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alexandriao posted:Making a cake is literally just the ability to: This is true but I have made some pretty complicated dishes that have come out great but I have never baked a single thing from scratch fully successfully. At best I end up with non-Euclidean shaped thing that tastes Fine but I am very glad only I am seeing it.
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Rick posted:This is true but I have made some pretty complicated dishes that have come out great but I have never baked a single thing from scratch fully successfully. At best I end up with non-Euclidean shaped thing that tastes Fine but I am very glad only I am seeing it. Yeah, I can cook well and have even worked as a line cook and sushi chef, but I just have a mental block when it comes to baking. I can bake the simplest of recipes moderately well at best, no matter how careful I believe I'm being.
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Baking is definitely harder than following instructions, there's often whole steps of the process which will get named (creaming sugar, blooming yeast, browning butter, etc.) and not explained. Some other stuff is a bit backwards, like how sugar is often considered a Wet ingredient, not a Dry ingredient, since you're often using that to aerate your butter during the sugar creaming process. That, and making sure to not overmix in general, but also mixing the gently caress out of the recipes where you know you need to whip something on high for way longer than you feel comfortable running your kitchenaid. Angel Food Cake still makes me uncomfortable to this day because of a knockoff stand mixer I owned, which smelled like it was going to burst into flames if you ran it any higher than 2/10 on the power selector. (it probably was, we replaced it before it had the chance) E: i think its fair to compare it to building ikea furniture. Can anybody do it? Sure. Should you probably look up additional information and references? Absolutely bawk has a new favorite as of 20:34 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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I'm decent at baking but I've definitely had the experience where I (think I) followed every direction to the letter and what came out of the oven bore absolutely no resemblance to what I was expecting or hoping for.
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My baked stuff usually turns out fine, but I've trained myself not to look at progress pictures in recipes because they always look completely different than what I had created at that point in the process.
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So much of baking specifically is based on experience that can only be acquired by 1) being shown in person or 2) trial and error. Realistically 1 just leads to a little less of 2. But you can't really learn from a cookbook how dry is too dry for a pie crust, or how stiff a stiff peak needs to be.
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bawk posted:E: i think its fair to compare it to building ikea furniture. Can anybody do it? Sure. Should you probably look up additional information and references? Absolutely  What additional info and resources do you need to build ikea furniture?
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I've never built Ikea furniture but I thought the entire point was that one doesn't need any external resources?
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If you’ve never seen them before and aren’t handy the instructions can be weird to parse
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you’ve never seen them before and aren’t handy the instructions can be weird to parse Pretty much exactly this, the spatial stuff when building a nightstand was kinda funky and it's way easier to look up a video, mute it, put it on 1.5x speed, and play/pause as I go in order to make sure I'm looking at that poo poo correctly.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you’ve never seen them before and aren’t handy the instructions can be weird to parse credburn posted:I've never built Ikea furniture but I thought the entire point was that one doesn't need any external resources? Will you two PLEASE get different avatars
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Hardcordion posted:
the instruction manual
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It takes years to learn when to use the long end or the short end of the allen wrench
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Powered Descent posted:Will you two PLEASE get different avatars I think this is the longest EAH has gone without having a wife-related avatar or red-text bought for him.
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No matter how many times I’ve bought them for him, it somehow keeps getting changed.
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Hardcordion posted:
Wood glue and a mallet.
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building IKEA furniture is not hard. you don't need anything more than the instructions. just, I don't know, try harder
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hawowanlawow posted:building IKEA furniture is not hard. you don't need anything more than the instructions. just, I don't know, try harder yeah with all the youtube tutorials and lifehacks and stuff, people tend to forget that sometimes the solution is just "be better at doing stuff"
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What the Ikea manual doesn't say is that if you put an incorrect screw or dowel or something into the wrong slot, you are hosed because the parts are designed to disintegrate into sawdust if you try to correct your mistake and take them apart.
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read all of the instructions and lay out the hardware before you start. don't rush
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hawowanlawow posted:read all of the instructions and lay out the hardware before you start. don't rush yeah there's a guide to the connectors at the front of the manual. There's no reason other than completely avoidable user error that you would ever use the wrong one.
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Two things are true. 1. IKEA furniture isn't that hard to put together if you take your time and follow the instructions. 2. If you're not very handy, or are tired, or in a rush, it's very easy to gently caress up which similar looking connector goes into which hole rendering the whole process completely hosed.
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A while back I was considering getting into 3D printing, so I bought the cheapest 3D printer on the market, which was essentially a build-it-yourself kit from some no-name Chinese company. It was a really interesting design because it didn't actually have any connectors, it was all pieces of heavy plastic with little holes and protrusions. The cool thing was, all the protrusions were slightly different sizes, shapes, and spacings, so it was literally impossible to connect two pieces that weren't meant to be connected. That thing sucked as a printer but it was a cool build.
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Muscle Tracer posted:A while back I was considering getting into 3D printing, so I bought the cheapest 3D printer on the market, which was essentially a build-it-yourself kit from some no-name Chinese company. It was a really interesting design because it didn't actually have any connectors, it was all pieces of heavy plastic with little holes and protrusions. The cool thing was, all the protrusions were slightly different sizes, shapes, and spacings, so it was literally impossible to connect two pieces that weren't meant to be connected. Hope, delusion, and the inevitable conclusion, in a short story; beautiful.
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printers printing printers, each generation lumpier than the last
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Running is fun and I look down on anyone who is able bodied but can’t do like a measly 5k
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Why must you look down on anyone?
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doverhog posted:You seem to be posting in the wrong thread. Yeah people got really mad when I even suggested there was value in measuring one’s physical ability, let alone expecting a minimum standard.
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I thought the post he made was a response to my post about running in https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=179 which if so was in the wrong thread.
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Gripweed posted:Yeah people got really mad when I even suggested there was value in measuring one’s physical ability, let alone expecting a minimum standard. no they didn't, you were just made fun of a little for it
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doverhog posted:Why must you look down on anyone? Exactly what I say when goons start talking about Republicans
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Edgar Allen D'oh!
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oldpainless posted:Exactly what I say when goons start talking about Republicans To be fair that is a valid reason.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:no they didn't, you were just made fun of a little for it They got so mad.
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Rick posted:This is true but I have made some pretty complicated dishes that have come out great but I have never baked a single thing from scratch fully successfully. At best I end up with non-Euclidean shaped thing that tastes Fine but I am very glad only I am seeing it. Professional cake makers will literally cut the cake to shape. You don't Always have to do it but sometimes you do and It's Ok. I should also mention that I didn't mean a loving picture perfect 1000 hours cake, I simply meant "Something decent enough". Of course circumstances are going to dictate what that means. But making a cake, a cake to be *eaten*, a cake that at the very least is *edible* can be done by almost any high schooler. My current experiments could be termed more "microwave monstrosities" than cakes and they're still better than a good chunk of store bought when it comes to the eating of them alexandriao has a new favorite as of 02:47 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Powered Descent posted:Will you two PLEASE get different avatars lmao glad it's not just me
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steinrokkan posted:What the Ikea manual doesn't say is that if you put an incorrect screw or dowel or something into the wrong slot, you are hosed because the parts are designed to disintegrate into sawdust if you try to correct your mistake and take them apart. I've done this a lot and the solution has always been to unscrew it or just pull it out with a pliers  They're thin but they can still take a bit of bullying here and there and I've never been in a situation that was completely unrecoverable.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Running is fun and I look down on anyone who is able bodied but can’t do like a measly 5k I have the feeling some people are able to just shut off their minds when running and find it meditative. Personally, I find it not mindless enough to do that, but also not interesting enough to enjoy being in the moment with it. Which leaves me bored and unable to distract myself from the general unpleasantness of it. Running, by itself, sucks. Give me a sport to play though, and I'll keep going for ages.
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steinrokkan posted:What the Ikea manual doesn't say is that if you put an incorrect screw or dowel or something into the wrong slot, you are hosed because the parts are designed to disintegrate into sawdust if you try to correct your mistake and take them apart. Putting the wrong screw or dowel in anything will destroy it. Metal will strip. Hardwoods will crack. That's why it's the wrong one.
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