Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I'm guessing stevo volunteered to clear up a care home garden or something rather than labouring on a building site
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Conduction and convection. Lower colour bakes and rises first up the outside, because the baking tray is a good conductor and the batter less so. Top layer bakes last because air and aerated baked bun are relatively poor conductors.
I think.
Ask Dr Karl.
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Well I did eat a pasty in the car while I was waiting for them to roll up and open the gates.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yeah, I think the bottom layer ended up in the middle. It's a fan oven so temperature difference between tray (insulated with paper case) and exposed top is going to be minimal. The outside cooks off pretty quickly, while the middle needed ~50% extra time to cook through. Result was a normal sponge coloured centre with two 2-3mm concentric layers of pink and purple around the outside. There was also edible glitter in the mixture, which is mostly mica.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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So the tricky question is how do you go about making cupcakes with three layers?
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Could have been a chromatographic effect I suppose. You could rule this out or confirm it by switching the order and seeing if you ended up with the same result.
#fascinating
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This ranks along with my green carrot water. Maybe surpasses it.
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Hmm, maybe experiment with a short spell in the freezer immediately before transferring to the oven? Would be quite fun to do this at 5-minute intervals.
Are there many scientific experiments where you can eat the evidence?
Actually, I should rephrase that, and ask if there are many scientific experiments where you can eat the evidence and not die?
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You'd have to bake separately then stack the layers like you do with a larger rainbow cake.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Visually it looked more like that. There's one left so I will ask daughter to take a picture before eating.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Have I discovered the world's biggest bran flake?
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Depends how big your hand is.
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I am intrigued by the similarity between Sir John Curtice and Professor Dumbledore.
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Never mind the bran flake what has happened to your orangutan fingers??
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Looks like he's taken photography lessons from the Princess of Wales
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Ha ha you should see my feet!
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King o' the Swingers!
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition1 -
Bloody leftie woke 'King' 😳 Time he was voted out. Oh, hang on...
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Surely the only 'woke kings' to be voted out were the SNP? 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
It's a misconception that the SNP are woke. Look at the background and social attitudes of their current deputy leader, for example.
As with all things, the SNP are a coalition of convenience, based on a collective belief that the Scottish can do it better. As much as they claim otherwise, "Scottish" is not people who live in Scotland, it is people born there. I defy you to find an SNP politician without a Scottish accent.
The wokeness came from the Greens, who support independence, so the shape shifting SNPs morphed accordingly. (For reasons unknown, the Scottish Greens are also extremely woke. Perhaps if you sniff your own farts, less methane gets into the upper atmosphere.)
Just before the election was announced, they realised that fart sniffing isn't all that popular in Scotland and broke the coalition. During the election campaign, they also immediately ditched the policy against new oil and gas drilling and criticised Labour for risking O&G jobs in Aberdeen. It really is breathtaking that they get away with it by sounding earnest as often as they do.
My experience of listening to these people for 15 years, and seeing how they have gained such consistent support (still 30%) makes me concerned that an English "everyman" approach without substance will also do so; i.e. Reform.
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Ah OK. But the SNP accepted or least didn't reject the wokeyness of their coalition partners, which is nearly as bad.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It's worse.
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Presumably they misunderstood and thought Marple was Merkel. Italian TV really is dreadful.
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I'd watch it.
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Whilst watching Wimbledon I noticed that the fashion to add the little string saver beads to racquets has disappeared. I guess with modern 'gut' this is no longer needed or that they have so many spares in their huge bags its not worth it?
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I thought it was Markle!
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