a while back my ex and i did a cider braise for chicken, but it was over a bed of parsnips
parsnips braise very well
I find root vegetables turn out really well if you just crockpot them from the get-go, which from what I understand is not really braising.
So I'm not sure whether actually braising would do noticeably better.
ehh, crockpot/slow cooker cooking is basically braising. you use a dry heat to sear or brown the food (usually meat) and then cook it slowly in added liquid at a low temperature to break down tougher tissues.
if anything braising is a broad category that includes slow cooking/pot roasting/etc.
Hmm. I guess it just never seemed like it would do anything desirable to sear root vegetables prior to throwing them in the crockpot, but I'm certainly an amateur.
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for the record i don't think people fake it, I just think that they acquire it for reasons having to do with desperately wanting to be the masculine ideal they see sold to them in the culture
@MrMister do you really think the main drive for my consumption of whiskey is the masculine ideal of it?
certainly that aspect is fun, but it's also ridiculous.
the main drive for consuming any kind of straight liquor is that, when you have acquired the taste, it has strong, varied, interesting flavours, and the whole experience is enjoyable. the scent is deeply pleasant (people who hate drinking whiskey often ask to smell whatever i'm drinking because it's so nice), the taste of it as you roll it around in your mouth is obviously wonderful, and the lingering flavours after you swallow it from the fumes are great too. it's a whole different experience from drinking most other liquids. i'd compare it to drinking good wine, except it's easier - wine is subtle, and more prone to variation due to environmental factors like letting it "breathe" or having a bottle that's a bit off (and wine continues aging in the bottle, unlike liquor).
and the flavours aren't typical of what we crave in other food and drink indulgences - instead you get flavours that remind you more of pleasant scents that you might not otherwise find appetizing. I love the smell of leather, of campfire smoke, of old wood or fresh-cut wood or charred oak, of cut grass, etc, and to be able to drink something that tastes like those smells is really enjoyable, though you might not think it would be initially. And of course, if you're drinking a sweeter whiskey like a bourbon, you're getting those wood flavours but also more traditionally consumed flavours like caramel, maple, praline, brown sugar, toasted grains, etc.
if i were to ascribe a set of motivations, i wouldn't really include masculinity. i don't think it's a gender identity motivator. instead, i'd ascribe it to classism and wealth - part of what motivated me to try to enjoy nice liquors was the construction of a new identity as i moved into a post-graduation career and started making decent money and living a new lifestyle. I liked the idea of being someone who consumes fine things. I started caring more about interior design, about clothes and outward grooming (specifically suits, shoes, accessories, etc.), cooking meals and hosting, going to nice restaurants, making cocktails. I got a bunch of nice crystal decanters and a shelf that prominently displays my "collection" of whiskeys. This was also parallel to grad school and a similar intellectual course - what's across from my whiskey collection in the living room? A bookshelf with all my tough philosophy books just above eye level. :P
Certainly a superficial and dubious set of motivations, with its own set of problems, but not the one you pegged! And once those things have motivated you to acquire the taste, the taste is itself quite rewarding aside from those motivations (though they are perhaps necessary to give you the decision-making bias to spend $80 on a bottle of scotch).
a while back my ex and i did a cider braise for chicken, but it was over a bed of parsnips
parsnips braise very well
I find root vegetables turn out really well if you just crockpot them from the get-go, which from what I understand is not really braising.
So I'm not sure whether actually braising would do noticeably better.
ehh, crockpot/slow cooker cooking is basically braising. you use a dry heat to sear or brown the food (usually meat) and then cook it slowly in added liquid at a low temperature to break down tougher tissues.
if anything braising is a broad category that includes slow cooking/pot roasting/etc.
Hmm. I guess it just never seemed like it would do anything desirable to sear root vegetables prior to throwing them in the crockpot, but I'm certainly an amateur.
you probably wouldn't be searing vegetables as much as browning them
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I'm just going to say it: something about Neil De Grasse tyson has just never clicked for me. I don't get his appeal. Maybe I see him in the wrong contexts?
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I'm just going to say it: something about Neil De Grasse tyson has just never clicked for me. I don't get his appeal. Maybe I see him in the wrong contexts?
I think this is just a case of blatant racism. Racist.
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So . . . . I applied for a new job.
In the same building.
But away from patients.
I already have an interview just one day after I sent in my resume, which means they're totally already going to hire me or have quickly decided against me. So we'll see O_O
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Alright. That was less than fun. But cute top get. And a second top that is short sleeves for when it warms up.
I already have an interview just one day after I sent in my resume, which means they're totally already going to hire me or have quickly decided against me. So we'll see O_O
Kill all the patients. It'll look good on your resume when you need to explain why you don't want to work with patients.
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I already have an interview just one day after I sent in my resume, which means they're totally already going to hire me or have quickly decided against me. So we'll see O_O
Kill all the patients. It'll look good on your resume when you need to explain why you don't want to work with patients.
Yes. Citing precedence always helps.
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my german friend just had the most American photo taken of her.
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I'm just going to say it: something about Neil De Grasse tyson has just never clicked for me. I don't get his appeal. Maybe I see him in the wrong contexts?
No, I find him annoying too. We can share my glass of haterade.
I'm just going to say it: something about Neil De Grasse tyson has just never clicked for me. I don't get his appeal. Maybe I see him in the wrong contexts?
No, I find him annoying too. We can share my glass of haterade.
i'm not even that into him.
i think what he stands for is very cool and all. but he doesn't blow my mind or captivate me.
for the record i don't think people fake it, I just think that they acquire it for reasons having to do with desperately wanting to be the masculine ideal they see sold to them in the culture
@MrMister do you really think the main drive for my consumption of whiskey is the masculine ideal of it?
certainly that aspect is fun, but it's also ridiculous.
the main drive for consuming any kind of straight liquor is that, when you have acquired the taste, it has strong, varied, interesting flavours, and the whole experience is enjoyable. the scent is deeply pleasant (people who hate drinking whiskey often ask to smell whatever i'm drinking because it's so nice), the taste of it as you roll it around in your mouth is obviously wonderful, and the lingering flavours after you swallow it from the fumes are great too. it's a whole different experience from drinking most other liquids. i'd compare it to drinking good wine, except it's easier - wine is subtle, and more prone to variation due to environmental factors like letting it "breathe" or having a bottle that's a bit off (and wine continues aging in the bottle, unlike liquor).
and the flavours aren't typical of what we crave in other food and drink indulgences - instead you get flavours that remind you more of pleasant scents that you might not otherwise find appetizing. I love the smell of leather, of campfire smoke, of old wood or fresh-cut wood or charred oak, of cut grass, etc, and to be able to drink something that tastes like those smells is really enjoyable, though you might not think it would be initially. And of course, if you're drinking a sweeter whiskey like a bourbon, you're getting those wood flavours but also more traditionally consumed flavours like caramel, maple, praline, brown sugar, toasted grains, etc.
if i were to ascribe a set of motivations, i wouldn't really include masculinity. i don't think it's a gender identity motivator. instead, i'd ascribe it to classism and wealth - part of what motivated me to try to enjoy nice liquors was the construction of a new identity as i moved into a post-graduation career and started making decent money and living a new lifestyle. I liked the idea of being someone who consumes fine things. I started caring more about interior design, about clothes and outward grooming (specifically suits, shoes, accessories, etc.), cooking meals and hosting, going to nice restaurants, making cocktails. I got a bunch of nice crystal decanters and a shelf that prominently displays my "collection" of whiskeys. This was also parallel to grad school and a similar intellectual course - what's across from my whiskey collection in the living room? A bookshelf with all my tough philosophy books just above eye level. :P
Certainly a superficial and dubious set of motivations, with its own set of problems, but not the one you pegged! And once those things have motivated you to acquire the taste, the taste is itself quite rewarding aside from those motivations (though they are perhaps necessary to give you the decision-making bias to spend $80 on a bottle of scotch).
I think you're a lovely man and I too love whiskey.
The rest of that stuff you wrote... you're on your own there. That was like rhetorical seppuku.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it.
it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch, man" fallacy.
my god
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Like, I have one of those safety razors (not sure if this is the US terminology - common razor with a head that you throw away after a while and change for one of an over-priced pack of 3) WITH A BATTERY-POWERED MOTOR!
So, you just shave like with a normal rubbish safety razor but then it vibrates and shaves really smoothly and doesn't give me razor burn or cut me ever.
IT'S AN AWESOME PIECE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY THAT DID NOT EVEN EXIST WHEN I WAS LEARNING TO SHAVE!
Purposefully choosing some old-timey-coincidentally-a-deadly-weapon razor makes me raise a single eyebrown, spock-like. A spockbrow.
Possibly spockbrow should be a unit measuring polite disbelief.
Straight razor? A single spockbrow.
A fixie? 3 spockbrows.
Also, I've seen someone attacked with a straight razor, and it didn't endear me towards the device much.
In summary, MY RAZOR IS SO COOL I AM LIVING IN THE FUTURE!
I'm just going to say it: something about Neil De Grasse tyson has just never clicked for me. I don't get his appeal. Maybe I see him in the wrong contexts?
No, I find him annoying too. We can share my glass of haterade.
i'm not even that into him.
i think what he stands for is very cool and all. but he doesn't blow my mind or captivate me.
*jots names down on list*
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I hate zucchini.
*shrug*
*munch*
Hmm. I guess it just never seemed like it would do anything desirable to sear root vegetables prior to throwing them in the crockpot, but I'm certainly an amateur.
Not quite, just annoying. I'm only really noticing this stuff and being bugged by it lately because I've been putting muscle into it.
@MrMister do you really think the main drive for my consumption of whiskey is the masculine ideal of it?
certainly that aspect is fun, but it's also ridiculous.
the main drive for consuming any kind of straight liquor is that, when you have acquired the taste, it has strong, varied, interesting flavours, and the whole experience is enjoyable. the scent is deeply pleasant (people who hate drinking whiskey often ask to smell whatever i'm drinking because it's so nice), the taste of it as you roll it around in your mouth is obviously wonderful, and the lingering flavours after you swallow it from the fumes are great too. it's a whole different experience from drinking most other liquids. i'd compare it to drinking good wine, except it's easier - wine is subtle, and more prone to variation due to environmental factors like letting it "breathe" or having a bottle that's a bit off (and wine continues aging in the bottle, unlike liquor).
and the flavours aren't typical of what we crave in other food and drink indulgences - instead you get flavours that remind you more of pleasant scents that you might not otherwise find appetizing. I love the smell of leather, of campfire smoke, of old wood or fresh-cut wood or charred oak, of cut grass, etc, and to be able to drink something that tastes like those smells is really enjoyable, though you might not think it would be initially. And of course, if you're drinking a sweeter whiskey like a bourbon, you're getting those wood flavours but also more traditionally consumed flavours like caramel, maple, praline, brown sugar, toasted grains, etc.
if i were to ascribe a set of motivations, i wouldn't really include masculinity. i don't think it's a gender identity motivator. instead, i'd ascribe it to classism and wealth - part of what motivated me to try to enjoy nice liquors was the construction of a new identity as i moved into a post-graduation career and started making decent money and living a new lifestyle. I liked the idea of being someone who consumes fine things. I started caring more about interior design, about clothes and outward grooming (specifically suits, shoes, accessories, etc.), cooking meals and hosting, going to nice restaurants, making cocktails. I got a bunch of nice crystal decanters and a shelf that prominently displays my "collection" of whiskeys. This was also parallel to grad school and a similar intellectual course - what's across from my whiskey collection in the living room? A bookshelf with all my tough philosophy books just above eye level. :P
Certainly a superficial and dubious set of motivations, with its own set of problems, but not the one you pegged! And once those things have motivated you to acquire the taste, the taste is itself quite rewarding aside from those motivations (though they are perhaps necessary to give you the decision-making bias to spend $80 on a bottle of scotch).
you probably wouldn't be searing vegetables as much as browning them
I think this is just a case of blatant racism. Racist.
That's part of their Schtick, yes.
In the same building.
But away from patients.
I already have an interview just one day after I sent in my resume, which means they're totally already going to hire me or have quickly decided against me. So we'll see O_O
Cool
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...WAIT...WHAT THE FUCK?
Kill all the patients. It'll look good on your resume when you need to explain why you don't want to work with patients.
i think he fell into an alternate reality where everything is pirate ships
all i can imagine.
Yes. Citing precedence always helps.
my german friend just had the most American photo taken of her.
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i'm not even that into him.
i think what he stands for is very cool and all. but he doesn't blow my mind or captivate me.
Though it has tasted pretty good sometimes in that context.
I think you're a lovely man and I too love whiskey.
The rest of that stuff you wrote... you're on your own there. That was like rhetorical seppuku.
<flees>
my god
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I love him for the parody twitter account he inspired.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Like, I have one of those safety razors (not sure if this is the US terminology - common razor with a head that you throw away after a while and change for one of an over-priced pack of 3) WITH A BATTERY-POWERED MOTOR!
So, you just shave like with a normal rubbish safety razor but then it vibrates and shaves really smoothly and doesn't give me razor burn or cut me ever.
IT'S AN AWESOME PIECE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY THAT DID NOT EVEN EXIST WHEN I WAS LEARNING TO SHAVE!
Purposefully choosing some old-timey-coincidentally-a-deadly-weapon razor makes me raise a single eyebrown, spock-like. A spockbrow.
Possibly spockbrow should be a unit measuring polite disbelief.
Straight razor? A single spockbrow.
A fixie? 3 spockbrows.
Also, I've seen someone attacked with a straight razor, and it didn't endear me towards the device much.
In summary, MY RAZOR IS SO COOL I AM LIVING IN THE FUTURE!
*jots names down on list*
It's good. Like drinkng delicious dirt
Wait, no, that's a lie.
i had a sip of white wine once.
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