Used to be one of those people who thought scales were overkill and you can just eyeball it lol. Grabbed a $30 one on sale a few months ago after my sourdough kept turning out like a brick and now I actually measure everything by weight instead of cups. The difference is wild - my ciabatta actually gets those big air pockets now and my cookies come out the same every single time instead of being flat one batch and puffy the next. That $80 one probably has better sensors and a longer battery life than mine though.

Last time mine did that, a can of compressed air fixed the sensor.

$3 floor mat foam is actually EVA. Same stuff cosplayers use for armor. The real trick is heat forming it with a heat gun or even a hair dryer. People don't realize you can sand EVA foam smooth with a dremel or sandpaper. Primer and metallic paint will make it look like real metal from a distance. You saved like $200 just by using that mat. That's pure profit for the electronics and paint.

My buddy Gary got one of those basket air fryers last year. He never reads manuals, just tosses everything in cold. One night he dumped a bag of frozen fries in there and set it for 12 minutes. Came back to a basket half full of soggy, pale fries and the rest stuck to the bottom like glue. He was steaming about it for days. Finally he looked it up online and felt like an idiot when he saw preheating is basically the whole trick for frozen stuff. Now he preheats every time and says his fries come out perfect.

Huh, actually rotary brushes can handle heavy creosote if you run them slow and let the chain do the work.