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sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Including the cookware?

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sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Looks like 20/yo bricks of Kraft cheeze.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

Yeah, this job should be paying insanely more, especially in portland.

I'm likely relocating to Portland in January. I hope you're right.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I think my apartment is toxic. Dough don't rise.

:flaccid:

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Jun 16, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Beats me. I did a series of tests to try to figure it out. Tried three different yeasts. Warm and cold water. Purified bottled water. Nada. Bread comes out edible - just - but it just doesn't rise properly. I can make pizzas and indian style flat breads but a good loaf isn't happening :/

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

mindphlux posted:

The golden age of GWS for me was when there were tons of threads on very specific different topics, all under 2-3 pages long, and once the topic had been pretty much addressed, the thread died, and new topics came in. And I genuinely was interested in reading almost all of the threads, and contributing where I could. Sure, some questions got asked over and over every 6 months or year, but there wasn't a spergy attempt to wholly define 'THE BEER MEGATHREAD' or 'EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INDIAN COOKING' - both topics that could span books thousands of pages long, and still not be adequately covered.

Yep, RIP. For at a few years now I've used SA exclusively from the "bookmarked threads" list since the forum "home" is dead.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Lesson: just post a thread - don't propose it in the curmudgeonly troll thread first.

Scientastic posted:

Just post it!

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Screaming Bean in Amsterdam for light breakfast and excellent coffee. Also has a cat. Haven't spent more than half a day in Z or B sorry - busy cities so just go where the people are at night.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I've only been to one wedding (excluding my own) but it was at a vineyard, proper sit down meal and it was loving amazing :)

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Nonsense.

Cucumber is best.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Swagger Dagger posted:

So do I, it tastes fine and is like a quarter of the price.

Supermarket brands rate well here..

quote:

Gin taste test results: the top 10
Score in brackets, price per 70cl bottle

1. Morrisons London Dry Gin (80%) £10.49
2. Lidl Castelgy London Dry Gin (78%) £9.99
3. Waitrose London Dry Gin (78%) £12
4. Greenall’s London Dry Gin (77%) £15
5. Beefeater Dry Gin (76%) £16
6. Asda London Dry Gin (75%) £11
7. Sainsbury’s London Dry Gin (74%) £11.50
8. Aldi Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin (74%) £9.99
9. Gordon’s Special Dry London Gin (74%) £16
10. The Cooperative London Dry Gin (73%) £11.99
source

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Who pissed in your cornflakes?




sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Sep 8, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I like weights because you can put the mixing bowl / sauce pan on the scale and just pour ingredients in one by one, hitting reset in between.

Also you can measure liquids by weight much easier than in a measuring jug, and scaling a recipe is easier by weight.

Don't get me started on loving tbsp of butter.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Only american butter has tbsp units on the wrapper, so internet recipes with tbsp is a pain in the rear end for 95% of the world.

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Sep 15, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
:catstare:

vvv put ya glasses on gramps

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Sep 15, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

les fleurs du mall posted:

do you just not loving own tablespoons then or what i mean are they not a standard item in your kitchen gently caress

I'm picturing therattle cramming cold hard butter into a tablespoon and smearing it out with a finger over and over and

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
What's that in a unit of mass?

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
put it on ur head and scare the cattes

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I wish SA could upweigh new threads to the top of the list for a week or something.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
GWS isn't a forum any more, it hasn't been for years now. It's a large set of megathreads - really subforums - on specific topics. Which is a lovely format but what are ya going to do about it, short of killing all megathreads (lol).

Dinner thread is the closest thing to old gws.

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Sep 25, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
and Mr Wiggles was vegetarian

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Do US airlines typically charge for checked bags on domestic routes? I don't even own a suitcase any more.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Hah. Remember when normal people used iron skillets.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Taxi drivers generally know where they're going. I like my driver to keep his eyes on the road not the GPS screen. Hailo works great for requesting a cab, or paying after flagging one down the old way. Also I try not to support lovely companies if I have a choice.

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Oct 29, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Uh oh. Casu, quick post some pie crust porn!

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Hey

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Squashy Nipples posted:

I once worked a summer in Ireland, and the Irish were totally perplexed (and perhaps a bit offended) that I didn't claim any Irish heritage. Apparently, Americans in Ireland are supposed to lie and say they are Irish.

I just flew Dublin - Chicago and you actually clear US customs while still in Dublin airport. They said it just makes everything easier because there are so many Americans visiting and living in Ireland.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Idgi what's wrong with a multi layer steamer?

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
It's called The Great British Baking Show in the US though because what even is a bake-off?!

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I like the UK Masterchef (professionals) - it's Top Chef minus the reality TV "drama".

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Find Bill Buford and make him finish writing his drat French book.

I spent Christmas there a few years ago, staying with friends. Seems like a cool town. If you'll have a car there's a lot to explore nearby too.

sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Dec 29, 2015

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
I kickstarted a bottle of vegan fish sauce. Mystery goo in a bottle from the Internet. On a scale of 1 to Chipotle how poisoned am I gonna be?

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
There's an ingredient list somewhere.. it's tamari (soy sauce), pineapple juice, a few different seaweeds mainly.

They're local to me so I can skip the postage, making it decent value.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Force de Fappe posted:

fxcuisine.com has been updated :stare: :staredog:

woah.

he said in a comment there's a new kitchen and he'll be posting more in future.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

THE MACHO MAN posted:

what is this I've never heard of it?? What is the relevance

It's a pretty good European home-kitchen food blog with a lot of Italian cuisine and some interesting road trips. The author stopped posting several years ago with no explanation. Now he's posting again.



Have a browse through the old articles

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Decent (read: poncey espresso based, aus/nz style) coffee in Vegas? Asking for a friend.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

DekeThornton posted:

MasterChef UK and Australia are two pretty damned great traditional cooking competition shows. The US version features Gordon Ramsay and is, from what I've seen, a bit more in your face and simplified. As far as reality television goes it's fairly low on the embarassment scale, I'd say.

Additionally the UK version at least has an amateur and professional version which have quite different format. All the regional variants have much less "drama" than the likes of Top Chef. I don't think the UK one even has prizes. Go for it, I reckon.

sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Blend a jar of sweet crunchy pickles and a tub of cream cheese, spread on hot toast.

The only good use I can think of that isn't cheesecake.

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sweat poteto
Feb 16, 2006

Everybody's gotta learn sometime

therattle posted:

I'm in the UK

:(:hf:

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