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[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 208 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's excellent satire

“I love posting satirical stories to LinkedIn (almost as a hobby now) because no one expects jokes on a ‘professional’ social network,” he said.

Today.com - Man posts about cooking chicken in a hotel’s coffee pot — and the internet exploded

[–] smackjack@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Now I'm curious. Would this actually work? Just how hot does that heating plate get?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the problem: a coffee pot gets hotter when there's water going through it.

The same heating element that warms the bottom of the carafe also heats a small section of tubing meant to boil water. This, along with a simple check valve, forms a bubble pump, which is how the hot water gets up to the coffee grounds.

There's a thermal switch that allows full power when that coil of water is below a certain temperature, and when it gets hotter than that, it switches to a lower power mode, because with no water to boil, all it needs to do is keep the carafe warm. I don't have the numbers in front of me but I doubt it would get hot enough to properly cook chicken.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually I think that would work.

[–] Bombyk0l@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

It does, there are multiple people on youtube that have effectively cooked soup in their coffee machines and used other appliances for food like the dishwasher for example.

[–] middleman35@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you can cook a chicken by slapping it.....

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It reminded me of this vid my buddy posted in discord the other day. 🤢

https://twitter.com/betcheswildin/status/1711055716054683931?s=46

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 141 points 1 year ago

Guys, this is satire. And old, the guy posted it for comedy some time ago. Not seeing anyone calling this out, so just FYI. No need to get angry over this.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Pretty obvious this was satire.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck this noise. I will use whatever I’m allowed to my advantage. Work trips are like mini vacations I don’t have to pay for.

I got a $45 food stipend for lunch once. My lunch cost $30 (it was lunch AND dinner) and then tipped the restaurant $15.

I'm using 100% of it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I expense my cocaine and hookers.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work for the state so I haven’t figured this part out yet. I’m open to suggestions 😀

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Do we really have to make a new label because of him?

[–] odium@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile I eat $30 meals when I'm traveling for work.

[–] forgotmyusername@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I don’t get to travel for work but schedule my biweekly telehealth therapy appointments for midday.

Boss makes a dollar; I make a dime. I talk to my shrink on company time.

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you find $30 meals? Mine are all $60+

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's chicken, not salmon.

/s

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The chicken of the river, and sea

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw a YouTube video of a guy cooking a steak by wrapping it in aluminum foil and putting the hotel iron on top. But an iron gets a lot hotter than that warming plate, plus beef is less bad to eat undercooked.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This would probably work fine, it might be a bit slow, but a coffee pot gets plenty hot to cook chicken. My main concern would be the lack of fluid increases the chances that pot breaks.

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

The hot plate 100% has a safety switch that turns it off at a couple degrees above boiling. So it won't break but it also won't sufficiently cook the chicken with pieces this large...

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[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've made grilled cheese like this before. Works decently.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

In my experience, in the white collar world, corporates really don't think twice about paying for this stuff.* In fact, they'd really prefer that you just use the company card instead of blasting stupid bullshit like this on social or making yourself sick. This person's boss probably thinks they're fucking insane.

*If you're blue collar, you can usually get fucked. If they do much as buy you a Costco hotdog and soda, they're going to complain and hold it over your head. Little Caeser's hot-n-ready pizza is the definition of spoiling your workforce in that world.

[–] teft@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago
[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the company gets billed for replacing the coffee maker every time you stay at a hotel they will do something other than promote.

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A friend who is an airline pilot once told me one of the stewardesses made hamburgers on the hotel room iron, to safe money. They actually get an allowance to eat at the location, still she did that. So stingy.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Steamed Hams.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then I wonder why the hotel room iron is all kinds of fucked up.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Hamberder gunk

[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They get paid a set amount every day for food, regardless of what they get. If you are getting a flat rate $50 per diem for food, it makes financial sense to eat cheap and pocket thr difference.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s eating cheap and then there’s making hamburgers using an iron in a hotel room cheap

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

An allowance sounds more like something added to their paycheck, rather than something they expensed. If that was the case, and they got to take home the allowance... well, heck. Ten bucks is ten bucks.

I'd fire him for being mentally unbalanced, with this post as my hard proof.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If charging dinner to the company is going to tank your P&L, you've got much bigger things to worry about. And no, they ain't going to promote you because you saved them $30.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're not going to promote you specifically because you thought cooking chicken in a coffee maker was a good idea.

Although, I guess you could kinda sorta do sous vide in one of you had the chicken in a sealed bag.

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[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

How to say you have crippling social anxiety without saying you have crippling social anxiety

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Dude, your company does not care in you in the slightest. ALWAYS take corporations and the government for every cent you can legally claw out of them. Because they will screw you over as hard as they can the second they feel like they can make more money and get away with it.

[–] SexyTimeSasquatch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This guy is management material. Which is to say, he is a dipshit.

[–] explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I never ate as much sushi as I did while travelling. Expenses are there so you can focus on doing the work.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago

What a psychopath.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can clearly see the Salmonella grinning from inside of that...enclosure..

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