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Jadagul wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020, 00:33
I've never managed to keep potatoes good for more than like a week and a half. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but not entirely sure what.
(Probably keeping them in a cabinet would be the first step, but then I'd never remember I had them. And even when I've done that they haven't lasted _that_ long.)
1 Your cabinet is too warm
2 Your potatoes are all in a bag and can't breath
3 You're not culling out potatoes that are starting to turn
Jadagul wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020, 00:33
I've never managed to keep potatoes good for more than like a week and a half. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but not entirely sure what.
(Probably keeping them in a cabinet would be the first step, but then I'd never remember I had them. And even when I've done that they haven't lasted _that_ long.)
1 Your cabinet is too warm
2 Your potatoes are all in a bag and can't breath
3 You're not culling out potatoes that are starting to turn
Jadagul wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020, 00:33
I've never managed to keep potatoes good for more than like a week and a half. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but not entirely sure what.
(Probably keeping them in a cabinet would be the first step, but then I'd never remember I had them. And even when I've done that they haven't lasted _that_ long.)
1 Your cabinet is too warm
2 Your potatoes are all in a bag and can't breath
3 You're not culling out potatoes that are starting to turn
What are we? Farmers?
You want to stuff takeout and delivery into your maw for the privilege of seeing another day, that's your business.
The wife has been in Maryland visiting her girlfriend so I've had the kitchen to myself. A lack of fish dishes so far but I did a bulgogi style ground beef that has seen me through two dinners and two breakfasts, one fried rice style and the other with barely cooked backyard eggs.
I used fressh grated ginger, but otherwise this is it: https://damndelicious.net/2013/07/07/korean-beef-bowl/
"People are sometimes the answer, but they are ALWAYS the problem." -- Ellie
"I thought during the apocalypse I would be counting ammo rounds instead of toilet paper rolls." --Twba
tl;dr: the tonka bean is being championed by chefs, but it's illegal in the US because of overblown fears that it contains a blood-thinning chemical. Nevermind that so do a whole lot of other commonly-used plants, in similar amounts, or that it's not illegal in the rest of the world and they don't seem to be suffering any ill effects; the FDA refuses to back down.
A good thing to keep in mind whenever people go all "but regulations are there for your health and safety! you don't want people to sell you unsafe food, do you?" That's the idea, and yet somehow it ends up with FDA inspectors spending their time busting restaurants for using something used around the world with no ill effects...
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
I prefer a mixture of corn juice and coke, or perhaps sugarcane juice and coke with a bit of lime.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
Perhaps I should have noted that the corn or sugarcane juice really has to be allowed to sit for a while, then distilled. (Corn juice? Really? That said, perhaps there's a reason my joke fell flat...)
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
As I've written before, a childhood treat was to go to the lunch counter at the local drug store and order a fountain Coke with a spritz of other flavoring, e.g., cherry or chocolate. I still occasionally mix up a 'Mexican' Coke with some chocolate syrup.
I get how Coke might be considered a good mixer for rum, etc., but I was a bit gobsmacked in Europe hanging around soldiers in bars who would order Courvoisier and Coke. That's like saying, "Hey bartender, I want a Glenlivet and ginger ale." Anyone doing so should be immediately 86ed.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑30 Dec 2020, 12:28As I've written before, a childhood treat was to go to the lunch counter at the local drug store and order a fountain Coke with a spritz of other flavoring, e.g., cherry or chocolate.
Tangentially, extremely popular with kids today. Hell, I've seen 9-year-olds putting half the drinks available in their cups, then sipping and adding a touch of one or two more.
I have no idea what that tastes like, but they like it.
"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
Cet animal est très méchant / Quand on l'attaque il se défend.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑30 Dec 2020, 12:28As I've written before, a childhood treat was to go to the lunch counter at the local drug store and order a fountain Coke with a spritz of other flavoring, e.g., cherry or chocolate.
Tangentially, extremely popular with kids today. Hell, I've seen 9-year-olds putting half the drinks available in their cups, then sipping and adding a touch of one or two more.
I have no idea what that tastes like, but they like it.
Eric the .5b wrote: ↑30 Dec 2020, 20:32
Hell, I've seen 9-year-olds putting half the drinks available in their cups, then sipping and adding a touch of one or two more.
I have no idea what that tastes like, but they like it.
Around where I grew up this was called "a suicide" (I have no idea why). I got fountain drinks that way for well past the age of nine
Eric the .5b wrote: ↑30 Dec 2020, 20:32
Hell, I've seen 9-year-olds putting half the drinks available in their cups, then sipping and adding a touch of one or two more.
I have no idea what that tastes like, but they like it.
Around where I grew up this was called "a suicide" (I have no idea why). I got fountain drinks that way for well past the age of nine
I think it's only a suicide if you mix together, like, all the different drinks out of aggressive reckless experimentation.
Where I grew up I think we conceived of a suicide as an equal mix of all the options. I don't think it tasted good but that wasn't the point.
(Of course, these days they have the fancy machines where you can actually order a shot of blackberry syrup in your coke.)
We were more lax in my area; any combination of three or more counted. And yes, you would ALWAYS take an experimental sip and then add more of one soda (or as we called it, of course, pop) to adjust the flavor
JasonL wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020, 10:52
This all sounds terrible. I'm not a soda/Coke guy though. Not really since college or before.
It's a pre-puberty thing.
I mixed well into my third decade.
Of course, I just started shaving last week.
" i discovered you eat dog dicks out of a bowl marked "dog dicks" because you're too stupid to remember where you left your bowl of dog dicks."-dhex, of course.
"Come, let us go forth and not rape together"-Jadagul
JasonL wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020, 10:52
This all sounds terrible. I'm not a soda/Coke guy though. Not really since college or before.
It's a pre-puberty thing.
I mixed well into my third decade.
Of course, I just started shaving last week.
I wonder if I'd still be making suicides if I hadn't embarked on 20 years of dieting followed by diabetes. It's been a long, long time since I drank full-sugar soda, and soda fountains rarely have more than one diet option.
