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Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by carlmr »

andygcook wrote: post #10

My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking. Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. W…

>After some trial and error, we also recommend the Little Lamb broths. They comes in different spice levels and taste just like the restaurant.

Little (fat) sheep is in fact one of the biggest Chinese hot pot chains. It might be THE broth from the restaurant.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by eru »

ipsum2 wrote: post #13
eru wrote: post #5

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Well, whether your egg will have a sulphuric taste will depend on whether the onsen you went to had sulphuric water.

No, just cooking an egg for a long time at high temperatures will bring out the sulfur taste. Try boiling an egg for 15 minutes.

Oh, true, I hadn't thought about that.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by [deleted] »

gota wrote: post #17
johndoe42377 wrote: post #14

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Generally speaking, humanities was a mistake. These "scientists" memed the main principle of science from scientific evidence to scientific, or more precisely - sectarian consensus. Peer review is not by any means criterion for even approximation to the truth. The article in question should have been reviewed exactly like I did.

You'll excuse me when I say you sound like you have zero experience at reputable levels of academic "humanities". Humanities are not exact sciences for a single reason - they comprise too many variables for a primate brain to reason about. There's no god mandated set of borders defining "types" of science. There are fields so complex that they have to be dealt in so high an abstraction level that we call them subject…

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Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by tt433 »

johndoe42377 wrote: post #14
tt433 wrote: post #7

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I fail to see how this is "obvious." By the logic that nature invents things many times, isn't it possible some humans at some point did this? Obviously they didn't call it "hot pot," the article doesn't actually suggest that, it's used as a shortcut in a headline to communicate a point. Your suggestion of a link to Jung and Freud makes no sense to me...

Generally speaking, humanities was a mistake. These "scientists" memed the main principle of science from scientific evidence to scientific, or more precisely - sectarian consensus. Peer review is not by any means criterion for even approximation to the truth. The article in question should have been reviewed exactly like I did.

You didn't read the article clearly and you're ranting about unrelated things

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by contingencies »

andygcook wrote: post #10

My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking. Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. W…

Coriander / potato and other tubers / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata#Zhe'ergen / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goji / rice noodles / wood-ear mushrooms / tomato / xiaogua (小瓜; similar to zucchini) / beansprouts / carrot / spring onion / spinach / cabbage / garlic.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by andygcook »

contingencies wrote: post #25
andygcook wrote: post #10

My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking. Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. W…

Coriander / potato and other tubers / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata#Zhe'ergen / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goji / rice noodles / wood-ear mushrooms / tomato / xiaogua (小瓜; similar to zucchini) / beansprouts / carrot / spring onion / spinach / cabbage / garlic.

Thanks for the recommendations. Will check them out. Garlic is definitely happening during the next hot pot session.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by andygcook »

pki-ask wrote: post #11
andygcook wrote: post #10

My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking. Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. W…

You can also try adding fish balls (can find at Asian supermarkets). Another is Napa cabbage - it sounds quite plain but is surprisingly good in a hot pot. Also try getting a fish based bbq sauce (it’s a Taiwanese brand), and mixing that with sesame oil, soy sauce, chili oil, ginger/green onions/cilantro/garlic, finely chopped. For noodles, I would use udon, hands down. Lastly, adding steamed rice to the broth at the…

We bought some fish balls, but they weren’t great. Need to experiment with others or better yet, make our own.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by bobbiechen »

andygcook wrote: post #10

My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking. Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. W…

I'm also a big fan of doing hot pot at home. It's a nice social thing to do since you can't really rush it.

Besides beef, thinly sliced lamb and pork are also great. I recommend getting a manual frozen meat slicer like https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Po3rfCn6L.... It pays for itself very quickly since you can just buy any meat, including nicer cuts, at the bulk price - I think mine literally paid for itself in the first session.

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by novia »

andygcook wrote: post #26
contingencies wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coriander / potato and other tubers / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata#Zhe'ergen / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goji / rice noodles / wood-ear mushrooms / tomato / xiaogua (小瓜; similar to zucchini) / beansprouts / carrot / spring onion / spinach / cabbage / garlic.

Thanks for the recommendations. Will check them out. Garlic is definitely happening during the next hot pot session.

I recommend mochi if you can find it. The kind that's rectangular.

https://expatsguide.jp/articles/culture/mochi-cooking/

Re: Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

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Post by jfengel »

gota wrote: post #17
johndoe42377 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generally speaking, humanities was a mistake. These "scientists" memed the main principle of science from scientific evidence to scientific, or more precisely - sectarian consensus. Peer review is not by any means criterion for even approximation to the truth. The article in question should have been reviewed exactly like I did.

You'll excuse me when I say you sound like you have zero experience at reputable levels of academic "humanities". Humanities are not exact sciences for a single reason - they comprise too many variables for a primate brain to reason about. There's no god mandated set of borders defining "types" of science. There are fields so complex that they have to be dealt in so high an abstraction level that we call them subject…

The 19th and 20th centuries were extraordinary periods where "hard" sciences gave us amazing things, but technologists like the ones on this site are often fooled into thinking that those are the only things that matter. Any problems involving human beings are theoretically "reducible" to physics problems, and therefore only physics matters -- even if we don't actually know how to perform that reduction.

Questions of how human beings organize and treat each other are immensely complex, and of enormous importance. They're incredibly hard to study, and what study we can do is only in its infancy. But it's equally infantile to declare that it's irrelevant. And oddly, for people who pride themselves on their intellectual prowess, those who do tend to make it on the basis of a cursory "study" rather than serious engagement.

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