My apartment power and stove is awaiting repairs, what can I get away with only cooking in my instant pot?

It isn't the large full size one, I think it's one size smaller. I know there's the typical slow cooker, pressure cook, sauté, and rice cooking options which are the only ones I use. But how far can I stretch this appliance as a stove replacement until my kitchen is fixed up? I'm unsure how powerful the heating is for that kind of cooking. One idea I had are those frozen pasta/chicken/veggie meal bags they sell at the store you sauté covered with some water for a bit to thaw/cook them through, but I only ever use those on the stove in a 12 inch skillet, not a small steel pot, unless I can just slow cook it and forget it. I also have a nuwave oven I may need to bust out for smaller baking tasks (basically a large air fryer with a dome you can cook larger stuff in).

I appreciate any and all advice, I'm sort of being forced into "college dorm" mode for now, and have never needed to rely on these secondary appliances so heavily.

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u/ihadaface — 6 days ago

Should I top my 5 year old Carolina reaper plant? It's slowing down

I only ask this because I had 4 other young plants I "accidentally" topped recently, I cut them all down because they were attracting mice, but they're all still alive and producing new leaves where they were cut. The reaper plant is maybe 5ft tall, but a lot of the bottom stems are brown and woody now, the plant is a bit lanky, and each year after overwintering the new growth moves more and more up. Plus, in my growing conditions I only yield a handful of reapers a year anyway.

This plant is a bit older, but could there be a way to top this and sort of "reset" the growth lower down so it can start bushing out again and getting new growth?

u/ihadaface — 1 month ago

[PC][DS3] Anyone wanna help me clear High Wall and kill dancer early?

I'm following a faith/str build guide that requires killing both the dancer and dragonslayer armor ASAP, as well as looting the areas for titanite. I'm only level 14 right now so far so the build is brand new. Bonus points if y'all are sun bros since I eventually need 30 medals for the miracle later

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u/ihadaface — 1 month ago

Need advice on best way to recreate my pve cleric roleplay build from DS1

I'm finishing up my DS1 replay and I recreated my very first build when I first played the game after launch, which was a cleric faith/strength build. My RP story was that I was another elite cleric from the Way of White sent to Lordran to clean up after Petrus, and finish up Leroy's job. I also read up lore on them collecting humanity and stuff so I'd only interact and progress relevant NPCs to what made the most sense.

I basically grabbed any miracles possible, upgraded from the club/mace, to large club, to great club +15 with the mace upgraded as backup for something quicker. Buffed them with sunlight weapon/moonlight weapon. Armor wise I just rocked either the cleric set upgraded until I got Paladin Leroy's set later. As for miracles I snatched up everything possible and used the stronger damage spells like great lightning spear/sunlight spear, wrath of gods. Stats I think is 60 faith, everything else relevant was soft capped (40), the build is level 160-something atm, It's extremely viable in pve, my poise is stupid high and I can just tank and bonk stuff, then back off to heal and spam lightning for a bit, then go back in. That's the playstyle essentially. I've only beaten DS3 one time when it came out, so I don't care about spoilers but I also never did a faith/str build so I don't remember where anything is or what's ideal meta-wise now for crushing pve. I just need advice on how to optimize if I stick to these kinda weapons, what rings to look out for, maybe what armor sets to seek out, etc. I wanna keep that "highly skilled cleric on a mission" vibe, and how to build up this playstyle to be fun/effective

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u/ihadaface — 2 months ago

How would I order a burger if I want a chicken version of the Monterrey Melt?

The chicken strip version was my first exposure to the melt like a decade ago, the beef one is good to but I slightly prefer the chicken strips. I attempted this once before a long time ago and they got all weird about it and acted confused like they couldn't change or sub what I wanted. I eventually gave up, but if I drove to my nearest location right now and attempted this (or via app), how would I go about configuring this for minimum drama for the kitchen?

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u/ihadaface — 2 months ago

I need help remembering a red lentil dal recipe I saw on reddit but can't find anymore

All I remember from the post was that it was this young guy recreating a super easy dal his mom would make for him, and it was super bare bones in ingredients. I remember red lentils, a couple jalapenos, a couple diced roma tomatoes (or a can of rotel to go even cheaper), and for spices it had a blend of regular stuff like cumin, turmeric, probably salt and pepper, there was probably a few more spices but they were all common, nothing specialized or specific to Indian cuisine, but it definitely had a strong pleasant Indian flavor/smell. I don't remember it having any fancy spicy oils, ghee, or other extra stuff. The end result I remember it being was like a lentil mash kind of, but extremely flavorful and filling. The guy who posted the recipe definitely described it as more of a low budget utilitarian kind of meal he could eat every day if he had to. It was portioned for one person but it made probably two meals worth.

If any of ya'll can remember what recipe I'm talking about, or maybe help fil in the gaps to achieve something close to what I remember making, that would help a lot. I'm craving it nowadays, but all the details are lost

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u/ihadaface — 3 months ago

Would shortening file names make the XTE 4 run faster (with crosspoint)?

I have several books with needlessly long file names, and nearly 2000 wallpapers also with long strings of numbers and letters as file names. I also just recently ran into an issue where now when the device sleeps, it fails to render a random custom wallpaper and just shows a blank white screen. I assume this is a super low powered device, so is there anything I can do to help it along?

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u/ihadaface — 3 months ago