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- Comment on Non-stick pans? 1 day ago:
I meant more that the work is up front, with seasoning properly. Poorly phrased on my part.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 1 day ago:
Okay, medium deep dive into cooking surfaces. No caveats or disclaimers because fuck that.
The only thing that’s truly “non stick” is Teflon. Anything else is just low stick. This includes the beloved cast iron.
But! Sticking isn’t an inherently bad thing, so unless you’re cooking eggs or making candy, chances are that cast iron, carbon steel, or stainless steel will get the job done anyway.
Out of all the options, cast iron requires the most work to stay as low stick as it can get, and nothing else reaches that degree of easy cleaning after use. Carbon steel is just a skosh behind cast iron, but it’s lighter by a significant factor, so it may be worth considering.
So, how the fuck to keep cast iron low stick? You gotta start with a good layer of plastic and then maintain it. Seasoning is essentially plastic. For seasoning to stick, and stay useful, you gotta be a little gentle with it over time. Use only standard dish soap, no heavy scrubbing, and watch how hot you get the pan without something in it. All those people saying the get your pan “ripping” or “screaming” hot? That’s bad advice for a pan you want to keep low stick. So you have two pans, or just accept that once you get that layer of polymerized hydrocarbons past about 450, it’s going to start having trouble.
And, being fucking real, you don’t need a pan that hot for anything except maybe a rare or blue steak. You’ll get better Maillard reaction at slightly lower temps that won’t stress a pan. Or, just fucking use a thick stainless steel pan, it’ll work fine if you want shit to carbonize. Invest in a fucking infrared thermometer and learn how to use it, you’ll get better results from knowing what temps give a specific result than from cranking the heat all to hell and hoping.
But if you want maximum non stick cast iron, it starts with the surface. You gotta have a smooth surface, or you gotta spend the time building up layers of polymers to fill in all the little bumps and schwiggles. Overall, the slickest surfaces will come from finely sanded, then vinegar treated, then polymerized. Just be aware that slick and low stick is a tradeoff, since some sticking is going to be what develops a nice fond from our friend Maillard.
You can get close to that with carbon steel though! Same process. You get the bare metal smooth as fuck all, then give it a nice warm vinegar soak, then season as usual.
But, again, you gotta be ready to accept tradeoffs. There’s no perfect material. And over time, if you don’t pay attention, a seasoned pan is going to develop uneven spots as fats polymerize during cooking. If you do pay attention, I’ll happen way slower, enough so that I’ll take decades, by which time chances are good that the layers will be thick enough that it isn’t a problem. That uneven buildup happens when the fats aren’t deep enough to stay even as you cook, and/or when things do temporarily stick during cooking (which is a good thing, not a bad one for meats).
Me? I accepted long ago that some cooking is going to result in pans that need a long soak before trying to really clean them. Hell, even Teflon can have stuff build up on the edges, so it isn’t immune to that. Your best bet is to leave the damn thing on the range, pour in some water, heat it up to boiling, then let it sit until it cools enough to handle. It reduces sink time a lot.
If you want Teflon, go top end. Don’t waste time or money going cheap. Opinions vary, but hexclad has a reputation for being the most durable Teflon stuff. Won’t last forever in terms of the surface, but no Teflon will. Just don’t fuck around with generic shit.
- Comment on Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs? 1 day ago:
As already covered, he has bone claws after magneto pulled the adamantium from him.
During the comics afterwards, his claws got stomped (iirc by sabertooth), and broken in half.
They regrew fairly quickly, but were deformed for a while. Lost track of that run, but they eventually got put back to his normal.
Overall, Wolvie can regrow anything except the adamantium, and even that isn’t off the table since if he had a source for it, his power could conceivably use it to reproduce what was there.
Fwiw, he’s been blown up to the point he was nothing but the adamantium and some random bits, then recovered (iirc it was in the MAX days during a crossover with punisher, and daredevil . Might have been someone else involved too, can’t recall.
Last I read anything, his healing factor was essentially able to start from a single cell. As long as there’s something left, he’ll heal. Not quite lobo level where a cell isn’t necessary, but I expect something will happen where it gets turned into that at least temporarily. Deadpool is more or less at that level as well; he came back from being burnt to ashes by a lightning strike. So there’s precedent for healing factors the go beyond cellular activity alone
- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 2 days ago:
Generally, it comes down to which statistics a “hater” believes. I’ll refer to twain here about lies, damn lies and statistics, since numbers always seem so certain, but can be cooked.
It doesn’t help that “pit bull” isn’t a breed, it’s a “type”, which is vague as fuck all. There’s something like a dozen breeds that get called pit bull, each with their own range of traits. What they have in common is an origin as fighting dogs, including those bred to fight bigger animals.
But if a dog just looks similar to any of those breeds, it’s a pit bull, including mutts with no known ancestry in fighting breeds.
So, folks see a scary looking dog and that’s that, they hate scary looking dogs.
Is the hate justified? IDGAF tbh. Assuming any of the statistics are accurate and applicable, I can understand wanting to limit breeding more, as well as the strict side of enforced euthanasia once a dog turns aggro. But with the vagueness of what gets counted as a pit bull in those stats, and the cherry picking that goes on in such debates, I can’t work up any emotional response to the subject.
But that’s why the hate. They’re scary looking dogs, and when a dog that looks like they tend to look attacks, it’ll fuck its target up worse than something like a Chihuahua or poodle. That much is fact, a big muscular dog with strong jaws can fuck shit up.
- Comment on Why is Nickleback so hated? I think they made the perfect song for America after 9/11 with Hero. 2 days ago:
I dig. They aren’t AC/DC with that built up history of bangers. Nor did they have the time to grow organically before they got huge.
- Comment on Why is Nickleback so hated? I think they made the perfect song for America after 9/11 with Hero. 2 days ago:
Chocolate Chip Cookies (Levain Style) ★★★★★ Cookies, Dessert Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 13 hours | Servings: Eight 6-ounce cookies
Ingredients:
4 ounces unsalted American butter (about 1/2 cup; 113g), softened to about 65°F (18°C) 4 ounces light brown sugar (about 1/2 cup, firmly packed; 113g) 3 1/2 ounces white sugar, preferably well toasted (about 1/2 cup; 100g) 1/2 ounce vanilla extract (about 1 tablespoon; 15g) 2 teaspoons (8g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt; for table salt, use about half as much by volume or the same weight (plus more for sprinkling, if desired) 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda Pinch of grated nutmeg 2 large eggs (about 3 1/2 ounces; 100g), straight from the fridge 10 ounces all-purpose flour (about 2 1/4 cups, spooned; 283g), such as Gold Medal 15 ounces assorted chocolate chips (about 2 1/2 cups; 425g), not chopped chocolate; see note 8 1/2 ounces raw walnut pieces or lightly toasted pecan pieces (shy 1 3/4 cups; 240g)
Directions:
- To Prepare the Dough: Combine butter, light brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and nutmeg in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Mix on low to moisten, then increase speed to medium and beat until soft, fluffy, and pale, about 8 minutes; halfway through, pause to scrape bowl and beater with a flexible spatula. With mixer running, add eggs one at a time, letting each incorporate fully before adding the next. Reduce speed to low, then add the flour all at once. When flour is incorporated, add chocolate chips and nuts and keep mixing until dough is homogeneous.
- Divide dough into 8 equal portions (about 6 ounces/170g each) and round each into a smooth ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 12 hours before baking; if well protected from air, the dough can be kept in the fridge up to 1 week.
- To Bake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat to 350°F (180°C). Line an aluminum half-sheet pan with parchment paper. When the oven comes to temperature, arrange up to 4 portions of cold dough on prepared pan, leaving ample space between them to account for spread. If you like, sprinkle with additional salt to taste.
- Bake until cookies are puffed and lightly brown, about 22 minutes or to an internal temperature of between 175 and 185°F (79 and 85°C). The ideal temperature will vary from person to person; future rounds can be baked more or less to achieve desired consistency.
- Cool cookies directly on baking sheet until no warmer than 100°F (38°C) before serving. Enjoy warm, or within 12 hours; these cookies taste best when freshly baked (see Make-Ahead and Storage).
Source: seriouseats.com/…/super-thick-chocolate-chip-cook…
Notes: go a full day in the fridge.
Can reduce individual cookie size, but not much before they start coming out wrong. Recipe says to divide into 8 portions. Ten works, twelve is almost the same, but you’ll notice a different texture.
Don’t cheap out on the chocolate. If you wouldn’t eat it by itself, it isn’t going to work in this recipe. Guitard and Ghirardelli make chips, and they are better than anything else you’ll find in a grocery store. If you ignore their recommendation of using chips, no chunks, get great chocolate, whatever you’re able to afford. Cheap chocolate will make this recipe pointless.
- Comment on Why is Nickleback so hated? I think they made the perfect song for America after 9/11 with Hero. 2 days ago:
Legit, it’s the radio play.
They made easily accessible hard rock. It’s mostly formulaic. That means their stuff got played to death. Anything of theirs that got popular was driven into the ground.
The hate just spread from there. Yeah, you’ll see people bitch about whatever retroreasoning they’ve applied to it, but without the level of unavoidability involved during their prime, it wouldn’t be hate, just a came that some people don’t like.
Truth? It’s damn near impossible to tell one album from another. The riffs are pretty generic. There’s no highly technical skill required to cover their songs. They aren’t “fancy”
But that’s not bad things, unless you’re the sort looking for anything to hate, and want to hate something popular in particular.
Another truth? Some of the most loved bands out there are no different. AC/DC? Simple hard rock with a formula. Aerosmith? A little less hard, but VERY formulaic since their post run-DMC resurgence. Amon Amarth? C’mon. Okay, AA isn’t at that scale of popularity, but I like them, so they’re in.
Point being that there’s no complaint anyone makes about Nickelback that can’t be applied to any popular band to some degree. Even my complaint that they have far too many songs that are misogynistic in the lyrics could apply to dozens of other acts.
The hate? They got over played. Without that, they’d just be another band that some people like and others don’t
- Comment on Anon gets lost 4 days ago:
Very much so, statistically
- Comment on Anon gets lost 4 days ago:
You know, while there are places you don’t want to get lost in if you’re white, they aren’t as common as the racists make it out to be. Now, I’ve worked in a couple of those neighborhoods, but even then once the folks literally coming out of bushes knew I was there to provide care to someone, that was the end of it.
Being real, my cracker ass grew up in a black neighborhood. You know how many times I got jumped by black folks? Zero. Wanna guess how many times I did by white folks? Well, only three, twice by the same assholes, but that’s still telling, aint it?
My personal experience? Only time you’ll run into trouble for being a cracker is if its a heavy drug area and you ain’t buying. But those folks will be just as harsh to anyone, so I dunno if that counts or not.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 5 days ago:
Pfft, I’m gloving up and going in fist first
- Comment on God danget bobby 5 days ago:
The meat¹, not the heat
1>!The meat falling off your bones as you munch yourself!<
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 5 days ago:
Easily searched? My hairy asshole.
Even the good search options aren’t as good as they used to be. And Google has turned to utter shit.
Nah, let people ask what they want.
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 5 days ago:
Honestly? They probably don’t.
You can only do so much book larnin about cunnilingus. You have to put the time in to get good, and there’s no way around it.
What happens is that an eager teenager reads up on it (because that’s a lot less likely to draw attention than videos, despite there being some decent videos), then becomes an adult that’s good at it.
- Comment on How come cops who are trained in guns shoot to kill all the time? Even people who have no gun. Why not go in with your hand on the taser, and ready just in case to shoot someone in the leg? 5 days ago:
You never, ever, shoot like that. Cop or not, if use of a firearm is justified, you aim to end the threat immediately. That means a kill shot. Center of mass is what cops are trained to do, and for many good reasons.
But, even if you did want to try and use a firearm as a less lethal weapon, you switch ammo, not shoot extremities. For one, arms and legs are plenty lethal, though not necessarily 100% (hell, center of mass isn’t a guaranteed lethality). But, more important, they’re not as sure a target at all. You don’t want bullets going anywhere other than the intended target. Center of mass is much easier to accurately aim for when you’re scared and high on adrenaline. A leg? Good fucking luck unless you’re point blank, and even that’s not a sure thing.
For real, even at a shooting range while relaxed and with all the time in the world, a leg would be harder. A lot of people can barely keep a 6 inch group past 15 feet. Cops tend to shoot more often than the general populace, what with having their own ranges and at least some of the ammo provided for them, but it’s range shooting, target shooting. So even if they’re nailing shit perfectly during their qualification tests, that doesn’t automatically translate to the kind of accuracy needed to pick what part of the leg to hit.
Even on a very muscular dude, you’ve got really small targets that would potentially stop them from continuing whatever you wanted to stop doing. A few inches at most.
Now, staying ready with a taser and using it at the first sign of trouble? Could work, I guess. But that’s got its own risks and liabilities.
But, nah man, if you think pulling a gun and shooting someone in the leg is a good thing, it is best you not carry. Any situation in which you would try that is not a situation in which the use of a firearm is a good idea.
- Comment on More chickens! 5 days ago:
Mine is in a phase of that, but he’s kept hens safe, so I put up with his ass.
He used to not be that kind of asshole though. If he’d started out that way, I suspect he would have been soup
- Comment on More chickens! 5 days ago:
I disagree, and my rooster is an asshole.
They serve multiple purposes, and can be good company.
My rooster? Saved the hens multiple times. Literally broke a spur off in a dog’s ass. A pit bull at that. Ran that bitch off, and that’s after losing said spur, handfuls of feathers, and dripping blood of his own.
Before that series of attacks by the dog, he was chill as fuck. He’d just follow me around, picking things up and putting them down so everyone would know it was there. Sometimes, he’d be in the mood and jump up to be held. He’d come inside sometimes and just sit on my kid’s lap getting petted.
It’s why, despite him having gone full asshole after we lost hens, I still want him around. I’m hoping my current program will get him back to his old self. But even if he doesn’t, I want him.
Every now and then, that old self peeks through, and we have little moments of mutual respect and affection, and it’s awesome.
He’s not the loving companion my hen is, that’s not how roosters roll usually. But he was my buddy, and I hope we will be again.
- Comment on A lot of people who try to start a religion are seen as mentally ill. Like Jim Jones, David Koresh, the UFO guy, and L Ron Hubbard. Then could it be a safe bet that Jesus was mentally ill? 6 days ago:
Well, your first two examples started sects of established religions. And they were also cults.
Scientology amounts to a religion in a sense, though it’s just a very large cult that barely fits the usual concept of religion.
But, yeah, if you buy into Jesus having done what’s said in the bible and/or believed by christians, dude was starting a sect at least. I’ve seen people debate if what he was teaching was really “just” a reformation of judaism, or an intentional schism intended to start something new-ish, but the story of the new testament is of a charismatic cult leader building a sect.
Regardless of one’s faith in said charismatic cult leader, he didn’t do much that Koresh didn’t try. Managed to do a bit better than koresh or jones in that there was no mass suicide (and waco was that to an extent).
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 6 days ago:
Good job! Great misinterpretation!
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 6 days ago:
That may be the one time when a (gay and fake) parent beating the shit out of their (fake and gay) kid is justified
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Alas, it isn’t me.
However, I picked it partly because the guy looks enough like me to be a close relative, and my beard is very similar :)
- Comment on What should I do with boxes of old photos? 1 week ago:
Check with your local midgets library, see if there’s any nearby historical organizations that might want to take a look through. If they don’t know of any, then you’d have to hunt down possibilities on your own, and while that might seem like a worthy effort, most old photos have little or no historical value. You’ve already scanned some. So, if you just don’t want the images lost, scan the rest and chuck the physical
- Comment on How come no one has taken 'A Hero's Journey' and applied it to the bible? Would this not give more evidence to work of fiction or non fiction? 1 week ago:
Jesus was just Elric in another cycle
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nope!
I don’t even care about the accidental ones that happen from scrolling while tired.
Worst that happens is the hot feed gets negligibly shifted until the next person comes along.
- Comment on The various stages of cooking experience 1 week ago:
I mean, sourdough is the yeast. It’s just got other things as well :)
Pizza dough is super forgiving! In a pinch, you can use dough you screwed up to make our and it’ll be okay.
- Comment on The various stages of cooking experience 1 week ago:
Depending on the thing you’re baking, that can work.
Like, bread? While you need to weigh things if you want consistency between batches, as in reliable, predictable results; you throw yeast into wet flour, it’ll rise and you can bake it. So going by feel totally works as well.
Where you can’t get away with it automatically is chemically leavened things. You gotta have a minimum proportion of whatever you’re using (baking soda or whatever) to flour, and if you go too high it’ll mess things up as well. But even there, you don’t have to weigh things, you can go by volume. It just comes with the caveat that your cake may be different enough to notice each time.
Or, with cookies, how shifting proportions of one ingredient changes how they spread, whether they’re crispy or chewy.
It’s all about precision, not getting something edible
- Comment on The various stages of cooking experience 1 week ago:
I’m dubious. They be talking like they baking, but nothing is listed by grams
- Comment on Is there any other meats that are a good comparison for the taste of venison? 1 week ago:
The comparison to goat isn’t entirely off. Kinda in between goat and cattle, imo. Obviously, taste is partially relative, as how the brain interprets signals from the nose and mouth isn’t perfectly 1:1 between people. But the kind of gaminess in goat and deer is close enough for for government work. Hell, sometimes goat is less gamy what with feed being a big factor.
I think that’s the real thing about venison in all its forms; it varies so much. Deer taken just a few miles from each other can taste different, whereas two cows from different states will taste almost the same. Goats are usually less variable than deer, but they get into a lot of shit lol. They’ll eat almost anything, and it shows in their meat.
- Comment on How does a person judge someone else's style of writing or typing from others? Is there not a comparison for it? 1 week ago:
Well, I’m going to come at this from a less direct angle; not necessarily addressing each question, just responding to the concept.
There’s an idea that there’s “nothing new under the sun”. It’s true in most senses. It’s more and more difficult to have an objectively original idea the longer we we a species record or pass along information. This isn’t to say that an individual can’t come up with an idea that’s new to them, just that there’s an ever growing body of written and spoken stories (be they factual or fictional), so chances get better over time that someone had previously “Simpsons did it”.
Then, you run into influences. Way back in the day on reddit, I was accused of making shit up when telling stories from my days as a nurse’s assistant because I had a tendency to fall into writing them the way I tell them, which is heavily influenced by the stories I’ve read and heard.
When I was writing back then, a lot of Vonnegut would creep in. A good bit of Palahniuk, Twain, and others as well, but Vonnegut was and is a huge influence on how I think about writing both as a reader and writer.
Thing is, I can’t do it on purpose. If I try to write like someone else, I fuck it up. But sure as fuck, when I’m letting myself fall into my natural “voice” in fiction, or factual storytelling, it comes out tinged with hints of everything I’ve ever loved. In person, I picked up my grandfather and his brothers way more than anything else. Kind of an old school raconteur style of delivery, but flavored with kind of dry delivery and deadpan humor with some absurdity thrown in to keep it from being predictable.
But more capable writers really can mimic a style. If you read Dickens, as an example, you’ll pick up the pattern eventually and realize that it reads totally different from Stoker, or Tolstoy, or whatever classic author you want to compare. Word choices, grammar, ways of describing things. I’ve never been able to quantify it, but other people absolutely can. What I tend to be good at is recognising the patterns, which is a much less useful thing.
So, what that means is that everything we read or hear colors what we think. And when those thoughts get expressed, it comes out.
Like I said, that doesn’t hit every point you asked about, but I think it stands as a reasonable response anyway
- Comment on 🎶 I'll grow anywhere, man... I'll grow anywhere 🎶 1 week ago:
That is a really specific meme image, and I am upset at how right it is for this, and infuriated that I know that
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Can I assume it’s the weird little flipped up part that’s the problem, not the fact of it having been scooped into? Because while it wouldn’t bother me, it would mean that little section is more exposed to air and that can be a negative over time. Oxidation is rarely a good thing in that situation.
If it’s just that it isn’t level, I don’t get the mild infuriation tbh.