The Official First World Problems Thread™
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@Rhywden I once used tablespoons instead of teaspoons of sambal. That dish ended up being significantly more fiery than usual.
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@coldandtired I guess the recipe has had a 50% inflation rate since I learned it :)
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@coldandtired they're not crushed, so don't have any flavour - bit of a waste of garlic really
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@japonicus Have you never had roasted garlic? The whole flavor changes.
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@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Rhywden I once used tablespoons instead of teaspoons of sambal. That dish ended up being significantly more fiery than usual.
I once thought "double boil" meant "boil then boil again".
Nearly three decades later, there's still bits of carbonized milk and egg fused to the bottom of my mother's pot.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I once thought "double boil" meant "boil then boil again".
Ever try your hand at refried beans?
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@PleegWat Once when my brother was a teenager, he wanted to make peppermint slice and hadn't used peppermint essence before. The recipe called for a few drops but he didn't think that would be enough because he thought it would be like vanilla essence, so he put one or two teaspoons in. It took about a week to get the smell of peppermint out of the house.
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@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I once used tablespoons instead of teaspoons of sambal. That dish ended up being significantly more fiery than usual.
There was the occasion in my household where 25 small dried fiery chilies were mistaken for 25 grams. Since there were quite a few chilies per gram, the frying of the resulting harissa-paste chicken more closely resembled the results of an attack with pepper spray. The worst part was that it made you cough, which brought more of the lethally-strong smoke into your lungs: thankfully I managed to get the door to the yard open before anyone did permanent damage to themselves…
The meal was rather strong too. There's very few dishes that I now view as being excessively strong now… ;)
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@Yamikuronue I remembered it as 40 but when I searched for that an even garlic-ier one appeared :)
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@Rhywden said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
When I was just starting out learning to cook, a friend and me were doing a receipe which called for 4 cloves of garlic. We mistook that for 4 bulbs of garlic.
That is the actual recipe for Safeco Field garlic fries.
AKA the only reason anybody ever goes to a Mariners game. It ain't for the baseball.
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FW Author P: Don't shelve my book there! Jesus christ, I wish Amazon would segregate Romance from Erotica. Fantasy -> Romantic is a reasonable category; Romance -> Supernatural is a teeming cesspit of awful shit rated 5 stars. What the actual fuck.
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Better FWP: My cup is too large for my stroopwaffle! :O
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
stroopwaffle
I honestly didn't know I wanted one until now!
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@Yamikuronue Yet another good thing to come from The Netherlands.
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@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
another
Another? You mean you made an other contribution to the world?
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@Luhmann Well I wouldn't know about otter contributions.
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@PleegWat
Don't pull your finger out of the dyke while you think about it
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@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Don't pull your finger out of the dyke while you think about it
Why would anyone put their finger in a dike? It won't stop the water coming through. Better to evacuate and call 112.
And I don't think someone of my gender putting their finger in a dyke would be appreciated either.
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@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
And I don't think someone of my gender putting their finger in a dyke would be appreciated either.
There would have to be some very extenuating circumstances..... yes, very extenuating.
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@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
another
Another? You mean you made an other contribution to the world?
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@asdf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Also, fresh herbs and garlic bulbs frequently go bad in my kitchen.
Lazy garlic - finely chopped in a jar, under wine vinegar. It lasts forever in the fridge and saves so much time preparing it too.
Have you tried living herbs? They're easy to find in supermarkets where I live, and last ages if you remember to water them. They do take up a bit of space but you can always keep them outside the door if you run out of windowsill space.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
You truly are a connoisseur of foul fish
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@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Another? You mean you made an other contribution to the world?
I think you're forgetting their greatest contribution to the world: Gouda cheese!
Filed under: How could you!, The cheese lover's thread is
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@asdf Gouda's OK if it is aged enough (if a touch sweeter than I prefer), but most of it is sold far too young.
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
but most of it is sold far too young
That, unfortunately, is true for many cheeses. Parmesan and cheddar as well, for example. Supermarkets also don't usually sell properly aged beef. Probably because most people don't take a closer look at what they're actually buying, and for some reason assume that a 5€ steak / 2€ cheese is the same as the properly aged, way more expensive equivalent.
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@asdf It's also not always clear what advantages the aging has. I bought some two year aged gouda, and while i liked the salt crystals and all, it wasn't something I'd want too regularly. And then I saw some wine-soaked cheese that was far more expensive, which was easier to understand.
I find that the best way is to buy cheeses that end in 'kaas' discounted and win every time.
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@Magus I definitely prefer hard cheeses aged unless I want to melt them over something. (And even then, you taste the difference between properly aged gouda or cheddar and young gouda / cheddar.) With soft cheeses, it depends, some of them smell or taste too strong for me if they're too old.
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@PleegWat said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
otter
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@Magus said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
It's also not always clear what advantages the aging has.
If done right, it improves the flavour. And yes, it makes for a much more expensive product as we've not found a way to get the microbes to work faster.
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
If done right, it improves the flavour.
Taste is subjective. I like aged cheese, but it's not much of a stretch to imagine someone hating it.
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@Magus said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Taste is subjective.
Yes, but usually “improved taste/flavour” corresponds with increased complexity, with more different “notes” to the chemical mix, and that's measurably increased with aging. Happens with some other foods and drinks too; beef and wine are the examples I can think of off the top of my head (though the lengths of time are very different, and the processes occurring during the aging aren't the same either).
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@dkf I still remember a description i read of a particular cheese: "it tastes like a musty basement, but in a good way!"
As for these "notes", I'll believe my cheese has the flavors of a grassy field in spring, fresh berries, herbs, and a touch of lime when I taste it.
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@Magus said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
As for these "notes", I'll believe my cheese has the flavors of a grassy field in spring, fresh berries, herbs, and a touch of lime when I taste it.
I tend to prefer cheeses that smell almost like they've been rubbed around in the barnyard. They taste better than they smell…
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@dkf I have a pet theory that cheese is actually disgusting, but it's a highly addictive substance that is fed to children to enslave them to Big Dairy early in life. As someone who was allergic to cheese as a child, only I am free of the addiction and capable of tasting cheese as it truly is: just as bad as it smells.
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@Yamikuronue I sense an upcoming movie script.
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FW P - I couldn't wait until I got into the l got into the Lounge...and I can't keep up with the Rant threads.
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@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FW P - I couldn't wait until I got into the l got into the Lounge...and I can't keep up with the Rant threads.
It's been easy, just tackle one and skim through. Then eat the next bite, until you've eaten the elephant! Wait, what are we talking about? 🐘
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FW P - I couldn't wait until I got into the l got into the Lounge...and I can't keep up with the Rant threads.
It's been easy, just tackle one and skim through. Then eat the next bite, until you've eaten the elephant! Wait, what are we talking about? 🐘
I try to skim...then I lose track of something and have to go back to have it make sense...
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@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I lose track of something
Then you're Doing It Right. If a thread truly keeps the topic straight and narrow, it's not on TDWTF.
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FWP: I can't find left-handed toddler scissors (the ones with all plastic). We are pretty sure my daughter is left-handed at this point.
I'm left-handed and cannot cut with my left hand...which I now think because I learned to use scissors before I was ever exposed to left handed scissors.
I am triggered by our right-centric society.
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@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I can't find left-handed toddler scissors (the ones with all plastic). We are pretty sure my daughter is left-handed at this point.
I'm left-handed and cannot cut with my left hand...which I now think because I learned to use scissors before I was ever exposed to left handed scissors.
I am triggered by our
right-centricdextronormative society.FTFY
From a search just now I can't find any that have no metal at all - there's a few results for 'toddler scissors' with a recommended age of 3+ or thereabouts, but none that are entirely plastic.
I also found a bunch of people claiming that you shouldn't give your left-handed child left-handed tools because it's better for them to manage doing things with their less-dextrous hand than that - heaven forbid - they should need left-handed scissors in future. Grrr I want to bite people like that.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I can't find left-handed toddler scissors (the ones with all plastic). We are pretty sure my daughter is left-handed at this point.
I'm left-handed and cannot cut with my left hand...which I now think because I learned to use scissors before I was ever exposed to left handed scissors.
I am triggered by our
right-centricdextronormative society.FTFY
Thank you.
From a search just now I can't find any that have no metal at all - there's a few results for 'toddler scissors' with a recommended age of 3+ or thereabouts, but none that are entirely plastic.
I bought these...because I first bought the others and my husband told me about this kind (I didn't know either).
I also found a bunch of people claiming that you shouldn't give your left-handed child left-handed tools because it's better for them to manage doing things with their less-dextrous hand than that - heaven forbid - they should need left-handed scissors in future.
Since I cut right-handed...I can't freakin cut a straight line.
And even this place only has the kid ones, not toddler ones.
BUT there are actually left-handed knives...I think that explains why I am very awkward at cutting food with a knife.
Grrr I want to bite people like that.
Please do...but be careful...you don't want to catch anything.
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@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Be careful...you don't want to catch anything.
What about giving them rabies?
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Be careful...you don't want to catch anything.
What about giving them rabies?
Hmmm...that seems a little excessive...
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@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Be careful...you don't want to catch anything.
What about giving them rabies?
Hmmm...that seems a little excessive...
But I don't hate the idea...
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
cheese is actually disgusting, but it's a highly addictive substance
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@Jaloopa said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
cheese is actually disgusting, but it's a highly addictive substance