Iâd go with that. I still do what my mother used to do when we lived in Singapore - put grains of rice in the salt. If I didnât, the Plywood Shack being so damp, it would go clumpy.
By choice, paella rice. The tiny grains of paella rice are particulary absorbent, which is a key feature of making paella. Once the water has been added to the rice it is the traditional technique to never stir it nor add water. If the proportions and timing are just right there will be toasted, crusty layer of rice at the bottom. This is âsocorratâ in Valenciano.
Mi amigo Fernando lives in a town south of Valencia city. The nick-name for people from Xativa is âsocorratsâ because back in the day they picked the wrong side in a war of succession, were defeated and the town burned down - turned into âsocorratâ. Itâs a name theyâre proud of, now.
When I was buying rice at a shop in Mercado Central, Valencia, the trader and his amigo, along for a chat, saw that I had bought a lid to go on my paellera.
âNoooo! Never use a lid! If it looks as if it is going to be a bit dry when it as absorbed all the water you put in, lay 3-4 sheets of damp newpaper over the pan. The rice will absorb the moisture from the newspaperâ
I really wouldnât recommend this. If you do this and start up the drive whilst the platters are still below zero, youâre likely to get a head crash which will seriously damage the drive surface and head. Condensation on the electronics will also not help a lot.
That was my thought too. Didnt we used tap them lightly to jolt the head mechanism back into life? A tech friend found a local service to get the data off the disk but price was eye watering.
I should clarify - you donât take the thing straight out of the freezer and into a drive bay - you do want to let it warm up a bit first (still in the Ziploc bag). I have used this method sucessfully.
Fair comment, there is a risk, but if the drive is currently unreadable, then itâs worth a try IMHO - unless your data is really valuable in which case as @Corona mentioned you will be best to send it straight to a data recovery service - but expect to pay a lot!
Internal or external, there should be at least one backup of each (assuming the data is stuff you could not stand to lose!) - and ideally an extra copy off the premises, either in âthe cloudâ or as a physical copy.
Otherwise if you have a house fire you could still lose everything.
But thatâs a counsel of perfection I know most people either have no backups or only one.
External. 2 are connected and disconnected as required and I enter all transactions on no.1 then update no. 2 from it. Once a month no.1 is updated to no.3.
Admittedly all are in the house but not much choice with that unless I kept one in each car and the caravans.
The internal compartment is sealed that has the platters and drive heads but the main electronics are on an external board.
Edit : Interestingly, if you put the electronics inside the drive would quickly fail due to outgassing from the chip encapsulation material. Any electronics inside the sealed compartment have to be either not encapsulated, i.e bare silicon or use very special and expensive encapsulation materials.
Note : Only helium filled drives are truly hermetically sealed. Most others have a filter which may or may not allow moisture ingress.
I feel another Recipe moment is due⌠unless someone can find some really Cheerful News
Neighbours are hoping to taste some of my special homemade chocolates today/tomorrow⌠and my cheerful news is that Iâve found my secret chocolate supply, so the neighbours might be luckyâŚ
I sympathise @Stella but I think you have to accept in any conversation there is a tendancy to drift, very often as a result of, in this case, cheerful news being shared.
I am not interested at all in the innards of the stuff I use, as long as it keeps working, but simply allow myself to speed read until I spot something interesting to me.
Here you are then, following the flight of my son from Bangkok to Macau today I see with a sigh of relief that his plane has safely landed, albeit almost an hour late.
Also send some of those chocolates round here, they will be gratefully received, especially as I darenât buy chocolate being something of an addict.
Iâve tried to think how watching paint dry could be useful in any degree, let alone âsignificantlyâ.
But no. Nothing comes to mind - unless thatâs the point ⌠ommmmmm.
A group of friends who bought a large house in which to engage in esoteric navel gazing painted the whole place with 50mm brushes as an exercise in combatting âend-pointismâ.
I made a platted Easter bread last night, using fennel, cardamom, mixed spice and lemon zest, sprinkled with sesame seeds and glazed with lemon syrup last night. The flavour was amazing, but unfortunately it should be eaten on the day of baking.
However I used to watch materials freeze at the moment of crystal formation and also subsequent drying of the frozen product. The good news is that this gave useful insight into the freeze drying process and helped me to make a better product.
Friday, my smaller dog literally chewed on his new IATA crate and popped out one of the side grates; I came home to him wedged halfway out the 5" x 15" opening.
Saturday, I picked up some trazadone.
Saturday, yesterday, and today, some crate training sessions. Today was 45 minutes and itâs working!
Five weeks today from travel day to Paris, a 10 hour flight, so heâll be in there for 12 hours. You can do it, Obi Juan, I have faith in you! #SmallWins
