The Frying Pan

I think you all will enjoy the video here instagram.com/p/BaAgDtqlfpV/?taken-by=catija

(Please people, resist any temptation to star that for out-of-context yucks. It wouldn't be funny enough to be worth it :)

@LSchoon Hurray indeed! Thanks for my first $1 donation! :)

My time with LSchoon was educational, vindicating, and ultimately successful. YAY!

@GdD The thing is, while I am a scientist, I have barely any hands-on experience with data science/machine learning stuff. I'm sure I'd do fine at it, read some of the theory and have had some practice and none of it's particularly complicated so far, but a company isn't going to hire me based on "I'm sure I could do it"

if the whole uncut peach doesn't smell like a ripe peach from 6 inches, it's no good.

@ElendilTheTall I need 1000 bumper stickers and a website six weeks ago!! Can you make me a down and dirty logo for Alaskans Against Slumlord Billionaires? AASB with the AA looking like mountains. Pretty please? Red, I think.

Have you blowtorched your chicken yet?

And meanwhile, I'm thinking if this is how they treat a seriously disabled but pretty feisty vet, how are they treating the English as a second language single mother of two down the hall?

Do yeast set alarm clocks? Maybe they're just not morning people.

It turns out you can make magnificent mashed potatoes in the oven, in about three minutes.

In most cases, there is no confusion.

you can see the effort he puts into it

"People who opt out of hats should get a bah humbug hat auto-equipped which is visible only to everyone else." I love it!

@ElendilTheTall small people are actually 97% snot, by weight.

The difference between a phone and a camera is the degree of control you have. Phones just take snaps, basically, and the only thing you control is the composition

personally I think TNG is the best of the Treks by far

Notice to everybody: I am going on vacation. Will be sporadically online 16. August - 08. September. Will be completely offline 20. August - 27. August (not even read access to e-mail. Going to a real mountain, yay!)

> A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

Next week is American week? You're going to have to start by putting on at least 15lbs. And don't dare think of that as "about 7kg"!

@rumtscho Get me drunk and then we'll talk

@rumtscho If your lid melts, you're probably a bit past ready ;)

if they ask how to fry a potato and get a 3 page thesis on the chemistry of oil and how starches fry and all that, then they'll just not read it

@Cindy if someone is a douche, their doucheness is usually apparent to everyone, even if it doesn't affect them. If what you're accused of is out of character for you, but making a malicious accusation is very much in character for them, people will usually draw the logical conclusion

Alcohol is a solvent, but not for everything.

cooking.blogoverflow.com

People can have completely unproductive arguments even when they are providing evidence.

I now have a random partner, an American girl.

I think the frying pan is a great idea.

I'm

I love all parts of the mountains - the valleys, the hills, the rivers, the ravines...

Clearly, #TheFryingPan is the best room on the network :-P

Assume that 1 out of every 10 people who say they will write for the blog will actually write for the blog. Since I think we have fewer than 10 members who visit meta/chat, having any rules around it whatsoever would probably just kill the project.

@Cerberus Yup, we're down to wholemeal & chappatti flour. [Though we're still good for masa harina, polenta, cornflour[US starch] Besan/gram flour & a whole swathe of grains/pulses etc… so we're in no danger of starving yet. Fortunately we tend to always stock 'one bag of everything' so push comes to shove, we'll last a while.

tagging tofu as vegetarian is a bit like tagging fish as catholic

Sometimes when I join this room, I take one look and consider quitting out before my little icon shows up...

prepackaged gravy is an affront to nature

I chose not to run, because they wouldn't accept me as three candidates.

@SAJ14SAJ Please come to The Frying Pan just to let us know that you're alright.

He was "seen" on SO a couple of days ago, but I'm beginning to think that was just a cat.

My first thought was "you are in a bar, maybe you drank enough to see double"?

I'm inordinately fond of coconut rice. And of course, that old sterotype... curd rice. ;p

Happy New Year (2017) to all and enjoy all your seasonal creations.

As one user said on Twitter: They forgot the condoms. Now the panicky idiots are going to proliferate.

I got married today

There are great herds of the Horned Brioche roaming the tundra. The crashing of their horns as the bucks compete for the females is a sigh to behold. Crumbs everywhere. litttle scavenger pigeons swooping in with tiny spoons of jelly and butter.

I was digging through a few postcards from a calendar and caught myself thinking "Tall could do this better!".