if i could pick a career path in a new life maybe i'd be that guy who tries to homemake everything in the world and then tell the masses on the internet what is and isn't worth the effort
But what if I'm lazy and so not willing to put as much effort in as you
the goal wouldn't be to necessarily change your behaviors- just to impart knowledge. i hate urban legends and superstitious rumors around food. some people say 'never do this, it'll make it runny/tough/dry and they've never tested that. it's just inherited knowledge which they take as gospel. or they'll do this extra step- always brown this, make sure you give these ingredients 10 minutes to get to know each other in the pot, whatever. and probably the broadest, most high level bromide is- 'of course, if you have the time/energy/money, homemade is always better. but it's acceptable to...'
and i just think that's trivially false. there are a huge number of foods where it genuinely is not better to do it homemade. but even if i convinced you of that, it wouldn't necessarily change the way you cook. i just like the idea of the knowledge being out there, competing with all the wive's tales.
Honestly I feel like America's Test Kitchen is about halfway there with their deconstructions of exactly how and why certain steps are needed, and where you can cut corners.
I miss the BA cast when they were still on BA. I know the company sucks and I'm glad they've been successful moving on, but I really liked some of their blind challenges and experiments
if i could pick a career path in a new life maybe i'd be that guy who tries to homemake everything in the world and then tell the masses on the internet what is and isn't worth the effort
But what if I'm lazy and so not willing to put as much effort in as you
the goal wouldn't be to necessarily change your behaviors- just to impart knowledge. i hate urban legends and superstitious rumors around food. some people say 'never do this, it'll make it runny/tough/dry and they've never tested that. it's just inherited knowledge which they take as gospel. or they'll do this extra step- always brown this, make sure you give these ingredients 10 minutes to get to know each other in the pot, whatever. and probably the broadest, most high level bromide is- 'of course, if you have the time/energy/money, homemade is always better. but it's acceptable to...'
and i just think that's trivially false. there are a huge number of foods where it genuinely is not better to do it homemade. but even if i convinced you of that, it wouldn't necessarily change the way you cook. i just like the idea of the knowledge being out there, competing with all the wive's tales.
Honestly I feel like America's Test Kitchen is about halfway there with their deconstructions of exactly how and why certain steps are needed, and where you can cut corners.
I miss the BA cast when they were still on BA. I know the company sucks and I'm glad they've been successful moving on, but I really liked some of their blind challenges and experiments
If you want to know a reasonable basic version of a dish just go find the NYT Cooking article that every blogger copied and which didn't need to add 10 random ingredients to make it trendy or whatever
If they don't have one, it's a big waste of time
Also you have to determine which bloggers are money grabbing trend followers and which are accessible writers for home cooks and which are just selling books
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America's Test Kitchen, Cooks Illustrated, Adam Ragusea, and various other youtubes are some of my favorites and I've learned so much from them.
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Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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[chat] I've got a 100-400mm lens that's supposed to be shipped out in like...3 weeks but I need it now
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
[chat] I've got a 100-400mm lens that's supposed to be shipped out in like...3 weeks but I need it now
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
it's probably like container ship 38 anchored half a mile from long beach port. if i am super athletic maybe i can jump from ship to ship to get there for you
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Maybe I should defeat capitalism by becoming one of those guys who spends 10 hours making homemade shampoo to save 15 cents
i love r/frugal because it’s either someone saying “hey guys how do I make a budget?” or it’s someone saying “I save money by melting all the old slivers of soap into a scented frankensteins monster and not counting the medical bills for the burns I’m up 2 dollars a year”
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[chat] I've got a 100-400mm lens that's supposed to be shipped out in like...3 weeks but I need it now
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
it's probably like container ship 38 anchored half a mile from long beach port. if i am super athletic maybe i can jump from ship to ship to get there for you
The funny thing is, you're probably exactly correct
[chat] I've got a 100-400mm lens that's supposed to be shipped out in like...3 weeks but I need it now
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
it's probably like container ship 38 anchored half a mile from long beach port. if i am super athletic maybe i can jump from ship to ship to get there for you
i could do this
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Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
if i could pick a career path in a new life maybe i'd be that guy who tries to homemake everything in the world and then tell the masses on the internet what is and isn't worth the effort
But what if I'm lazy and so not willing to put as much effort in as you
the goal wouldn't be to necessarily change your behaviors- just to impart knowledge. i hate urban legends and superstitious rumors around food. some people say 'never do this, it'll make it runny/tough/dry and they've never tested that. it's just inherited knowledge which they take as gospel. or they'll do this extra step- always brown this, make sure you give these ingredients 10 minutes to get to know each other in the pot, whatever. and probably the broadest, most high level bromide is- 'of course, if you have the time/energy/money, homemade is always better. but it's acceptable to...'
and i just think that's trivially false. there are a huge number of foods where it genuinely is not better to do it homemade. but even if i convinced you of that, it wouldn't necessarily change the way you cook. i just like the idea of the knowledge being out there, competing with all the wive's tales.
Honestly I feel like America's Test Kitchen is about halfway there with their deconstructions of exactly how and why certain steps are needed, and where you can cut corners.
I miss the BA cast when they were still on BA. I know the company sucks and I'm glad they've been successful moving on, but I really liked some of their blind challenges and experiments
BA?
bon appetit. super well loved social media empire (and also physical magazine but no one cared about that) of a number of cooks doing different shows. its editor in chief got fired and canceled when it was revealed he did a very racially insensitive halloween costume (as an adult, not in his tweens or whatever). after that, a huge stink was made about inequitable compensation for different content creators, with the allegation that it was often disadvantaged towards PoC. there was a lot of agitating for change and then a huge number of people left the company. only a small handful of the original cast remains and its popularity is a tiny shadow of what it used to be.
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
[chat] I've got a 100-400mm lens that's supposed to be shipped out in like...3 weeks but I need it now
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
it's probably like container ship 38 anchored half a mile from long beach port. if i am super athletic maybe i can jump from ship to ship to get there for you
i could do this
tyrannus I have a job for you
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if i could pick a career path in a new life maybe i'd be that guy who tries to homemake everything in the world and then tell the masses on the internet what is and isn't worth the effort
But what if I'm lazy and so not willing to put as much effort in as you
the goal wouldn't be to necessarily change your behaviors- just to impart knowledge. i hate urban legends and superstitious rumors around food. some people say 'never do this, it'll make it runny/tough/dry and they've never tested that. it's just inherited knowledge which they take as gospel. or they'll do this extra step- always brown this, make sure you give these ingredients 10 minutes to get to know each other in the pot, whatever. and probably the broadest, most high level bromide is- 'of course, if you have the time/energy/money, homemade is always better. but it's acceptable to...'
and i just think that's trivially false. there are a huge number of foods where it genuinely is not better to do it homemade. but even if i convinced you of that, it wouldn't necessarily change the way you cook. i just like the idea of the knowledge being out there, competing with all the wive's tales.
Honestly I feel like America's Test Kitchen is about halfway there with their deconstructions of exactly how and why certain steps are needed, and where you can cut corners.
I miss the BA cast when they were still on BA. I know the company sucks and I'm glad they've been successful moving on, but I really liked some of their blind challenges and experiments
BA?
bon appetit. super well loved social media empire (and also physical magazine but no one cared about that) of a number of cooks doing different shows. its editor in chief got fired and canceled when it was revealed he did a very racially insensitive halloween costume (as an adult, not in his tweens or whatever). after that, a huge stink was made about inequitable compensation for different content creators, with the allegation that it was often disadvantaged towards PoC. there was a lot of agitating for change and then a huge number of people left the company. only a small handful of the original cast remains and its popularity is a tiny shadow of what it used to be.
ahhhh.
Well that sucks but also good on those folks for getting the F out
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Back in the 2008/2009 era there was a show called exstream cheapskates about frugal people.
Turns out a dude I played GoW with and worked with was in an episode.
Maybe I should defeat capitalism by becoming one of those guys who spends 10 hours making homemade shampoo to save 15 cents
i love r/frugal because it’s either someone saying “hey guys how do I make a budget?” or it’s someone saying “I save money by melting all the old slivers of soap into a scented frankensteins monster and not counting the medical bills for the burns I’m up 2 dollars a year”
DAE dry and reuse squares of toilet paper
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Maybe I should defeat capitalism by becoming one of those guys who spends 10 hours making homemade shampoo to save 15 cents
i love r/frugal because it’s either someone saying “hey guys how do I make a budget?” or it’s someone saying “I save money by melting all the old slivers of soap into a scented frankensteins monster and not counting the medical bills for the burns I’m up 2 dollars a year”
DAE dry and reuse squares of toilet paper
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Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
The simple ones tend to come out pretty good. The bigger problem is if you're trying to make a cola or something.
I wonder why spruce syrup is so costly. I guess just scale and market.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
a lot of people (re: me) are extremely particular about the carbonation level of their soft drinks. i have to figure that would be a big hurdle in accurately reproducing national brands, too.
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fwiw conde nast is still shit but bon appetit made a pretty big effort to reform and i'd defy you to even find a white person working there now
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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I wonder how long until my bidet (a) pays for itself and (b) becomes carbon positive.
Sure it's fine being a bidet stan on hygiene and quality of life grounds but could I also be insufferably righteous about it too 🤔
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
a lot of people (re: me) are extremely particular about the carbonation level of their soft drinks. i have to figure that would be a big hurdle in accurately reproducing national brands, too.
My soda stream makes these loud pressure gasket fart noises and one fart is san pellegrino, two is coke zero, three is polar seltzer, and 4+ is challenging to drink because it burns all the way down and you can't stop burping.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
fwiw conde nast is still shit but bon appetit made a pretty big effort to reform and i'd defy you to even find a white person working there now
the only two stars left are- brad and chris, right? i haven't really followed the shows lately but it seems like everyone else left (including all the women)
Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
spruce beer is delicious
why is that shit not available commercially?
I hear there is one spruce soda manufacturer in Quebec. Otherwise I think the flavor is just niche or unknown enough that it isn't in demand.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
if i could pick a career path in a new life maybe i'd be that guy who tries to homemake everything in the world and then tell the masses on the internet what is and isn't worth the effort
But what if I'm lazy and so not willing to put as much effort in as you
the goal wouldn't be to necessarily change your behaviors- just to impart knowledge. i hate urban legends and superstitious rumors around food. some people say 'never do this, it'll make it runny/tough/dry' and they've never tested that. it's just inherited knowledge which they take as gospel. or they'll do this extra step- always brown this, make sure you give these ingredients 10 minutes to get to know each other in the pot, whatever. and probably the broadest, most high level bromide is- 'of course, if you have the time/energy/money, homemade is always better. but it's acceptable to...'
and i just think that's trivially false. there are a huge number of foods where it genuinely is not better to do it homemade. but even if i convinced you of that, it wouldn't necessarily change the way you cook. i just like the idea of the knowledge being out there, competing with all the wive's tales.
There are books like that out there, it's just not the popular cookbooks that sell. But like in culinary school we did a whole lot of learning about what actually happens to food as it gets prepared, how flavors are tasted, that sorta thing, and a lot of that was ain ol textbooks.
Baking is particularly good at it, since you cant just improv a baking recipe, you gotta understand the chemistry of what's going on for you to reliably make changes in your recipe.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
fwiw conde nast is still shit but bon appetit made a pretty big effort to reform and i'd defy you to even find a white person working there now
the only two stars left are- brad and chris, right? i haven't really followed the shows lately but it seems like everyone else left (including all the women)
yeah i think just about everybody from before left
i only mean they've made the effort to not have the problems they had before
there were a few bad experiences i had financially as a kid that have really affected my financial mindset growing up. things like- rough, thin toilet paper where you'd end up shoving a fingertip through the paper, and scrounging through couch cushions to put a dollar eighty three in the gas tank, or sweating terribly in the summer to save on electric.
anyway i am now a relatively frugal person (bankruptcy didn't hurt this part of my character development!)
but i will budget aggressively in other areas in order to afford:
1) decent quality personal care items like TP, skin products etc
2) always being able to fill up my tank, never worrying about running out of gas
3) being comfortable, climatically
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mcdonald's has special coke but i don't really agree it's better. it just tastes like that general mcdonald's malaise everything they have tastes like
Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
The simple ones tend to come out pretty good. The bigger problem is if you're trying to make a cola or something.
I wonder why spruce syrup is so costly. I guess just scale and market.
I would definitely never try to recreate Dr. Pepper or Pepsi or whatever.
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and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
Making soda syrups at home is a fool's errand for example. The precision involved and the amount of science that has gone into emulsifying oil based flavors into a water based syrup is just something you'll never realistically accomplish in your home kitchen. It's not going to happen. Plus the ingredients involved have to be fresh and the process works overwhelmingly better at commercial scale.
That said the fact that coke refuses to sell syrup to homes, and instead insists on bottling their product with water into wasteful, single-use containers is just like, some high bullshit. One of the poster children for how capitalism has utterly failed to capture external costs of manufacturing and we're going to destroy our entire planet because of it.
Coke made a dispenser called the "Breakmate". We had one at the bed & breakfast I worked for in high school.
Standard CO2 bottle hookup, it had 1 litre boxes of syrup. It was great, it dispensed a 6.5 ounce serving, it was easy to swap cylinders and clean, but Coke positioned it as a commercial product for things like office breakrooms and it bombed. They killed it in 2007 and quit making parts or the syrup boxes for it in 2010.
also mcdonald's coke and sprite is king, all these other fast food places are shit from a butt
same with taco bell's mountain dew
It’s because McDonald’s pays extra to have their syrup in a metal container which they chill along with the water (filtered) and their system accounts for the ice melt. They also use slightly wider straws for Better carbonation to hit your tongue. And it’s like that for all of their sodas. Food scientists at McDonald’s spent a lot of time making their sodas taste better.
fwiw conde nast is still shit but bon appetit made a pretty big effort to reform and i'd defy you to even find a white person working there now
Brad Leone.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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shang-chi time i guess
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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I've passed up on like a dozen old coke/dr pepper machines over the years (nothing like super valuable, just relics) and I want one for the ranch but they're such power hogs.
I need to figure out a way to keep sodas in the root cellar or find a way to power a 1960s vending machine on solar
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I miss the BA cast when they were still on BA. I know the company sucks and I'm glad they've been successful moving on, but I really liked some of their blind challenges and experiments
BA?
If they don't have one, it's a big waste of time
Also you have to determine which bloggers are money grabbing trend followers and which are accessible writers for home cooks and which are just selling books
I had pretty good luck making spruce syrup and mixing it with soda water, which is nice since buying it is very costly.
but they're listening to every word I say
now
Someone steal that thing off the boat and send it to me please and thank you
it's probably like container ship 38 anchored half a mile from long beach port. if i am super athletic maybe i can jump from ship to ship to get there for you
i love r/frugal because it’s either someone saying “hey guys how do I make a budget?” or it’s someone saying “I save money by melting all the old slivers of soap into a scented frankensteins monster and not counting the medical bills for the burns I’m up 2 dollars a year”
The funny thing is, you're probably exactly correct
i could do this
spruce beer is delicious
why is that shit not available commercially?
bon appetit. super well loved social media empire (and also physical magazine but no one cared about that) of a number of cooks doing different shows. its editor in chief got fired and canceled when it was revealed he did a very racially insensitive halloween costume (as an adult, not in his tweens or whatever). after that, a huge stink was made about inequitable compensation for different content creators, with the allegation that it was often disadvantaged towards PoC. there was a lot of agitating for change and then a huge number of people left the company. only a small handful of the original cast remains and its popularity is a tiny shadow of what it used to be.
tyrannus I have a job for you
ahhhh.
Well that sucks but also good on those folks for getting the F out
Turns out a dude I played GoW with and worked with was in an episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYA4tVYh4Y
DAE dry and reuse squares of toilet paper
🤢🤮
The simple ones tend to come out pretty good. The bigger problem is if you're trying to make a cola or something.
I wonder why spruce syrup is so costly. I guess just scale and market.
Sure it's fine being a bidet stan on hygiene and quality of life grounds but could I also be insufferably righteous about it too 🤔
same with taco bell's mountain dew
My soda stream makes these loud pressure gasket fart noises and one fart is san pellegrino, two is coke zero, three is polar seltzer, and 4+ is challenging to drink because it burns all the way down and you can't stop burping.
the only two stars left are- brad and chris, right? i haven't really followed the shows lately but it seems like everyone else left (including all the women)
I hear there is one spruce soda manufacturer in Quebec. Otherwise I think the flavor is just niche or unknown enough that it isn't in demand.
but they're listening to every word I say
There are books like that out there, it's just not the popular cookbooks that sell. But like in culinary school we did a whole lot of learning about what actually happens to food as it gets prepared, how flavors are tasted, that sorta thing, and a lot of that was ain ol textbooks.
Baking is particularly good at it, since you cant just improv a baking recipe, you gotta understand the chemistry of what's going on for you to reliably make changes in your recipe.
truth
yeah i think just about everybody from before left
i only mean they've made the effort to not have the problems they had before
anyway i am now a relatively frugal person (bankruptcy didn't hurt this part of my character development!)
but i will budget aggressively in other areas in order to afford:
1) decent quality personal care items like TP, skin products etc
2) always being able to fill up my tank, never worrying about running out of gas
3) being comfortable, climatically
I would definitely never try to recreate Dr. Pepper or Pepsi or whatever.
but they're listening to every word I say
Coke made a dispenser called the "Breakmate". We had one at the bed & breakfast I worked for in high school.
Standard CO2 bottle hookup, it had 1 litre boxes of syrup. It was great, it dispensed a 6.5 ounce serving, it was easy to swap cylinders and clean, but Coke positioned it as a commercial product for things like office breakrooms and it bombed. They killed it in 2007 and quit making parts or the syrup boxes for it in 2010.
this is the scene in a drama where i feel us drifting apart and i feel powerless to stop it
i mean i already prefer diet to sugar drinks anyway
our differences are what bring us together
It’s because McDonald’s pays extra to have their syrup in a metal container which they chill along with the water (filtered) and their system accounts for the ice melt. They also use slightly wider straws for Better carbonation to hit your tongue. And it’s like that for all of their sodas. Food scientists at McDonald’s spent a lot of time making their sodas taste better.
Brad Leone.
but they're listening to every word I say
I need to figure out a way to keep sodas in the root cellar or find a way to power a 1960s vending machine on solar