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Waste of Breath posted:A blunt and a good cake donut and a drip coffee is a great Saturday morning imo I love a good old fashioned donut, cake donuts are fine, I won't pretend I'm above eating hostess/entenmanns/etc either. Donuts are generally hard to gently caress up to the point where they're inedible.
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:08 |
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Do people genuinely never drink instant coffee? Like I love getting the fancy stuff and brewing it different ways but cmon at least half the time I want to just boil some water and pour it in a mug and have a drink that doesn't take 5 minutes to set up That said I, uh, wouldn't pay for it in a shop
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:12 |
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Waste of Breath posted:A blunt and a good cake donut and a drip coffee is a great Saturday morning imo Agree 100%. I notice you didnt say a bad powdered sugar donut and literally the worst coffee you can buy Its the difference between the Nissan Versa and Rav4.
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:16 |
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They stock instant coffee in every grocery store. That's a good indication that people do actually drink instant coffee. I expect the companies that sell lots of instant coffee have done things like market research and product testing and keep tidy balance sheets and know exactly what their margins are.
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:17 |
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Good instant coffee is easily better than a lot of the coffee people are brewing at home. The average coffee is cheap beans roasted and ground months ago, dripping through a lovely machine that hasn't been cleaned in ages, into a scaly pot, sitting on the hot plate for an hour. I'll take an instant over that, thanks. Now Rationale can you sell blunts? Because that's some high margin poo poo. Bribe your local law enforcement, what could go wrong.
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:52 |
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Strategic Tea posted:Do people genuinely never drink instant coffee? Like I love getting the fancy stuff and brewing it different ways but cmon at least half the time I want to just boil some water and pour it in a mug and have a drink that doesn't take 5 minutes to set up Post username combo. A drip machine has all the same steps. Add water, add grounds, wait. Hell a French press is instant coffee with plus pushing a thing and some extra rinsing. Not hating, just seems like almost identical work. I can see it for camping or I only have access to a microwave.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 00:47 |
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I’m going to buy instant coffee and Entemann’s powdered donuts instead.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 00:56 |
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I’m going to buy instant coffee and Entemann’s powdered donuts instead. oh poo poo we got a high-roller here
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 00:56 |
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Leperflesh posted:They stock instant coffee in every grocery store. That's a good indication that people do actually drink instant coffee. I expect the companies that sell lots of instant coffee have done things like market research and product testing and keep tidy balance sheets and know exactly what their margins are. I don't drink a lot of coffee, but instant is fine, especially when I'm only making a single cup. No need to mess around with a French press or a percolator if you're not in the mood. Food science has come a long way, as long as you're not buying the cheapest, oldest instant coffee in the store, the quality is on par with your average pre-ground coffee Anime Store Adventure posted:I’m going to buy instant coffee and Entemann’s powdered donuts instead. This guy knows what's up
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 01:20 |
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Yes, people drink instant coffee. I cannot believe that we're talking about this, and I doubly cannot believe that it's a better topic than anything the OP is doing.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 03:13 |
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In Seattle, local chain Top Pot has started making their seasonal egg nog glazed donuts. They are loving delicious, even though they're cake donuts. Just wanted to report that.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 03:40 |
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Sure, people drink instant coffee. People also yell at their pets and steal money from old folks. Let's not jump to too many conclusions about what's good based on things people do
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 04:55 |
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Sundae posted:Yes, people drink instant coffee. I cannot believe that we're talking about this, and I doubly cannot believe that it's a better topic than anything the OP is doing. Maybe OP is reading this thread by the latest business visionary to come from Something Awful https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4018119&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 05:30 |
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I like the look of the Crosstrek, I like Subarus, and you can get it with a stick. So I think it's ftw, for a crossover.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 06:09 |
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Strategic Tea posted:Do people genuinely never drink instant coffee? Like I love getting the fancy stuff and brewing it different ways but cmon at least half the time I want to just boil some water and pour it in a mug and have a drink that doesn't take 5 minutes to set up That last part is the key here. When I go to donut shop that looks like a crack house in the middle of nowhere I expect to be served drip coffee that was brewed 6 hours ago, not instant coffee. Have some standards!
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 07:08 |
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I’ve never had instant coffee. I started with foldgers or whatever in college and my bean addiction has escalated into $25 bags of single origin beans from my local bean dealer. I’m inspired now though, I needed gift ideas for secret Santa and I’m getting them a can of instant coffee https://www.ebay.com/itm/1856222349...ABk9SR-71uoqVYQ
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 09:07 |
Having tried all kinds of supposedly amazing coffee frankly I prefer instant, which I fully admit is just flavoured water with a caffeine jolt.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 10:06 |
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That's what normal coffee is
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 11:01 |
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Business idea: caffeinated donuts- 200mg per donut. Million dollar idea OP. You’re welcome e: name your business Hole Foods. dangling pointer fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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Happy stanksgiving everybody I started celebrating yesterday by marinating myself in oil all drat day. Work is a disaster. Subarus are my favorite cheap car. Awd beats 4wd in the snow. They also clear the ground by like nine inches. I’m really interested in an ascent bc three rows of seats means I can get four kids in there. Instant coffee is fabulous for camping because people see that there’s no coffee maker and so they’re prepared to do without but then before you pack up the mess kit you hit em with a little 1.5 power instant. Then you don’t have to hear so much about they’re hungover or slept on a rock or had hot nasty sex all night. And you don’t have to carry a coffee maker either. One cool thing about sugar and caffeine is that they’re both addictive. Gonna try spudnuts today, and set up an airpot at dinner. My folks drink a lot of coffee.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 14:04 |
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Maybe OP is reading this thread by the latest business visionary to come from Something Awful knock it off with the offtopic links to another forum's autoban shitposts
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 15:01 |
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pmchem posted:knock it off with the offtopic links to another forum's autoban shitposts It's completely on-topic, thanks. The guy autobanned because he, like our OP, had a crappy business plan that he floated on the forums. He was advised not to do it, did it anyway, and came back to report his stunning failure. He had a hissy fit over some feedback he got and then posted an autoban. There are linked quotes in like the third or fourth reply
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 15:39 |
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Rationale posted:Wife is filing the papers and she said she’ll name everything after herself if I don’t come up with a cool name in like a week does anyone have any cool names I can use? Quoting this because I think there is an off chance that this dynamic might be what leads to this business succeeding. If OPs wife is handling all the actual details required for this venture, the paperwork, business plan, market research, etc etc, then they might be getting done even if OP isn't involved or remotely interested. All of OPs interests shown in this thread is pretty physical -- the building modifications, acquiring and messing around with the related machines, even the out-of-nowhere grappling belt awards. Teams with very strong divisions of labor do sometimes work pretty well. If he does all of the physical stuff, sourcing and maintaining equipment, handling building modifications and food prep to a high standard while his wife handles all of longer term planning, product selection, pricing, and budgeting work, they both will be contributing necessary halves of the project. IF SO, and if OP continues posting as he has been, this is going to be a very awesome troll thread as we see the business actually take off and work-- but we only ever get the updates and insights from one half of the team, the guy who is utterly avoiding several critical components for success. Incidentally the areas he is ignoring are the areas that the BFC forum is actually good at giving advice for. In short: OP-- buy your wife an account, have her post this thread. You may better enjoy taking your own contributions to the DIY forum.
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 15:43 |
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What forum is OP’s wife posting on and are they accepting new members?
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 18:06 |
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I made my first full size pie ever (apple). Family seemed to love it but I’m not sure if they’d tell me if otherwise. For a family dinner of 11 people there were 4 pies and a cheesecake and this was the most eaten one!
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 03:48 |
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CarForumPoster posted:
That's some nice work! I'm sure it was delicious
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 04:46 |
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Powerful Katrinka posted:That's some nice work! I'm sure it was delicious TY! It was pretty good. Question for you... The texture of the dough, despite being chilled after rolling, was very sticky like cookie dough. I cut in chilled crisco with the flat beater in my mixer but I'm told I'm supposed to use those manual dough presser things. It stuck to wax paper and its why the surface has a really rough texture (put on in pieces) instead of rolled flat. Any idea if that's why?
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CarForumPoster posted:TY! It was pretty good. Yeah, you mixed the fat into the flour too much. Any time you're told to "cut in" butter, you don't want to use a mixer. Use a food processor if you're going to use an appliance, in short bursts. The dough should have a corn meal-like texture before adding liquid. When you add liquid, pulse the food processor in short bursts again. Not only is it okay for the dough to be "shaggy": crumbly, sort of dry, and not totally thoroughly mixed--it's actually preferable. You're going to work the butter into the flour more as you roll and shape the dough This is true for scones and biscuits, too. It's easy to overwork the dough, I've done it a few times. My scones are impeccable, but I struggle with pie crusts to this day, but I refuse to buy premade as a matter of pride and they usually turn out okay in the end If it makes you feel better, I tried to make pizza dough once with a hand mixer, and that was a sticky, impossible mess that nearly burned out the mixer. Some things you gotta learn from experience
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Yeah, you mixed the fat into the flour too much. Any time you're told to "cut in" butter, you don't want to use a mixer. Thanks for the advice, yea definitely seems like that was my issue. No worries about feelings it was sticky mess but tasty and a first try. Next time I’ll try cutting in with the pastry tool thing.
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 06:45 |
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Yeah, you mixed the fat into the flour too much. Any time you're told to "cut in" butter, you don't want to use a mixer. Use a food processor if you're going to use an appliance, in short bursts. The dough should have a corn meal-like texture before adding liquid. When you add liquid, pulse the food processor in short bursts again. Not only is it okay for the dough to be "shaggy": crumbly, sort of dry, and not totally thoroughly mixed--it's actually preferable. You're going to work the butter into the flour more as you roll and shape the dough Yeah. The first batch of biscuits I cut from any given dough are generally good, and then all the ones after I flatten and cut again might as well be drop biscuits in how they bake up. Pastry is hard! I would def enjoy your apple pie, though, CarForumPoster. I bet it tastes awesome!
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 07:20 |
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Stella parks is the goat of pastry, this pie crust is easy as hell and delicious. If I have a weird pastry question one of the first things I do is search “x Stella parks” to see if she has written about it. https://www.seriouseats.com/old-fashioned-flaky-pie-dough-recipe With pie do, your fat can be pretty large when you stop mixing, you want to see some less incorporated flour when you fold it, as long as none of your fat pieces penetrate all the way through the crust, which folding over four times should prevent, it won’t leak
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 13:15 |
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I got the tude now posted:Stella parks is the goat of pastry, this pie crust is easy as hell and delicious. If I have a weird pastry question one of the first things I do is search “x Stella parks” to see if she has written about it. Awesome, thank you for the tips
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 14:49 |
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Yeah, you mixed the fat into the flour too much. Any time you're told to "cut in" butter, you don't want to use a mixer. Use a food processor if you're going to use an appliance, in short bursts. The dough should have a corn meal-like texture before adding liquid. When you add liquid, pulse the food processor in short bursts again. Not only is it okay for the dough to be "shaggy": crumbly, sort of dry, and not totally thoroughly mixed--it's actually preferable. You're going to work the butter into the flour more as you roll and shape the dough I got the tude now posted:Stella parks is the goat of pastry, this pie crust is easy as hell and delicious. If I have a weird pastry question one of the first things I do is search “x Stella parks” to see if she has written about it. Great posts. Happy Thanksgiving weekend, all.
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 15:39 |
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The particulars of mixing flour water and oil are fascinatingly diverse. I've watched this one half a dozen times over years. Baking is mesmerizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhpxkGB1OyY&t=332s
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 15:45 |
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I got the tude now posted:Stella parks is the goat of pastry, this pie crust is easy as hell and delicious. If I have a weird pastry question one of the first things I do is search “x Stella parks” to see if she has written about it. Can vouch for this recipe. Easy to handle and has tasted great from the first time I used it. The only thing I ever need to improve is trimming and shaping the edges of the crust for ~aesthetic~.
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 17:11 |
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Horrible on track thread suggestion: Serve questios with coffee. I truly love donuts. I try local donuts every time I travel. If we're only in each city for one day on a road trip, we have donuts every morning so I can try local donuts. However, donuts and coffee are not a combo. They're two things that IMO don't go GREAT together. The proper thing for coffee is a pastry, particularly quesitos. Secondarily, guava con queso. Coffee and a quesito is the platonic ideal of dough and coffee in my mind. There is no reality of what is a coffee and pastry until a flaky quesito with a sweet creme cheese is had. So my bad idea for the OP is to serve quesitos and coffee in Ohio. Hell, open a latin pastry, donut and coffee shop.
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 22:39 |
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OP is gonna try to make all his own puff pastry now. Thanks jerk.
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 22:46 |
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all i know about puff pastry is that chopped contestants gently caress it up almost as often as they gently caress up the ice cream maker
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 23:07 |
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lobster shirt posted:all i know about puff pastry is that chopped contestants gently caress it up almost as often as they gently caress up the ice cream maker Ice cream is super easy, it just requires time. Now I'm curious to know how they gently caress that up
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Ice cream is super easy, it just requires time. Now I'm curious to know how they gently caress that up it's a timed cooking show, you have 30 minutes to come up with, cook, and plate your dessert. also there's only one ice cream machine for two contestants. some people manage to pull it off but i guess with those time and equipment constraints it's not easy.
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