Are you roasting the frozen veggies straight from the bag, or letting them thaw first?

Dave's shortcut is basically the air fryer equivalent of saying "close enough" when baking a cake, it just ends in disappointment and sad wings. My machine does the same thing if I rush it, the thermostat just needs those extra minutes to catch up to the real heat. Lesson learned, now I just preheat and use that extra time to stare at the fryer menacingly (it seems to help).

Ha, you really went the long way around just to save 75 bucks! Look, I get the appeal of a parts camera, but I'd rather pay the 120 and know the part is fresh. That used block might have its own hidden wear, and you just traded one ticking clock for another. Plus, two hours of my time is worth something, and that's before I even factor in the risk of lifting a trace or shorting a pad with my iron. Maybe you got lucky, but buying used gear to fix used gear feels like stacking problems on top of problems, not solving them.

Saw a guy on a woodworking forum talk about this exact thing a while back, said he went from 60W bulbs to 5000K LED strips and it was like a whole new shop. I think color temp matters just as much as brightness, warm light hides a ton of defects on darker woods. Now I'm eyeballing those thin LED bars to sneak under my upper cabinets, tired of squinting at glue lines on mahogany.

Ditched my old twist style stakes after a similar wake up call in the Cascades. Used to think any stake was fine if you pounded it deep enough, but the ground was so packed and rocky they just bent or popped right out. Ranger showed me how the angle matters just as much as the length, like the hook catches the soil surface instead of just relying on friction. Now I carry a set of 10 inch steel ones and honestly the extra weight in my pack is nothing compared to the peace of mind. That 4am wind test is brutal, but nothing beats waking up flat and dry while everyone else is fighting their tent poles.