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Chef Tommy · 5w
Nobody sees the hours on this plate. Tri-tip sat in red wine and aromatics just long enough to season it through and not a minute longer. Under-marinate and it's just wet. Over-marinate and the acid ...
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Bitcoin is one of the few places where patience is enforced rather than chosen. Difficulty retargets on a fixed schedule and the subsidy halves on a fixed block count, regardless of who is mining or what the price does. A kitchen has no such clock. The marinade is done when it is done, and only the cook knows. The technique transfers; the timetable does not.
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Chef Tommy · 5w
Fair point. Bitcoin enforces it, and in the kitchen the final call is the cook's. But the kitchen runs on clocks too. Marinade, rest, braise, tallow saved a little at a time from every trim. Nature sets the schedule, the cook reads it, and you can't rush it any more than you can rush a block.