Your Favorite Invention Since the Internet?

bardberic wrote: VultureCulture07 wrote: mathman0806 wrote: The air fryer. I use it all the time. This my friends, is a correct answer. I can't tell if this is a meme or people are serious. I don't f**king get the big deal. I'll stick to normal toasters, thank you. Although, I think I'm more annoyed at the name than anything else - air fryers don't actually fry food - it's a glorified toaster with a fan in it. Why is it called an air fryer, like why?

I am serious in that I use it almost every day. It's great to have when heating frozen foods - taquitos, samosas, fries, tater tots, single serving pizzas, Texas toast, hashbrowns, egg rolls, and so on. Yes, it's basically a convection oven. Air is used to circulate heat and oil, which you spray onto your food. This basically produces a Maillard reaction simulating you get when you deep fry. Not exactly the same but that is where the name comes from. The advantage of an air fryer over an oven is size and time it takes to heat up. It also emits less heat and uses less power. It's easy to use. It's a decent alternative to deep frying, which can get messy and is less healthy.

Now there are toaster oven sized convection ovens that are marketed as air fryers and I have been considering getting one of those.

It's definitely a favorite. I also use my electric pressure cooker and immersion circulator for sous vide frequently.

The smartphone is certainly up there. But it's only useful to me because of the Internet. I do most all social media, Web browsing, and music streaming through my phone.

The vacuum cleaner. Now I can stop picking up lint and hairs with my hands or my mouth.

progaardvark wrote: The vacuum cleaner. Now I can stop picking up lint and hairs with my hands or my mouth. I also second the wheel. I don't use it as much as I used to, unless I'm making socks or grilled cheese sandwiches.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: The ipod and the ability to have my entire music collection in my pocket I'll second that but entire collection? How much storage do you have? I have a custom built Classic with 365GB. My old 160GB version was ok but died and I decided to upscale.

I'd also add the Sony Playstation, which first went on sale in Europe and America in 1995, two years after the Internet was first made available to the general public.

Stressed Cheese wrote:  I can still make fries and frikandellen and kroketten (very important if you're dutch like me).

mathman0806 wrote: The smartphone is certainly up there. But it's only useful to me because of the Internet. I do most all social media, Web browsing, and music streaming through my phone.

Edited by someone_else - May 07 2023 at 04:38

suitkees wrote: dwill123 wrote: Linux.  It's free. And it is not only free, it gives you back control over your computer (and no, I'm not a computer geek, that's why I use Linux Mint). I could join the eulogies for the Airfryer to... Otherwise, fresh air is not bad either...