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 Made Brad & Claire's sourdough doughnuts. Only burned myself once! Big up's to AI chat thread for putting me on to Brad/Claire/Bon Apetit in the first place. Best YT content besides Binky.
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bolind posted:I've been trying to get on the Bon Apetit, and Brad is entertaining, but I just can't deal with the stupid speech bubbles and animations all the time. It's way overdone. Maybe I'll give it another shot. Claire's gourmet makes videos don't have the same OTT editing so they may work better for you. Claire is great too, I really feel her frustration when she can't get something to work. I really like all the failure the BA videos show - cooking isn't like a perfect instagram "how-to".
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May 4, 2020 14:59
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Cooking chat: I feel that one area that causes a lot of frustration with cooking, baking in particular, is recipes that are written that assume the reader has knowledge & experience of certain (often basic) techniques. I've had to troubleshoot failures for friends and it's usually a basic issue such as not understanding what "rub butter into flour" or "cream butter & sugar" actually means, and what the result looks like. Heck half the time I don't even know why I'm doing these things, I just have the experience to know how to do them, and what they look like when done right. Not everyone can look at a lovely recipe for bechamel and realise what they're asking when they tell you to dump flour, milk, cheese and butter in a pan is that you actually have to make a roux, gradually add the milk and then melt the cheese in at the end. Also, gently caress packet Lasagna. Another issue that's becoming more prevalent is lovely insta/youtube clickbait videos for like 5 ingedient masterpieces. Simply put, these recipes often don't work and they only exist to please the algorithm. Here's a good video about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno Then there's the other side of it. My girlfriend was trying to replicate one of these Dalgona iced coffee foam recipes and spent hours failing. She was getting so frustrated. In the end I determined she wasn't simply following the recipe, at all. Ingredients, quantities and techniques - all wrong. She's by no means a poor or inexperienced cook but she was trying to run before she could walk. I'm guilty of this too, I've been trying my hand at a lot more bread and while I haven't had any abject failures yet, I am making plenty of mistakes and learning by error. I am going to be a victim of hubris one day! Anyways, thats a lot of text, have some pictures of food.   
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May 20, 2020 02:23
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Elviscat posted:What's that last one? It looks loving amazing. Sticky Tofu Bao. Proof the better half is a great cook! She looked at a few recipes and synthesized them to come up with that. I think this recipe is a good starting point. Just use frozen Bao if you can find them, we've never attempted to make them.
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May 20, 2020 02:52
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BuckyDoneGun posted:You know how people always go on about how “they should teach X in schools!”? In NZ, when you hit what is now called Year 7 and 8, age 10/11 - 12/13, everyone does compulsory “Manual Training”. Generally cooking, sewing, woodwork and metalwork, although it varies slightly. The cooking side took you through all the basic techniques like rubbing and creaming and roux and so on. This is where I learned most of my basic techniques.  We had a really good "home economics" department at my high school. Great teachers, lots of emphasis on learning those techniques like making roux, making custard etc. I wish I had paid more attention in Wood- & Metal- working but I guess I use my cooking skills a lot more everyday. slothrop fucked around with this message at 05:12 on May 20, 2020 |
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Paint it to look like a boat so the government gets rid of it?
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May 20, 2020 10:42
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