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Yes, I know it's a cell phone board, but I'm sure there are SOME firearm enthusiasts here!
Anyway, I own a Springfield Armory XD 45 Compact (hence my user name) and it's fairly accurate. It's not a ball gun, but it sure holds it's own! It was designed for a body-sized target 10 feet away, not a bullseye 50 feet away, but I still manage to shoot about 260/300 with it, which is pretty good for a tactical combat handgun.
Tonight, however, I got to try the XD Tactical in .45 Auto (the 5 inch barrel. Compact is 3", which is mine, and the service model, also called full size, is 4")
Lemme tell you, folks: I put 3 targets out at 50' and fired 30 shots, and for the first time in my life, I actually shot 299 (damn stray bullet) with a TACTICAL handgun!! Talk about amazing. The XD lineup is probably the best damn polymer framed handgun I've ever had the pleasure of shooting. If anyone here is thinking about buying one, consider this an endorsement!
Oh well, just wanted to brag!!!! LOL
:::staring into the darkness:::
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyep. Coulda covered my group with a half dollar. Spectacular.
:::whistling:::
C'mon guys, this is one of those rare moments when a man HAS to brag!!!! LOL
My front screen has lots of scratches on it. Can I use plastic buffer polish and polish them out? What will the impact be?
What is a Digitizer?
My sceen also looks like it has speckles inside it, from being dropped, any way to fix this?
bill_tong said:
What is a Digitizer?
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Digitizer is a part of the screen which makes the screen touch sensitive.
Dude... haven't you heard of screen protectors? I believe other than changing your whole lcd screen, there is no way to buff the scratches away. and you mentioned that you dropped your diamond numerous times? Bro, the ppc is a very delicate device. I think you need to go to the service center to get it checked...
Digitizers are usually made of glass, and the scratched part of the surface is usually a gasket-like protective plastic.
Fortunately replacing the protective layer is *usually* trivial, but honestly your best bet is as the above poster stated, you need a service center.
Thanks for the info
i had some scratches, i read in another topic that rubbing toothpaste and a piece of banana over your screen helps... well.. it really DOES (a little bit) BUT it will mess up the glossy look a little
Prewien said:
i had some scratches, i read in another topic that rubbing toothpaste and a piece of banana over your screen helps... well.. it really DOES (a little bit) BUT it will mess up the glossy look a little
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lol thats the funniest thing i've heard all day!!
I used Meguires Car polish, works wonders!
there is already a thread on this...
get yourself some Acrylic Polish. works wonders.
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lol thats the funniest thing i've heard all day!!
I used Meguires Car polish, works wonders!
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i laughed like an ass too when i read that but i thought it couldnt really do any harm so lets try it... and i stupidly it was quite a nice 'mod' my mom who saw me suddenly eating a banana and not eating a little piece and then saw me rubbing it on my phone thought i was crazy
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i laughed like an ass too when i read that but i thought it couldnt really do any harm so lets try it... and i stupidly it was quite a nice 'mod' my mom who saw me suddenly eating a banana and not eating a little piece and then saw me rubbing it on my phone thought i was crazy
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Hahahha!
i used black paint, then used petrol to rub it off. Unfortunately my friend lit up a cigar then KABOOOM happened and now i have no phone
I didnt even have the pleasure of rubbing a banana on it
The moral of the story is, before you accidentally blow your phone up, atleast rub a banana on it. It might smell better when it burns ;P
What do you do to save water?
The next world war will definitely be fought over water resources.
Please be sincere and post sensible replies. Don't get your OT mindset here.
Also do not spam this thread.
Treat it as an important environmental topic.
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Pee in the shower so I don't gave to flush JK
Nothing...
Lol
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Stop people drinking it
Including yourself
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get a few barrels , dig a hole and put em underground , then cover the place with a flowerbed or such
also ask a pro chemist or pharmacist on how can u treat it so it doesnt get all green and smelly
A little bleach can make stagnant water drinkable
Scent phrum mie fone!
Completely agree!
Glad you opened this thread and hope members can take it seriously, not all in the world is joke...
I do the following actions to save water:
- My house is equipped with rain collecting system so I use very small amount from the general water supply
- I close the shower during I put soap on me
- I wash my car with buckets or high pressure pumps
- My toilet is water saving approved
- Pee in the shower for real
Also choosed the place to where I live based on the water resources, we have a lot of humidity almost all year!
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What do you do to save water?
The next world war will definitely be fought over water resources.
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orb3000 said:
Completely agree!
Glad you opened this thread and hope members can take it seriously, not all in the world is joke...
I do the following actions to save water:
- My house is equipped with rain collecting system so I use very small amount from the general water supply
- I close the shower during I put soap on me
- I wash my car with buckets or high pressure pumps
- My toilet is water saving approved
- Pee in the shower for real
Also choosed the place to where I live based on the water resources, we have a lot of humidity almost all year!
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Good to see serious fellows replying
Nd great methods to preserve and prevent wastage of precious water
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That is the prob in OT members are only fighting and competing and only junk non serious posts (including me as well)
But glad you put this IMPORTANT topic on here
Yeah
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To save water we should replace it with Brawndo, because that's what plants crave.
It's not that water is becoming really scarce... it's just that DRINKABLE water is becoming scarce because of pollution and geographical drought. My great-great-grandparents already got me covered; I live in a country where we cuss the sky 'til it rains and cuss it 'til it stops.
I do my part for my good friends in Singapore by pissing southwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater
Yeh Singapore's water supply is quite good, my brother just graduated from nanyang this year. Well I heard most if your potble water imported from Malaysia.
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Awesome sewage water treatment!
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Awesome sewage water treatment!
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Well, the joke is that Malaysian water tastes so bad that Singaporeans rather drink their own piss.
Being someone with refined tastebuds, I beg to differ. But still funny nonetheless
Lol
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jaszek said:
To save water we should replace it with Brawndo, because that's what plants crave.
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Itz teh electrolights
(Incorrect spelling intentional) - great movie
Yah... I should do more to conserve... but water is so easy to waste... I bet the following is stolen by kohler:
Coin operated (or eft linked) water system with display to show RT use (and cost) - more accountability usually results in greater conservation...
water is kinda like poker chips or the card system at a casino... I bet it would be much more difficult to gamble away 10k worth of pennies (in one shot) as opposed to a few (or one) poker chip that held the same value...
I suppose most developed countries have come to a low point where water is devalued and taken for granted (potable water, that is)
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sakai4eva said:
Well, the joke is that Malaysian water tastes so bad that Singaporeans rather drink their own piss.
Being someone with refined tastebuds, I beg to differ. But still funny nonetheless
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In hindsight, what I said could be taken both ways...
My wife and I shower together, that's about or biggest effort to conserve water...
Yep, checking texts and yep, BAM...Snatched and sprint.
Police report or Tracing did nothing.
Anyone know of cases that also have chains?
Thanks
The official Samsung protective case has a slot for a lanyard, but I doubt it'd be strong enough to withstand it being snatched from your hands (or you might be left with a case and no phone)
I think some of the aluminium bumper cases have lanyard slots and they'd be a much safer bet for something like this. If I'm mistaken about the lanyard slot you could also insert one between the headphone port and the 2nd microphone, but that might cause issues with noise cancellation.
I think a lanyard with the official sammy case will stop a snatched and grab.
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we'll have concealed carry here is a few more days, so that will stop some a-hole from stealing your stuff...hard to believe this is the only state in the country where you still cant...
If you have a strong enough lanyard, just find a case that works with it. Make sure it is a tough case and it will be strong enough to stay and not break or at least make the snatcher think it isn't worth it to take one.
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wase4711 said:
we'll have concealed carry here is a few more days, so that will stop some a-hole from stealing your stuff...hard to believe this is the only state in the country where you still cant...
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Yep glock on my butt crack n gerber auto knife in pocket...but if you shoot a fool for that your goin to jail lol,although if its on your hip not concealed and its seen it might detur (sp) somebody trying to rob you....thats f#cked up man sorry
Bit of a sidetrack, but regarding the 'carry a gun' thing, no. Showing a gun on your hip doesn't scare away the really motivated criminals.
It makes you target #1.
And a good video to go along with the info:
Ignore the comments because as usual, on Youtube they're half ignorant and half truthful and half bat-poop insane and half of all phrases using "half" are made up percentages.
This might be a good off-topic conversation so as not to derail the current thread...
That's terrible about your phone getting stolen. Over the weekend I saw this on the news (see link below) about thieves stealing phones and selling them at the mall. I never heard or seen these kiosks before.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/52009921
I wonder if something like a Sling Grip or Fly Grip would reduce the chances of someone taking the phone out of your hands. It's not full proof, but it could hinder the thief.
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we'll have concealed carry here is a few more days, so that will stop some a-hole from stealing your stuff...hard to believe this is the only state in the country where you still cant...
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you cant in MD. there trying to change it but its going to take forever
apallohadas said:
Bit of a sidetrack, but regarding the 'carry a gun' thing, no. Showing a gun on your hip doesn't scare away the really motivated criminals.
It makes you target #1.
And a good video to go along with the info:
Ignore the comments because as usual, on Youtube they're half ignorant and half truthful and half bat-poop insane and half of all phrases using "half" are made up percentages.
This might be a good off-topic conversation so as not to derail the current thread...
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This video doesn't even talk about the visible presence of a gun being a crime deterrent. Unless you mean concealed carry instead of showing a gun on your hip.
However I do agree with the majority of the points presented.
Going to geek out for a second, but if the perceived reward for the criminal is greater than the perception of the sanction against the act (i.e. getting shot or caught), then the criminal will try to 'get er done' anyway.
In other words, if the person open carrying looks like a target, they will still be a target, but now with a higher priority and more likely to receive a violent opening to the event.
The average Joe doesn't practice with their firearms anywhere near to the level of a soldier or law enforcer. Their retention self defense is minimal along with the very popular Serpa holsters or Uncle Mike's holsters that allow anyone to yank really hard and pull out the weapon.
All that being said, I'm a big fan of concealed carry.
Concealed carry is the dumbest argument for this kind of situation. What would you do? The person snatched it from your hands. A concealed (can't be seen) wouldn't deter the person. You weren't vigilant enough to stop that from happening so you're going to pull your gun and put other innocent people at risk?
And a gun on the hip and can be seen is a bigger danger as far as I'm concerned. One sucker punch and an opportunistic criminal is taking that gun off of you. Another gun on the streets in the wrong hands.
I'm not against guns and all that...I just think some clueless people that watch too much TV think they can go buy a gun and go to the range once a year and all of a sudden are experts on self defense.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to kill someone over a cell phone. There's no telling if that person that took off with the phone is carrying either and I don't know about where you live, but here it's usually a group of teens and they could care less about really running half the time. You just have to know to be vigilant when things seem fishy. And if you ride public transportation watch at all stops.
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Concealed carry is the dumbest argument for this kind of situation. What would you do? The person snatched it from your hands. A concealed (can't be seen) wouldn't deter the person. You weren't vigilant enough to stop that from happening so you're going to pull your gun and put other innocent people at risk?
And a gun on the hip and can be seen is a bigger danger as far as I'm concerned. One sucker punch and an opportunistic criminal is taking that gun off of you. Another gun on the streets in the wrong hands.
I'm not against guns and all that...I just think some clueless people that watch too much TV think they can go buy a gun and go to the range once a year and all of a sudden are experts on self defense.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to kill someone over a cell phone. There's no telling if that person that took off with the phone is carrying either and I don't know about where you live, but here it's usually a group of teens and they could care less about really running half the time. You just have to know to be vigilant when things seem fishy. And if you ride public transportation watch at all stops.
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Say if you were to wear a chain when the thief was snatching your phone, you'd end up injured. Any material thing isnt worth your well being, man......... or woman.
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apallohadas said:
Bit of a sidetrack, but regarding the 'carry a gun' thing, no. Showing a gun on your hip doesn't scare away the really motivated criminals.
It makes you target #1.
And a good video to go along with the info:
Ignore the comments because as usual, on Youtube they're half ignorant and half truthful and half bat-poop insane and half of all phrases using "half" are made up percentages.
This might be a good off-topic conversation so as not to derail the current thread...
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I cant believe he did so poorly even with all his air soft experience lolol, but who ever said this wont happen cause you are getting a cpl, you dont deserve one. If the theif snachted your phone and ran by time you deployed gun lined up a shot at his back as he ran away from you all yoi would do is put more people at risk
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Sorry, I'm the OP and been ultra busy for days.
Regarding gun carry, I had two of them and didn't stop the snatch and sprinter.
(ok...I'm kind of kidding but I'm a personal trainer, 210pds fit with arms (guns) exposed etc. Stupid joke but....it's all about surprise and speed....and I am (very) fast...a sprinter!
Was a stereotypical 16yr kid, black hoodie, 145 and f a s t! That's his weapon.
I took off but didn't have a chance.
Really crowded sat afternoon in Chicago too... he ran down an alley...I screamed: 'stop him'...guys at the other end of the alley had 5 sec or more to react but just stood dumbfounded and watched him run by. (I guarantEE U, I would have stopped him and enjoyed it, had roles been reversed).
Cop said it's the #1 911 in all of Chicago now.
Easiest $200-$300 to snatch.
Why can't stolen devices be made completely unusable by Samsung/carriers...like completely.
It' d solve the problem.
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Say if you were to wear a chain when the thief was snatching your phone, you'd end up injured. Any material thing isnt worth your well being, man......... or woman.
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I think the visible chain would be a deterrent....they do size up their victims, and seeing that...would likely have them look elsewhere.
If it didn't, don't think much of an injury would occur.
I'm not joining the carrying the argument. All sides have valid points. Although, I did find the two videos interesting.
As for your case situation, it's hard to say what would work best. Not much if you're just using a cheapy TPU case. If you had something like a Defender, you could cut slots, feed some material, like what is used for dog leashes. On the end, inside the phone, I would super glue it to flat piece of strong plastic or metal. The other end, super glue it to form a loop. The material would maintain comfort. Personally, I think it would get old fast.
As a general rule, to really prevent it, one needs to pay attention to what's going on around them. Obviously, you must have used the phone a bit earlier and the thief saw and followed you, noticed you weren't paying attention. We know the rest
Also, sorry to hear about your phone.
OP: Are you not setup with the Samsung tracking facility? I'm surprised nobody has asked yet?
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rockky said:
Sorry, I'm the OP and been ultra busy for days.
Regarding gun carry, I had two of them and didn't stop the snatch and sprinter.
(ok...I'm kind of kidding but I'm a personal trainer, 210pds fit with arms (guns) exposed etc. Stupid joke but....it's all about surprise and speed....and I am (very) fast...a sprinter!
Was a stereotypical 16yr kid, black hoodie, 145 and f a s t! That's his weapon.
I took off but didn't have a chance.
Really crowded sat afternoon in Chicago too... he ran down an alley...I screamed: 'stop him'...guys at the other end of the alley had 5 sec or more to react but just stood dumbfounded and watched him run by. (I guarantEE U, I would have stopped him and enjoyed it, had roles been reversed).
Cop said it's the #1 911 in all of Chicago now.
Easiest $200-$300 to snatch.
Why can't stolen devices be made completely unusable by Samsung/carriers...like completely.
It' d solve the problem.
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If you report a phone as stolen, carriers would blacklist it from their network...of course, this would affect the buyer, not the thief
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Yes, it sounds bizarre, and it is.
Some time in early 2010 we bought a pack of bread/baguette. No one really ate it, so as more bread piled up, we kinda forgot about it.
Then some time later, we found the bag while cleaning the bread cupboard. And what we found was a slightly vacuum packed bag of bread.
We thought it was bizarre so we saved it. We were someone some day maybe could explain why it did that. Now, years later, the bread is harder than ever, and we are still mystified by how this happened.
And it have actually lost mass.The weight of the bread alone was 300G when we bought it, now it is 240G (with packaging), this means that mass and air somehow have escaped the bag.
But there cant be a hole in the bag, because then the bread would not be able to be so tightly packed.
Here is a picture showing the shape the bread is in
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183046.jpg
Here you can see the weighloss
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183105.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183500.jpg
This is a video showing how hard it is, and what sound it makes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqySk2eP3x8&list=UUuTj0ipIoJS0THtfZqq3oFA
So the big question is, where did the air and the 60G go? I mean, it has to go somewhere, right?
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Yes, it sounds bizarre, and it is.
Some time in early 2010 we bought a pack of bread/baguette. No one really ate it, so as more bread piled up, we kinda forgot about it.
Then some time later, we found the bag while cleaning the bread cupboard. And what we found was a slightly vacuum packed bag of bread.
We thought it was bizarre so we saved it. We were someone some day maybe could explain why it did that. Now, years later, the bread is harder than ever, and we are still mystified by how this happened.
And it have actually lost mass.The weight of the bread alone was 300G when we bought it, now it is 240G (with packaging), this means that mass and air somehow have escaped the bag.
But there cant be a hole in the bag, because then the bread would not be able to be so tightly packed.
Here is a picture showing the shape the bread is in
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183046.jpg
Here you can see the weighloss
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183105.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47346032/IMG_20140804_183500.jpg
This is a video showing how hard it is, and what sound it makes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqySk2eP3x8&list=UUuTj0ipIoJS0THtfZqq3oFA
So the big question is, where did the air and the 60G go? I mean, it has to go somewhere, right?
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Just as any living organism...the fungus that ate said bread needs oxygen. If it's been that long, my hypothesis is that it was used by say living organisms...
M_T_M said:
Just as any living organism...the fungus that ate said bread needs oxygen. If it's been that long, my hypothesis is that it was used by say living organisms...
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That's is where we are betting our money too, but it just seems weird that it completely disappears. The bag is completely sealed, but mass is disappearing from it.
Example: If I'm sitting on a scale, and eating something off a plate, the plate loses weight and I gain weight, but the total weight of me and the plate is the same.
I just don't see where the weight/mass is going.
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That's is where we are betting our money too, but it just seems weird that it completely disappears. The bag is completely sealed, but mass is disappearing from it.
Example: If I'm sitting on a scale, and eating something off a plate, the plate loses weight and I gain weight, but the total weight of me and the plate is the same.
I just don't see where the weight/mass is going.
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I now summon teh most intelligent Moderator that has ever lived (in his hometown, anyway ) @egzthunder1 :victory:
PedexGaming said:
That's is where we are betting our money too, but it just seems weird that it completely disappears. The bag is completely sealed, but mass is disappearing from it.
Example: If I'm sitting on a scale, and eating something off a plate, the plate loses weight and I gain weight, but the total weight of me and the plate is the same.
I just don't see where the weight/mass is going.
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Bread is typically sold as the weight of the pre-baked dough, not the weight of the final product. The weight loss you see is mostly from the water that is driven off during the baking process. It is easy for the baker to control how much wet dough he uses to make a loaf of bread, but much much harder to control how much that bread will weigh after baking. This is similar to a 1/4 pound burger at some fast food places. That 1/4 pound is the pre-cooked weight, not the actual weight after cooking. Water is often added to meat by the meat packing industry, not to keep it moist, but to make the precooked meat weigh more...shameful profiteering is shameful.
Usually bread is not vacuum packed, it is more common for bread to be packaged under a modified atmosphere (a controlled mix of gases, usually with little or no oxygen). Even if it were vacuum packed, it should be considered a "reduced pressure atmosphere" because anything approaching a reasonable vacuum would crush even the sturdiest of breads. In either case, your bread is probably being slowly consumed by microbes and they are creating the vacuum by "fixing" whatever atmosphere was used to package your bread.
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Bread is typically sold as the weight of the pre-baked dough, not the weight of the final product. The weight loss you see is mostly from the water that is driven off during the baking process. It is easy for the baker to control how much wet dough he uses to make a loaf of bread, but much much harder to control how much that bread will weigh after baking. This is similar to a 1/4 pound burger at some fast food places. That 1/4 pound is the pre-cooked weight, not the actual weight after cooking. Water is often added to meat by the meat packing industry, not to keep it moist, but to make the precooked meat weigh more...shameful profiteering is shameful.
Usually bread is not vacuum packed, it is more common for bread to be packaged under a modified atmosphere (a controlled mix of gases, usually with little or no oxygen). Even if it were vacuum packed, it should be considered a "reduced pressure atmosphere" because anything approaching a reasonable vacuum would crush even the sturdiest of breads. In either case, your bread is probably being slowly consumed by microbes and they are creating the vacuum by "fixing" whatever atmosphere was used to package your bread.
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Tl;dr :sly:
I keed, I keed!! In other words....what I said, right?
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Tl;dr :sly:
I keed, I keed!! In other words....what I said, right?
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Of course you were right...but your post was too short and I deleted it as ten post spam...
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justmpm said:
Bread is typically sold as the weight of the pre-baked dough, not the weight of the final product. The weight loss you see is mostly from the water that is driven off during the baking process. It is easy for the baker to control how much wet dough he uses to make a loaf of bread, but much much harder to control how much that bread will weigh after baking. This is similar to a 1/4 pound burger at some fast food places. That 1/4 pound is the pre-cooked weight, not the actual weight after cooking. Water is often added to meat by the meat packing industry, not to keep it moist, but to make the precooked meat weigh more...shameful profiteering is shameful.
Usually bread is not vacuum packed, it is more common for bread to be packaged under a modified atmosphere (a controlled mix of gases, usually with little or no oxygen). Even if it were vacuum packed, it should be considered a "reduced pressure atmosphere" because anything approaching a reasonable vacuum would crush even the sturdiest of breads. In either case, your bread is probably being slowly consumed by microbes and they are creating the vacuum by "fixing" whatever atmosphere was used to package your bread.
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Yup. On top of that, I cannot believe that they would make the bag of a material strong enough to withstand vacuum. You'd need a good seal for the thing to actually be able to create vacuum.
But yes... I agree. Micro organisms ... or aliens