{"id":6849,"date":"2004-12-22T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-white-trash-overlords\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:53","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-our-new-white-trash-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-white-trash-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, welcome our new white trash overlords&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/brewing_beer\/DSCN0213.sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/brewing_beer\/DSCN0213.sized.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>Click for bigger!<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Heh. Today UPS delivered, straight from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon<\/a>, the world&#8217;s trashiest piece of cooking gear. It surpasses any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronco.com\">Ronco<\/a> product, and even the mighty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asontv.com\/products\/1043097711.html\">Pasta Pot<\/a>. Yes, it is a turkey fryer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That said, it (fortunately) will not be used for it&#8217;s intended purpose. See, it was US$20, delivered, for a 30qt pot on a nice powerful gas burner. This is just about exactly what I need to make beer, as doing it in a smaller pot on the stove is kinda half-assed. See, if you don&#8217;t boil the full volume of what gets made into beer (the wort) the beer can have a bit darker color&#8230; Going this route should just make things a bit nicer, and it should allow me to get it all up to a boil in a bit less time. I&#8217;ll just have to work outside. Ah well. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for bigger! Heh. Today UPS delivered, straight from Amazon, the world&#8217;s trashiest piece of cooking gear. It surpasses any Ronco product, and even the mighty Pasta Pot. Yes, it is a turkey fryer&#8230; That said, it (fortunately) will not be used for it&#8217;s intended purpose. See, it was US$20, delivered, for a 30qt pot\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14780,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions\/14780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}