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To: frank ballenger
We bought my mom an air fryer for Christmas. I was not at all interested in yet another countertop appliance for myself that I used for only one thing, but she wanted one, so okay.

I was over there last weekend and she had been doing chicken wings, sweet potatoes fries, and coconut shrimp. She reheated a rare filet mignon that was still rare after heating. She was thrilled. She heated a bone-in ham steak in it for me to try and I have to admit….that was the best ham steak I’ve ever had.

46 posted on 01/05/2023 4:17:54 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: ponygirl

Sounds interesting. I am always around 3 steps behind everyone else in such advances. A late adopter.

Opposite is the award winning SF writer Robert Silverberg.
Self-proclaimed early adopter. He was one of the first owners of a Mazda rotary engine car. Convinced everyone would have one soon-——went out of production for good.

He also bought the Betamax for videotapes which lost to the common models VHS (”Video Home System”) which we all had soon after. At the start many said of the two types available the Betamax would win. Didn’t.

Forgotten names: Laserdisc (high quality but not for your own recording of TV).
and
The Telcan, produced by the Nottingham Electronic Valve Company and demonstrated on June 24, 1963, the first home video recorder.


49 posted on 01/05/2023 4:33:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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