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Re: Based Cooking

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cloverich wrote: post #428
thaumasiotes wrote: post #378

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> On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is? The problem isn't with American conventions. We have no "spoonful" measure any more than you do. That website is not following any American convention by declining to specify its spice amounts.

Also relevant, spice (and salt) preferences have a high subjective component. It drives my wife crazy but I don't even read amounts any more for things like this, I just put whatever I think, and add more if it seems like it needs it after I taste it. Conveniently its also the best, and perhaps only, way to develop in to a good cook because it teaches you how ingredients impact the flavour of your meal, and in turn h…

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Re: Based Cooking

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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?

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Re: Based Cooking

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dmitriid wrote: post #232
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

That's a really bad advice to give beginners. If you're lucky, you'll guess right the first time, and end up with a good dish. And then you'll use that. If you're unlucky — and the more inexperienced you are the more unlucky you are — then you'll guess wrong, and your dish will be at best okay, and at worst inedible. A few failed experiments like this, and you'll hate cooking, or approach cooking with fear. Recipes h…

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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by dguaraglia »

ttt0 wrote: post #448
dguaraglia wrote: post #446

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Please, when you start with a bad faith attempt at whitewashing Luke's YouTube as not being full of edgelord shit trying to 'own the libs', I don't think I can take your opinion seriously about what people do to define their identity. With such great things as having a picture of 'soydevs', or such titles as 'Schooling a beta GNUTard', 'Virgin social media vs. chad RSS', 'Orderly dissolution of the United States into…

I'm not denying the memes and the edginess, as you can just look at the YouTube channel. But believe it or not, not everything is about you and the 'wokeness'. You think too much of yourself if you think everyone has to define himself as in how do they relate to you. > Right? Actually yes, I've seen plenty of people like that. You're missing a relevant fact that it's funny . Just to give an example, another Linux cha…

ROFL, you think too much of yourself if you don't realize that the whole 'I don't care about your feelings, I'm gonna be a very aggressive boy, you just watch me!' isn't a cry for attention. In fact, that kind of behavior is all about people's wokeness or whatever you wanna call it.

Most people get over that kind of mentality by the time they are 20 something and working. Some don't, I guess.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by ttt0 »

dguaraglia wrote: post #464
ttt0 wrote: post #448

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I'm not denying the memes and the edginess, as you can just look at the YouTube channel. But believe it or not, not everything is about you and the 'wokeness'. You think too much of yourself if you think everyone has to define himself as in how do they relate to you. > Right? Actually yes, I've seen plenty of people like that. You're missing a relevant fact that it's funny . Just to give an example, another Linux cha…

ROFL, you think too much of yourself if you don't realize that the whole 'I don't care about your feelings, I'm gonna be a very aggressive boy, you just watch me!' isn't a cry for attention. In fact, that kind of behavior is all about people's wokeness or whatever you wanna call it. Most people get over that kind of mentality by the time they are 20 something and working. Some don't, I guess.

I don't get any of it, and that leads me to think that you might be projecting, but ok.

I think the fact that you said 'owning the libs' speaks for itself.

We should end this discussion as it isn't going anywhere

down: defining yourself as either conformist or non-conformist is cringe, but ok

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by kulahan »

saiya-jin wrote: post #286
Biganon wrote: post #241

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In Switzerland, I never was able to find kosher salt. Coarse yes, table yes, but flaky kosher salt? Nope

Exactly, same here (also Suisse). It boggles my mind why would anybody use any other type of salt for anything, I guess lessons from primary school about iodine and its roles are long forgotten. I never ever felt any bad taste from iodized salts. Had to actually google what kosher salt means, the connection with real kosher food is 0 and it seems purely US term. There are whole articles about why you should never use…

You typically use different types of salt based on the size/shape of the grains. You want something larger and hollow for finishing, because it gives a nice texture, as an example.

Every time I get the chance, I take a small amount of kosher salt (which is just salt used for koshering, not salt that is kosher) and a small amount of iodized salt and have visitors do a taste test. I've never had someone prefer the iodized salt, and they can always tell the difference between the two.

Maybe they have different labels in different countries, though.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by dguaraglia »

ttt0 wrote: post #465
dguaraglia wrote: post #464

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ROFL, you think too much of yourself if you don't realize that the whole 'I don't care about your feelings, I'm gonna be a very aggressive boy, you just watch me!' isn't a cry for attention. In fact, that kind of behavior is all about people's wokeness or whatever you wanna call it. Most people get over that kind of mentality by the time they are 20 something and working. Some don't, I guess.

I don't get any of it, and that leads me to think that you might be projecting, but ok. I think the fact that you said 'owning the libs' speaks for itself. We should end this discussion as it isn't going anywhere down: defining yourself as either conformist or non-conformist is cringe, but ok

Yeah, I understand how it can be confusing that a community that defines itself by being an explicit rejection of the norms of society and calls people they disagree with 'normies' could possibly concern itself with what other people think. It's OK, if you haven't figured it out by now, there's nothing I can do to help you. Have a good one.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by curtainsforus »

dguaraglia wrote: post #459
curtainsforus wrote: post #457

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I don't see that he's trying to own the libs. He points out what problems he sees with aspects of modernity- we all do that- in a comedic way, in the style of internet subculture, and advocates seperation from that modernity and its problems. Hence moving out of cities to small towns, moving off of big tech platforms and having your own personal website, growing and cooking your own food, etc. In general, becoming pr…

That's a lot of text to try to justify being a shithead. My favorite ridiculous bit is when you pretend that all the stupid /g/ slang isn't designed around shock value . By your own argument, I guess pedophilia is acceptable and not transgressive of social norms as long as your audience is a group of pedophiles. I wish I could kiss that juicy multi-dimensional galaxy brain of yours! BTW, there's nothing wrong about t…

If all the time I've wasted on 4chan has taught me anything, it's that calling people shitheads, or more colorful variants, does little to change their mind.

The problem with pedophilia isn't that it's offensive, it's the harm caused. As you well know... If you can make a good case that soydev memes are as bad as, you know, molesting kids, then please do.

The point about niceness is that agreeableness alone isn't indicative of morality. The bureaucrats managing the death trains were as agreeable as anyone. Niceness is nice to have, and some degree of agreeableness is needed to operate in society, but niceness for niceness' sake is just vapid. Successful sociopaths are nice. Niceness, politeness, these are all social ceasefires/tools. Nothing wrong with that, but they shouldn't be the fundament of your personality- there should be something more to you than "I'm a nice guy". And "I'm a nice linux nerd" just sounds especially vapid.

If I met you in real life, I'd be nice and polite (according to the social rules of our current culture), of course. And LS is being nice and polite according to the social rules of /g/ culture. That space isn't really meant for you and doesn't have to conform to the rules of politeness of mainstream culture, much as you wouldn't go into, I don't know, a punk rock concert and ask them to tone down their language a bit. Would you deny these weirdos their safe space, where they can joke about wagecucks and gnutards? That language was born of attempts to be edgy, yes, but once it became fixed it was no longer mutually offensive to interlocutors.

Ironically, you're being more interpersonally combative/abrasive than anyone I've seen on LS's channel! Less nice, in other words. With your attitude, and your sailor's mouth, you might belong on 4chan, after all.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by _euac »

curtainsforus wrote: post #468
dguaraglia wrote: post #459

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That's a lot of text to try to justify being a shithead. My favorite ridiculous bit is when you pretend that all the stupid /g/ slang isn't designed around shock value . By your own argument, I guess pedophilia is acceptable and not transgressive of social norms as long as your audience is a group of pedophiles. I wish I could kiss that juicy multi-dimensional galaxy brain of yours! BTW, there's nothing wrong about t…

If all the time I've wasted on 4chan has taught me anything, it's that calling people shitheads, or more colorful variants, does little to change their mind. The problem with pedophilia isn't that it's offensive, it's the harm caused. As you well know... If you can make a good case that soydev memes are as bad as, you know, molesting kids, then please do. The point about niceness is that agreeableness alone isn't ind…

> If all the time I've wasted on 4chan has taught me anything, it's that calling people shitheads, or more colorful variants, does little to change their mind.

I'm not here to convert anyone. Catharsis is also a perfectly valid reason to do something.

> The problem with pedophilia isn't that it's offensive, it's the harm caused. As you well know... If you can make a good case that soydev memes are as bad as, you know, molesting kids, then please do.

Filling people's heads with 'edgy' stuff has led us to the current situation were we have self-declared incels shooting up public places while live-streaming their violence 'for the lulz'. The Christchurch massacre was the perfect example of the logical conclusion of the nihilistic onanism that is 4chan shitposting.

I'd argue that setting people into the edgy -> racist to be edgy -> conspiracy theories about replacement -> violence sausage machine, on the premise of laughing at 'soydevs' (whatever that is supposed to mean) has real-life consequences just as bad as pedophilia.

> That space isn't really meant for you and doesn't have to conform to the rules of politeness of mainstream culture, much as you wouldn't go into, I don't know, a punk rock concert and ask them to tone down their language a bit.

> Would you deny these weirdos their safe space, where they can joke about wagecucks and gnutards?

As I said, the problem with these weirdos' safe-space is that it is increasingly leading to consequences in the real world. They can say whatever the hell they want in their safe-space, but you can't ask me to not tell them how stupid and/or deranged they sound when they come to my space. That's the only way to adjust their expectations ``

> Ironically, you're being more interpersonally combative/abrasive than anyone I've seen on LS's channel! Less nice, in other words. With your attitude, and your sailor's mouth, you might belong on 4chan, after all.

Almost like people can have strong opinions without having to resort to calling others 'soydevs' and 'suburban white women'.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by Brian_K_White »

SilverRed wrote: post #125
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…

>What's wrong with a "wikipedia for recipes"? Can you imagine the state of the site after 2 power users have a holy war over whether the recipe is meant to have salt in it or not. Cooking is not objective so it would be impossible to properly collaborate or decide if an edit made the recipe better or worse.

...and OrangeMike
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