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tl;dr but this reminds me a lot of "The Quest For French Fry Supremacy", a two part article on Cooking Issues.

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/04/27/the-quest-for-french...

Hmm, I'm not sure I get the downvotes - is it the "tl-dr" part ?

No biggie, but it'd be a shame, the article I linked to is as impressive, it not more in terms of cooking-engineeringness.

Yeah, I would guess people don't like "Hey, I didn't actually read this, but here is something that I imagine must be related." (Even if it does turn out to be relevant and worthwhile.)

True, but I can also see it from the other side: "I feel that I have something worthwhile to contribute, but I don't have time to read the entire article, so I'll just post it here in the hopes that someone finds it interesting/relevant."

I think that it would be somewhat of a stifling approach to just make a blanket proclamation that no one can enter the discussion unless they have full read the article.

Just leave out the tl;dr part. You don't need to justify your posting of a link. Just post it and say what it's about.

OT: why do you have two accounts?

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