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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by curtainsforus »

_euac wrote: post #469
curtainsforus wrote: post #468

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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…

>Catharsis is a perfectly valid reason to do something Yes, /b/, /pol/ and /g/ agree completely. Like I said, you'd fit in there- the emotional zealotry, the insults, you're a 4chan poster in spirit already.

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

I'd take being called a soydev or a suburban white woman over being called a shithead or being compared to pedophiles, thanks! Are those really the most horrible words you can accuse me of using...? They seem pretty tame.

I'm not here to convert either, and I leave filled with a sense of relief that you aren't able to more strongly impose your will on the world and others.

Again, you view those culturally/politically opposed to you as a monolith, and so lump people together who don't fit together, like a southerner saying all muslims are terrorists. There's a difference between your local imam and an al-qaeda follower who murders a bunch of people, and in the same way there's a difference between LS and and the christchurch shooter. Lumping them together is inaccurate, and if you think the latter is a pipeline to the former, well, 'islamophobe' is a word. I guess 'chanophobe' is next...

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by PhilosAccnting »

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 entirely agree, but HN is filled with ASD savants, so what would you expect? It's not precisely correct, and affirmations about known facts are largely a neurotypical thing.

NOTE: I'm ASD, so please don't call it my "NT privilege"!

A joke I like to say is that a true geek will hear about the President caught in a sex scandal and will obsess about the fact that it was because the password was easy to guess.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by moehm »

ghaff wrote: post #348
moehm wrote: post #330

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> it's a lot cheaper, and accessible than Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking from Nathan Myhrvold Have you read Modernist Cuisine at Home and can you compare?

I got mildly obsessed with modernist cooking a few years back and got a copy of Myhrvold's At Home book. It's a beautiful book and is an interesting read. That said, I don't really use it much although I have a few go tos. A lot of the recipes are way more work than I'm going to put in for, say, an omelette.

Which of the modernist/moleculare cuisine books can you recommend?

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by powmonk »

stewx wrote: post #322
powmonk wrote: post #189

The info about salt is plain wrong. Kosher salt is used for curing meat and as a mainly decorative addition to baking, you don't need to use it for cooking, it doesn't dissolve noticably slower in liquids. In fact when most recipes specify a volumetric measurement of salt they mean table salt and if you were to use kosher or sea salt you would be under seasoning due the reduced volume, nothing to do with how quickly…

> Kosher salt is used for curing meat [...] you don't need to use it for cooking It is highly useful when salting meat, or any large piece of food because you can see how much salt you are applying, unlike table salt, which dissolves almost immediately.

In my opinion seasoning meat is just short term curing, i.e. I do recommend flakey salt for that. It's useful less for being able to see the seasoning but the larger grains draw out more moisture/season deeper.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by bigfudge »

tedmielczarek wrote: post #395
bigfudge wrote: post #275

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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…

I agree with you but I don't think that entirely refutes the original point. Baking does require more precision on average than cooking, but bread recipes don't give you the information you would need to be precise. Adjusting for things like local temperature and humidity or the way your oven bakes are important to the outcome but they're never mentioned in recipes. What you're describing as "intuition" sounds to me…

I agree that intuition is just implicit knowledge for these factors... the problem is that making these explicit in recipes would just make them boring and tedious/complex to make. I'm not going to be able to make the thermal mass/heat cycle of my house the same as yours. So unless I temperature control th dough it _is_ going to be different.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by _rape_ »

cryptoz wrote: post #143
saagarjha wrote: post #127

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That is probably true, but it’s still pretty clearly the opposite of “cringe” in meaning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAwJke4UWGI .

FWIW, that video doesn't change the meaning of the word to me. Still means cringe/unpleasant/racist to me. Every time I've seen 'based' used, it is nearly always followed by something cringe, unpleasant, or racist. I do understand words have multiple meanings and people interpret things differently. I'm willing to accept that other people interpret 'based' as 'cool', but that is not what the word means to me, or to a…

lol dilate

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by _rape_ »

morlockabove wrote: post #203
puchatek wrote: post #135

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Would that explain why the list of recipes is almost entirely noon-vegetarian?

Being vegetarian is somewhat cringe, yes, especially if you conspicuously bring it up a lot. Then again, there have been based vegetarians! So go and contribute your recipes!

The Fuhrer himself, for example

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by fb01010 »

cratermoon wrote: post #95
_etyf wrote: post #73

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I scanned his video titles and nothing racist jumped out- could you link to a particular example?

Just look at the thumbnails. Right-wing memes all around, including one with a MAGA hat.

I wish for your speedy recovery after seeing such an abhorrent image in a youtube thumbnail.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by allison_kaas »

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."

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