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  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzForbidden Gummies
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    27 days ago

    As someone who grows figs in their living room:

    Most commercial (and even hobbyist) fig varieties are parthenocarpic, meaning they don’t require pollination.

    And fig wasps don’t look like that. They’re tiny little guys that most people would probably mistake for a very small ant.

    And even if the fig was pollinated by a wasp, it uses enzymes to break down the insects body, to protect itself from mold and other pathenogens that such may cause.

    Basically; fig waps are itsy bitsy wittle wupies, while figs are digesting their dead mothers corpses, because they are metal as fuuuuuck.



  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoMemes@sopuli.xyzEternal fire
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    2 months ago

    For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.

    For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.

    Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.

    So unless you are broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.

    Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.

    There’s also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.