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▲ 85 r/popcorn

I feel so silly, not ever realizing how easy stovetop popping is.

All my life I assumed that making popcorn on the stove must be very difficult.

After all, that must be why they developed a specialized bag for microwaving it. There must be something about that bag that makes it work which you can't replicate on a stove.

Barring that, they have specialized commercial equipment to pop popcorn. It can't be that easy.

Even discarding those, you have the air popping machines which must be providing the perfect environment for popping corn.

And setting all that aside, surely the Jiffy Pop things are just masterfully calibrated to make it all work.

Big popcorn got me. I've been living in ignorance. Just heat up some oil in a pot, throw the kernels and flavacol in, and swirl them around occasionally until popcorn is done is not a reality that even occurred to me.

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u/JustHereForMiatas — 15 hours ago
▲ 6 r/whatsthisplant+1 crossposts

What type of honeysuckle is this and should I remove it?

I've heard some of these are good and others are invasive. Which type is this, and is it worth keeping?

Fwiw the bees love it.

This is in central NY, USA. Also, this thing grows obnoxiously fast. I cut it about 2 feet off the house last year and it's already touching it again.

u/JustHereForMiatas — 24 hours ago
▲ 5 r/GoogleMaps

Google maps just removed 3d renderings for my city?

A couple weeks ago my city in central NY got full 3d renderings in the desktop version of Google Maps. Today, they're all gone and it's back to the older maps. Google earth pro shows the new renderings, but only flattened down to 2d; the 3d renderings are all gone.

Is this normal? I don't understand why Google would go to the effort of making 3d renderings of an area, only to pull them back two weeks later.

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u/JustHereForMiatas — 3 days ago
▲ 3 r/HomeMaintenance

Best solution for thisgiant gap around an exterior door frame.

Had to open up the walls in my rear vestibule for an unrelated fix. I found that the door has a gigantic roughly 1 inch gap around the right side and top with no bolstering, insulation or support beyond a couple of wood screws. (Frankly, this might explain a lot of the winter heat loss around this part of the house.)

How would you go about fixing this? Would you just put shims in there, or does this much of a gap call for a whole new door and frame?

u/JustHereForMiatas — 5 days ago
▲ 35 r/arborists

How do I get productivity out of this absolutely enormous apple tree in my back yard?

Just bought this house last year, but was renting before that.

There's an absolutely huge apple tree towards the back of the property. Last year I was convinced that it was dead: most of the branches didn't have any leaves or flowers and bore no fruit.

This year it looks a lot more lively, so I'm wondering what I'f have to do to get it to produce apples.

FYI: I'm not 100% sure what type of apple tree it is either. I live in Cortland NY so I'd like to think it's Cortland apples. I'd estimate that it's at least 20-25 feet tall.

u/JustHereForMiatas — 10 days ago
▲ 81 r/Pizza

Quick & dirty pie I made last week

Title says it.

20 minute bread flour "tavern style" dough recipe, thrown in the fridge for a couple days to slow proof, leftover sauce from the week before (Stanislaus Full-Red Crushed as the base) a tiny bit if salt and parm, and pearl mozzarella. Cooked at 550F on a pizza stone for 7 minutes.

u/JustHereForMiatas — 11 days ago
▲ 10 r/AskElectricians

I'm looking to bring my house to code, and would like to add running boards above the pictured romex runs as part of that project. That means a lot of unstapling.

What's the best way/tool to remove the existing staples with minimal risk to the wire coatings?

u/JustHereForMiatas — 23 days ago
▲ 6 r/Syracuse

What's the farthest out that you'd consider to be still reasonably in the Syracuse metro region as a satellite city, suburb or exurb?

Auburn? Oswego? Cortland?

Asking purely out of curiosity.

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u/JustHereForMiatas — 23 days ago
▲ 78 r/centuryhomes

I'm a homeowner in the process of doing discovery for a rewiring job. Went into the attic (very tight space accessed through a scuttle), pulled away a piece of fiberglass insulation, and I can see straight down into the wall??

Was this ever a common building practice or is this a specialty job? I've worked on many old houses through Habitat and I always remember them having a top plate. It looks like they kind of sandwiched the beams between two joists, which is sort of technically providong the structure of a top plate, but I've just never seen it done like this.

Silver lining is that this should make it way easier to pull romex up to the attic.

After the rewiring is done, what should I be doing to mitigate the potential fire hazard this creates?

House is 1890s construction, northeastern US.

u/JustHereForMiatas — 24 days ago