Do you find cooking and scale modeling are similar?

[urumomo]

Ya gotta go the sous vide route for Panzer III

 

[Airborne01!]

Ya gotta go the sous vide route for Panzer III

Aah, that explains it ... thanks mate!
Steve

 

[BarleyBop]

geez, how did I not see this one? Now I have to go back to 2019!

 

[Blackbeard]

Felt a bit tired from a long day at work. Burger, Steak fries in the air fryer, then coated in a tad of garlic butter, and parsely.

 

[TimM63]

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Felt a bit tired from a long day at work. Burger, Steak fries in the air fryer, then coated in a tad of garlic butter, and parsely.

Damn that looks good. (I'm hungry now)

 

[BarleyBop]

... so read through the thread last night while a wind storm raged, and loosened a bit of soffit. Not all the vids though, may sample them à la carte.

Cooking and scale modeling are absolutely the same!

I also believe that just about every activity that involves instructions are related: from house building plans to navigating maps to sewing patterns or knitting to recipes to puzzles to carpentry and auto mechanics and electronics... it is just the domain that changes, along with some specialized knowledge required for that specific domain.

They all involve a certain amount of dexterity, understanding of certain principles, repeatable tasks, sequencing of steps, visualization and the option to improvise with experience. Not saying that if you are a great cook you'll be a great modeler right off the bat, but you will have the basic abilities to make a go of it! (And vice-versa)

 

[BarleyBop]

A little kit bashing anyone?

Last December, as she headed out the door to walk the dog, my wife says: "do you mind starting on dinner?"

So I emptied the fridge onto the counter and along with day old pitas, divided ingredients into 4 piles: Indian, Japanese, Mexican and Italian...


All dressed and headed for the oven. I had so much fun!

Indian: tamarind sauce, curried fried paneer and eggplant, onion, assorted chutneys, cilantro

Japanese: miso tahini sauce, refried salmon, avocado, green onion, pickled ginger and black sesame seeds

Mexican: salsa sauce, green pepper, a bit of avocado, jalapeños, cheddar and crushed nacho chips

Italian: pesto sauce, red onion, prosciutto, green pepper, mozzarella, Italian herbs

Voilà!

If you are wondering why I have pics, I frequently text our dietician daughter in Montreal with concoctions and trial dishes, and she does the same.

 

[airdave]

I must admit, before I comment, that I have not read this entire thread.
In fact, I got about 3/4 way thru the first page and then jumped to the end of the book
(hoping to see the conversation had changed from "Marge's Recipe Corner" to "modeling for divorced dads")
It hadn't.

Do I find cooking and scale modeling similar?
Yes.
But only if we are talking about:
"things I can do with my two hands".
"things I do sitting down - if I can put up with the stool in front of my stove"
"things I like to eat - I enjoy melted plastic with a little chianti"
"things that cost way too much"
"things I don't need to put on clothes for"

Yes, if we're talking about literally any comparison of any two actions that a human can do.
No, if we are talking specifically about food and cooking, versus scale model building.

Sure, some people consider cooking a "hobby".
But I don't eat my scale models to stay alive.

Cooking is something that many have developed into a more enjoyable chore or requirement of life.
Model building is an enjoyable way to waste time and money and forget about life.

Cooking is something my wife wanted me to do once in a while.
Building models is something my wife didn't understand.

What has happened here?

 

[BarleyBop]

But I don't eat my scale models

Haha, but we do spend hours 'consuming' these pages!

 

[airdave]

So what you are saying is there is a similarity between reading (a cook book) and reading (these pages).
Reading is the same as reading.
Things that make you say hmmm...what the heck you talkin' bout willis?!

 

[Airborne01!]

I am a bear of very little brain - and it's hurting right now!
Steve

 

[Blackbeard]

So what you are saying is there is a similarity between reading (a cook book) and reading (these pages).
Reading is the same as reading.
Things that make you say hmmm...what the heck you talkin' bout willis?!

I think this thread devolved or evolved to a post your meal you cooked recently to show off cooking skills.

 

[mcs1056]

Here is some of mine...

 

[mcs1056]

Just kidding. I looked up "fake food for avdertising" and pasted them.

Did you know that they use Elmer's White glue to simulate milk in cereal ads?

Anyway, I'd like to see some of the better scratch builders tackle something like this, because I can't find an AMT BLT.

 

[BarleyBop]

fake food for avdertising

Haha! Totally modeling... dunno about now, but in 1982 I explored my way down from Tokyo to the Rykyu Islands (from where you might see Taiwan).
Anyhow, speaking very little Japanese, I would literally take the restaurant server to the window and point at the super realistic wax model of the dish I wanted to order!

 

[BarleyBop]

Fifteen years later found me renting a small flat for a week just outside of Ubd, in Bali. We'd hired a young lad to pick up breakfast and deliver it to us on his bike... usual fare would be nasi goreng (fried rice) which we would take on the patio, surrounded by rice paddies.

This morning was a good day, "got outta bed, dragged a comb across my head", called my wife down (she's not retired yet, lately working on some mind bending code debugging for wireless base stations), to my version of nasi goreng.


We use chopsticks most of the time, in Bali it would be a fork.

Again, emptied the fridge of leftovers: rice, Ramen, mackerel from Portugal; plus one egg, one small onion, cilantro, garlic, small sweet peppers, a blend of Indian spices and hot chili sauce from south east asia... and Chinese spiced peanuts to garnish!

I guess its no surprise that I live smack in the middle of Chinatown!

 

[Littlemarten]

Not really. Boiled, baked, or fried, styrene is hard to cook properly …

 

[BarleyBop]

Per Bubba:

"Anyway, like I was sayin', styrene is the fruit of the bench. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. There's uh, styrene-kabobs, styrene creole, styrene gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple styrene, lemon styrene, coconut styrene, pepper styrene, styrene soup, styrene stew, styrene salad, styrene and potatoes, styrene burger, styrene sandwich. That- that's about it."

 

[Airborne01!]

You've forgotten Formica Fritters and Polystyrene-coated Peanuts - although they're considered a tad Retro now ...
Steve