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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by ttt0 »

dguaraglia wrote: post #343
ttt0 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a YouTube channel with 95% of videos being Linux tutorials is defining your whole identity as anti-woke?

The term 'based' is only used by a very tiny group of people. I'll let you figure out why one of their heroes was a guy they called 'based stickman' that ended in prison for assaulting people with a weapon.

I know what 'based' means. The term originated in hip-hop and now it's used by all sorts of people ranging from nationalists, through moderate conservatives and apolitical people, all the way to communists, in places like imageboards, twitter and social media in general. It's just like the term 'thot'. It's generally used by young people on the internet.

But it still does not answer my question.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by gaws »

honkdaddy wrote: post #317
andrepd wrote: post #287

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Nah, he's just an alt-right version of the unabomber: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/vegan

You’ve made this exact comment more than once - you seem to have a pretty personal bone to pick with Luke, given that your assessment of “alt-right unabomber” is about as hilariously off the mark as it gets.

andrepd is somewhat correct.

Luke is not the reincarnation of the unabomber, but he's heavily influenced by Ted's writing and tries to live a life devoid of leftists and rational thinking.

I've watched Luke for years -- his Linux and Unix tutorials are some of the best on YouTube -- but his non-tech videos and live streams are where he goes off the rails.

He's a racist. It's not obvious, but there are many times on his livestreams, in particular, where his language and beliefs hint to that. He often refers to Indian American as "pajeets," which is their equivalent of the n-word.

He's also delusional. He constantly eslewed thst the coronavirus was a hoax and once described the guy who killed the woman in Charlottesville after crashing his car into a group of protestors -- what law enforcement considered a domestic terrorist attack -- nothing but a "car accident."

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by syncsynchalt »

beeforpork wrote: post #245
tayo42 wrote: post #215

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Really you just cook to your taste. Cooking isn't a science experiment. Like step 5 says, taste it and adjust. The foods already cooked by the time your adding the spices

Bad advice not only for beginners, but also for any dough recipe, because amounts often need to be exact for a dough to work properly. In this case, cooking really is a science experiment. Also, I do not like 'salt to taste', particularly for raw egg or raw meat mixtures. Just tell me the amount of salt, whynot?

Baking != Cooking, IMO, and it's important to draw that distinction for beginners.

Cooking can be freewheeling, slapdash, and to taste.

Baking is a science of measurement and repeatability.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by gaws »

sarabad2021 wrote: post #295
andrepd wrote: post #288

I don't care much for the author, which is pretty much an alt-right version of the unabomber, but it's true how bloated most websites are.

Yes, let’s throw out all art, scientific advancements, technologies, inventions, books, anything with an author that we find problematic.

There's no problem highlighting the fact that Luke is an alt-right racist.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by ziml77 »

jawarner wrote: post #97
sterlind wrote: post #64

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Didn't "based" come from Lil B initially? I've heard the phrase "based and redpilled," but I've heard it separately. I interpret "based" as a compliment given to radical viewpoints that are completely impractical, without signaling assent. See Political Compass Memes for numerous examples. For example: anarcho-monarchism is based. It's a ridiculous ideology, and I wouldn't support it, but it'd be cool to meet someone…

Both of these viewpoints are true. While I wholeheartedly support the use of the word "based" in the sense that you put it, it is also slang in a certain online subculture and a nod to that subculture. OP was dead on about that in this case: the author's other works include "Why I don't use Cuck Licenses" and "Science vs. Soyence."

I regret looking those up. The titles aren't satirical.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by gwd »

bigfudge wrote: post #275
beeforpork wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad advice not only for beginners, but also for any dough recipe, because amounts often need to be exact for a dough to work properly. In this case, cooking really is a science experiment. Also, I do not like 'salt to taste', particularly for raw egg or raw meat mixtures. Just tell me the amount of salt, whynot?

My experience is the opposite. Most bread recipes for example are both incredibly tolerant of mistakes. Also — flour varies so much in capacity to absorb water and gluten content between brands that I'd say precision is very much illusory unless you are after industrial-style consistency. Small changes in how you handle doughs of different hydration, and changes in timing/temperature thereafter have a much bigger dif…

Bread made with yeast is an exception though. For most baking projects (cookies, cakes, brownies, etc), there are at least two very important things I know about (and I'm far from an expert):

1. The chemical reaction to make it raise. As I said, yeast is different; but if you're using soda, you need the right amount of all the ingredients (soda, acid, salt, etc), at the right time (water starts the reaction, which will fizzle out after a certain amount of time), at the right consistency (over-mixing will screw things up too).

2. You need to balance wet and dry ingredients. So you can't (for instance) just remove sugar or add flour without also removing or adding something "wet", or the balance gets thrown of and everything changes.

For yeast-based bread you're right -- I normally just dump in water until it seems about the right consistency.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by smoe »

DC-3 wrote: post #316
anentropic wrote: post #304

What is "Based cooking" ? Is it a pre-existing phrase with its own meaning, or it's just the name of the site? Is this a meme meaning of the word "based" that I am too old to be aware of?

I'm not 100% sure this is what the author intends but 'based' has been used for quite a long time on imageboards as an adjective describing something that is unpopular or contentious but nonetheless correct. > J.K. Rowling is actually better that Hemingway > > based From here it spread to other communities (largely non-mainstream political communities on both the left and right). Its strongest assiociation is still w…

As a non native speaker, the only times I have ever seen people using the word outside of its dictionary definitions when I was reading a bit of MAGA/Q sites out of boredom last year. I took it to just mean something based on US style christian/conservative values.

But usage seems to be broader according to what you wrote. I reckon the most common usage will be, that something is based, when it is unpopular or contentious, but you happen to agree with it.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by DC-3 »

smoe wrote: post #357
DC-3 wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not 100% sure this is what the author intends but 'based' has been used for quite a long time on imageboards as an adjective describing something that is unpopular or contentious but nonetheless correct. > J.K. Rowling is actually better that Hemingway > > based From here it spread to other communities (largely non-mainstream political communities on both the left and right). Its strongest assiociation is still w…

As a non native speaker, the only times I have ever seen people using the word outside of its dictionary definitions when I was reading a bit of MAGA/Q sites out of boredom last year. I took it to just mean something based on US style christian/conservative values. But usage seems to be broader according to what you wrote. I reckon the most common usage will be, that something is based, when it is unpopular or conten…

The usage on MAGA/Q sites is entirely a consequence of the huge cultural influence that boards like /pol/ have exerted on the online far-right. After all, the entire Qanon movement basically sprung out of a /pol/ fairytale.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by bufordtwain »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #77

Am I the only one who thinks that this concept is perfectly good, and all the things the site doesn't have are just great further development of the idea? What's wrong with a "wikipedia for recipes"? I would LOVE that. All the complaints about the quality of the recipes or the lack of more in-depth explaination of each one, some kind of voting/reputation system for the recipes and for the submitters and the voters, Y…

I think it's great as well. So tired of scrolling on recipe sites looking for the actual recipe.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by KingEllis »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #160
hardwaregeek wrote: post #111

Some of these recipes seem decent if you're already somewhat experienced and have developed cook's intuition. Otherwise they're way too vague. For instance, the chicken parm recipe: - There should be a photo of how to slice the chicken breast. Saying "through their width" isn't good enough. I had to explain what "lengthwise" was once because my friend cut all the vegetables the exact opposite of it. - Pound with what…

On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is? There is a great video series on youtube, with his recipes online, but all measurements are spoonful: https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooking-techniques-recipes/p... Spoons can vary in size, so is it a tablespoon or a teaspoon? When dealing with spices you'll be adding 3 times the amount if you go with tablespoon interpretation so it'd be a pretty bi…

Comparing with a similar recipe I have, those look to be teaspoons.
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