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When you develop a recipe, how do you choose a good oven temperature? What are some general guidelines? What type of dishes or ingredients would prompt you to choose a specific oven temperature? What about higher temperature vs. longer cooking time?

Background: I'm asking because I just cooked a vegan "gratinated" dish for 70 minutes and everything turned into a mush! Should I have selected 250°C instead of 220°C to facilitate faster evaporation?

(Speaking of °C, if you could give °C that would simplify reading for me but I will convert the temperatures myself if you won't.)

Many thanks in advance!

I cannot generally enable the password protected screen saver where I sysadmin. The people work sporadically at the workstations and when they do, they need to access it without delay; they have their hands full with reagents and cannot type a password. Convenience trumps security.

I could, however, enable it after 17:00 and before 07:30, at night. Any mechanism to achieve that needs to work flawlessly. I can do GPOs or install something on each workstation. We have PCs and terminal servers.

Any ideas?

PS: I cannot believe Windows has no native mechanism for that, it's such an obvious use-case?

EDIT: Problem fixed by spamming the lv 20 dungeon!

Ok, please help a noob out, ideally with hints&ideas so I can fix this generally.

Level 22 cannoneer on a free account. Probably bad gear, 20 blue/green. I know how to kite and kill normal silver mobs, I may take my time but I'll get there. Now this quest boss, Lvl 24 Pelo, is among fast respawning mobs in a very full map, so I can't kite it properly, I end up drawing half the map and then die to the ranged mobs. That quest mob is unkillable for me, so I can't continue the quest line. I've also idled at the spot for literally hours hoping that somebody mightier who follows the questline might arrive, but nobody came. My inventory is fu

There must be some expert tomato growers here - a question for you.

My tomatoes set blossoms and little fruit early on but they take ages to grow and ripen, while the plants grow lots and lots of unneeded green during the time. I'd rather have them put their power into the fruit that are already there instead of making more stupid leaves and more blossoms that'll never fruit. I need the fruit to ripen weeks earlier than they do.

I'm growing Gardeners Delights in gardening soil amended with a whole bucket of compost and two handsful of horn chips (for nitrogen) per plant. I'm (obviously) unwilling to use fungicidal sprays and rather not use chemical fertilizers instead. I'm not invested in

Dear Indy!

Ö and O and different sounds! But english native speakers will be readily able to pronounce it because they use a similar vocal, the schwa, everywhere. Like, everywhö. Well, it's not the same but will be close enough to start you off.

Say "her". Now leave the "r", but keep the "h" for this. Hö. Pucker your lips slowly while going Höööööööö to make the sound cleaner. Hö. Now say Hötzendorf.

Easy!

Thanks for a great show!

I'd like to catch the upcoming rainfall to help me through our "dry" season in early spring, but it's really too early and I fear frosts may freeze the water in the rainbarrel and destroy it.

Are there any tricks to keep it from freezing too easily or to direct the expansion of the ice?

I would wrap the barrel in leftover foil and fleece and would find a way to cover it with fleece or something more solid so that the cold air does not pool inside.

Any more ideas?

Limited power, no running water, I'm only there for an hour in the afternoon if the weather allows.

5th crockpot dish today, goulash. I used same parts meat, bell peppers, onions, as usual, plus some carrots and for liquids a small can of tomatoes and a dash of red wine. When I went, it was packed tightly and the top layer was left high and dry, when I came after 8 hours, I had soup. Nothing wrong with goulash soup, but that was not what I intended to have.

I solved this by adding noodles directly into it so they could soak up some of the moisture, but I originally wanted a different filler.

So ... how do you handle this problem?

I tried seeding into bowls and later transplanting into multipots with several biennials this year. I learned that the forgetmenots don't mind much, but the viola very much do, only a few grow properly now.

Is there a rule of thumb that could tell me when it is OK to transplant vs. when I should seed directly?

So, to share a mistake among all these neat success photos!

This evening I spotted these nasties on one of my cabbage plants. I've already noticed the damage on some leaves but attributed it wrongly to slugs. Now, everywhere you could google you'll be told to use insect netting, which I of course use. And it does in fact help against cabbage butterflies and a host of other pests.

Unfortunately it does not help against stupidity.

How did the infestation get through the net? Well, I like to pregrow my plants in pots in the cold frame, which in summer is often open to allow unfiltered sunlight onto the plants and prevent overheating. You see

I've occasionally stumbled across the claim that plants do maintenance work at night, much like us mammals do during sleep.

1. Is this true? Or can I use my LED lighting to provide seedlings with light 24/7 when the sun is down?

2. If it is indeed true, how long does this phase without light have to be? Is one hour of "sleep" enough?

3. And how dark does it actually have to be? Moonlight-dark is obviously dark enough, but could I use a desk lamp somewhat far away without covering the seedlings?

Maybe someone in a better position to compare could name a brand. I was testing sound qualities of android tablets in the shop last year, and they were all really atrocious, much worse than even my aging ASUS netbook. Right next to the sound quality on the speaker phones of my mobile in both quality and loudness.

Now I've got around to test the sound quality of ipads, and they were good enough for my purposes (online TV/Radio/youtube). Nothing to write home about, but far from what I've heard a year ago in the shops.

What's a tablet with decent enough sound output, comparable to the ipads, so that you could listen to online TV streams while having a bit of background noise, eg. while cooki

Pickled cucumbers are good for dieting, right? Eat 3 cukes, be able to postpone the next meal for another hour at a negligible calorie cost. That was my experience at least. So 2 days ago, I resorted once again to the pickled cukes tactic, but became ravenously hungry instead, and succumbed (a bit)!

WTF?

The next day I casually checked the ingredients list. What's a list of ingredients you'd expect in pickled cucumbers? Cukes, water, vinegar, spices, salt, and a little sugar. Checking the ingredients list I also found:

Aspartame.

The little fuckers, they put aspartame in the pickled cucumbers. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener, but also triggers hunger and quickens the mast of pigs an