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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

    Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

    If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.






  • It’s all time/temp dependent. If at higher temperatures the process occurs faster and starts to degrade thc levels.

    This is a useful graph. Keep in mind that brownies will cook from the edges to the center (absent insulation) so a map of the concentration levels will likely always end up looking like a bullseye with the middle being lower temp.

    The lower your oven temp, the longer the process takes (but also, the longer the THC breakdown takes) so you want to aim for a low temp that will still cook your brownies. Something like 280 for 45 minutes instead of 350 for 25 minutes. Using a bit less flour will make the brownie more fudgy which will more efficiently transfer heat than pockets of air/steam in a more cakey mix.

    I usually pull mine out and, after a bit of cooling, put it on a gram cracker crust. That gives it a bit more structure so you can eat it without wearing it. You can also add semi-sweet chocolate chunks, which will also add a little bit of tasty structure.



  • Decarbing in the brownies will be inconsistent.

    Since the recipe has water, the interior of the brownie won’t exceed 212. The decarb time at that temp is around 2-4 hours.

    The edges that dry out first may exceed 300F and the decarb process finishes in around 5-7m then the THC will start to degrade.

    For brownies, decarb during the butter production. Look up a chart, but it’ll take about 2-4 hours at boiling. Then cook the brownies on a low temp (like 315) to ensure that it cooks evenly without drying out the corners.

    If you have fancy baking equipment, a water bath or collared cake pan will protect the edges from overcooking.