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Grinders with lids that catch the grinds are widely available in supermarkets. |
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But you can't see when you have enough. |
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And before you go ranting off about how I am being negative, I will just say that your idea is new novel and worth a savoury peppery bun, but I am just thinking aloud about similar or substitutable products that are readily available. |
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What is the thing, that does the measuring? There is detaching. And funnelling. Even purchasing. |
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We may imagine a teaspoon underneath the funnel. When it's half full, we're ready. Or we may imagine a half-size teaspoon to be completely filled, or a quarter-sized teaspoon to be filled to heaping. |
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But where does the excess go?
If I remove the teaspoon does it all just fall and become a heaping teaspoon? |
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If you follow the process carefully, you will stop grinding shortly before you remove the teaspoon. Then the teaspoon will carry with it a half-teaspoonful of freshly ground black pepper. |
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Naturally you will have a proper comms strategy in place, and will tag out the grinder to ensure that no-one starts grinding again until the broader process is complete. |
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Please refer to the workplace safety executive for the proper mitigation strategy for the "ground pepper falling from a height" hazard. |
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My problem is that I often have ten or more people wanting teaspoons at once. So they all start grinding at the same time. And the teaspoon situation is unheard of. It's not a race, it's a catastrophe. |
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But I think now, I can visualize the system clearer[+]. If I simply tie 9 people to the kitchen island and only release 1 to grind pepper at a time, the problem is solved. |
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They did say something about too many cooks. |
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You could vote one of them off the island. People pay to watch that, apparently. |
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Smart cooks measure ground pepper according to the time of grinding. My best meals have no less than 30 seconds of pepper grinding. That way there's no problem with converting between measuring systems: teaspoon vrs imperial, apothecary avoirdupois and metric systems. |
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Time measurement is universal in all civilized societies. Isn't that amazing. Time must be incorporated in our DNA. |
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Heh, read a thing the other day. |
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"I switched all of the spices in my mom's spice rack around. She doesn't know it yet, but thymes uh cumin." |
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Long ago, in a village not far from here, I once thought why can't I keep the pepper I'm grinding on my yummy egg from falling on my bacon? Peppery bacon is not my thing. Or ham for that matter. |
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So a huge + and a bun, and a big turkey if that's your thing, and love all around. |
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+ This made me think that I have never measured pepper, so maybe I should try that. |
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