I held off cooking up a cheese, bacon and zucchini tart because it wouldn’t fit in the microwave oven because its length overhung the turntable. It fits just fine in the new flatbed oven because there’s no turning of the contents needed.
@jextxadore Purchase made with a very reputable online-only dealer. After COVID appeared they completely restructured their business, closing 22 stores in the two states in which they operated. The now operate online only and generally offer next day delivery in major population centres.
Tomorrow I'm swallowing a capsule endoscope camera, while that's being monitored via a Bluetooth-connected body belt, I'm not permitted to undeof the packaging and removal of the old oven is included in the price.ling rgo strenuous activity such as moving kitchen appliances.
So I have arranged for delivery sometime on Tuesday. Recyc
// @matigo
@matigo Not enormously so, around 20 to 40% more than ordinary ones. Plus, with turntable ovens, you're restricted to food that doesn't extend over the side of the platter.
My elderly microwave oven needs replacing, it's developing rust spots inside and the light bulb is not a user-replaceable item, it stopped working about 10 months ago. I'm investigating flatbed inverter devices at present, inverter microwaves have actual variable power outputs rarther than just cycling on and off. Flatbed ones have no rotating platter, instead the emitter antenna rotates. Lack of a platter means it's easier to wipe up spills, too.
English is strange: send an item by ship and it's cargo, send it by road and it gets shipped.
I have a nespresso Dolce Gusto pod coffee machine on my computer desk. It makes good coffee but the pods are quite pricy. There are two other completely different pod styles that are much cheaper, the original small Nespresso ones and the K-Fee pods used by ALDI machines. These do not normally fit the Dolce Gusto device but I’ve bought, from various sources, adapters to enable the use of these other two pod types in my machine.
Today a package arrived, I now have an Insta360 Link 4k 3-axis gimbal AI-controlled webcam. The thing is tiny, the attachment shows it in position beside my iPhone 13 Mini. As the webcam isn't detecting any recording/streaming app running, the vertical axis had lowered the lens to its "park" position with the lens facing downwards.
One interesting feature is the auto tracking, which follows faces (and attached bodies) as they move in front of the camera, far and away more effectively than Apple's Center Stage. Auto focus is fast and effective: used in Zoom meetings, I can hold something up to the camera as close as three inches and it will come into focus. Other modes are overhead and deskview modes. when used with a tripod it points the lens down at 90º to show documents or items. deskview works in a similar manner, dropping the camera to a 45º angle and inverting the image.
Whiteboard mode is really neat, I doubt I'll ever use that. Included in the package are four corner stickers, place at each corner of a physical whiteboard. When Whiteboard mode is chosen the camera actively seeks out , locates and reframes the image to show only the whiteboard. There are two microphones on the camera but I've found that at regular webcam distances, the sound level is way too high. I'll keep using my USB boom-mounted microphone instead.
I have (amongst other things) a Nespresso Dolce Gusto compact coffee pod machine but the pods are rather pricy for the Starbucks and official Dolce Gusto pods. One of the big supermarket chains has their own brand of real coffee and a limited range of Dolce Gusto flavours.
ALDI's Expressi range uses the K-Fee poD system, not compatible with anything else, these are very well priced. I have found a company that sells adapters to let K-Fee pods work in the Dolce Gusto device. Two such devices have been ordered. Amazon also sells the adapter but at 5 times the price of the others and they have to be imported as well.