[penguicon-general] Food track - Take 2

[M.J. de Blanc]

Will Eric and Howard Taylor being doing a hot sauce tasting again? (My
apartment hosted a pepper one once. Mmm. Spicyness.)

Oh, and I could -co-host an Asian Pantry. I only know about Japanese and
Thai foods, though I don't know -where- anything is in MIchigan.

Also, for that matter, are we doing chupaquesoes and liquid nitrogen ice
cream again? (Are these things just accepted as Penguicon facts?)

On 2/15/07, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I should know better than be loose with my language on a group like
> this.   High Amperage systems was what I should have said, you are one
> hundred percent correct.
>
> And I agree completely with your statement about extension cords.  The
> standard one are, AFAIC, fires waiting to happen.   I figure I should be
> able to draw, through one extension cord, enough current to blow it's
> associated breaker, without producing unusual heating .. . A attitude I
> received from my father, when we were wiring houses, and he showed me the
> process of Making a good extension cord. . . And explained that the other
> ones mostly suck because the manufacturers want a pretty easy to flex cord,
> so they use braided copper (or aluminum), and then are too cheap to use
> enough of it to handle a real current load.
>
> I hate it when companies use cheap as an excuse to risk lives, and then
> think warning labels covers their responsibility.
>
> Anyway, back off my soap box.
>
> -Chuck
>
>
> On 2/15/07, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2/15/07, chuck child < chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yep, High voltage draw items, like popcorn poppers, electric heaters,
> > > and hair dryers can be extremely touchy about cheap extension cords.
> > >
> >
> > Nitpick: These are not "high voltage draw" items. They plug into, and
> > receive, the same 110 volts as everything else. They are a high current
> > (amps) draw. High current is what blows fuses and pops circuit breakers, and
> > melts cheap extension cords (which, when you get right down to it, are just
> > a type of fuse....)
> >
> >
> >
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