kestrel7_7

@kestrel7_7@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At my house we dine with some goddamn class⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like serving berry jam with berry pie. It would be just too much. You want to serve berry pie with ice cream. You want something that complements the flavor, not something that’s the same flavor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line cook quietly handed me this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You dated the fastest hot dog shooter in the northwest? Omg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨business is business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then get your friends/family to take pics with their phones, and don’t hire a wedding photographer. No one is forcing you to. Just don’t then go on to complain if the specific moments you want are missed/blurry/composition sucks.

  Like, maybe this is a controversial opinion, but of all the people trying to rip you off in the world, photographers are pretty low on the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨business is business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, like the uber driver is getting ripped off too! The existence of multiple jobs not getting paid enough doesn’t justify any of them not paying enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I think kicking your kids out when they turn 18 is fucked. But, it’s better to do it at 18 than 38.

  I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s not this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your last paragraph is just how my mom bakes. It’s entirely possible to bake without recipes once you have the experience, like you’re saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They just haven’t practiced it. If you’re a good cook, you absolutely have capacity to be a good baker, because they only semantically different things. If we called it cooking a cake, no one would draw this distinction.

  If you can prepare, mix, and properly cook ingredients then you can prepare, mix, and properly bake ingredients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that even measuring by weight isn’t all that important.

  You would be wrong due to the physical properties of flour and how it compresses, but we generally agree that most people who are getting fine results with measuring however they want should just keep doing whatever they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At 3AM ain’t nobody got time or the mood to scale everything.

  I mean, when I was a professional baker I did exactly that, and so did everyone I worked with. I think it’s more convenient and faster than measuring by volume, so it’s what I’d usually prefer to do at home or at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What recipe where you’re cooking can you change ingredients by such extreme amounts? Pasta bolognese with 2x as much meat and half as much pasta would be all wrong. Do you put 2x as much oil in a sauce and expect it to go well? When you make a roux, don’t you have to like. Balance the amount of butter with the amount of flour?

  In general, though, yes, stylistic decisions like how much egg vs. flour is how you make different types of cake. There’s not one platonic ideal of cake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100%! This is what I’m saying. If you can cook, you can bake. Sorry/not sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former professional baker, nah.

  Most of these home bakers talking about how “precise” their baking is aren’t actually that precise. They:

  • measure ingredients by volume rather than weight
  • have home ovens that vary in temperature wildly
  • never consider ambient humidity/outdoor temp at all

  Cooking and baking aren’t that different, there are hard and fast rules in both, but also if you’re good at one, you’re also good at the other, because they are the same thing. Can you follow a recipe that involves cooking meat in the oven? Then guess what? You can also bake a cake. I’m sorry to be the bearer of good news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also check out the Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt, he also talks primarily about techniques rather than recipes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAH at it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use grok to summarize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAH at it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever they build, it needs a plaque that says “I built this monument before Elon killed himself”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebratory Return to Online Meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme says “one white guy who really fucks with keeping the fire going.” He’s clearly not fucking with the fire. He’s keeping it going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a baker. I can cook, but I do not bake.

  OK, here’s my unpopular opinion: cooking and baking aren’t that different, and the differences between them are massively overstated. If you can follow a savory meat dish recipe that spends time in the oven, you can make a cake.

  I’ve worked in restaurants and as a pastry chef. It’s all the same fundamentals. People say baking has to be “more precise” and I don’t even think that’s true. Plenty of savory sauces and meat dishes require just as much, if not more, precision as baking.

  I mean this to be encouraging. I hear from a lot of talented cooks that they don’t bake and I’m always like but… you could? You’re just inexperienced at it. But a passionate cook is also a passionate baker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Medicare for all will happen once enough Americans figure out that $2000/year in taxes is less than $8000/year in premiums. So it could take awhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also those in the opposite situation: Stuck unemployed on Medicare because getting a job would make necessary healthcare too expensive. What a country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love linux (longtime debian user here) but it definitely kinda sucks sometimes and I understand why there isn’t mass adoption. I feel odd talking to other linux users sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Canteens, animal skin water carriers, maybe water barrels for people with wagons. They had to plan routes with available water from springs and rivers frequently enough that they could carry enough with them in between sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The caramel is what makes them Milky! This is asinine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the chore that never ends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, I think if they’re compostable it might be OK. Plastic or styrofoam would be horrific

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read about techworkerscoalition.org and www.alphabetworkersunion.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a healthy society Zohran Mamdani would be a centrist.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2024, Trump met with the Palestinian imams who the DNC snubbed and said there needed to be a ceasefire in Gaza. This is a big part of why Trump carried Michigan. I doubt Trump convinced many Muslim Americans and their friends to vote for him, but it appears he successfully convinced enough of them not to vote for Biden/Harris.

  I’m not saying this makes Trump better on this issue than Biden, because Trump was obviously lying. I am saying Trump read the room better and “did politics” better, because Biden/Harris wouldn’t even tell that lie.

  Personally, I held my nose and voted for Harris, but there’s no doubt in my mind that she lost because she and Biden were out of touch on Palestine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not particularly, but I imagine it was just weird as hell haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheaper than a large popcorn at the theater 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine like four or five of us sitting in the front row of a crowded theater, chowing down on rotisserie chickens with our bare hands.

  In retrospect I feel so bad for the people sitting near us 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In high school my one friend had a big trench coat, and we would use it to sneak rotisserie chickens into the movie theater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t practice Santeria/I don’t listen to Sublime/So why is it stuck in my head/All of the ti-i-i-iiime