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If you’re concerned at all about quality of ingredients, also consider Huel. It’s available in Europe and the US.
What makes you believe the ingredients are better? What's the benefit of Huel over, say, Soylent?
I laughed at the title before I even read it. Am I going to be disappointed if I read it? You know back in the day I remember 'the anarchist cookbook' along with all kinds of other somewhat legally dubious online literature, such as phrack magazine, 2600, erowid, thehive.ws; And bizarre euphemisms such as SWIM (someone who isn't me) peppering the tales of free long distance telephone calls, dumpster diving, and synth…
I'm also not joking about going to hell for eternities, look it up, those experiences are not as rare as you think. Maybe if we all had shamanism training or if (in America) we had left more of the indigenous people's cultures alive we might know how to use it. But putting safeguards around usage is regulation too.
I'm of the firm opinion that a regular human on the street can take <2g's of mushrooms and find it a pleasant and enlightening experience. I have not experienced a dose of Salvia nor have any of my friends that we would call 'pleasant' or 'enlightening'. I don't miss Salvia at all.
Fantastic, I adore it! In a weird way, this also serves as a training manual for becoming a good cook. Take plain ramen and understand its cooking process through different methods. Now build a sense of how to flavor and season food by adding additional ingredients. What is a potato and how do you cook it? Solid, back to basics stuff. At the other end of the spectrum is an absolute classic of the genre, Slater’s Real…
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While all these are valid points, you just have to compare hand- and machine-washed glasses once and will never confuse them again. I believe that standard machine cycle includes enough rinsing to wash off detergent, but you may do another rinse just in case.
If I want squeaky-clean glasses, I clean them by hand so I can't say that I relate to your experience. Perhaps the dishwashing detergent that you use contains different chemicals.
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Its probably closer to what we spent generations evolving towards than the typical diet of shoving processed meats + Big Gulps in your face hole 19 hours a day. That's kind of two extremes though, isn't it? You fast, or eat crap? And people get all upset about eating animal fat in quantities equal to protein, but that's what we did until the 70s. Then we stopped, and everyone ended up overweight. So I agree, traditio…
Farming is about 10,000 years old so I would say more like 500 generations?
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These links are paywalled, "This is a subscriber-only recipe." For curious folks, the URL says they are one-pan orzo with spinach and feta, and vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas.
I've got in the habit of making similar orzo casseroles while oven & casserole hot having baked bread. 150g orzo 400g chopped tomatoes (or less stock), plus whatever else I fancy/have.
Any non-wealthy single person faces an uphill battle to both 1. earn a living 2. take proper care of themselves. In the Middle Ages people invented a rather neat solution for this problem: go live together in a big building, work together, pray together, cook together and call it a monastery.
But that role disappeared because corporations needed more cheap worker-units and politicians needed more GDP, so they rode each others' coattails to eliminate that role. With each homemaker now a worker-unit, there are twice as many worker-units but employee costs are the same, household income is the same, twice as many taxes, twice as many cars, more spending, more consumption - it's a win-win for the ruling class, while family-units and non-wealthy individuals lose.
You can tell how good a job corporatists and statists did at eliminating and vilifying homemakers by observing how furiously most moderns rebuke even the mere suggestion that the role was A Good Thing.
You basically put food in a sealed glass jar, and cook it in the microwave for 6 minutes. The air inside will slip out through the seals, resulting in a near vacuum effect. The food will keep cooking for circa 20 minutes while it cools down. Then you can either warm it up in the microwave until the seal unlocks or put the food in the fridge (depending on the food type it will last from a few days to a few weeks thanks to the vacuuming)
Not every dish comes good (and the vegetables soften considerably), but the flavor is incredible (thanks to the vacuuming) and it takes 20 minutes total without no human handling. You also can batch preparation, while one jar is cooking, you can prepare the following ones, and have up to 10 dishes ready in 1 hour of active work.
Here is a video: https://youtube.com/shorts/ccyOSIvqtgQ?feature=share
Don't try it without further investigation, since not every jar will work without breaking itself or the microwave.
Any non-wealthy single person faces an uphill battle to both 1. earn a living 2. take proper care of themselves. In the Middle Ages people invented a rather neat solution for this problem: go live together in a big building, work together, pray together, cook together and call it a monastery.
We had other solutions for a while too: get married and have one person do the more-than-fulltime job of homemaking. But that role disappeared because corporations needed more cheap worker-units and politicians needed more GDP, so they rode each others' coattails to eliminate that role. With each homemaker now a worker-unit, there are twice as many worker-units but employee costs are the same, household income is the…
Indeed. Ironically, the effect is to be expected, and in every other situation people would call it obvious. Give everyone $1k in unconditional basic income? Obviously, the market will quickly readjust prices to consume surplus income. But then, get people to run two-income households, and be surprised the prices readjusted so that single-income household is no longer a possibility?
Making your life more miserable by giving you instructions on how to eat an apple or store-bought Mac & Cheese. If it at least had some high quality photographs of the end result maybe it could push you towards saying "Ok, I'll eat". Because if you're really hungry, you're going to eat anyway, even if it's just an apple. But one does not need such a book for that. I'm sorry, but stuff like this doesn't excite me.
I'm sorry, this book is clearly a joke. Do you not get the humour?
When I posted it, the following post `Fantastic, I adore it! In a weird way, this also serves as a training manual for becoming a good cook. [...]` was at the top. Given your reply, now I don't understand if this post is also meant to be humor. But if it were, then I would ask myself why this and the post itself is on HN.
Sure, humor is great, but if you now look at the front page of HN, you won't see a single post which is to be consumed for the giggles. I go to HN because it focuses on interesting topics, and if there is some humor, it is more in the style of XKCD, which is welcome.
The cookbook could have been something interesting if it had really valuable recipes, because "Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge." hits close to home. I thought, that in HN fashion, I would get something helpful to read. But if the intent of the book is meant to belittle people like me, because apparently it is a joke, then I'd rather not like to see this stuff on HN.