This is absolutely the kind of part machinists point to when they complain about engineers. Would love to see what kind of tolerances they want on it.

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This is a cool idea! My recent hack for super easy unbroken tahdigs is to do the finishing step in a nonstick frying pan instead of a dutch oven. It's definitely easier, but it doesn't distribute heat the same way and the tahdig layer can be kind of two-dimensional. I'll try your trick next time!

Nothing's more satisfying than flipping over the pot at the end and getting a beautiful tahdig layer.

I use Naz Deravian's recipe from Bottom of the Pot as my baseline. A little fussier and in-depth than some of the other recipes I've seen online, but it comes out beautifully.

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Nothing tops persian rice with the crispy layer from the bottom of the pot. A little tricky to pull off well, but when you get the hang of it you can iterate on it a dozen different delicious ways.

Have you ever read Ben Fleuter's The Sword Interval? The early arcs nail the "monster hunting out of the back of a car" vibe hard, and even up to the final act there's a lot of that DNA still in the mix.

Unironically I think you're cooking with gas here. Satisfactory x Viscera Cleanup Detail mashup? Kinda like Shipbreaker for hazardous waste sites? Hell yeah.

Just threw it in a pan with the onions and mushrooms with some olive oil and a little salt.

Velella velella - they're colonial hydrozoans related to the Portuguese Man 'o War. Nowhere near as stingy, although I wouldn't handle them with bare hands. Every once in a while when the wind is right a whole shoal of them will end up on the beach.