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Desiree Cousteau posted:My favorite kitchen supply source is Goodwill, but I am getting fond of flea markets too. Where else can you get a set of 70's Revere Ware pans for $28? Yeah, I bought a tiny ~8" revere frying pan for like $.75 at goodwill once, I felt pretty good about that. I haven't seen a pressure cooker the few times I've been there, which is a shame because I want one. Maybe I should look more.
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The box mac & cheese is usually (unless you buy the expensive stuff) a box of noodles with powdered cheese sauce mix. You just add milk & butter to it. Only good thing about it is that it's cheap. If you buy the cheap stuff it's like $.50 for a box of it.
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Yeah, just putting mint leaves into vodka turns it to a color I'd describe as light whiskey-ey. I did it that way once, and I decided to add a bunch of sugar and put a drop of green coloring in it so it'd look more appetizing. The main flavor is a fairly strong herbaceous with a little bit of mint at the end, although that might depend on the amount of leaves you used.
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May 24, 2012 23:47
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NLJP posted:I posted this in the Chinese food thread but thought people here might be interested too. A chinese show about chinese food culture and history: Man, I am learning so much about favoring right now.
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I tried my hand at distilling once. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out too well (I can still see though)! I'm assuming here that you'd go for a classic Pot Still, instead of a more complicated one. I guess if I had to point out some things I definitely did wrong and would fix for round 2 I would say: - Use a good vessel for the boiler, preferably stainless steel or copper. A pressure cooker is a common one to use. I've heard, but couldn't verify, that aluminum does some weird things chemically to hot alcohol steam. Something with sulfur or something. I used an aluminum tea pot as my first boiler, and I think that was a mistake. It was thin, hard to clean, and not very easy to make a good seal to the condensor. - Make sure you have a good, accurate thermometer to take the temperature of the wash you're distilling. This will help you determine when to start and end a run to some extent. I had a lovely, inaccurate thermometer that claimed my mixture was boiling at like 150 F or something when it should have been ~173 F. That really threw me off. - Clean your condensor pipes very well before distilling. I think my liquor picked up some strange off flavors from the pipe, since it had probably been sitting around in the hardware store for a long time. I've heard multiple things on this end, from distilling some vinegar to just putting through a little bit of alcohol first to clean it. I'd say make sure your pipes are really clean before distilling, though. I still don't know of an optimal method for this. - Make sure you have a good wash, too. Mine was full of sugars and molasses, so it probably didn't have a good flavor to it. If you're distilling plums I don't think you'll have a problem with this, though. On the legal side, call your condensor a "wort chiller" for beer, and just disassemble the boiler back to a pressure cooker or whatever it was before. As long as the police don't see you in your backyard playing banjo and distilling liquor you're probably fine. Also don't sell it I guess? Writing this really makes me want to get a bottle of wine and make a new boiler for my still. Home made brandy, I bet that'd be good.
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Jul 20, 2012 06:23
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At the first potluck I co-hosted, the apple pie I contributed got stolen. We all had eaten dinner, but before people came for desserts, we all started drinking heavily (it was a college potluck for a sailing club), so nobody ate any of my apple pie or any of the other desserts. I woke up the next morning, and the entire pie was missing. Secretly, I hope the pie was really, really horrible and poisoned the thieves. My roommate at the time, who never cleaned anything, left the morning after so I had to clean up practically all the mess. I left the crock pots he had used to cook some beef for him to clean when he returned later that day. He never cleaned them though and after a few weeks they got moldy and he eventually threw them away and bought new crock pots for the people he borrowed them from. So yeah I guess it was a bad potluck.
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Aug 11, 2012 17:38
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Wikipedia on Bovril:quote:Bovril can be made into a drink by diluting with hot water, or less commonly with milk. On another note, are you saying Pyrex dishes come in borosilicate in the UK? My housemate accidentally turned on a burner underneath a Pyrex dish on the stove, and the thing literally exploded into hundreds of pieces. There were no piece smaller than a walnut, it was a pretty spectacular failure. I was facing away from the dish (thankfully), I heard a big explosion and all I could think was "where the hell did all this ice come from?". I bet even the old kind would have blown up, but maybe less spectacularly.
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Aug 15, 2012 02:56
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You should seek an endorsement from Costco and be "The Costco Savers". Edit: or maybe the Costco Saveurs
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Aug 22, 2012 22:14
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You should take it to its logical conclusion and bake black & white pinwheel cookies.
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Nov 5, 2012 03:37
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Places do eventually get shut down/go out of business from health violations. I remember there was a bakery chain in Indianapolis (Roselyn bakeries) that eventually shut down from rat infestations, which was a shame because I remembered loving their stuff as a kid. They had these big smiley face cookies (think those yellow smiley faces), and tea cookies with icing in the center, and some horrible chimera of fudge and brownie, and a bunch of other stuff I am probably forgetting. All of their stores eventually got turned into payday loan places or other shady businesses like that. But I would hope something that bad would be shut down real quick.
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Dec 13, 2012 06:52
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There's another one? Awesome, I now have an excuse to drink way too much tonight!
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Dec 31, 2012 23:09
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Didn't some cat survive rabies once? If some pussy cat survived rabies clearly a well-fed human should be able to shrug it off like the common cold.
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Jan 3, 2013 22:48
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It looks like they have a pet treat section, maybe that will work.
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Jan 12, 2013 20:00
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So tamales were mentioned, more specifically a commandment to use lard. I was thinking of making some vegetarian ones, so I can't use lard. Is there a best substitute? My first guess was crisco, but I'm open to suggestions.
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Jan 25, 2013 04:41
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geetee posted:God drat it. It's the second time my small lunch group at work has gotten random metal in our food from the local Indian spot. I feel like a battered woman who doesn't want to report her boyfriend. Gotta do it... Sorry old friend. This happened to me when I was a kid, there was a bit of metal in my salad. It was a mom & pop place where the mom was the waiter so she started apologizing profusely and gave us free stuff (we went there a bunch so maybe that had something to do with it). So what I'm trying to say is you should tell someone to reduce the chances of metal in the future.
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Jan 30, 2013 04:19
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Sjurygg posted:Wait, what? That guy was real?! Who, Kilgore Trout? That Kilgore Trout was a pseudonym of Philip Jose Farmer, so not entirely. But Kilgore (the character) was based on a real person.
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Feb 22, 2013 17:38
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Why walk to the grocery? You can get panniers/throw a milk crate on your bike and haul stuff from the grocery. You can even rig it with bungee cords so you can take it off after grocery shopping.
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Steakandchips posted:I made a couple of cakes. A cake dome would be the ideal option probably, but I guess if you need to transport more than 1 it might be a bit cumbersome. If you have 2 of the domes you could put them in a box (one on top of the other) and that would be easier to haul around. A box like bakeries put cakes in might work too and have more stackability, but I don't know where you'd get one or if they'd be tough enough to stack. You might be able to use some of those disposable roasting pan type things from the grocery, you could stack those pretty easily. Are they more than 1 layer? I've been using my giant steaming pot to transport food recently, and I was able to invert the steaming grate and fit an un-iced cake underneath the grate. I could fit 2 in that thing easily, but only if they were 1 layer. I can't think of anything exceedingly clever to transport 2 cakes though.
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Mar 3, 2013 20:05
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Oh I thought it meant if you aren't sick (no affliction) you can't stop drinking (no tap out). But that's more of a code of conduct than a dress code.
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Don't you know how many chemicals go into hand soap? It's so unnatural, I think it's better to just use some oil instead of soap since it's less processed. If you really want that soapy flavor you can add in a little bit of wood ash. Don't worry about how much since it's all natural.
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Apr 19, 2013 19:12
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mindphlux posted:
I've heard Indiana (my home state) is the only remaining state to not allow alcohol sales on Sunday. So I just keep a cache of liquor on hand at all times, just in case I need to get drunk on Sunday.
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May 8, 2013 05:28
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Vegetable Melange posted:Everyone likes falafel. Or they're wrong. Whichever. There's this restaurant called "falafels" around my school that I eat at with some of my colleagues, but they've never tried the falafels there, and I can't convince them to. It's all I ever have and it's so drat good.
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Pickles, of course! No but seriously, how hard is it to make some type of summer sausage? I bet that'd be tasty. Edit: Huh, the site I was looking at had a confederate flag as its page icon. Really inspires confidence. Eeyo fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jun 3, 2013 |
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Jun 3, 2013 03:30
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I can't believe it, they spelled kawaii wrong %^@@(^_^)!!!
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You guys are unlucky, it's been fairly mild where I am, mid 80s to low 90s tops. It was a lot hotter lat year and we got exactly 0 rain, but it's been milder and raining every drat day here. I guess we just won the weather lottery.
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You can download stuff from youtube? Anyway, I enjoyed Bite Of China The first part is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHNa9qdtlw. It's 5 parts ~50 minutes each and goes through a bunch of chinese stuff. It's subtitled though so you might not want to deal with that if you're using a tiny screen. In the second one (about staple foods) this dude makes some tasty looking millet buns that I want to know how to make since I'm in love with steamed breads, but I could never find anything searching for steamed millet buns.
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Yeah I tried to make some ~6 months ago and it didn't turn out too good. I think it was a combination of overcooking the beans and using chana dal instead of soybeans (so the taste & texture were a bit off). I'd definitely like to get it right since that's one of my favorite foods & it's a bit expensive to buy at the grocery but cheap to make.
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Oct 27, 2013 18:01
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BlueGrot posted:This is why powdered stocks really fall short. They don't have the lip smacking goodness that a proper stock does, and try to make up for it by being salty. Why don't they put gelatin into dried stocks? I mean, we have the technology to do that since I can buy powdered gelatin so it's not like it's a big deal. It's probably cost related, but I feel like that should be something they do.
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You could try and make some sodium citrate yourself. I did that yesterday, and it worked as planned. I added a proper amount of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to citric acid in solution. I think it would be best to measure out the proper amount of baking soda into solution and then add the citric acid until it stops bubbling, then you'd have a solution of sodium citrate, without too much bicarbonate. It just releases CO2 as a by-product like those effervescent tablets or the vinegar baking soda volcanoes. Of course then you have to find citric acid, but you may be able to get it at an asian grocery.
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There is also the infamous Doritos® Cool Ranch® Consomme from CHOW, so I assume they're absolutely on the level with this one.
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dino. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnwFHplBg4 No description available.
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therattle posted:Holy poo poo. Tell more. Here's a vice video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zj7OJjMcnM. Why can't they just do psychedelics like normal people?
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If I'm reading it right, they're adding in aroma from the orange peel that they get during processing? In my mind, cutting into an orange and having the oils spray out is like half the experience of eating them.
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I wouldn't heat it first, since that would stick the oil stuff to the pan. A good soaping and water may do the trick, I bet the oil just got rancid and may come off fairly easily. Soap and water, dry it out (so it doesn't start rusting) and leave it open for a day and then give it another smell test. If it still smells weird then you can progress to the bigger guns. Hopefully it hasn't really penetrated into the seasoning or metal and will just come off.
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Feb 20, 2014 02:52
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Those things are like super effective, so it's best to just pick up a handle of whiskey instead.
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Scientastic posted:Everyone should commute by bicycle. Eat whatever you want without getting fat, save the planet and get shapely calves. Wearing lycra is just a bonus. I do this and it's pretty great. Much cheaper than using a car. Unfortunately I don't go far enough or something so I haven't really lost weight doing it, but maybe it's because I'm still eating like poo poo. At least I'm not getting fatter, but I may get run off the road for wearing lycra. I'd look too much like a balloon animal.
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Was it one of those train wreck threads? God those are so fascinating.
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When I've made fermented vegetables in the past, I've always been paranoid they grow the bad bacteria (like botulism or something) and then subsequently not eat it. Is there much of a danger of ferments getting the wrong bacteria? I know that's what the salt is there for, but I'm still skeptical of it. I'm considering drilling a hole in the top of a mason jar, putting a grommet on it, and then putting a beer airlock on top. Won't help with botulism since it likes anaerobic environments, but it should help the good bacteria get a good ferment going.
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You could ask for some turkish tea from Turkey as well. You can buy it in the states sometimes, but I bet they'd have more variety over there. They actually grow a lot of tea and drink it there within the country and have one of the highest tea consumption per capita worldwide. You could also ask for some Sumac, although that can also be obtained if you look for it. It's kind of a fruity/lemony spice and an attractive deep maroon color. You could ask for some fancy/exotic honey as well.
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Yeah that's where your used liquor bottles go. Where do you put yours? In the Recycling?
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