Hi.

Hi

@Yamikuronue Hey

Morning.

Hey

Well, the starter didn't rise until ~24h and smelled pretty weird. So I gave up on it early...

Guess I'll start a new one tonight.

@derobert You could always but a quality commercial starter. You have mentioned your Amazon habit before, and I cannot imagine they are terribly expensive :-)

Hah, probably could, but its easy enough to start a new one, and switch to twice-a-day feeding when I should.

Before it becomes a mother of vinegar.

You can program your raspberry pi to trigger solenoid to maintain the feeding schedule. you know you want to :-)

Or maybe an Arduino.

Hah, now there is a plan. But I suspect it'd take a lot of work...

I mean, you need to discard half, then add water (easy) and flour (a little harder)... Then mix.

You know you want to....

you could buy that Joe robot arm!

Not cheap anymore...

And what's a Joe Robot Arm?

engadget.com/2012/05/17/… ... that one?

@derobert You never give up, do you?

Robot arms are nice.

@Cerberus On tasty bread, at least :-P

Send me a loaf when/if it works.

Sour linked a video of the Joe robort arm making coffee with a Keurig from his trade show a day or two ago....

Hah.

JoeBot!

....why is every cheeseless lasagna recipe also meatless... and everyone goes "but it's not lasagna without cheese!"... You'd think a layered cassarole of meat, sauce, and flat noodles would be tasty enough on its own :/

I'm beginning to think cheese is an addictive substance most people are hooked on as small children

You never hear people rave about how they can't live without pasta, for example. Even people who will buy cheap wine happily will spend money on good cheese. It's weird.

pasta maybe, but bread? Or all wheat products? That would be horrible.

...apparently cheese actually does have morphins in it. examiner.com/article/…

so it IS addictive

I knew it!

Morphin power ranges? I never watched that.

Thanks sketchy random website!

'casomorphins' specifically

My husband suggests that since I'm the only one in the world not on this addictive painkiller, that's why my knees hurt so bad

I am sorry, that just doesn't have much credibility....

Nonsense! Random sketchy websites are the most credible of resources.

@Yamikuronue What was I thinking. Please check out the scientology site :-)

Aha! We should prepare a large supply of cheese, so that we can get the Thetans addicted to it, and then they'll stop causing harm and we'll have world peace!

@Yamikuronue I read a study that cheese was actually more addictive than cigarettes (due to the casomorphins!)

You know far too much for a sane person.

I never claimed to be sane :)

I was using it as a euphemism for "non cult member"

I also never technically claimed to be not a scientologist either

But in reality I just like scifi

So scary

That isn;t scifi. It is #^#^#%%

Well yes. But you get into scifi and then you see stuff by Hubbard and then you browse wikpedia and then you go "holy shit, wtf?" and then you grab some friends and have a good laugh... and then Tom Cruise

@Yamikuronue No, that never happened to me. Not once.

His name is attached to one of the more popular writing contests

Scientology: Not Even Once

@Yamikuronue sadness

If it fails as science fiction, why not make it a religion?

@sourd'oh Because it is the essence of failure in any endeavor domain?

@SAJ14SAJ I think not. It excels in the bull#@*!# domain.

@derobert Good point.

@SAJ14SAJ The chemist/pharmacist connection has driven me nuts for years! I have lots of old baking books that will call for getting all kinds of specialty ingredients "available from any pharmacist", but they're certainly not available at a pharmacy anymore!

@sourd'oh Yeah, I cannot imagine where that poster is from using the word chemist as if they are a retail service in 2013.

@SAJ14SAJ I was just assuming that the recipe is really old since her she said her father wrote it years ago, and her comment also says that 'chemists' no longer provide those services.

and I'm not sure what her father said that would be that antiquated?

Let us suppose she is 70, and her father had her at 30. He would still have been born in 1913, and not use the word chemist.

And yet she claims she makes this recipe, getting the ingredient from a chemist.

We either have very bad translation here, or a load of of cheap bologna.

Or she's British

and calls the pharmacist a chemist

I figured her saying that it wasn't as simple as popping into the chemist anymore meant that chemists didn't do that anymore

They didn't do that in our grandfather's time either.

I have candymaking books from the 30's that call for getting flavoring oils from the pharmacist

From what part of the world?

from the US

I have to believe you, but that sounds like a holdover from an earlier period. Like 1910 at the latest.

I've certainly never seen it, but I can vouch that it seems to be fairly common in old (but not that old) recipes

and I don't know about England, but I know in France, pharmacies tend to have a lot more herbal and homeopathic stuff, so maybe they're more likely to have tinctures and whatnot that can also be used for flavoring?

French people also like Jerry Lewis.

true

and actually, I just found this: foodsubs.com/Extracts.html

which also refers to getting flavoring oils from pharmacies. I wonder if it's something that used to be so common that the language has managed to hang on long after the practice ended?

This is the only vendor for this stuff I know of any more.

lorannoils.com

It never happened in my lifetime, so that covers the mid-70s on.

At least for years I would remember.

My grandmother got the essential oils in a specialty shop.

Yeah, I've always used Lorann and gotten it from baking/cake decorating supply places.

The little dry goods store in our local dutch market also seems to carry them in the cute little one dram bottles.

I was given a lot of "Projects for Kids" books when I was little by a great uncle, and it was very frustrating because so many of the instructions called for "glycerine, available from your pharmacist" or "balsa wood sheets, available at any five-and-dime", which did me absolutely no good as there was no current equivalent

I haven't seen a 5 and dime in, oh, 4 decades or so.

Yeah, they were gone before my time. There was a Woolworths in town when I was very young, but I think it closed before I was 10.

And those were the dinosaurs who refused to die. The "dollar store" is a poor replacement.

yeah, no comparison

being able to get clothing, medication, and parakeets in the same place was pretty exciting

Nanci Griffith, Love at the Five and Dime. One of her classics.

I don't have sound on my work computer, but I'm sure it's lovely :)

I don't really recall the parakeets.

I remember Woolworths always having a section of very run down small animals. Usually sick hamsters, weary parakeets, half-dead fish

Ah.

The section was really small, they may have only had one animal at a time.

in any case, my production day has ended. I bid you adieu...

Bon soir