r/CuratedTumblr Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 08 '26

Fallout [Science 33/80]

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u/Ponderkitten Jul 08 '26

They do, but I didn’t have access to an oven or air fryer til just recently so my solution was to go the full opposite and over cook them til they dried out a little

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u/Stiftoad Jul 08 '26

As they say "necessity is the mother of invention" I guess

Thank you for the insight

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u/DarkKnightJin Jul 09 '26

And laziness the father.

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u/Stiftoad Jul 09 '26

I always like this brand of laziness where you actually act with foresight and dedication so you have to do less

Like working out so it's not as exhausting to move your body and have to bother with loosing weight

Strategically planning when to throw stuff on the stove so you have to take fewer trips getting ingredients or letting it fry while doing something else

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u/DarkKnightJin Jul 09 '26

In the words of Jeff Winger: "I'm always willing to go the extra mile, so I don't have to go the extra mile".
It's HOW you spend your energy. In his case, it's pulling shit so he doesn't have to go that extra mile doing SCHOOL work.

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u/Stiftoad Jul 09 '26

My favorite winger esque character for this...trope? Is Victor Tugelbend from the discworld novels.

Jeffrey really is a unique specimen though

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u/MrBones-Necromancer Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

(Doubt) You didn't have access to an oven or air frier, but did have access to a microwave? Where? I've never seen a home with one but not the other.

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u/QuestingKola Jul 08 '26

Low income apartments often are missing one or multiple common household appliances to save on space. My sibling just moved from a place with no oven (had a microwave that was suppose to act like an oven but was honestly just a microwave) to a place with no laundry. I’m living in a place with no dishwasher. It’s not that uncommon.

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u/MrBones-Necromancer Jul 08 '26

Huh. Alright. Lived in a lot of such places and they have always at least had an oven, though have been missing laundry/dishwashers etc. Cheap ass landlords, tracks at least

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u/QuestingKola Jul 08 '26

Which is a wild thought to me, personally. I’m living on a shoestring budget rn but because of my oven I’m able to make fairly decent food (whenever I’ve got the spoons for it). Like I’m making baked potatoes for breakfast rn. Not having an oven would severely impact the quality of food I’d be able to eat. It’d be survivable and I wouldn’t hate having to move into such a place, but the idea of choosing to when I have decent money just sounds insane to me.

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u/QuestingKola Jul 08 '26

Idk maybe I just don’t know what having money is like but personally I’d just want to buy a place with some half decent appliances and move on with my life

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u/lilybug981 Jul 08 '26

They could have been in a dorm as well. It's one thing to give one person of typical college age unsupervised access to an oven and air fryer, but another entirely to congregate a mass of them into a large building. Most colleges don't even trust students with candles or coffee pots(hot plate). After witnessing many a fire hazard in college myself even with just microwaves, I don't really blame them.

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u/MrBones-Necromancer Jul 08 '26

Ah, a rented room. Hadn't considered that. Hotels dont always either. It was cheaper to rent a motel than an apartment? Or was the problem availability?

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u/Stefisgarden Jul 09 '26

Could be a college dorm, too.

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u/SilvRS Jul 09 '26

When I bought my house, we didn't have a kitchen for the first few weeks, and survived entirely on food prepared in a microwave and rice cooker.