expensive status symbol they could and when the money dried up they were liquidated like any other office furniture.
I don't drink coffee, so know nothing about his machine. Would (almost) never use EVOO for frying; "pure" is fine, or sometimes another type of oil altogether. But damn, that crappy knife gives me the heebie-jeebies. Can't imagine trying to work with that for chopping!
Love it!
In the mid 80s, my college GF and I started singing -- to the tune of "Don't You Forget About Me" -- "Don't You Spaghetti Fish".
One night she beat me home and prepared a batch of said spaghetti fish. Marinara sauce and salmon. Better in concept than reality. 😉
True love. 🙂
that's the shit of it, it's gotta be foolproof-easy but also juuuuust fancy enough for you to show off a little bit of technique while also being "oh I just whipped this up from some tins in the cupboard" casual
None of these Incel Valley fuckwads are geniuses, they are just playing cuckoo birds by using Vulture Capitalists for funding, buying companies and pushing the founders out and IPO the stocks to pump and dump,rinse and repeat. Right from Mork Zuck, Elon Musk and others.
There's a degree of genius in the sheer chutzpah needed to claim that your company is an NGO even as you ask for trillions in for-profit funding and drive multimillion-dollar cars.
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Does it work well? Meaningless question!
In the mid 80s, my college GF and I started singing -- to the tune of "Don't You Forget About Me" -- "Don't You Spaghetti Fish".
One night she beat me home and prepared a batch of said spaghetti fish. Marinara sauce and salmon. Better in concept than reality. 😉
True love. 🙂
If my mother hadn't raised two kids, her meatloaf recipe would still be a legacy worthy of any human life.
No glaze. Oats instead of breadcrumbs.
Served with mashed russets and brown gravy from the drippings, heavily fortified with miso.
It is like $15-30 and marketed as if it is made by Hattori Hanzo or something. It is not.
I have one which needs constant sharpening. I use it to take heat off my one prized 8” Henckel’s Zwilling Pro.
Wouldn’t bother if I was rich!
It's gotta be Molto Mario + Nigella Bites
Eggs hongos (spinach n mushroom, no meat), home fries, extra toast to mop hollandaise, which I pour with a heavy hand
Coffee (which I roast), Virgin Mary
Hollandaise is surprisingly easy once it clicks in your brain, and it's a massive people-pleaser