(1) I've come very late to The Big Bang Theory and have just started watching reruns within the last month. I hope enough young people watch it and get turned on to science.
When I was in high school it was Star Trek in that role and it's effectivenes was . . . well . . . not universal, let's put it that way.
(2) For dinner yesterday I had a Sloppy Joe sandwich.
I like Sloppy Joes.
I doubt very much that they tend to promote interest in the sciences, or that they eat them in Asia, although those little steamed buns with the barbequed pork inside are pretty much the same thing.
(3) In one of the early episodes of Mad Men, Lee Garner, Sr. referred enthusiastically to a spread of New York deli cold cuts as "Yankee Barbeque."
It will only work with very thin liquids, and don't they mix pretty well already when they are boiling? I ain't washing that thing. A properly designed spoon could cause the same flow. Maybe I'll develop one. I called it here first, and that's as good as a patent. I know there are lawyers watching. Isn't that what getting a patent is? You show your idea to some lawyers and shazzam! Instant millionaire.
I should know this by now, bago, but what's your main gig? Who approaches you to create things? Are you making pieces only? Are they plastic, metal, etc.?
I was watching Cook's Country, or something like it, last night and they were trying to push these Japanese cleavers specially designed to cut vegetables.
I think their hands-down favorite was $100 or so.
They didn't say whether there's a slot for it in a German-made knife block.
I started out working for a small start up manufacturer that was in a garage. I designed the stuff, sourced the materials, and then built it by hand with just a few tools. Then over the years as the company grew, I developed some reasonably successful products mostly in metal and primarily stainless steel. Now I just help the people who do it for our company. We mostly design and then manufacture solutions for other companies. We specialize in relatively low volume custom parts that other manufacturers use in their products. Metals, plastics, whatever. We do everything from concept to delivering the production orders entirely from our location in California. I just bought 62,000 sq.ft of building on 4 acres for our future expansion.
If you saw what we do, you'd probably say "How the hell can you make money on that in the U.S.?" It's low tech, labor intensive, and obscure, and the kind of thing companies usually go to China to get. Fortunately for us that often doesn't work out for them if they want quality, service and innovation, which is where we come in. So to answer you specifically, our customers bring us problems or desires and we solve and satisfy them. It's pretty simple, but kind of a rare service now days.
I'm not sure why magnetic stir bar technology (which is ubiquitous in chemistry labs) never caught on in kitchens. You just plop a teflon-coated stir bar in your soup, place it on the stove top heating plate and away you go. It could probably even be adapted for gas ranges. Of course, it might obviate using ferromagnetic cookware, so it would be useful for high-end (copper) or low-end (aluminum) vessels and of course rugged glass.
Also rotary evaporators could be useful for reducing sauces, without overheating.
One second thought, using iron or SS cookware might be advantageous if the stove had an electromagnet--it would hold the pan in place and could be released at the flick of a switch.
A small example would be a builder of boats wants LED headlights on their boat, but they don't want anything off the shelf. They want a specific look that's unique on the market, and they want it durable to impact with stuff in the water like debris or water skis. So we would design a look, probably make a housing out stainless steel, find the LED components, machine tooling to injection mold a plastic holder, laser cut the metal(maybe with their logo in it), form it, finish it and assemble everything ready to install on their product in their factory.
Nobody but us and them know that we made that component. It's not a secret, we just don't generally put our name on it or advertise. They like it that way.
We do similar stuff for medical products, outdoor furniture, etc.
We have made some products for people who have a patent, but we just quote and supply for a piece price. You would buy it and do the rest. If it's big volume, you will eventually go to China anyway.
We have never been able to work out a deal where we do everything and pay a royalty to the inventor. Inventors generally don't understand how slim margins are, and thus how little is left for a royalty. You need big volume to make money. We have small volumes with about 1000 different products. No single one would support an inventor via royalty..
One second thought, using iron or SS cookware might be advantageous if the stove had an electromagnet--it would hold the pan in place and could be released at the flick of a switch.
EM cookware is usually either aluminum or stainless steel. Iron is no problem. However the Aluminum/SS cookware usually has a copper core embedded, unless they are copper or copper clad.
On the advice of my mother, I recently bought all new stainless steel pots and pans after having nonstick clad aluminum forever. I expected them to stick and be hard to clean, but I was pleasantly surprised by how clean they cook and wash up using just the tiniest amount of oil.
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(1) I've come very late to The Big Bang Theory and have just started watching reruns within the last month. I hope enough young people watch it and get turned on to science.
When I was in high school it was Star Trek in that role and it's effectivenes was . . . well . . . not universal, let's put it that way.
(2) For dinner yesterday I had a Sloppy Joe sandwich.
I like Sloppy Joes.
I doubt very much that they tend to promote interest in the sciences, or that they eat them in Asia, although those little steamed buns with the barbequed pork inside are pretty much the same thing.
(3) In one of the early episodes of Mad Men, Lee Garner, Sr. referred enthusiastically to a spread of New York deli cold cuts as "Yankee Barbeque."
I liked that.
私はこれが何であるか見当がつかないが、自己攪拌ポットがかわいいです
I take it the design is new.
I never seen a pot like that before.
It's real Japanese. I recognize the particles.
So that's how DNA was made.
It will only work with very thin liquids, and don't they mix pretty well already when they are boiling? I ain't washing that thing. A properly designed spoon could cause the same flow. Maybe I'll develop one. I called it here first, and that's as good as a patent. I know there are lawyers watching. Isn't that what getting a patent is? You show your idea to some lawyers and shazzam! Instant millionaire.
I should know this by now, bago, but what's your main gig? Who approaches you to create things? Are you making pieces only? Are they plastic, metal, etc.?
I was watching Cook's Country, or something like it, last night and they were trying to push these Japanese cleavers specially designed to cut vegetables.
I think their hands-down favorite was $100 or so.
They didn't say whether there's a slot for it in a German-made knife block.
deborah,
I started out working for a small start up manufacturer that was in a garage. I designed the stuff, sourced the materials, and then built it by hand with just a few tools. Then over the years as the company grew, I developed some reasonably successful products mostly in metal and primarily stainless steel. Now I just help the people who do it for our company. We mostly design and then manufacture solutions for other companies. We specialize in relatively low volume custom parts that other manufacturers use in their products. Metals, plastics, whatever. We do everything from concept to delivering the production orders entirely from our location in California. I just bought 62,000 sq.ft of building on 4 acres for our future expansion.
If you saw what we do, you'd probably say "How the hell can you make money on that in the U.S.?" It's low tech, labor intensive, and obscure, and the kind of thing companies usually go to China to get. Fortunately for us that often doesn't work out for them if they want quality, service and innovation, which is where we come in. So to answer you specifically, our customers bring us problems or desires and we solve and satisfy them. It's pretty simple, but kind of a rare service now days.
I'm not sure why magnetic stir bar technology (which is ubiquitous in chemistry labs) never caught on in kitchens. You just plop a teflon-coated stir bar in your soup, place it on the stove top heating plate and away you go. It could probably even be adapted for gas ranges. Of course, it might obviate using ferromagnetic cookware, so it would be useful for high-end (copper) or low-end (aluminum) vessels and of course rugged glass.
Also rotary evaporators could be useful for reducing sauces, without overheating.
We have the technology.
One second thought, using iron or SS cookware might be advantageous if the stove had an electromagnet--it would hold the pan in place and could be released at the flick of a switch.
Bago
"I just bought 62,000 sq.ft of building on 4 acres for our future expansion."
Day-um.
Will you please give a specific example? And do you ever do prototypes of people who come in with patents?
Deborah,
A small example would be a builder of boats wants LED headlights on their boat, but they don't want anything off the shelf. They want a specific look that's unique on the market, and they want it durable to impact with stuff in the water like debris or water skis. So we would design a look, probably make a housing out stainless steel, find the LED components, machine tooling to injection mold a plastic holder, laser cut the metal(maybe with their logo in it), form it, finish it and assemble everything ready to install on their product in their factory.
Nobody but us and them know that we made that component. It's not a secret, we just don't generally put our name on it or advertise. They like it that way.
We do similar stuff for medical products, outdoor furniture, etc.
We have made some products for people who have a patent, but we just quote and supply for a piece price. You would buy it and do the rest. If it's big volume, you will eventually go to China anyway.
We have never been able to work out a deal where we do everything and pay a royalty to the inventor. Inventors generally don't understand how slim margins are, and thus how little is left for a royalty. You need big volume to make money. We have small volumes with about 1000 different products. No single one would support an inventor via royalty..
Oh you were asking about prototypes. We usually do them for free for our customers and make it up on the production later.
Thanks, bags,best wishes on the expansion.
El Pollo Raylan said...
One second thought, using iron or SS cookware might be advantageous if the stove had an electromagnet--it would hold the pan in place and could be released at the flick of a switch.
EM cookware is usually either aluminum or stainless steel. Iron is no problem. However the Aluminum/SS cookware usually has a copper core embedded, unless they are copper or copper clad.
300 series stainless steel used for cookware is only very slightly attracted by magnets despite being mostly iron.
On the advice of my mother, I recently bought all new stainless steel pots and pans after having nonstick clad aluminum forever. I expected them to stick and be hard to clean, but I was pleasantly surprised by how clean they cook and wash up using just the tiniest amount of oil.
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