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Cooking

Jul 12, 2025

How does a 1000W portable burner beat a $600 electric range?

As I lived in the US for a while, I noticed that people cook using electric stove. It is not much different from back home. My family switched to electric a while back, because somehow it cooks faster [. . .]

Tech

Jul 7, 2025

Dependency Injection I learned from .NET Core

Back at my early web dev years, I didn't like .NET Core. It was mainly because of the new things I have never heard of. What was dependency injection? It felt like magic behind the framework. This i [. . .]

Cooking

Jun 30, 2025

Cooking rice with pot

Today I'm attempting to cook rice "again" in a pot. The last time I tried this, it was mushy, sticky, impossible to clean out of a nonstick pot (by the way, I realized slowly that nonstick pot is a st [. . .]

Cooking

Jun 30, 2025

Update on stainless steel pan and egg

This is an update on my journey towards understanding stainless steel pans. I got myself a steel pan last week. It was on sale at Ross for 14 bucks. Can you believe it? 14 dollars for 10 inch sauce p [. . .]