The Frying Pan

6:57 AM

@Jolenealaska in your reply to cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/79440/… you say 62c is overcooked for you. So just wondering what temperature you do cook or dont consider it to be overcooked at?

Jolenealaska

8:04 AM

@JamesWilson I don't know, exactly, I never use a thermometer for fish. I like fish to still have some translucency at the center.

ElendilTheTall

9:23 AM

o/

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall \o

ElendilTheTall

hi @cindy

how goes it

Cindy

9:46 AM

@ElendilTheTall Good. Starting out a little tired, but otherwise okay. How about you?

ElendilTheTall

much the same as always

Cindy

One of us needs to win a huge lottery prize. ;)

ElendilTheTall

too fkn right

Cindy

:)

I may actually buy a ticket while I'm out today.

ElendilTheTall

got to be in it to win it

as they say

here

Cindy

10:01 AM

Here, too. Don't know what the current jackpots are but I wouldn't turn any of them down!

ElendilTheTall

heck, £10,000 would make a massive difference

£1000 would be damn handy

Cindy

Seriously! Working part time I don't make what I used to.

ElendilTheTall

10:20 AM

I don't make much full stop, full time :)

Cindy

10:35 AM

Need 4 words for Sundial. Letters: H Y P O D E R M I C

1. Between DOME and EMIR

2. Between MEDIC and MERCY

3. Between MODE and MOPE

4. Between MORE and MYOPIC

4 = MORPH

1 = DORM

ElendilTheTall

hmmm

beats me

I'm terrible with anagrams tbh

Cindy

10:55 AM

I tend to go brain dead. The ones I don't get are either soooooo obvious (can't see the forest for the trees) or something I've never heard of.

What's good for lunch?

ElendilTheTall

what's good?

lots of things

what do I have? leftovers

:)

there's an excellent YouTube series called Binging With Babish

he made Cubanos in his latest one

O.M.G.

Binging with Babish: Cubanos from Chef

►

he makes food from movies and tv shows

@Stephie o/

Stephie

11:11 AM

o/

I want to go home!

But I don't have my car keys.

ElendilTheTall

doh

start walkin'

Stephie

26 km / 6 km/h = me being home after hubby.

And late for Zumba.

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall Looks awesome good!

ElendilTheTall

ikr

i wants it

and I'm not even that big a pork fan

Cindy

11:33 AM

We haven't made them in a good while. Just might show up on the menu this coming weekend. :)

Stephie

Not hungry at all! I had a yufka for lunch.

ElendilTheTall

a what now

Cindy

Yufka?

Stephie

Döner? Turkish street food?

Cindy

Aah. Döner. :)

ElendilTheTall

11:38 AM

dead man's leg

Journeyman Geek

@ElendilTheTall I watch it. And I can't even eat most of the things he makes. It's excellent

Stephie

A thin piece of flatbread, filled with meat from a huge spit and veggies.

ElendilTheTall

dead man's leg

:D

@JourneymanGeek I want one of his tattoos

he has a diagram of light passing through a lens

poyfect

ooo

he's making Strudel

I love me some strudel

(excuse the lack of umlaut please @Stephie, ain't nobody got time for that)

the Strudel from Inglorious Bastards

"I recommend it as the centrepiece of your next dinner party or horrifying Nazi brunch" xD

Stephie

@ElendilTheTall just wondering where you'd try to stuff in an umlaut >.<

Journeyman Geek

I need to watch the pizza episode. It's blocked here

Stephie

11:53 AM

And I also love Strudel! With a double serving of custard. (Assuming we are talking about sweet strudel, of course.)

Cindy

Last week I Google translated a recipe for schnitzel. When I took it off of the printer I very quickly scanned over it. When I got to the bottom, something caught my eye - "Remove the schnitzel from Munich.......". >.<

Jolenealaska

Hi guys!

Journeyman Geek

@Stephie there's non sweet strudel?

Cindy

Hi Jojo!

Stephie

Back in a few.

ElendilTheTall

12:00 PM

@Stephie does strudel not have an umlaut?

well then, I retract my apology :D

maybe they add it here to look more authentic :D

@Cindy Munich? pfff

Vienna or bust

@Jolenealaska howdy

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall I can agree with that. :) But I probably wouldn't be able to remove the schnitzel from Vienna, either. ;)

ElendilTheTall

smuggle it out internally

a schnitzel mule

one thing you must have with schnitzel IMO is lemon juice

and lots of it

Jolenealaska

Koreans make a schnitzelesque thing too.

here's my girl!

Korean style pork cutlet (Donkkaseu: 돈까스)

►

Stephie

12:19 PM

@JourneymanGeek sure. From salty custard to cabbage filling. Mushrooms, veggies, meat... even sauerkraut.

ElendilTheTall

@Jolenealaska similar to the Japanese tonkatsu

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall Haven't tried that. I will next time. The recipe I wanted has horseradish and mustard. It goes on one side after the first dredge and before the egg wash. Saw it on BF Delicious Destinations.

Jolenealaska

@ElendilTheTall yep!

ElendilTheTall

@Cindy that sounds vaguely sacrilegious

pork, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, salt + pepper

lemon juice for squeezing on afterwards

cook it in lard

job done

trust me, I'm half Austro-Hungarian :D

Cindy

You lost me at lard. I can't stand it. Hubby likes food cooked in it but it gives him a stomach ache.

Stephie

12:23 PM

Finally someone that will appreciate lard.

ElendilTheTall

well, clarified butter then @Cindy

but you'll need a lot

Stephie

^^ exactly.

ElendilTheTall

you want it not quite deep enough to cover the meat

but deep enough to be able to kind of flick the fat over the top

@Stephie Schnitzel five o/

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall Apparently very popular in Munich. Münchner Schnitzel, IIRC.

ElendilTheTall

booo

Wienerschnitzel or nothin'

:D

Cindy

12:26 PM

@ElendilTheTall Having enough butter is never a problem here. ;)

Jolenealaska

I had a culinary awakening a few days ago.

Cindy

@ElendilTheTall That's my favorite, but I like to try new things every now and then.

Jolenealaska

I made risotto in my Instant Pot, It turned out great but I made too much. I don't like leftover risotto, so I put it in soup.

Happy day!

The creaminess thickened the soup.

It turned OK soup into great soup.

ElendilTheTall

arroncini

is the only thing to do with leftover risotto

Jolenealaska

Ive never had it.

ElendilTheTall

12:35 PM

what?

go and make it now

what can make risotto better? frying it, of course

get a little cube of mozarella, wrap it in rice, pane it and fry

flargleblargleflarg

Jolenealaska

@ElendilTheTall Check out Mos Eisley

Chuck E Cheese has a new ad gimmick. Genius.

Safe place to take the kids and let them play while you enjoy the adult menu and free wifi.

I bet that campaign works well for them.

Jolenealaska

12:51 PM

ElendilTheTall

indeed

Article 50 has been triggered

Jolenealaska

which means?

ElendilTheTall

we have officially begun the process of leaving

Jolenealaska

It's frustrating to watch your country go so wrong.

Trump signed the executive order today to reopen the coal mines.

ElendilTheTall

yes

genius

we're going to run out eventually, so let's run out sooner and fuck up the planet while we do it

but hey, my buddies will be marginally richer!

Jolenealaska

12:56 PM

yep

Come on Russian scandal. Blow up!

ElendilTheTall

c'mon FBI

build that case

Jolenealaska

!!!

ElendilTheTall

tbh the Republican party could be presented with a video of him sucking off Putin while he pisses on the Constitution and wipes his ass with the Stars and Stripes and they still wouldn't do anything

Jolenealaska

so it seems

Cindy

Got the last two words for Sundial! :) Medico and moire.

Catch you guys later. I must go play with watches.

Jolenealaska

1:13 PM

Have fun!

ElendilTheTall

o/

ElendilTheTall

1:25 PM

so

what was the upshot of your doc's appointment @Jolenealaska?

Jolenealaska

We are looking to start the treatment this early summer.

ElendilTheTall

\o/

did she accept her bitch-slap?

Jolenealaska

Sort of

She said she never said otherwise.

<shrug>

ElendilTheTall

oh well

all's well that ends well

I saw a segment the other day on cryotherapy for sportspeople

after training they spend 2 minutes in a ridiculously low temperature environment

like, -90C

Jolenealaska

Although, she did look surprised at the info.

ElendilTheTall

1:32 PM

it kick starts the body's healing systems apparently

and apparently it alleviates MS symptoms too

they're starting to use it in Europe

Jolenealaska

That doesn't surprise me. Heat terribly exacerbates symptoms.

ElendilTheTall

thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/…

Jolenealaska

Here's hoping!

I'm trying an experiment. I'm going to want iced coffee in a few hours, but I forgot to start my concentrate in time.

So, I'm trying the pressure cooker.

This could be phenomenally bad. Or, it could be really good and more concentrated. I'll know in a few hours.

ElendilTheTall

1:57 PM

have you thrown a big switch just in time for the lightning to strike the rod on the roof?

while cackling maniacally?

Jolenealaska

You've been watching me again!

ElendilTheTall

:D

Jolenealaska

3 more minutes until I can release pressure

It's venting now - It smells like a Starbucks in here

Everything I know about coffee says this should suck.

ElendilTheTall

sometimes you just have to play fast and loose with the laws of physics jojo

Jolenealaska

Well, it's not terrible, I can tell that much already.

ElendilTheTall

2:13 PM

then it's already better than Starbucks xD

Jolenealaska

It needs to steep for a few hours, then I'll put it in the fridge. I'll make up one then, but it gets better after being in the fridge (unstrained) for about 24 hours.

If this works, I see a Q&A on the coffee stack in my near future.

It galls me no end, but that's where it would belong :/

Journeyman Geek

lol

its the chemistry

ElendilTheTall

haha

I'm going to start a mexican food stack just to piss off Jojo

xD

Journeyman Geek

too much heat would cause excessive extraction of bitter compounds and volatilise the oils. In theory.

ElendilTheTall

just play the racism card to any naysayers

Jolenealaska

2:19 PM

lol

@JourneymanGeek yep, but I have accidentally left the crockpot on overnight a few times making concentrate, and it's always fine.

So this is worth trying, even if only in the name of science.

I wonder what a caffeine analysis would cost.

ElendilTheTall

more than you can afford

miss "I can't wait to buy groceries again"

Jolenealaska

:D

2 more days!

cnet.com/news/beat-those-palpitations-with-a-caffeine-test-kit

The link is 404

That wouldn't be what I want anyway

Sobachatina

View from the main street of the little town where I work this morning:

It was nice and Jolene is always posting enviable pictures.

Jolenealaska

13

Q: How can you measure the caffeine content of a liquid at home?

I saw a question on here about cold brew vs hot brew caffeine content and was wondering what is the easiest (or best) way to measure this at home (if possible)

caffeine

Pretty!

Sobachatina

The trees are blooming.

Jolenealaska

2:35 PM

We're still a long way away from our first blooms.

> The experiment you link to doesn't mention ethyl acetate. It does however require dichloromethane, sodium sulfate, and a fume hood, which you may or may not have lying around the house.

2 out of 3 ain't bad!

I don't need no stinkin fume hood!

My place smelling like a meth lab would just be icing on the cake.

But Judge!

Journeyman Geek

"JUSGE! I WAS TESTIN MY CAHFFEIN FUR PURITY! ONEST TA GAWD"

(I'm sure you don't sound like that but it was an appropriate accent)

Jolenealaska

2:53 PM

:D And that white powder on the gram scale? Acesulfame Potassium! And nevermind that plant in the corner.

Amazon is offering free 2 day shipping with a free business account. WooHoo!

ElendilTheTall

3:05 PM

pfff

here we get one day shipping

and 1 hour shipping if we pay for it

£7.50

right o

I'm offski

laters chaps

Jolenealaska

Cya Sweetie!

Catija

So, someone lent me this really fancy Macaron book and it has a completely different method, using Italian Meringue...

Is one better than the other? Is there terminology used to differentiate between the two?

smile.amazon.com/Macarons-Pierre-Herm%C3%A9/dp/1908117230/…

dlb

4:54 PM

What is the difference in method between French and Italian macarons?

Doesn't French technique require a sauce and Italian require pasta?

Sorry, going back to my cage in the corner now.

Cerberus

5:25 PM

@dlb I believe it has something to do with heated syrup for the Italian method.

Or maybe that was for Italian meringues...

confused

Catija

6:04 PM

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Q: What is the difference in method between French and Italian macarons?

According to this question, there are two different forms of macarons, "French" and "Italian". What is the difference between the French and Italian macaron method - and where does the name originate? I'm guessing it has something to do with how the meringue is made as I've seen some recipes tha...

macarons

dlb

7:55 PM

I figured if I made the sauce/pasta comment here, I would get sneered at, but on the board, might get rotten tomatoes thrown at me in the public square. 40 lashes, and all that. ;)

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