u/Exe0n

I've been using a simple wired bluetooth probe for a while now.

My issue is that it's a single probe, and bluetooth means my phone needs to be in close proximity at all times.

I've been looking at different wireless wifi thermometers.

I've boiled my choice down to the Typhur, because Thermoworks isn't available here, and I've heard quite a few mixed reviews from Meater.

So I'm debating getting a Typhur Sync Quad, or a sync quad gold.

While I don't need 4 probes most of the time, I often need 3.

I have a small garden, so my base station would probably be around 10m max away from my Egg.

This would include one wall and the egg itself.

I have found good deals for both models, the Sync quad regular going for 145€ and the Sync Quad gold for 220€.

It's a substantial price difference, the gold version has higher heat resistant probes (although 400c vs 500c I never go near that) but it also has sub 1Ghz connection on top of the Bluetooth.

Basically the connection between the base and probes should be much stronger.

I wonder however if this is necessary in my case, I don't want to have connectivity issues, but I also don't want to overspend for a feature I may not ever need.

I love the patch, and the trader is a nice addition, however Embark mentioned the intention is to offload stash items.

While the trader does this to some extent, most people aren't going out of their way to kill big arc unless they need the parts.

Our stashes are filled with guns and materials to build loadouts.

Things like magnetic accelerators, exodus modules, as well as the epic/purple items you find in Stella should be considered for the trader.

While it's still going to be good to take out a wandering bastion, or a queen/Matriarch, unless you actively hunt them, you are not getting the new items.

I love PvE and dabble in PvP, but I already see it's going to be quite hard for PvP players to get anything out of the trader.

I'm not saying every item should be able to be bought with guns, but I don't think a bombardier cell is particularly rarer than a Geiger counter.

Perhaps in next week's rotation we'll see those items being requested, which would be fine as well, I just don't think players will be happy to only fill the materials with one specific content part of the game.

New content, weapon, attachments, partially reverting some controversial changes.

Good balance changes, Anti cheat update. Embark needed a win, it doesn't solve everything obviously and there are likely going to be some issues and complaints, but compared to the last few patches this feels like a breath of fresh air.

About every game when I load in with +29 minutes left I'll see several flares go off on open maps.

I sometimes see it up close, naked kit, spawn surrender repeat.

Players attempting to get into friendlier lobbies on purpose for likely varying reasons.

While I understand why Embark has added ABMM to the game, it's very easy to exploit the system.

I don't understand why they don't implement anything to improve the current system.

A couple of months ago, while we definitely saw more aggression on trios, 80% of my duo lobbies were generally speaking friendly.

This mattered especially for Queen and Matriarch.

At some point I stopped doing those events, as I had queen reactors to spare.

With the last expedition I once more need to do PvE activities which generally speaking require multiple teams to engage the queen/matriarch.

However, no matter how friendly our solo matches are, the second I do duo's all bets are off, it's not even mixed, it's muted, shoot on sight lobbies.

I kind of expect this in Stella, and I enjoy the PvP aspect of the game a lot.

However I have no way to bring friends to a big arc event anymore.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or perhaps my friends have a much more aggressive matchmaking then they claim to have?

So little bit of context, I love coffee as will everyone here, and I've considered roasting shortly, but my wife basically said not a chance I'm buying another appliance for a new hobby.

Slow cooking on a kamado is something I've been doing for a while, and I recently ordered a rotisserie.

I then saw you can add a basket to the rotisserie and to my surprise one of the images was coffee beans.

Basically a Kamado with a rotisserie would be a charcoal oven.

It's very fuel efficient and it can sit between 100-300c either directly above the fire or indirect with a plate setter.

Temperatures are extremely stable, however once you go up, there is no going down.

So if roasts require lowering temperature mid roast that would be harder.

So I'm wondering if it is possible to roast coffee for espresso purposes and get something similar to buying roasted coffee from a local coffee shop?

I'm likely going to buy a rotisserie this season, from what I can tell the Joetisserie is pretty well regarded everywhere, but it still comes at a hefty price.

I've recently seen all kinds of brands pop up that have similar, and even identical designs.

I can get a very similar concept for half the price of the Joetisserie, but obviously these are brands I have no experience with, and I was wondering about your experiences.

I'm considering getting a Rotisserie, It's a different way of cooking vs indirect and I do wonder for things like ribs how it compares to slow cooked fall off the bone ribs?

Is rotisserie ribs more akin to grilling ribs, but with less margin of error?

I'd like to know your experience with them.

In my region the official BGE brand is around 400€, the Joetisserie sits at 300€ and most aftermarket units sit around 200-220€ although go on sale often.

I'm currently able to buy one of said aftermarket brands, labeled to work with both the BGE large and KJ3 classic for around 110€, so it's almost 1/4th the price of the official brand.

Is there anything I need to know about brand difference here? I've hear many don't allow for the lid to fully close, though most claim it's not an issue.