Category: "Nutrition"

Comparing 3 bluetooth kitchen scales

I recently compared those 3 kitchen scales from Amazon. They allow to display nutritional (macro and micro nutrients alike) info for each food you weigh.

Here's a quick summary:

RENPHO Digital Kitchen Scale (19.99 €)

Comparing 3 bluetooth kitchen scales

Pros:

  • The App is fully functional (not a given for all scales)

Cons:

  • No ON button (need to press really HARD on the scale to turn it on, not user friendly)
  • No OFF button (continues to emit bluetooth way longer than necessary)
  • App requires registering
  • App requires phone to be connected to the internet
  • Bloated and convoluted app
  • App is very slow as everything requires an internet request

NBPOWER Kitchen Scale (9.99 €)

Comparing 3 bluetooth kitchen scales

Pros:

  • Tactile ON/OFF button (press 3 seconds for off)
  • Simple and beautiful app
  • App more responsive than Renpho

Cons:

  • Impossible to register custom foods that have less than 1g of carbs per 100g (e-g: salmon) (kinda sucks if you're doing keto or or something like that)
  • App reqiqures registering
  • App requires phone to be connected to the internet

AIRMSEN Digital Kitchen Scale (19.99 €)

Comparing 3 bluetooth kitchen scales

Pros:

  • App works 100% offline, no internet connection necessary
  • App does not require registration
  • App does everything it should
  • ON/OFF switch
  • Most beautiful of the pack

Cons:

  • The buttons in the app are too small and to close to the screen corners to be easy to press.
  • User Interface could be more graphical in showing nutrients in various places

30 days on Bulletproof Coffee: Results

30 days on Bulletproof Coffee: Results

I’ve been drinking bulletproof coffee (recipe here) in the morning for a little more than a month now. I also had a few days off to feel the difference.

Here are my results. There are some positive effects. There are also some negative ones. If you’ve tried bulletproof coffee too, I’d be very much interested to know if your results concur with mine.

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How to make Bulletproof Coffee - Recipe

How to make Bulletproof Coffee - Recipe
This coffee doesn't just taste awesome; it will boost your brain like no other!

Last week, I started to experiment with "Bulletproof Coffee". It’s sort of a commercial product but you can actually make your own at home. This is what I did.

It’s a bit too early to draw conclusions but my first impression is that I’ve been running at 120% mental capacity since I started. And I’ve surely cranked out a lot of extra work that I had been procrastinating on for a while (including work on this blog).

It may also just be a placebo effect or just a temporary energy boost of myself subconsciously wanting to check off as many todos as possible before the summer holidays… or maybe it’s just switching from green tea to coffee… but I sure feel pretty darn good these days ;) I’ll post more when I have had the opportunity to run a couple of weeks on and off that stuff.

In the meantime, if you want to try it out yourself, here’s how I’m doing it at home…

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Patent pending: My personal "Cookie Tenderizer"

Today we had a healthy lunch: a friend of mine brought us home baked cookies! Don't question about the dietetics, she's gotta be knowing what she's doing, she's an engineer in the food processing industry! :> Well, anyway, those were excellent and I even got one left to take home... :)

Then, I spent the whole afternoon with the smooth thought of treating myself to this cookie... Guess my disappointment when I opened the wrapping tonight and discovered the cookie had turned to rock? What a shame these cookies harden so fast! Not even 24 hours after baking!

Then comes the geeky bloggy rush of blood to the head where I remember Russell commenting about the ephemeral chewy state of the cookies... And while I'm in a webby state of mind I decide to go google for a solution to bring my cookie fossil back to life! (I know I could have eaten it like that and it'd still have tasted good, but I decided it just wouldn't be no fun that way!)

Now, believe it or not, it seems that no one ever documented a cookie tenderizing process on the web!

Next thing I know, I was standing in the kitchen with a grin on my face, starting some weird experiment... and, against all odds, it only took me about 15 minutes to revive my cookie!

"How did I achieve that?" you wonder...

Let me introduce you to my home brewed cookie tenderizer:

My home brew cookie tenderizer

It's a simple machine actually: stove / pan (with water) / steam / grid (originally for pizza) / dead cookie.

Just let the steam go through the cookie for a few minutes... and enjoy! Your cookie is now tender, chewy and hot, just as if it came right out of the oven. Warning: it can get *really* hot!

So? Who's the man??!! :D

Anyone thinking I'm delirious here? Check it out! Still not convinced? Okay look at it from another angle: the cookie gets back to the state it was in when it came out of the oven! This is what is commonly called a working time machine! :b (except it only works for cookies, please don't sit on the stove!)

Yeah I know, I need some rest! XX( And maybe next time I'll learn how to bake fresh cookies myself...

About nutrition...

Below are a few excerpts from this fascinating webpage about how to improve your nutrition I stumbed across today. If you're sort of an absolute beginner at the age of 30 as I am myself, you really want to read this! ;)

Some of the most important nutrients are highly perishable fatty acids that occur in extremely small amounts, yet have vast repercussions in one's body. Commercial food preparers are unlikely to find it convenient to use fats that contain these highly perishable fatty acids in their products, so they will substitute fats with a longer "shelf life."

If I have eaten nothing and then eat a good orange, I get a sensation of sweetness. If I eat candies, and then eat the same orange, I get a sensation of sourness. My senses are relative, but my sensations are absolute. By omitting the candy, I would have experienced no sourness. In common language, candies cause sweetness. In reality, candies cause sourness.

Nutrition takes time. It takes time for every animal to get its food, prepare it, eat it, and clean up. We suffer from food inflation, in which food is plentiful, quick and easy to get, but unfortunately some necessary nutrients are in short supply.