We shall see! I've been trying to slowly dial into the best mac & cheese recipe for a quick service application like a food truck or concession stand. Requirements include 1) doing it right... whatever that means, 2) Sort of made to order in that it's always consistent and perfect at time of service, and 3) Highlights the rest of the menu
I'm not a fan of the "bake it into one huge mac and cheese block" style
which seems to be the norm in those environments
I want noodles in a sauce, not a casserole made of noodles stuck together with cheese
Yeah, dessert isn't really a deal breaker... but I mean... crap... I can't even have carrots... let alone bread. Makes eating a lot more expensive when you can only eat meat or vegetables.
it could turn out that you can easily reflect back 50% of the power, but that you only get your 900 degrees if you reflect at least 90% of the power or something like that
I usually use a ceramic kamado style grill for pizza, but even that I don't usually dare to go higher than 700. You start to melt gaskets and stuff at those temps.
It would be super cool to be able to do it in the oven.
@Preston Ah, that may be part of it; however, it's easy to have a menu or navigation bar that is only displayed on big screens. Lots of popular Wordpress themes have that. And, on small screens, you get a hamburger menu instead.
For the backers. Kickstarter projects should offer tangible rewards. Things to excite people. Swag. This just offers a discount. Then they try to make it look like there are multiple backer levels but... they're all pretty similar
Could be. But the backer scheme is one of the reasons why I said they know their marketing. I'm pretty sure they will make a lot more money with that scheme than with a standard one.
I wouldn't back something that doesn't offer me something special. This is just a slight discount in return for a long term pre-order. You pay now and don't get your product for over half a year.
I'll wait until they're in Restaurant Depot or Walmart for 3/4 the price.
fwiw I'm sure they're trying to make a lot of money and it's not the cheapest way to get one ultimately, assuming it works well, but I suspect it does work reasonably well, heard about it at work
The biggest challenge of marketing that kind of product. You do the legwork to promote it, then some nameless shell company in China makes all the profit.
and when I say "make a lot of money" I don't necessarily mean profit; I'm sure it's pretty expensive to create something like this and get it actually made as an individual person so if you judge it by normal commercial price standards you're gonna be a ways off
@Jefromi you are right, the production cost will be much more expensive for them. On the other hand, for something which we buy off the shelf, the actual production cost is frequently almost negligible
well, not for metal, that does cost something
for things like jeans or cornflakes, it can be about 1% of the price paid by the end customer
The butter mountain and the milk lake happened when farmers kept producing more because they got subsidised per kg/litre, even when they produced more than they could possibly sell. I believe subsidies are now lump sums.
but things like it being greener (because it is sold in reusable glass bottles instead of tetrapacks, because it is produced within 200 km of here instaed of being flown in from China) and knowledge that milk farmers are pretty badly paid are nice boni in justifying that decision to myself.
Well here they don't actually have to go through with producing the product for it to be destroyed. It's just figured based on the amount of farmland they own and could potentially use to farm. King Corn is a good doc about it
@Cerberus Yeah. Corn is in pretty much all manufactured food in the US in some shape or another. So the prices are important. They screw around with it regularly.
she herself only produces small amounts of organic milk (actually hers is Demeter, which is more strict, but customers are willing to pay more) and mostly makes her own cheese and sells it on regional markets. So she does not deliver to the big guys, usually, but she is big enough (this is her family's main source of income) to keep abreast of the trends in farming.
Honestly I try not to think about the globalization of food and the (about seven?) multinational companies that own almost all of the food supply. It freaks me right out.