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  • The main problem (in my opinion) is that industrialization of food happened after Native American and Anglo-American food systems combined. (And that combination was enforced by the displacement and confinement of Native Americans).

    There aren’t many restaurants providing Native American food as it was eaten 200 years ago. Similarly, there aren’t many restaurants providing English-American food as it existed 200 years ago. Most foods we eat could not have existed back then due to things like selective breeding, long distance shipping, and refrigeration.

    These advancements changed food all around the world, and many foods were invented that couldn’t have existed before. Later waves of immigration brought new foods to America that were already part of industrialized food.

    Many foods that Native Americans ate long ago are part of what is just considered “American food”. Just look at the list of vegetables that came from the americas during the Columbian exchange.

    With the rise in “farm to table”, I think there has been a bit of resurgence in Native American food, it might just not be labeled as such. You do have people like Sean Sherman who are really advocating for food that is explicitly Native.







  • I’m pretty disappointed in scishow for this one. Usually, they are pretty good.

    There are, in fact, deep conceptual flaws. There are a lot of grifters trying to sell ideas to fight climate change that can be easily defeated by high school level math. They try and spin the obvious shortcomings as “engineering challenges” where you could figure out a way to make it more efficient if only you invested in them enough. The math just doesn’t even check out at 100% efficiency.

    Potential energy is m x g x h. Let’s do the math for the Burj Khalifa. The top floor is at 585 meters. According to their published fact sheet, there are 57 elevators, and the service elevator has a capacity of 5500 kg. Let’s pretend that every elevator has this capacity, and they all go to the top. It would store 5500 x 57 x 9.8 x 585=1.797 GJ. This is about 500 kWh, or about the energy used by 17 average American homes for a day.

    According to wikipedia, the cheapest Tesla has a 57 kWh battery, so if there are 10 electric cars in the parking garage, they can store more energy than all the elevators.

    Hyperloops have the exact same issue, the math never checks out, so any company promoting them is fraudulent.


  • You don’t need a sous vide machine to do that, especially for something that only needs 30 minutes.

    Take a cooler, and fill it with water at the right temp. You can add boiling water or room temp water to adjust up or down. Depending on what you’re cooking, you can aim for a few degrees over to account for the temp of the food dropping the water temp. With 12 yolks, I don’t think it’s necessary. Then just stick your food in and close it up. Depending on how big your food is, how big/good your cooler is, you might want to check the temp a couple times throughout the cook.