The Cooking Thread
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We need an "@anotherusername brags about chili" thread.
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@kazitor It's been a while since I made chili. Why, are you requesting it?
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@kazitor said in The Cooking Thread:
We need an "@anotherusername brags about chili" thread.
That non-masochists can ignore.
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@bb36e chocolate ramen?
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@bb36e
Flagged for crimes against chocolate
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@bb36e This raises many questions I'd have never thought to ask.
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This is pretty interesting. I learned a bit from watching it...
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@kazitor While a freshly dug up carrot can be fine when lightly scrubbed with a brush, I would always peel a store-bought carrot. The outer skin has mostly dried out a little anyway.
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@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
@kazitor While a freshly dug up carrot can be fine when lightly scrubbed with a brush, I would always peel a store-bought carrot. The outer skin has mostly dried out a little anyway.
Buy pre-peeled baby carrots.
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Made homemade Mexican chorizo last night for the first time. Turned out quite good, even though we didn't have ancho chili powder (used paprika and red chili powder instead). Far better than the crap we find in stores around here, which I never realized was a totally different kind of chorizo.
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@Erufael Huhhhh....
Spanish chorizo and Mexican chorizo are very different from each other in looks, texture and taste. Since the Spanish chorizo is cured it can just be sliced and eaten. Mexican chorizo must first be removed from its casings then cooked before eating.
Recently I found chorizo at my local store in the deli section near where you get pepperoni sticks. It's really good but the chorizo name confused me. Now that I look, the smaller text on the packaging does say "Spanish style."
There's a relatively local brand that puts out various styles of chorizo. The Mexican is definitely my favorite, being the spiciest.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
The Mexican is definitely my favorite, being the spiciest.
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@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
@kazitor While a freshly dug up carrot can be fine when lightly scrubbed with a brush, I would always peel a store-bought carrot. The outer skin has mostly dried out a little anyway.
When I'm cooking with carrots I honestly don't usually even do that much. If there's really obviously nasty looking black gunk in the grooves, I'll sometimes bother to peel them or at least use the point of a knife to scrape that black gunk out, because it tastes bitter and I don't want to chew on sand. They don't even always need that. And other than that, *shrug*.
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@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
The Mexican is definitely my favorite, being the spiciest.
It would probably be delicious and spicy once I added a teaspoon of reaper powder to it.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
once I added a teaspoon of reaper powder to it
I know what your teaspoon looks like
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@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
The Mexican is definitely my favorite, being the spiciest.
What he calls dinner most people call a violation of The Geneva Convention.
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@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
I know what your teaspoon looks like
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
What he calls dinner most people call a violation of The Geneva Convention.
Well... I mean... I just ordered a kilogram of the stuff. I figure that should probably last me almost a year.
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ITT
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@brie Tasting good to humans is not a bad move, evolutionarily speaking.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@brie Tasting good to humans is not a bad move, evolutionarily speaking.
It does have some side-effects:
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So, this is what a kilogram of Carolina Reaper powder looks like...
Shaker for size comparison.
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@anotherusername congrats. You are now on a government watch list.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
You are now on a government watch list.
Maybe a government “mind (and tastebuds) blown” list too.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername congrats. You are now on a government watch list.
Aren't we all?
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@anotherusername, are you consulting with Hardee's on their menu?
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@boomzilla no, I doubt that they want to get sued.
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@boomzilla Suddenly, being unable to eat most fast food doesn't seem so bad.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
So, this is what a kilogram of Carolina Reaper powder looks like...
Shaker for size comparison.For extra lulz, use that instead of glitter on this contraption:
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The evil ideas thread is
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@DoctorJones The violations of the Geneva convention thread is... Ehr...
Maybe somewhere in The Garage?
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@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
@DoctorJones The violations of the Geneva convention thread is... Ehr...
Discourse Meta
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Made a Santa Maria-style tri-tip for dinner tonight. The recipe I found online called for 1 tsp of cayenne. Being prepared at the last minute, the flavor didn't really absorb into the meat much; it was all concentrated in the crust. That was the spiciest thing I've eaten in months, and I don't have any ranitidine on hand; my gastroenterologist told me to get some, but I never got around to because I hardly ever need it.
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Ages ago, someone ( @Parody , maybe?) in this thread submitted a recipe for what they termed "Awesome Sauce". It was a very simple recipe, basically combine grape jelly with hot sauce, put in meatballs, and simmer for a few hours. I wasn't sure if they were trolling or not, so I asked about it, and I've been assured that it's actually a real and very delicious thing. I also managed to find some similar recipes online outside this forum. I got curious, so I went around looking for grape jelly.
Turns out, grape jelly is impossible to obtain in central Europe. Lidl does "themes" every week, but they don't carry grape jelly when it's "American week". I even found a small company that specializes in importing American food, but they don't have it either. However, I mentioned the recipe to an American friend currently living here. She wasn't familiar with it, so we just talked about it for a bit and then I forgot, but eventually she went back home to Texas for Christmas, and when she came back and we met, she surprised me with two jars of Concord grape jelly. I didn't ask her to bring me some, I just mentioned it. It was really sweet - both her bringing me some and the actual jelly.
So, maybe a year after reading about the fabled Awesome sauce, I finally got to try making some... and it's fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with you people. I used a jar of jelly that literally flew halfway around the world, and I turned it into the most disgusting sauce I've ever tasted, and I went to school in 1990s in the former eastern bloc - that's hard to beat. Sincerely, fuck everyone who said it was good, and there were a bunch of you.
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@blek
Mark another one on the "awesome, we conned some poor sucker!" board
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@blek said in The Cooking Thread:
Ages ago, someone ( @Parody , maybe?) in this thread submitted a recipe for what they termed "Awesome Sauce". It was a very simple recipe, basically combine grape jelly with hot sauce, put in meatballs, and simmer for a few hours.
Twasn't me. I'd put the blame on @accalia and @Polygeekery:
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@Parody Oh, my bad. In my defense, it's been a while.
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@blek said in The Cooking Thread:
Ages ago, someone ( @Parody , maybe?) in this thread submitted a recipe for what they termed "Awesome Sauce". It was a very simple recipe, basically combine grape jelly with hot sauce, put in meatballs, and simmer for a few hours.
I haven't heard of grape jelly + hot sauce (until now). What I have had is grape jelly + "cocktail sauce," which I wouldn't call "awesome," but is surprisingly good for a combination that sounds like it would be disgusting. "Cocktail sauce" is meant to be used as a sauce for seafood — specifically shrimp. It contains horseradish, but little or no chili and is not hot. It's basically ketchup (tomato paste, vinegar, sugar, and a short but quite variable list of spices, depending on the recipe), Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, horseradish, at least for the "best" recipe I found. The sweet, fruity flavor of the jelly complements the tangy, fruity lemon juice, tomato and vinegar. Or something like that.
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@blek said in The Cooking Thread:
So, maybe a year after reading about the fabled Awesome sauce, I finally got to try making some... and it's fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with you people. I used a jar of jelly that literally flew halfway around the world, and I turned it into the most disgusting sauce I've ever tasted, and I went to school in 1990s in the former eastern bloc - that's hard to beat. Sincerely, fuck everyone who said it was good, and there were a bunch of you.
Have you tried Vegemite? Just, like, plain Vegemite?
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@kazitor Yeah, good point. You can actually buy that here but I never gathered the courage.
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@blek said in The Cooking Thread:
t was a very simple recipe, basically combine grape jelly with hot sauce, put in meatballs, and simmer for a few hours. I wasn't sure if they were trolling or not, so I asked about it, and I've been assured that it's actually a real and very delicious thing. I also managed to find some similar recipes online outside this forum. I got curious, so I went around looking for grape jelly.
Ketchup, not hot sauce. Yuck.
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@blek IMO, basically anything grape-flavored is disgusting (except wine). It sounds like you got trolled.