CULTURAL QA06-2022-12 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What2 major appliances do most kitchens have? A1 Gopala Krishnan Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now In India withvegetarians the two major electric appliances are mixer and wet grinder if you meant electricalappliances Q2 Whyis it normal for humans to be in need of assistance while giving birth? A2 Mats Andersson Parent Tue It’s not only humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos also give birth assisted by anexperienced, older female. This means it’s extremelylikely that the behaviour was present already in our last common ancestor, some5–7 million years ago—several million years before there even were any humans.(Which makes midwife the oldest profession.) It followsnaturally from how both we and chimps are cooperative species that live insmall bands; we even more so than chimps. We can allow ourselves to havechildbirth that is tricky and where we need assistance, because assistance isnever far away. Q3 Whyis ghee used so much more than butter in India? A3 Rukmini Hindupur An Indian through and through Thu I can think of two reasons. The first reason is, India is a hot country. Plus Wemissed the bus of industrial revolution. Refrigerators came almost a hundredyears later into our kitchens. Butter doesn’t stay fresh for long here. Hencepeople here learnt to convert butter into more stable ghee which won’t go staleeven for months. Second one is, we cook our foods more thoroughly comparedto the west. We use very high heat and longer time tocook our curries. In this process, even fresh butter becomes ghee. So why notuse ghee itself! In the west, theyjust saute or stir fry the veggies in a pan for a few moments. Butter retainsits flavour.We use ghee on our parathas and they use butter on their breads.One way or the other, we need our breads glistening in fat! Q4 Is itokay to open the door of an automatic top load washing machine without pausing? A4 Ganesan Krishnamurthy Former FinanceExecutive at Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (1983–2018)20h It is okay to open, the machine will automatically stopworking the moment you open the lid and will resumeonly after you close it. The door will not lock or something like front loadmachines, if that is what you mean. It can be easily lifted up anytime, thereis no locking mechanism. My note- It is really an advantage. If we forgot toput one or two soiled clothes, we can open and put them in topload/ semiautomatic machines. Q5 Whichone is the tastiest of the 3 varieties of mangoes available in Bangalore,Banganapalli, Neelam or Mallika? A5 Ratnamala Kamath Lives in Bengaluru,Karnataka, India Tue I don't like thetaste of any of the above mangoes. I don’t find Banganpalli and Neelam as sweetas Alphonso/badami, Malgoa and Talapad. Mallika though reasonably sweet has analtogether different taste somewhat like papaya maybe. I don't buy any ofthe above 3 now as nobody in my house like them much. I only buy Badami,Malgoa, Talapad(mostly available only in South kanara shops)and sometimes Sinduravariety. Raspuri and sakkare gutli or sugar baby as they are sometimes called(small variety of mango), I use for making mango curry only. My note- Rarely we get Malgoa in Chennai. Twodays back I found a cart with only Malgoas and purchased one weighing 1.5 Kgfor Rs 150-00. My ain is to plant the seed in my garden. Q6 Howlong can an oven be left on? A6 Gopala Krishnan Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now If one means an LPGOven, it would burn till all LPG is exhausted. The oven may get slightly hot. If windows are opened nothing toworry. If room is fully closed room temperature may rise. Butchimney may let smoke to certain extent, which has got opening to outside. Ifexhaust fan is there it would be another escape point. Probably oneof the reasons now a days - no door is provided from kitchen to dining, diningand living room are combined, makes the heat developed spread to these areasalso.In India, present day Kitchens are linked to work area with NO DOOR separation,NO DOOR to dining and main hall. In my opinion ifone commenced a journey, there is no purpose by worrying about a LPG ovenlighted and forgot to close the switch. Best solution is to give Key of the home to neighbourbefore journey, and if we intimate he will switch off the burner. Worry will beover. Alternative iseither husband or wife ensure no motor running. No switch is operated, LPGstove knobs are in normal and no smell coming from it. Q7 Whyis a 3-phase 4-wire electricity transmitted at high voltage? A7 Bill Robinson Associates degree inElectrical and Electronics Engineering, British Columbia Institute ofTechnology (BCIT) (Graduated 1967)5h Are you talking about 3-phase being delivered to acustomer? If so, customersrequesting 3-phase generally need A LOT of power - and transmitting largeamounts of power is much more efficient at high voltages. Also, the equipmentthose customers are powering generally use much higher voltages than yourstandard household 120/240V (North America) and so the power is delivered tothem at high voltage. With very fewexceptions ALL transmission lines are 3-phase and operate at VERY high voltages(usually 230 to 500 thousand volts with some going higher). They are 3-phase to ensure thatcustomers can have 3-phase if they need it. Local distribution linesare also usually 3-phase for the same reason. They usually operate between6,500 volts and 27,000 volts. These lines come from your local substation andfeed the transformers outside your house - where only one phase is used and itis stepped down to the 120/240v we are most familiar with. High voltages are used for transmission and distributionfor efficiency. Power loss is proportionate to thecurrent flowing through the lines, not the voltage - but power delivered isvoltage and current multiplied together - so to minimize power LOSS you want tominimize current. Therefore you maximize voltage to maximize the amount ofpower that can be delivered while limiting power loss by minimizing current. 2nd answer Douglas Porter Studying science for 60years5h That lets you transmit a lot of power while keeping thecurrent down a bit. If you wanted to transmit it atlower voltage, the current would have to rise a lot, meaning (for a start) thatyou would need much lower-resistance wires to transmit it over. For instance, ifhouse current is 110v and you want to use that for your grid instead of, say,440,000v, you need to push 4000 times as much current with 1/4000 the voltage…that means you need 16,000,000 times as much conductance, which means wires4000 times the diameter. You can probably see why this might be a problem. MY note- Nowadays in Chennai most homes arehaving 3 phase connection since 2-3 bed rooms AC will be switched ON in summer,borewell will be switched ON till O/H tank is filled etc. In flats transformer is installed with in flats. Q8 Whydoes a train running late gradually delay more rather than make up? A8 Kewal Krishna Poet- PR-MediaPerson-Entrepreneur Wed Delayed trains areto be reported to senior officers and the performance issue come up. The trainsignalling units always have a list of trains to pass from a certain point/station/ cabin/ signal on minute to minute basis . A delayed traindisturbs the chart . And unless train is a VIP train like Shatabdi or Rajdhani, giving preference to a delayed train creates a cascading effect on the chartin hand So it’s more logical to adjust the delayed train withoutdisturbing existing chart in hand. Hence delayed traingets more delayed- so that those train who are running on time could run ontime . Q9 Whyare UK train drivers paid twice as much as bus drivers? Is it just because theycan threaten to inconvenience wealthy people who travel by train but never bybus? A9 Nicholas Stone Extensive life longinterest in public transport.39m UK train traindrivers are paid more than bus drivers because they are primarily representedby one trade union, while traindrivers are employed by numerous passenger companies. Innegotiations, this provides a power imbalance in favour of the trade union. Contractualarrangements favour trade unions and train companies, at the expense ofpassengers. There was little financial incentive to resolve extended industrialaction on Southern Railways. Other rail operators settle pay disputes quicklyand triggering revised government contracts. Recall that the UK governmentnationalised much of the rail passenger network in 2020. Back in October 2021, Boris Johnson recommended ahigh-wage, high-skill economy. Inflation is nowat 7.8% and train driving is a high skilled job - with shift work, essentialtraining, route learning, safety procedures and vigilance. Mr Johnson is right:train drivers should benefit from his high-wage, high-skill economy. Q10 Why is1 kg of ID dosa batter quite a bit cheaper than 1 kg of urad dal? A10 Nagarajan Srinivas The best way topeoples' hearts is through their stomach Wed Very simple. 1 kg of dosa batter needsonly around 300 grams of urad dal - rice being the other major contributor. Sothe cost of ID dosa batter would essentially comprise of cost of rice + cost ofurad dal+ cost of other ingredients + labour + packing + profit margin, inwhich the cost urad dal will not be much! My note- Agood percentage is water which cost very less. All the above QA are from Quora website on 11 -06- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. 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