Seeing that it is a good way to be waken up by the song (I agree with that)

My first thought was that she hopefully didn't miss her chance to awake before the song ended

Before I realized that a) she doesn't want to be awake in the middle of the night and b) she doesn't share my enthusiasm for metal

Ah chat is back :)

I'm close to 3k again btw.

Should it be possible to merge all egg-substitution questions?

congrats

Eggs don't have that many purposes.

Close, not over it.

I wouldn't do it

Eggs in a pancake act differently than eggs in a cake

Eggs don't have many purposes? They are one of the most versatile ingredients I know

I would say, binding, lifting, moisturing.

Not sure what else.

But I'm not thinking hard.

Emusifying. Providing taste. Creating a foam. Giving a smooth feel to custards and bread doughs. Drying doughs (if whole eggs used). The question is rather, what can't do with an egg.

Lol I had a profile visitor who answered 1030 questions, but only 6 of them publicly.

One of the six is: When replacing the toilet paper in the bathroom, does the new roll go with the end over the top, down behind, or?

You mean on OKC?

Yes.

I didn't have a visitor at home who answers 1030 questions :)

It's a very important question.

It gets on my nerves if the paper is faced towards the wall.

@Mien so, where do you place your roll's end?

@Mien OK, good to know.

I place it facing the room too, but I wouldn't ditch a potential boyfriend over such a matter. I would rather see if he thinks that cheating is wrong, and similar questions.

What about yours?

Chat is a bit lagging.

Really, if this time I get a bf who actually changes the TP, i'll be already very happy, no matter how he places it.

@rumtscho Well, there are extremes I guess.

I'm off to bed. I'll watch the rest of the movie later.

Night.

So i had about 5 pounds of stew meat... and I made soooo much beef stew. I'm in heaven right now. :) My roommates are so lucky to have me :)

lol

@Jay sounds good

@SamLey feel free to stop in chat so we can discuss

@rumtscho - I rushed the bread, so I didn't get great hole structure, but its pretty tasty still

My pans really do get hot...

Yum, I really want some home-made bread.

And I had a weird - but cool - dream.

First, my cat ate only money.

Second, I was like a cave woman, surrounded by other cave men.

We couldn't speak, we hadn't language.

But there were like a form of nazis.

I protected my bf and they shot me, once in the chest en two times in the neck.

Cowards.

@Mien sounds like an exciting dream. I already forgot what I dreamed :( can't have been interesting.

@rfusca Is that a sourdough bread? Or do you get this color and structure from partically-whole flour and yeast?

@rumtscho It was rice flour.

For a part at least.

@Mien no, he used the rice flour on the surface, so it won't stick to the basket

But the dough is made with some other kind of flour

Oh I see.

I didn't read the 'non-stick' part well enough.

Score! Thanks StackExchange!

@rumtscho- your fish comment may be my favorite star ever. It has the perfect blend of sense and ridiculousness.

@Sobachatina Thank you. That's the mix I strive for with everything I say, but I seldom hit the jackpot.

@ElendilTheTall Congratulations!

Nice @ElendilTheTall

I'm jealous :(

I've got a contest question!

I hope my tags now are allowed ;)

You can't say I don't try.

Some goes for you, @rumtscho :)

The baking book is awesome. I haven't even looked at Heston's yet. Itching to make some bread. Of course I have no yeast in the house <facepalm>

@ElendilTheTall That book is next on my list to get as well.

How high is the level of that book?

The results look amazing, but the instructions are so clear and well explained, and there are so many photographs, that I think anyone would be able to work with it

The Heston book is very nice. It has perhaps man's greatest invention - the integral cloth bookmark.

@ElendilTheTall What does this mean?

@Sobachatina what does what mean?

Yes! found some yeast

"integral cloth bookmark"

<dances with excitement>

a cloth bookmark integrated into the structure of the book

Ummm. Blumenthal invented this?

No, I didn't say that. I just said the book has one :)

The recipes look good and the photography is first class - just flicked through so far.

Oh yes- I thought you said "the man's" not just "man's". Reading comprehension ftw.

The Armstrong Effect

@ElendilTheTall When certain combinations of words make you feel like an astronaut? Or make you have an irresistible urge to win the tour de france?

You forgot Louis Armstrong.

@Mien Oh! How foolish of me! I am filled with shame.

You should :D

Makes you see trees of green and red roses too?

What a wonderful view.

It's stuck in my head now, thank you very much.

:)

@Mien Shouldn't HE be protecting YOU?

@Jay It's a dream....

There is no need to protect me if they are aiming their guns at him ;)

@Mien Dreams are your subconscious, obviously you feel like you need to protect your bf from something

@rumtscho its sourdough and its a half white wheat and half unbleached AP

@ElendilTheTall I didn't like what they did in post - oftentimes his skin is flushed reddish, I would have removed that. But yes, the bread looks mouthwatering everywhere. The whole book layout is great, not only the photography.

thats where the color comes from

the structure isn't real great, because it was a sourdough from a cold starter and I did it all in about 3 hours

its not bad by any stretch, it'll be great for sandwichs

The color comes from unbleached AP?

In the EU, bleached flour is forbidden

and from white wheat

they both have a bit of a golden hue

But our bread is usually not so dark when made with AP wheat flour.

The colour of yours looks like half-rye bread.

@Jay That's BS.

@rumtscho there a touch, just a touch of rye in it from the starter

I would consider watching a movie called "A touch of rye" But only on a date with my wife.

the color is really mostly from the white wheat

but thats not really dark bread to me

most loaves are much darker

@Mien BS that dreams mean anything or BS that you need to protect your boyfriend. lol

@Jay Both.

@Mien okie dokes

Hey folks, somebody's made a whole assload of suggested edits to titles, changing phrasing like "How to measure food acidity?" to "How is food acidity measured?" I'm about to reject all of these but I thought I'd ask if anybody here thinks they're useful/valid.

(I'm normally a stickler for grammar but that seems just a little too much on the anal-retentive side to bump 11 questions at once.)

@Aaronut Definitely agree

Is it the same user who edited "How to make congee?"?

We had a small discussion about it yesterday. I think the edit passed, but 11 other questions is a bit much.

Glad I'm not a mod :)

@Mien Actually it's not just mods who review/accept/reject suggested edits, we just happen to have binding votes.

@Mien I think it is the same, yes.

Where is the discussion?

I was against the edit yesterday, but I think I was the only one.

I found it.

Can you see it that way?

Oh, I'm too late.

Seems almost everybody wanted to accept the edits. That makes since with one or two, but this seems obnoxious, it's like he did a search for every question with the words "how to" and is editing the title of every single one of them.

The titles are the only thing he edits? In my opinion, it's not worth it.

I think some people do that to make quick rep. Which is kinda of stupid.

However, good grammar etc. gives a better 'look' to the site. Perhaps we should make the newer questions grammatically correct, but leave the older ones as they are.

@Jay You could think that, but 2 points of rep isn't what I would consider a quick way.

There's also the small matter of "How to measure food acidity?" not having quite the same meaning as "How is food acidity measured?", no matter how grammatically incorrect the first phrasing is.

@Mien I agree, if its a new question its already near the top so editing it wont really bump it

@Aaronut Yes, I think I mentioned something similar yesterday (Althoug I'm not 100% sure my interpretation was correct).

"How to measure food acidity" means "How can I measure food acidity" whereas "How is food acidity measured" means "How do other people measure food acidity". The former wording implies a request for any and all available techniques, whereas the latter implies some kind of standard.

@Mien It isn't but when someone doesn't have any good answer/question at the time and want rep, make mass edits will get you some. But hey i'm against doing something silly like that.

I think the wrongly stated titles are clear enough to know what the question is about. And I think that's the most important thing.

@Aaronut That is true but generally the body of the question will clarify that and its so subtle most people who don't think about it wouldn't notice

@Jay Yes, but in this case he would have earned 24 rep... Still not a high rep user ;)

I think the edits are slightly better but not worth bumping 10 posts.

I think that's actually the more important issue here; the correct rewording of "How to measure food acidity?" would be any of: "How can I measure food acidity?", "How would one measure food acidity?", or "What are the methods of measuring food acidity?", etc., but not "how is food acidity measured", that's actually not the same thing.

@Mien lol well when I first joined and had 1 rep, I was happy getting any amount of rep i can scrounge ;)

@Aaronut Good point.

@Aaronut I already thought of making a meta question about it

@Jay I'm afraid I have to admit... me too :p

I accepted the two edits yesterday after the people here said that it is better English, and I was aware of the difference, but the answers (at least for the two q's yesterday) fit both wordings

@Aaronut I agree with what you are saying but the difference is very slight.

But the eleven edits today seemed like too much at once for such a small matter.

@Sobachatina If that's true then the edits are too minor by definition.

Either the difference is significant enough that the meaning is being changed, or they're not significant enough to matter at all.

That's not quite what I was saying.

shrug I'm making a judgment call and rejecting them. You guys want to take me to task on meta, go ahead, but there's no way I'm accepting 11 title-only edits that aren't even the most appropriate choice of words.

I think "How to measure food acidity?" is not a complete sentence. I think either your proposed edit or his are improvements- either way I think the change is too minor to warrant 10 bumps.

@Sobachatina Well, I guess we agree on the outcome, just not the rationale.

@Aaronut I'm not sure myself which is the more appropriate thing to do, I was quite unsure even about accepting the two edits yesterday - so I won't start a big discussion about your rejection.

@Aaronut And that's what really matters. :)

@Sobachatina Is it?

Very Machiavellian of us.

wants to fight ;)

@Mien Do you respect me?

@rumtscho Why do you ask?

I maintain that How is X made/done? is interpreted as What is the standard/commercial method for making/doing X?, whereas How to make/do X? has a subtext of Is it possible to make/do X, and if so, what is the best way for someone without any prior knowledge or experience to do it?

My answer shall depend on your reasoning.

@Mien To start a fight, of course

The answer to how is sausage made? is not even close to the answer to how can I make sausage at home?.

Ah cool, in that case, I don't.

@Aaronut I agree completely but I think in most cases the answers will be the same.

@Sobachatina Sure, but you must admit that there will be some exceptions.

@Aaronut Perhaps you should consider a higher quality brand of sausage. :)

@Sobachatina Sure, they probably will. In an ideal world in which our site has tons of professionals, we would have two versions of the question, one for homemade and one for food-service.

@Sobachatina I too think that the answers won't respect the difference, they don't do it in the questions we have until now.

Let us not judge the quality or meaning of questions based on how they're answered - that way lies madness.

This is not something that I care strongly about. I don't think people would be confused by the question with either wording.

@Mien is this not a usual phrase in Belgium?

In both Bulgaria and Russia (and I suspect other Eastern European countries), if a drunk man wants to pick a fight, he starts asking other men "Do you respect me?"

If his buddies are in a good mood and don't want a fight, they say "of course I do", and calm him down, and nothing happens

I met a lot of drunks, of course, but I only had one pick a fight with me.

He put his hand in his shirt with the index finger extended and told me it was a knife.

@Sobachatina Did you fight him?