Whats your latest purchase?

[great_big_abyss]

Holy balls it was a pita. For our car you have to remove the muffler, and of course a exhaust bolt breaks while doing so and yeah takes some massaging to get it in place!

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It was worth it to me to pay a guy to install the hitch receiver on my CX-5. I installed a hitch on my Altima ten years ago, and never again. Mesing around with exhaust bolts, drilling holes in my car frame and using fish wires is NOT my idea of fun. Also wiring from front to back.

 

[FreeKnight]

SS will heat up quick...but cuirious, how come SS and not cast iron?

TBH, Stainless heats up slower than cast iron, but usually cast iron is much thicker for cooking so it ends up taking longer (Cast iron has a lower heat capacity than even carbon steel, but a CI pan is usually 3-5x as thick). It's part of why stainless is harder to weld (along with the passive chrome oxide layer, material contamination, etc).

It's just what Napoleon sold. I imagine it's a combination of Stainless being their 'prestige' product lineups normally. I'd prefer stainless for an outdoor BBQ anyway, especially on a BBQ that can go well north of 700 when all the burners are on max. Besides the issue of rusting, I'm not sure I wouldn't butcher the seasoning pretty regularly on a CI griddle of this size in a BBQ.

Upside this is much thicker than I thought. Was worried they'd cheap out a bit and make it thin enough to feel cheap but this thing is sturdy.

 

[Marzipan]

TBH, Stainless heats up slower than cast iron, but usually cast iron is much thicker for cooking so it ends up taking longer (Cast iron has a lower heat capacity than even carbon steel, but a CI pan is usually 3-5x as thick). It's part of why stainless is harder to weld (along with the passive chrome oxide layer, material contamination, etc).

It's just what Napoleon sold. I imagine it's a combination of Stainless being their 'prestige' product lineups normally. I'd prefer stainless for an outdoor BBQ anyway, especially on a BBQ that can go well north of 700 when all the burners are on max. Besides the issue of rusting, I'm not sure I wouldn't butcher the seasoning pretty regularly on a CI griddle of this size in a BBQ.

Upside this is much thicker than I thought. Was worried they'd cheap out a bit and make it thin enough to feel cheap but this thing is sturdy.

my experience is that SS likes to warp...cast iron not so much.

 

[FreeKnight]

my experience is that SS likes to warp...cast iron not so much.

Likely a result of thickness of material. SS can warp, it's more ductile than carbon steel IIRC, but vastly less than say, copper.

Cast iron.... won't warp. It's basically brittle fracture or bust in CI. There's perks to that, as well as downsides.

 

[Marzipan]

a couple Hatsukokoro Sentan White #2 chuka-bocho cleavers. a 200mm with Kurouchi finish and a 170mm with a Migaki finish. the white #2 blades are clad in ss.

 

[Shadowarez]

got my hands on a new router for the network now i can move my older one to the garage and do a proper mesh setup.

to say the new router is huge is a understatement even the antenna's are insane. this should be last upgrade until i get my own place and can run cables through the walls/ceilings.

1. ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro (Office)

2. Asus ROG RT-BE96U (Garage)

 

[crazyea]

What did I do??

 

[sswilson]

What did I do??


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Heh.... you've been toying with buying one for the last week or so.... surprised it took you so long.

 

[crazyea]

To be honest I probably would have done it sooner but the $4000+ cards didn’t interest me. This one popped up so I ran over there.

 

[Jokester]

To be honest I probably would have done it sooner but the $4000+ cards didn’t interest me. This one popped up so I ran over there.

Jokes aside, enjoy!