Todays experiment was french fries. I cut up some potatoes, soaked them in salt water for about a half hour to remove as much starch as possible and then dried them off as best I could. I coated them in a little bit of olive oil and put them in the air fryer at 380° for 9 minutes. When the 9 minutes was up, I took the basket out and moved the fries around just to make sure all sides of the fries got exposed.
Then I put them back in for 7 more minutes. That was a total of 16 minutes.
When I took them out, I would say the looked more like baked potato strips then french fries so I put them back in for another 6 minutes.
After 22 minutes, I took them out and some of them looked little like fries and others looked like baked potato sticks.
They weren't bad but after 22 minutes, I was hoping for more a french fry than a baked potato stick.
Next up will be some Ore-Ida Golden Crispers. I'm hoping that what they lack in "home-made taste" they make up for by actually being french fries.
I'm still trying to build out my server and turn it into a NAS so I can do backups but I'm running into problems with samba.
File Sharing in a windows environment is easy - right click on the drive and select "share". Windows does everything, and more, that you need it to do. It is the "and more" part that I don't like. Microsoft spends way too much time trying to predict what I want and installing things I don't need. That's why
I'll continue plowing through this until I have a shared drive available for everyone on my network. There are a lot of helpful sites on the internet but they all seem to have their on take on how to do this and each one is a little different than all the others.
As for my other little electronic device, the Arduino, I've been playing with the code for it. Basically, the Arduino code platform is C++ and I kind of know that. All I really need to figure out is the pins and how the bus communicates with them.
So far, I've managed to make a LED blink at different rates. Next up will be making multiple LEDs blink and maybe change color. Eventually, I want to make a sensor that detects movement, takes a picture and sends it to me. I want to know what The Sisters and The Small Dog do all day when we aren't around.
The Steelers have just won their division so I've got a team I can watch in the playoffs.
You should visit these informative and entertaining links:
- The implication in this story is that it had meat in it to begin with.
- There are a lot of psychos in our society and some of them know the correct formula for ammonium nitrate and diesel, a.k.a. "AnFo".
- Key entry in our favorite police log: "10:17 a.m. Rabbits were loose at a gas station.."
- My favorite: "Your mom is a nice lady."
- Our government in action.
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