Hopefully we will get a few new users in here that can help keep the room going now that the links to it are up on the site

having the option to have real time chat and thrash out small issues outside of the comments will be useful I think

Just wanted to say hi to all, and test sending a message while the room is mostly empty. I'll have this tab open all day at work, so I'm curious to see what kind of noise it makes when others post messages.

ah ha! some users!

welcome!

Hello, all.

Great to see some people in here, I hope I'm able to make it Sunday for the community meeting!

I've got to go to my wife's sister's wedding, 3000 miles from home, so I'm hoping my phone can handle it :)

even if you can't make sunday feel free to bring up any issues at any time. The community meeting is a chance for us to have a 'concentrated' session, but was also an opportunity to advertise the fact that this service is available to us to get people to use it.

I think @hobodave has tried to get a cooking room off the ground a few times but there has never been enough interest to keep the room open

Sis in law lives in LA, so flying out there, but the wedding itself is in Tuscon

Friday we land in LA, and then from Sat to Wed I'll actually be camping in the desert in AZ :)

Then the following Sunday is the wedding

Should be a fun trip, the wedding location looks real nice: haciendadelsol.com

I live in Pennsylvania, btw. So quite the trip for us :)

@sam - thanks for the info, I mostly just wanted to watch the chat and get to know people, I know the site isn't really a GTKY type forum, but I feel like I know a lot of the regulars from their answers, so it's cool to see them in a more "relaxed" atmosphere chat atmosphere like this

So far the site works great, no problems on my end!

:)

food looks good on the front page of that place

making me hungry. might have to go for a run before I eat something and spoil my dinner

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about that, there are a few functions before the wedding there too including the rehearsal, so I should get a few opportunities to try their food :)

@Just - agreed, I wonder if once we determine there's enough interest, would it be worth making a semi-prominent link somewhere on the site...has that been done on other SO properties?

@JustRight yeah, a lot of questions end up with a whole lot of 'meta' guff in the comments which just pollutes the question

I think the long term aim is to have a link up near the meta link for the chat link I think.

It looks like there already is a link up top...

although don't quote me on that

"got a question about the site itself? meta.cooking is the place to talk about things like what questions are appropriate. We also have a chat room."

(links to meta and this chat room)

yeah, that was added yesterday

I think eventually there will be a chat.cooking.stackexchange.com sub site, like there is a meta.cooking.se.com

and there will be a chat.blah for each site

at least I think that was the plan at one point

@spoulson if you want to post some pics, go for it

I need more motivation to go running :)

so there must be foodies that fancy some of this

I mean as long as you have fried it in butter it must be ok, no?

@Bob good catch, I didn't see the addition of the chat link. Very nice!

mmm, is that the Luther, two krispy kremes around a bacon cheeseburger?

delicious!

@spoulson and what did you have for lunch?

I see the "pictures of food" is getting off the an unhealthy start

*to an

I hate to ask a stupid question, but how do you add an inline image?

very nice

speaking of unhealthy...

i guess by itself, ha

from bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion

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How about something that we've actually cooked?

That's squid, stuffed with more squid, served on top of squid noodles

It was squidtastic

looks good

mmm...squid

this was before i got my new nikon, so bear with the picture quality

that's a batch of granola bars based on alton browns recipes that i referenced in a post about granola bar storage

cut and bagged:

granola bar mise-en-place :)

@just: i always, always have that problem too

i do a lot of bulk cooking in my house, and tend to go overboard a lot of the time

a little while back, i made a bunch of breakfast burritos, half sausage, half bacon, they turned out really good

@Just: great idea...i also find granola is great for cleaning out the pantry

yeah, they're so easy to make...especially when i enlist my wife to do the egg scrambling for me so i can concentrate on the meats and the assembly ;)

yeah, i assemble them and then brown them up in the pan to help melt the cheese and seal them together - also adds a little texture when reheating in the microwave at work, they never really get crisp of course, but they're not as ... doughy as if you don't brown them

hmm they look the good candidates for hotel room cooking, about the right shape to warm up on the iron in the morning. that would crisp them up too.

wow, that's a really good idea sam!

i may have to make a couple in LA before leaving for Tuscon, test that theory out

hotels that don't offer breakfast make me a very sad panda :(

I've always been a little fascinated by hotel room cooking after seeing a guy make muffins I think and cooking the on the iron. and cooking pasta in the kettle.

i mentioned in one of the questions on the site, i got a corningware microwave browning tray - i'm going to take on my next hotel trip and see how well it works

muffins on the iron, wow, that's thinking outside the box

@Sam, you just completely inspired me to "show off" a little this week - everyone knows me as the cook in the family, but I don't think they'd expect something that delicious using just what you can find in a hotel!

this video is really cool!

I got put on housing probation for using an electric griddle my freshman year :)

Well, a combination of using that, and removing the smoke detector temporarily so I could effectively use it...

oh wow we have users in here!

hi everyone

Hi!

hi hobodave

@hobodave it worked!

:)

DO culinary schools have dorms?

bye @Just!

Mine was at Univ of Delaware actually

sorry - was heating up lunch. actually i'm in PA now, southeastern PA/bucks county

but my dad and stepmom still live in Newark, DE

@spoulson - just saw that you're in middletown, that's where my best friend lives, was just down there last weekend for my fantasy draft

did you go to high school down there?

neat, so did I - born in Trenton :)

how do you like middletown? very nice area, a little far from philly for my taste, but not that bad, and close to baltimore

definitely being built up a lot over the past 5 years

oh yeah, definitely, if i hadn't had to move to where i am now for work, i would have moved towards middletown (from bear/newark) when we sold our house

yeah, that was my problem, i was actually commuting from Newark to Conshohocken, which was an hour on a good day - and since i had to take 476/the blue route, it was more like 1.5 hours each way

Truth!!

yeah, there's no fast way from middletown to wilmington during rush hour - at least they're done that bridge traffic on 896 so people are using that again, clearing up rt 1

I went to HS up here in Lower Bucks County, PA (where I am now) and moved back up here because it's a bit of a Pharma hub, and even in a recession people want their drugs, so the money and jobs are there (for now)

wow, that's a good idea, i hope it works out

oh man, that sounds perfect

i hope it doesn't take too long

that 896 bridge construction sure felt like it took forever :)