Put the two together, in the center of the console, and you have a Tesla Model 3. Which, along with the fact that it is RWD, helped me to decide that it was the wrong car for my wife, however much she wanted one. She is distracted enough by the things outside her car as it is.

Good Lord, man, you win. If people are condescending towards me and I reply in kind, I am the bad person. If you read volumes into something that I write but I read anything into what you write, I am the bad person. People pick fights with me, but if I fight back, I am the one who is spoiling for a fight. Fine.

By the way, my original intent was to have both my picture & a link to Kenji’s article in the original post, but I am posting from my phone and it does not always work & play well with Kinja. I was struggling enough with getting the picture to upload that I went ahead and posted it, and was going to add a link as the…

You still have not read your own comment, have you?

I actually enjoy discussing things with people who disagree with me when they make their cases with facts in a reasonable fashion. I freely admit that I do not react well when people lead off with insults & ad hominem attacks. If everyone had disagreed with me like you did, this could have been an enjoyable thread…

Good to see that you are not a rude person.

But that is where you are reading your own biases into it. I simply shared something that I had tried that had made me perfectly happy. You are reading “proselytizing” and “technological messiah” into a very simple 38 word post. There are no “fighting words” in it, unless you read what you want into things. Judging by…

No, I am getting hung up on the fact that people keep throwing out the boiling thing, apparently intending it as an insult. I never would have mentioned it had they not done so themselves.

And hey — I still prefer film to digital, and will be very sad when my venerable Canon A-1 finally bites the dust. But I would never waste a moment arguing that, when it is hard to beat the convenience of digital. Just a matter of preference.

And that is absolutely fair. I may disagree, but I accept your own disagreement (and how you stated it.)

Are you for real? Read your own original reply to me, which was completely douche-like, judgmental of people about whom you know absolutely nothing, and ridiculously rude. It certainly made me cross Texas off off any lists, and made it clear that you suck at everything.

And since you took the time to write a detailed response making a comparison from experience, I freely accept that you prefer the one over the other. Good on you, and I accept your reasons regardless of whether or not I personally agree. If anyone else had taken the time to do the same, there would be no reason to…

Allen was a prince. While Ray Harryhausen & Willis O’Brien deserve every bit of credit that they get, the likes of David Allen & Jim Danforth deserve more recognition than they get outside of dedicated fanboys like me.

You certainly fit the stereotype of stupid Texans who judge everything without having experienced it. Bless your heart for extending your inherent bigotry to foodstuffs as well.

It has turned into a Man of Steel debate.

Forgetting the car itself for a moment, that commercial was animated by the late great David Allen, who worked on movies like Q the Winged Serpent, The Howling, Caveman, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and many a Charles Band production such as Robot Jox and Puppetmaster. Plus, prior to the VW commercial, he was one of the…

Sure you have.

And, you are being condescending again. I know full well about chemistry, and am quite familiar with the Maillard reaction. You never eat sous-vide meats right out of the bag — they are always finished on the grill, stove, or oven — as I pointed out in my original post. A steak cooked sous-vide and then finished…

If you do not wish for people to be condescending towards you, then you should probably stop being so condescending towards them. I was simply replying to you in the same manner that you were addressing me — and no, I should not have done so, because tit-for-tat is childish & counterproductive.

Yes. And sous-vide is more than just boiling. (It is not boiling at all, despite what people keep insisting.) The point is that different paths can lead to equally delicious destinations. And if you can get just as good results with less effort, then ideological purity is pointless.