Tag: equipment failure

  • Loose leaf tea post

    It looks nice in a photo, but there is clearly an equipment failure here: tea leaves scattered about, and a big clump of tea in the bottom of the cup, getting stronger and more bitter with each passing moment. 

    You can get fancy French presses for tea, you can brew loose in a pot and strain it as you pour, you can buy a tea ball that contain your tea and put that straight into your pot or mug. But don’t just dump loose tea into a cup and use your teeth to strain it!

  • Crazy pizza slicing post

    To truly understand the debate between square and triangle-cut pizza slices, one must first delve into the origination of square slices. Like most food origin stories, it’s tough to pin down the exact details. However, it’s well known that Sicilian-style pizza is baked in rectangular-shaped cookware, and it makes sense that a rectangular pie would be cut into square shapes.

    Cutting pizza slices into triangles is a tried-and-true tradition, one that has basic geometric principles to thank for its impressive simplicity. Unlike square-cut slices, triangle cuts assure that every slice is of uniform shape and size. Uniformity is key when sharing your pizza with others, as it’s generally easier to serve your friends and family equal portions when pizza is sliced into triangles. While it’s true that some pizza shops play it fast and loose when it comes to the sizes of slices, you can usually expect balanced portions with this method.

    This pizza fails all possible shape metrics!