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Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

wafflesnsegways posted:

Buy him an account!

Didn't you know HappyHat's true identity?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2012 21:57

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 09:33

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

close to toast posted:

Has anyone here ever experienced steaks tasting distinctly soapy?

I was proud of myself for having (finally) settled the butter/no butter debate with my husband when searing rib-eyes, got a great crust on medium rare, and then the meat tastes of soap. Wtf. A bit of googling tells me improper aging is the most likely cause.

Edit: obv in the 'no butter unless at the very end' camp

Or maybe you got fatty-rancid horse meat.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2012 11:42

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

therattle posted:

I am working with some producers in Aarhus. They seem to like it. They do say that there is an unusually high percentage of freaks and weirdos there - now I know why.

Unusually high for Denmark or just in general? I know a lot of the music & film/tv scene in Aarhus, and they are among the freakiest and weirdest...

And congrats on that, H^H, someone to take care of aryan rugrats while you and the missus dine out!

e: Update on insurance situation! My cousin called me and said that the insurance company have chosen to escalate our claim, which I thought was a good thing - faster processing time, I figured, but no. Apparently this means that they believe our claim is if not outright fraudulent then at least suspiciously high. Estimated processing time increased by 4-6 weeks. If we're lucky, we'll have the plumbing fixed before the frost sets in.

Dane fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 16, 2012

# ¿ Jul 16, 2012 20:29

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

I've decided to say gently caress IT to the world (insurance companies and clients who don't appreciate the life of a freelancer, in particular), and spend a lot of money I don't really have on a dinner for a few friends. A champagne dinner, because we all - well into our cups and extremely solemnly - promised each other on New Year's eve that 2012 would be the year when we'd finally start drinking more champagne!

But I'm completely lost as to a menu. 3-4 course meal, champagne / cava / cremant for every course ... anyone able to help me out? (don't spend too much brainpower on it, it's one of those ideas that feels great here at 11PM after a hellish week and a half but might lose its lustre once I check my bank balance in the morning)

# ¿ Jul 16, 2012 22:10

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Darval posted:

I was born in Aarhus, this might explain a few things.

I'm considdering buying the "On Food and Cooking" book by Harold McGee because I've read a bit of it in PDF and I like what I've read so far. But I noticed the book is actually pretty old, originally published in 1984. Is there something else I should get instead/also which is newer and more modern?

It's been updated several times, unless you're buying the 1st ed you should be fine.

pork never goes bad posted:

Champagne

Thanks.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 09:06

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Darval posted:

But I can't figure out if this is the same thing or nor:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/McGee-Food-Cooking-Encyclopedia-Kitchen/dp/0340831499/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342528444&sr=8-1

The second one being a lot cheaper.

That's the one I have, it's the version that was updated in 2004.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 18:24

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

I feel like getting drunk. But it collides with other plans.

Discuss.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2012 22:19

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Scientastic posted:

"And we've all done this"

I can honestly say I have never tried to crack an egg on a worksurface and smeared egg all over the place, instead of cracking on the side of the bowl that was right there.

Oh god, that *splat* sound they mixed in every time it cracks an egg is not really appetizing.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2012 11:02

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

I know everyone's tired of allergy chat, but last night, I inadvertently outed a fake allergic. I'd made bagna cauda for an appetizer, and after we'd eaten that and people asked what was in it, my sister reacted with horror at the anchovies, started panicking and talked about calling an ambulance. It seems her friend, who ate with us, had been claiming for 20 years that she was extremely allergic to fish of any kind (I didn't know this, honest). Turns out she wasn't, she just didn't care much for fish.

A rather awkward silence folllowed.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2012 16:08

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Happy Hat posted:

Dear E/N,
Seriously considering volunteering for a pink slip..

We could in theory live off my wife's paycheck, and make more babies to keep me busy!

Also, apparently the structural fascists are nervous around me because I lack structure, they do not like non-linear thinking, nor me using primal scream therapy methods during meetings.

Love from your pal

Happy Hat

Knowing where you work and a bit about the corporate culture of that place just makes these posts so much funnier.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 22:51

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

It's strange, I had this dream where Wiggles used to be a vegetarian.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2012 00:04

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

homerlaw posted:

On the downside: I got Jalapeno in my eye.
On the upside: It hurts less than last time.

Related question, is there any way I can be less affected by raw onions? I love the taste, but I can't cook with them without darting in and out of the kitchen to wash out my eyes.

Spray bottle with the setting on the finest mist. When you start feeling the tears, a few sprays in the air over the cutting area, and you're golden.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2012 12:07

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Was gonna make blender bernaise last night, but the blender has flat out disappeared. No one knows where it went. I tried using the stick blender, but mine is crappy or poorly designed and doesn't generate any kind of vortext and the emulsion broke as soon is began. Ended up re-emulsifying it the old fashioned way, with another egg yolk and a whisk. Also made french fries and filet steaks.

So two things:

�What stick blender should I buy?

*Where the gently caress did my blender go?

Bamix.

To the moon orbiting the planet where all the ballpoint pens migrate to.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 00:03

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

mindphlux posted:

farmed chickens should probably just be fed fishsauce as part of their diet because goddamn if fishsauce doesn't always make chicken fuckin amazing

I made Bagna Cauda the other day and used the left overs to cook chicken. It was loving awesome. The best panfried chicken I've ever had.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2012 02:44

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Happy Hat posted:

Yeah, this...

Also - we're old!

At what age is it ok to start treat all the young people overbearing?

I mean - I actually look forward to being that guy..

I still remember one of my buddies grandmothers, back when I was 15, and had just gotten a 13 in math (like an A++) at the final exam at public school..

Her comment was 'so do you think that will make you happier in life? I have never met someone who was good at school who were any good in life!'

To the story is attached that she was German nobility from a major house who had been active in the resistance, had been caught and subsequently executed with a pistol shot to the forehead and left for dead (back of head was for peasants), after which she walked more than 300km to get out of the occupied zone with a bullet rattling in her brain. She couldn't bike, because her balance had been damaged too much.

So one hell of a tough lady.

I want to start doing that to the young people!

Let me get this straight: you want to shoot young people in the head and force them to walk across the country? I knew you were hard on your employees, but sheesh, HH.

<note to self: do not drop by HH's house with chilis again>

# ¿ Oct 17, 2012 19:44

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Casu Marzu posted:

Dear foodists,

I have bad news. I lost all sense of taste. I am broken now.

Eat a delicious food in honor of my dead tongue.

Love,

Casu

Recent dentist visits? Eaten chinese pine nuts?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2012 23:31

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Casu Marzu posted:

She ended up just tossing everything in the fireplace.

In regards to the two bibles, I'm guessing it is a backup, since they don't even acknowledge my existence beyond me being an example as to why she is being sinful. I doubt they would try to "save" me.

Why can't I get John Lithgow out of my head when I read things like this?

# ¿ Dec 28, 2012 20:54

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

OMG HAPPYHAT YOU ARE INSANE AND IN THIS ECONOMY

- tillykke! Hvorn�r er det officielt? (skal nok holde k�ft)

# ¿ Jan 8, 2013 11:44

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

therattle posted:

I'm really sorry to hear that.

I'd find it hard not to be really aggressive with people who promulgated those home cures. The only thing that would stop me from lashing out (physically or verbally) would be the constant thought, repeated to myself so I don't forget it, that they mean well. Even if they are loving morons.

Some of these people are aggressive as gently caress in their missionary ways. Some gently caress did the rounds at the hospice my aunt (and later my dad) was in during the last weeks of her life and tried to convince people, very loudly, that they really needed to chew licorice root or whatever the gently caress. It was as bad as someone telling a terminal patient to repent their ways and Jesus would heal them. If I had been there, I don't think I could have stopped myself from throwing him out bodily - thankfully, the nurses in places like that are amazing and got rid of him quite fast.

Well-wishing and sympathy is all good, as is the urge to help, but... yeah. Pisses me off. Like Jehova's witnesses who check the death notices and start coming a-knockin' to console the bereaved.

<going to go smoke an angry cigarette and drink an angry cup of coffee to get my blood pressure down>

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 16:47

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

therattle posted:

I like this. Especially if you are holding something (like a bottle) somewhat menacingly. People like that make me almost as angry as anti-vac people, for whom I hold a special place in my rage-filled heart.

I wish a particularly virulent strain of smallpox on those people. Idiots.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 21:17

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I try to be at least somewhat sympathetic with those idiots, given that the non-alternative medicines we use to fight cancer are simply poison. I have no doubt that 50 years from now we will look back at chemotherapy and think it barbaric.

Except that it's because of these people that smallpox, measles, mumps and polio is coming back. Unfounded in science and based on the words of one deluded MD and a pair of talking tits who refuses to accept that she can't blame anyone for her child's autism.

e: I'm sorry, I misunderstood which idiots you were talking about. I see your point, but a lot of them are at best well-meaning snakeoil salesmen.

e2: gently caress, I'm an rear end in a top hat:

Steve, I'm really sorry for hijacking and jumping on my soapbox. I hope your dad and your family comes out okay.

Dane fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jan 10, 2013

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 21:36

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Hawkgirl posted:

In other news, Pr0k's mother is very loose.

You would be too, after all she's been through.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2013 13:45

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Hey, so, the cilantro thing might actually be a ... thing. https://www.23andme.com/about/factoid/cilantro/

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 10:22

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Sjurygg posted:

Was there really any doubt about that? It always sounded legit to me, I was just waiting around for somebody to bother finding the gene.

Sucks to be those people nonetheless

A few people here bitched about the whiny manchildren who didn't like cilantro and their claims that it tasted soapy.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 11:13

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Casu Marzu posted:

Why would they use "factoid" in this, when they have at least some sort of evidence supporting the plausibility of cilantro tasting soapy?

Because they're a popsmart website trying to get some scientific validity from it? *shrug*

I don't recall you as being particularly harsh, I just remember the thread about food dislikes where there was a lot of bitching going on.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 20:32

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Hey, webdevs. Yeah, you. Yeah, I'll "translate" your "backend" with a blowtorch if you send me poo poo formatted in php rather than plain text (as agreed) 4 days (rather than 14 days as agreed) before deadline, then bitch at me for increasing my price.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 01:06

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

In the area of pretentious titles, I received an email from an upcoming food festival that spoke of a thai "Meal Designer" who is coming to the festival with their "mixology concept" to "interpret the blue mussel".

# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 12:03

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Happy Hat posted:

So...

I just got offered a position as the CIO of a smallish entity

I turned it down - since I got offered a project for corporation which will rock my socks off, also a pay rise and reduction in hours...

I am such a whore!

Edit: to clarify, I would have to take a pay decrease to take the job...

Nooooooooo! Get out while you can, before your bigboss implodes completely! (I hope you haven't been getting paid partly in stock ...)

# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 20:33

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

therattle posted:

I'm sure she had fascinating facts and opinions about vaccinations.

Oh god. I got sucked into one of these discussions (again!) the other day. My calm, rational, vegetarian, drama-teaching, afro-drumming and extremely polite friend blew a gasket in a small thermonuclear explosion when someone told him that his severely autistic son would've been perfectly fine if instead of the MMR vaccine they'd just given him homeopathic profylaxis, all spurred on by a well-meaning new-age hippie friend of ours posting a picture from this man's facebook wall and taking it seriously.

His mindblowing bullshit vaccine statement - found here - uses the wonderful power of statistics known as "numbers I've just pulled out of my own rear end" and he even admits it. It's so far past stupid that I actually get angry about it.

Idiot posted:

VACCINATED MALE CHANCES OF DEVELOPING CANCER 1 IN 2
VACCINATED FEMALE CHANCES OF DEVELOPING CANCER 1 IN 3 (...)
THE CHANCES OF DEVELOPING CANCER IN YOUR LIFETIME IF YOU HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A VACCINATION: 1 in TWENTY ONE MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (...)
The 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 are well publicized and know stats from the ACS.. and the only conclusion stat on there from me, and it's based on studying this issue (meds mostly) for over 30 years and that is 1 in 21 million chance if someone was not vaccinated.. which is a very conservative estimate.. it might be more like 1 in 200 million (...)

Oh, content. I made panzanella. It was good. Tomatoes should've been more ripe though. I long for summer.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 23:40

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

I'm branching out my translation business to do test translations of books (primarily English language) to Danish - foreign publishers who want to try and sell the rights to Danish publishers. It's a little odd as I work for both sides - sometimes, a Danish publishing house will ask me to translate a chapter or two of an English language book that they think they might be interested in, sometimes foreign publishers will ask me to do the same so they can shop the title around.

I was sent two chapters from a collection of short stories that the US publishing house believe "could be the next 50 Shades of Grey". I read the line

quote:

(...)the wild and wonton look in her eyes(...)

and couldn't stop laughing.

I doubt that one will make it through the editorial review.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 14:30

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Jonesy posted:

Also, while I'm butting into the thread, is there a particular method for knife storage everyone loves?
I've got mine in a drawer but that feels slow, I was thinking of getting one of those magnet strips or a block, or maybe a general kitchen implement pegboard setup.

http://benchcrafted.com/Magblok.html

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 16:03

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

My magblok is almost too strong. My massive cleaver is actually hard to get off ... okay, the language here is making me uncomfortable, too much housewife-softporn-translation for me.

Aaaaaanyway: I have a heavy cleaver that sticks so well to the mag-blok that it's hard to remove it. All other knives stick to it perfectly as well. Only my round honing steel won't. I can totally endorse that product.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 20:54

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Back when I worked at a production company that made TV programs for deaf people, one of the sign language interpreters - a good looking woman - told a story about how a rather sleazy deaf client requested that she translate a film for him. No points for guessing what kind of film.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 22:14

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

therattle posted:

A...children's cartoon?

No points for guessing wrong, either.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 22:29

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

GrAviTy84 posted:

I was gonna roll with this one because there's no exposed metal to jack up my knives. I'm assuming you have one and can vouch for its magnet strength?

I've been waiting to buy this for a while, I suppose if someone could answer that one question I would pull the trigger on one, like, now.

I'm actually surprised how strong the magnet is. I can totally vouch for it. No issues with it what so ever. I'm considering buying a couple more for tools and keys.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2013 21:55

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

How much coke did they give Richard Blais before recording this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiK9_XQq228

# ¿ May 16, 2013 23:04

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

I'm sure it's already been posted somewhere (bartending thread?) but the wonderful people behind Natural Harvest have a new book out:

Dane fucked around with this message at 02:21 on May 24, 2013

# ¿ May 23, 2013 20:55

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Eat the pizzacone, mp.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 21:37

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

No Wave posted:

Could you clarify? is this because nobody actually has fancy dinner parties that demand them (except in their imagination and in the TV show Hannibal)?

Sharp straight edge > serrated for anything but frozen foods, (some) breads and for chopping nuts or chocolate. At least that's what I see in it.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2013 00:02

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 09:33

Dane: Jun 18, 2003; mmm... creamy.

Celebrating my first kitchen injury that's not a cut or a burn: a damaged rotator cuff from trying to catch a falling half gallon can of preserved peaches.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2013 14:55

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