The Cooking Thread
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@boomzilla Gordon Ramsay is not convinced:
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@JBert it could work. It's basically a double sided broiler oriented vertically. Since an oven broiler is really nothing more than an upside down indoor grill it could possibly work. Of course you would need either a really thin cut of meat or you would need to sous vide the steak first. You would also ruin the toaster and run a high chance of catching your house on fire.
Basically:
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
You would also ruin the toaster and run a high chance of catching your house on fire.
Win win!
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
You would also ruin the toaster and run a high chance of catching your house on fire.
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@Zerosquare I would especially approve of it if that happened to the guy who took a year and a half to learn what a lease is.
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Best before: see the date indicated on the pack.
The only marking of any kind on the package itself is
122 88 222:28
Is there a date in that sequence of numbers? I could plausibly believe an expiration date of 12/28[/2022] based on how long it's been in my pantry, but it was imported from a country that doesn't use mm/dd format, and even if so, what is the "8 2"? I suppose I can be confident that it expires (or expired) at 10:28 PM of whatever day it expires/expired, but in what time zone?
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@HardwareGeek It looks like a production batch number. Hence, while it probably maps to a specific date via some unknown algorithm, it likely also encodes other information such as the production line (if there are multiple).
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Or whoever wrote the code that handles the printing wrote the time/date functions from scratch, and didn't test it enough.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
It looks like a production batch number.
Yes, almost certainly. However, that does not constitute a "date indicated on the pack" in any way that is useful to the consumer in determining the date by which it should be eaten.
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(Two ingredients! No, not a joke)
- 2 Cups Ice Cream, any flavor, softened
- 1 1/2 cups Self-Rising Flour
Sadly, I can't have either of them.
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@boomzilla pffffffbt. That is amateur hour for shitty white trash food imagined at the end of a meth bender and made from the last technically edible ingredients left in the house.
The originator of that recipe needs some work on their naming skills. It might taste amazing but the name makes me assume that it tastes like shit.
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@Polygeekery dump cakes are classic camping food.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla pffffffbt. That is amateur hour for shitty white trash food imagined at the end of a meth bender and made from the last technically edible ingredients left in the house.
The originator of that recipe needs some work on their naming skills. It might taste amazing but the name makes me assume that it tastes like shit.
It's just the ideal cake for Taco Bell.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery dump cakes are classic camping food.
Fair. I can respect Boy Scouts totally being all in favor of poop jokes and eating something with a scatological name.
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Found an apron I want:
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@boomzilla my 7 year old told me that it would be better if it said, "Your opinion wasn't part of the menu."
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. That's the most French thing I've heard around my house for a while.
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@Polygeekery I think I like "recipe" better but I wouldn't turn down his version either.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla my 7 year old told me that it would be better if it said, "Your opinion wasn't part of the menu."
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. That's the most French thing I've heard around my house for a while.
I think it's a shame. Learning a language is so much easier for children, you should at least give them a chance to learn a bit of everything.
Just the most useful words would be a good start, like merde or kurwa.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery I think I like "recipe" better but I wouldn't
tburn down his version either.
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Today I casually told someone what edible sausage skins are made out of.
They immediately swore off sausages for the rest of their life.
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He has my vote and I don't even know what he's running for:
He's not running for anything, but I would still vote for him. That's a hell of a campaign promise.
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@boomzilla was the reporter Irish?
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@boomzilla Well, almost.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla Well, almost.
akbar
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Greatest is obviously Admiral-Ackbar.
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Does anyone have a relatively straigtforward suggestion for barbecue veggies?
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@PleegWat what sort of veggies? By
@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
barbecue
Do you mean actually barbecued, or just grilled? I have lots of recipes that might work, we just need to narrow it down a fair bit.
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@PleegWat Don't.
(I'm sure @Polygeekery does, but at this time of day he's probably browsing his Twitter feed of female of questionable moral fiber)
E: Goddammit
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
Does anyone have a relatively straigtforward suggestion for barbecue veggies?
Veggies to go with your BBQ or veggies to be BBQ'ed?
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
actually barbecued
For actual barbecued veggies it is hard to go wrong with barbecued cabbage:
Man, I really need to make that again.
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@PleegWat grilled asparagus is good and easy. Toss in some olive oil, salt and pepper, put on a hot grill for a few minutes (turning to get all sides cooked).
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@PleegWat what sort of veggies? By
@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
barbecue
Do you mean actually barbecued, or just grilled? I have lots of recipes that might work, we just need to narrow it down a fair bit.
Simple gas grill, since we're on vacation. We tried grilling eggplant and weren't fond of the result. Previous years we overdid hyper-simple salads.
I got a tray to bake in and we had fried veggies a few times - onion, paprika, courgette, with bacon bits and herbes de provence. But we're looking for some variety and I figured I'd try here.
Today we did stuffed paprika (with minced meat and onions).
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I second and the grilled asparagus,truly delicious. You can do green beans the same way.
Good base:
I usually add at least bell peppers and garlic, but you can add just about anything.
Key thing is that the foil has to be closed tightly so the steam can't escape.
I know you said vegetables but this is also delicious:
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
Simple gas grill, since we're on vacation.
Hobo packets. You can cook basically any veggie that you want and everyone gets to make their own thing.
If you go to a store you may be able to find disposable grill liner things like this:
At that point the sky is the limit, but yeah eggplant is pretty shit to grill.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
eggplant is pretty shit
to grill.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
eggplant is pretty shit
to grill.It's pretty good when it's in moussaka...
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
eggplant is pretty shit
to grill.It's pretty good when it's in moussaka...
Also Baba Gahnoush, or if you're feeling adventurous it is amazing when served as Tortang Talong. If you ever find that on a menu, order it. But you won't, because it is way too obscure, but very tasty, so it should be on menus.
Seriously, it is so obscure that I had to look it up and it took several tries. The start of the recipe also involves grilling so it fits the question. Sort of. Almost. But not quite.
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Researching it further I think that what I had would be more correctly named "Rellenong Talong", but sources vary.
The moral of the story is that if you ever get the chance to date a woman that is legitimately from the Philippines and knows how to make traditional Filipino cuisine, do it. Same goes for Thailand and Thai cuisine. If you like spicy food go to a legitimate Thai restaurant and order your food "Thai hot". It might not be on the menu but they should know how to make it. It is an order of magnitude greater than ordering just "Hot" from a Thai menu.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
go to a legitimate Thai restaurant and order your food "Thai hot".
Many years ago, I used to be part of a group of foodies. There was a friend of a friend for whom even "Thai hot" wasn't hot enough, because restaurants would assume westerners didn't really know what they were asking for and mellow it a bit. He used to carry a small card, business card size, with him that he'd show when he went to Thai restaurants. The card had the following words written in Thai:
I want my Thai food HOT, damnit!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
restaurants would assume westerners didn't really know what they were asking for and mellow it a bit.
Maybe another benefit of living in the Midwest is that around here if you ask for "Thai hot" they either assume that you know what you're talking about or take it as a dare? Either way I've had people take a bite of the food I've ordered and look like they've just been tear gassed. Good times. Secondary benefit is that when I have leftovers my wife won't touch them.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
restaurants would assume westerners didn't really know what they were asking for and mellow it a bit.
Maybe another benefit of living in the Midwest is that around here if you ask for "Thai hot" they either assume that you know what you're talking about or take it as a dare? Either way I've had people take a bite of the food I've ordered and look like they've just been tear gassed. Good times. Secondary benefit is that when I have leftovers my wife won't touch them.
Yesterday my wife was commenting to someone that if anyone in our family ever gets pepper sprayed, we'll shrug it off. I like to cook with roasted ghost pepper powder and occasionally it gets aerosolized.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Maybe another benefit of living in the Midwest
OTOH, the worst Chinese food I've ever had was in the Midwest — well, Midwest-adjacent, a little south of the Ohio River. The kung pao chicken contained peanuts; otherwise, I wouldn't have known it was supposed to be kung pao — zero heat, and the only flavor was soy sauce.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
eggplant is pretty shit to grill
It's good brushed with some olive oil, with slices of tomato and cheddar cheese on top. And plenty of freshly-ground black pepper. (It's based on Venetian recipe according to my parents.) But maybe that's more for when you're grilling with heat from above than below?
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@HardwareGeek in the Midwest there are really only two grades of Chinese food. It will either be spectacular or spectacularly bad. There is no in between. Most of it tends towards the latter. Most Chinese takeout in the Midwest is rubbish. It's all the same shit ordered from GFS and cooked ahead of time instead of fresh to order.
As a general rule if you walk into a Chinese takeout place here in the Midwest and they have the same packets of soy sauce and such from GFS you can leave and go elsewhere.
On the perimeter of the major shopping area in our metro area there is a strip mall with three restaurants. Hooters, the best sushi restaurant in the city and there also used to be the best Chinese food in our city. So you had shitty hot wings flanked on each side by the best Asian food in the city. I found that amusing.
The sushi restaurant also used to have this American guy that worked there who spoke fluent Japanese and prepared sushi. He was also about 6'8" tall (about 47 meters for you metric types) and the contrast of him working with all these tiny Japanese people also amused me.