banneryear1868 @ banneryear1868 @lemmy.world

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Was gonna throw Dominique Ansel's crepe process up, it's what I use now. Grew up making crepes this way with my Mennonite grandma (minus the pan caramel), but the way he mixes the dough is a lot smarter to not have any lumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epp31hF1ekY (short)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5h7blIHQ_8 (long)

Yup I can't find anything in the stores that compares and I don't mind making them. Really only do this in the summer when there's some garden ingredients though, with a ground meat or bean sauce for protein.

I grew up making crepes, or whatever the Mennonite equivalent is, and it's one of the easiest things in the world to me. I have a ziplock full of crepes in my freezer right now.

Cottage cheese and bessensap crepes <3

Kenji is king <3

Store bought laminated dough is perfectly fine and freezes well. I don't mind making it because I find it's just a few minutes every so often, but I was lucky enough to learn the technique such that I don't have to think about it. Use case for making your own is you can use a specific flour or butter and fresh baked pastry is the best.

I just don't get enough scraps for how much I cook with stock. I'll have a couple ziplocks of bones and veg and roast them, then boil, deglaze the roasting pans into the pot, boil, boil, reduce, reduce... great now I can make... a few servings of soup, a cup of concentrate for sauces.

My broth/stock hack is to just get a bulk canister of dehydrated stock powder marketed to restaurants, you can find perfectly acceptable quality-wise for any use at home and its consistent. I do save things for making soups but come on... you're not gonna get a quantity that's worth all the effort if you're just going through the food you'd eat at home. These ingredients how they're used today were basically invented through restaurant processes where you have large quantities of ingredients and importantly, meat scraps like trimmings bones and carcasses coming through daily on a predictable schedule.

Yup the city near me is known for it's sub shops, an old steel town which makes sense, just can't beat the options they have for the price.

I'd rather make Kenji's crispy potatoes instead now. You add baking soda and boil potatoes for 10 mins, it get the outside super mushy, you toss in a bowl with oil and they get covered in this potato paste, then oven high heat until cwispy.

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cinnamon-date-sticky-buns

These are great, done them about 10 times now, realized I didn't hate making cinnamon buns I just hated the recipes. I dunno what it is with the standard "just like grandma's" cinnamon bun recipes but it seems like an excuse for making it overly complicated.

This is like a lot of pastry that uses laminated dough, having them fresh out of the oven as intended is completely different than supermarket. I dunno what process you were using but there's some easier ones and I find they all freeze incredibly well. Once I froze a few full muffin trays of kouign amann to bring somewhere and popped them in an oven, turned out perfect.

I really enjoy making laminated dough and find it's just a bit of work here and there but never a lot at once. Similar to bread baking.

A lot of French cuisine. Not talking about laminated dough here which I've done many times. More so the complete modern French meal involving multiple reductions and real demiglace and all the techniques that seem to require a full restaurant process. It's the one style of food I will go to a restaurant and happily pay for once in a while, I understand why it's expensive to make and respect the skill it takes.

The other style I food I do this with is the very opposite, shitty fast food I can't make at home.

His whole schtik is raging at stuff and people reacting to it, just hard to believe it's still working like this and how seriously people take his ramblings.

For all the informed technical analysis and debates about this, the vast majority of consumers don't care about any of this stuff, and they're the ones who will decide this "year of the whatever." The worse option technically speaking has won out many times in the past.

Yeah I haven't watched a show in so long. There's some I know I'd like but don't care enough to get engaged, it's the same with a lot of movies. I find the way a lot of characters are portrayed I have no connection with and feel like I'm watching these weird uncanny valley versions of people.

Have a prednisone horror story as well, couldn't taper off without severe withdrawal and it led to me needing emergency surgery after an ulcer rupture, which led to my resections and eventual clinical remission. Did they actually test you for antibodies against infliximab or is that just a general safety precaution they're following? I was off it for a couple months because of coverage issues but they had no problem starting me on it again and following normal infusion protocols. I think I've been on it for 15 years now. My GI specialist was one of the first in the area to start with the "top-down" approach for treatment around when I had my surgeries. Etrolizumab looked promising but the Phase III failed to deliver unfortunately, was hoping for that one if I had issues with infliximab.

I don't believe scientific progress is analogous with human progress or can be used to "decode" morality, ie the science vs religion dichotomy I don't believe in. I don't think science or "reason" guides human societies for instance. This belief is a result of studying Hume and moral philosophy. I think science tells us what is but not what ought to be, and that gap is irreconcilable through science alone, yet it can inform our sense of right and wrong. I disagree with objective morality as well, so the popularization of this science=objective morality idea that Sam Harris has attempted I disagree with entirely. I'm much more aligned with Patricia Churchland's ideas here, and her popularization she outlines in her book "Braintrust." I don't think, as some do, that measuring brain activity decodes human morality, because I don't believe such a thing exists. I don't believe human society is controlled and determined by rational actors, I have a more Darwinian and Maxian view on that. When people profess things like "politics should be scientific" I likely agree with their sentiment but I think "science" is not the reason why, and more of a distraction/lazy way to assert being morally right about something, which science can't actually do because it requires an appeal to human notions of morality, which science cannot determine as it has no measure of which values we ought to hold.

Pretty sure these uses are snake oil, where it does have use is blocking male phenotype expression in flowering plants. I use it to make feminized cannabis seed.

Silver nitrate is used medically as a cauterizing agent for wounds. Had to apply this when an inch deep 2 inch diameter abdominal wound healed to surface level after packing and changing gauze on it for 3 months, else it would have kept "healing" itself outward.

They can't work immediately because the body isn't producing enough serotonin to have an immediate effect, nor would you want that. Over time serotonin reuptake is slowed and eventually this has a cognitive effect. That doesn't help everyone but that doesn't make them ineffective.