The Cooking Thread
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername That pizza has at least four times more powder than I'd use.
It's actually quite interesting... my mouth doesn't really even burn all that much from it (although, like I said, it tastes nice); the spiciness is so intense, though, that it actually seems to begin to absorb and start percolating through my pores so that my face starts burning.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
percolating through my pores so that my face starts burning
That sounds like something I really want my pizza to do.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
That sounds like something I really want my pizza to do.
said @anotherusername unironically.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername That pizza has at least four times more powder than I'd use.
It's actually quite interesting... my mouth doesn't really even burn all that much from it (although, like I said, it tastes nice); the spiciness is so intense, though, that it actually seems to begin to absorb and start percolating through my pores so that my face starts burning.
You know, I think you're doing something wrong if your pizza does this:.
(Warning: rather graphic depiction of @anotherusername's pizza's effects)
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@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
You know, I think you're doing something wrong if your pizza does this:.
That depends if you want this effect to appear.
Burning skin after eating very spicy things is normal. I get it sometimes. Interestingly only with dry powder-like peppers, sauces, even strongest ones, don't have this effect.
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@MrL said in The Cooking Thread:
@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
You know, I think you're doing something wrong if your pizza does this:.
That depends if you want this effect to appear.
Burning skin after eating very spicy things is normal. I get it sometimes. Interestingly only with dry powder-like peppers, sauces, even strongest ones, don't have this effect.
There's some very weird physiological effects you can get with hot stuff, up to a heart attack. I've once been literally unable to see after eating 'insanity wings', not sure what chilli it was but I could only see smears of colour for a good few minutes. And the deeply weird feeling where you can feel the path the food is taking through your innards the day after eating really hot stuff. Not painful, just disconcerting.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Cooking Thread:
There's some very weird physiological effects you can get with hot stuff, up to a heart attack.
Not quite a heart attack.
Finally, at 2:30 a.m., I woke up and realized what many of you probably understood long ago: This was heartburn. Really, really, really, really, really bad heartburn—the kind whose symptoms are almost the same as a heart attack's—but just heartburn all along. What can I say? I'd never had heartburn before, so I didn't know what it was like.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Cooking Thread:
There's some very weird physiological effects you can get with hot stuff
The best one is when in answer to all the pain, brain starts to produce endorphins. You need quite hot stuff for this and there's no guarantee it will kick in, but when it does...
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@Cursorkeys said in The Cooking Thread:
@MrL said in The Cooking Thread:
@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
You know, I think you're doing something wrong if your pizza does this:.
That depends if you want this effect to appear.
Burning skin after eating very spicy things is normal. I get it sometimes. Interestingly only with dry powder-like peppers, sauces, even strongest ones, don't have this effect.
There's some very weird physiological effects you can get with hot stuff, up to a heart attack. I've once been literally unable to see after eating 'insanity wings', not sure what chilli it was but I could only see smears of colour for a good few minutes. And the deeply weird feeling where you can feel the path the food is taking through your innards the day after eating really hot stuff. Not painful, just disconcerting.
I've had a bite of a friend's order of suicide wings just say I did it. I lived.
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@Karla I'd try those.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla I'd try those.
From observation, you'd then go "Can I have the suicide ones? These are just the plain ones."
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@dcon I ... may have been cured of that. I've tried some "challenge" spicy wings. Ate three of them. Even kept them down for 4 or 5 hours.
I'd try them. If there are extracts involved, I make no promises beyond that.
In hindsight, I probably should've just gotten most of the meat off each wing and called it good, but I was trying to pick them clean.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
but I was trying to pick them clean.
How else do you eat wings?
After a pokemon event, a bunch of us had pizza and wings. My Chinese friend saw my leftover bones and told me I eat wings like an Asian. I said, I thought I eat them
like black people.I make fun of my husband and big kids all the time for not eating all of the wing.
ETA: The black people was because I was scolded by black people for not knowing how to eat wings.
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@Karla I occasionally get wings at home. My cats always dig the bones out of the trash to clean them better, though I think they are after the marrow as well.
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla I'd try those.
From observation, you'd then go "Can I have the suicide ones? These are just the plain ones."
From observation, he'd probably also chug pureed Carolina Reapers.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla I occasionally get wings at home. My cats always dig the bones out of the trash to clean them better, though I think they are after the marrow as well.
You should not give cats chicken bones. They can splinter in their digestive tract.
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@Karla Not cooked ones at any rate - as I understand raw ones are fine.
I do put them in the trash. Same trash can I empty the litterbox in. But they still dig the bones out.
In 3 months I'm getting my new kitchen, with trash disposal hidden in a cupboard. That should keep the buggers out of the trash.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
In 3 months I'm getting my new kitchen, with trash disposal hidden in a cupboard. That should keep the buggers out of the trash.
I did the same thing to keep me from killing the dogs when they get in the trash. They ended up figuring out how to open the trash slider. Now I have installed a child lock. If they figure that one out I am going to electrify the goddamn thing.
The real problem is that when we are gone they have all day to figure out ways to piss me off.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla Not cooked ones at any rate - as I understand raw ones are fine.
Hmm, I've never heard that. Though I'm pretty sure I just remember the warning as a kid so it may have been broader than necessary and I would have rarely dealt with raw chicken bones.
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@Karla Once the bones are cooked enough to get the meat off easily, they're probably too cooked for the cat.
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@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
but I was trying to pick them clean.
How else do you eat wings?
After a pokemon event, a bunch of us had pizza and wings. My Chinese friend saw my leftover bones and told me I eat wings like an Asian. I said, I thought I eat them black people.
I make fun of my husband and big kids all the time for not eating all of the wing.
Seems particularly true when people are trying to get through some hot wings as quickly as they can. Two or three bites and they call it done.
Even if I did that, I'd pick the meat later, and/or boil the bones to get whatever meat and flavor was left in a broth.
@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
From observation, he'd probably also chug pureed Carolina Reapers.
For reasonably small amounts, sure... where reasonably small amounts means no more than 3 peppers worth.
I've eaten a Carolina Reaper without problems, but I wouldn't want to go much beyond 3 of them at once. Not until I've done it once to see how well it goes, anyway...
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
I've eaten a Carolina Reaper
Hey everyone, I found this NSFL image of @anotherusername's butthole!
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@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
but I was trying to pick them clean.
How else do you eat wings?
After a pokemon event, a bunch of us had pizza and wings. My Chinese friend saw my leftover bones and told me I eat wings like an Asian. I said, I thought I eat them black people.
I make fun of my husband and big kids all the time for not eating all of the wing.
- Insert wing into mouth.
- Remove wing, stripping meat.
- Go back and get the left over cartilage, etc.
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Nothing fancy (or even requiring much effort) today, but since I took today off for my birthday I'm planning on making myself some chocolate pudding pie.
Then maybe another batch of cookies, since I still need to wait for the bananas to get over-ripe again for the next round of banana bread.
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@e4tmyl33t happy birthday!
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
but I was trying to pick them clean.
How else do you eat wings?
After a pokemon event, a bunch of us had pizza and wings. My Chinese friend saw my leftover bones and told me I eat wings like an Asian. I said, I thought I eat them black people.
I make fun of my husband and big kids all the time for not eating all of the wing.
- Insert wing into mouth.
- Remove wing, stripping meat.
- Go back and get the left over cartilage, etc.
Exactly.
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@e4tmyl33t Pudding is whipped and pie crusts filled and shoved in the fridge to chill.
I had 4 small boxes of Jello chocolate pudding, one smaller (6oz) Oreo pie crust, and one larger (9oz) graham cracker pie crust.
Apparently I lucked out and this all evened out perfectly to fill both pie crusts
I'll probably start on the smaller one first and maybe take the larger one to the family gathering thing this Sunday. Or I'll just give myself diabeetus and eat both pies over the course of the weekend.
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@e4tmyl33t A trick I saw for banana bread with unripe bananas--
Mash the bananas with the eggs you'll use for the recipe then wait about 10 minutes. There's an enzyme in the egg yolk that breaks down the starches into sugars just nicely without the chance of off flavors from too-ripe/rotten bananas.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
I still need to wait for the bananas to get over-ripe again for the next round of banana bread.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t A trick I saw for banana bread with unripe bananas--
Mash the bananas with the eggs you'll use for the recipe then wait about 10 minutes. There's an enzyme in the egg yolk that breaks down the starches into sugars just nicely without the chance of off flavors from too-ripe/rotten bananas.
Freezing them and then thawing them back out also accelerates this process.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
I still need to wait for the bananas to get over-ripe again for the next round of banana bread.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t A trick I saw for banana bread with unripe bananas--
Mash the bananas with the eggs you'll use for the recipe then wait about 10 minutes. There's an enzyme in the egg yolk that breaks down the starches into sugars just nicely without the chance of off flavors from too-ripe/rotten bananas.
Freezing them and then thawing them back out also accelerates this process.
But that also changes the texture and takes a long time. Since you're adding the eggs anyway, all this way costs is
1030 minutes of resting time.
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
unripe bananas
I misread this as urine bananas.
I know they have some exotic habits in China but this is definitely in "Do Not Want" territory.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
But that also changes the texture
No more than ripening does (or, for that matter, cooking them). They're supposed to be soft and mushy for banana bread.
It's especially helpful if you're planning on freezing them anyway. If you were waiting until they're over-ripe before freezing them (and risking forgetting about them and having them spoil), there's no need. The freezer will do the ripening for you, and they'll be perfectly soft and mushy and just right for banana bread once they're thawed back out.
Also, you don't have to peel them in advance. Just freeze them in the peel.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t A trick I saw for banana bread with unripe bananas--
Mash the bananas with the eggs you'll use for the recipe then wait about 10 minutes. There's an enzyme in the egg yolk that breaks down the starches into sugars just nicely without the chance of off flavors from too-ripe/rotten bananas.
Freeze them and let them thaw. It does similar things and breaks down the cell walls to extract flavor.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
I still need to wait for the bananas to get over-ripe again for the next round of banana bread.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t A trick I saw for banana bread with unripe bananas--
Mash the bananas with the eggs you'll use for the recipe then wait about 10 minutes. There's an enzyme in the egg yolk that breaks down the starches into sugars just nicely without the chance of off flavors from too-ripe/rotten bananas.
Freezing them and then thawing them back out also accelerates this process.
You da man.
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
Also, you don't have to peel them in advance. Just freeze them in the peel.
Once they thaw just snip the end and squeeze them out like toothpaste. I usually put them in a sieve for a few minutes to drain off the banana liquid and then subtract that from any water in the recipe (actually, just put it in a measuring cup and top off to your water measurement) to keep all the measurements correct.
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@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
You should not give cats chicken bones. They can splinter in their digestive tract.
That warning applies mostly to the ribcage. The long bones in the limbs are less of a problem, as that's where the bird has its bone marrow.
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@dkf Generally anything an animal would go after in the wild is pretty safe, as them going after things they can't digest is evolutionarily counterproductive.
Of course, chickens are too big for a cat to go after alone, and cats don't hunt in groups. However, if I take as guidance what my brother's cats leave behind if they caught a pigeon, the parts of a bird you shouldn't feed a cat consists of most of the feathers.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
Generally anything an animal would go after in the wild is pretty safe, as them going after things they can't digest is evolutionarily counterproductive.
Cats don't eat cooked bones in the wild very often.
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@dkf Indeed, that's why the statement it's cooked bones specifically rings true to me.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf Indeed, that's why the statement it's cooked bones specifically rings true to me.
For dogs it's cooked chicken bones you can't feed them. Raw chicken bones are fine.
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I had almost a whole jar of sauce left that I had opened to make pizza, so I added a pound of ground beef, two cloves of garlic, some black olives, parmesan and mozzarella, 4 teaspoons of Carolina Reaper powder, some crushed red pepper, and some Italian seasoning. Then I cooked up a pound of spaghetti.
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I just went full @anotherusername and put several times more Carolina Reaper powder on my food than I'd previously dared. And I'm pleasantly surprised. It's actually enough to taste now, and it has a really nice, fruity flavor.
But I've definitely trashed the spice receptors on my tongue. It raises my body temperature a few degrees, I start sweating like crazy, and my nose runs...but there's actually not that much of a burning sensation in my mouth and throat.
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
I just went full @anotherusername and put several times more Carolina Reaper powder on my food than I'd previously dared. And I'm pleasantly surprised. It's actually enough to taste now, and it has a really nice, fruity flavor.
But I've definitely trashed the spice receptors on my tongue. It raises my body temperature a few degrees, I start sweating like crazy, and my nose runs...but there's actually not that much of a burning sensation in my mouth and throat.
I have a very important medical question. Is there such thing as an anus transplant? I think I need an anus transplant.
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@mott555 Why? It sounds like you're well on your way to trashing the spice receptors on the one you've already got.
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@brie I'm not sure it's there anymore. Ever tried to use a plastic funnel to pour molten steel?
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
But I've definitely trashed the spice receptors on my tongue. It raises my body temperature a few degrees, I start sweating like crazy, and my nose runs...but there's actually not that much of a burning sensation in my mouth and throat.
IOW, it was really good
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@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
I had almost a whole jar of sauce left that I had opened to make pizza, so I added a pound of ground beef, two cloves of garlic, some black olives, parmesan and mozzarella, 4 teaspoons of Carolina Reaper powder, some crushed red pepper, and some Italian seasoning. Then I cooked up a pound of spaghetti.
I had leftover this for lunch today, but I added a few more shakes of reaper because I wanted it to be spicy.