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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2376 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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Well, it's happened. The pressures of our household have driven a push to use a fire to help with some of the bitchwork of cooking. There is going to be a push to use fire to cook our meat.

The method involves using fire to heat up a vessel that will contain meat. So I figured I'd get this set up in the backyard so I could be familiar with it. Also, for reasons, we aren't going to be allowed to use metal. so last night I dug a pit, put wood in it and got my humble plastic bowl. I tried to cook the simplest meal, some steak and berries.

The first thing that happened as I put the steak in the plastic bowl and placed it directly in the burning fire is that the bowl started to melt almost immediately. This poisoned the meat. No matter how I moved the bowl within the fire the melting only got worse and I burned my hands painfully in the process. Next I tried to throw the berries into the blaze and was rewarded only with foul smelling smoke.

I know a lot of people reading this are AI evangelist. Where did I go wrong? What the fuck do people see in this shit?

You used tools no one would ever have advised you to use, in a way no one would ever advise you to use them in. There isn't like one or two things that you could tweak to fix this performance. open up a free chat gpt chat and just ask it what you should do to to get started.

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