The Frying Pan

Aaronut

1:31 AM

@Jefromi I was thinking the same thing... even fajitas take me about an hour.

rfusca

2:28 AM

second day in a row my house has been egged :(

Shog9

3:17 AM

@rfusca Sounds like you need to sit up tomorrow night... With a griddle and some bacon

rfusca

@Shog9 lol

well i've got a motion camera up in my window now

Jay

1:24 PM

@rfusca You need to stop being such a mean old man then. lol

Do you know why they are egging you?

Or are they just stupid teenagers with nothing better to do?

Jay

1:36 PM

@Shog9 i LOVE bacon and eggs... especially at night. I dont know what it is about eating at midnight that makes any food taste better. probably becuase i know i shouldnt be eating that late...

@Jeroen its usually quiet in here until about 10:30

But hello

Jeroen

hello :)

my first SE chat experience

was gonna thank someone for putting my palindrome Q on Twitter

Jay

haha too bad you didnt come in at a awkward time

Jeroen

lol

Jay

we sometimes "stray" from cooking topics

Jeroen

np, guess that's what chat's for :)

Jay

1:42 PM

@Jeroen Im actually not sure who puts questions on twitter

Maybe its random users but i have a feeling its an internal resource at SE

Jeroen

I read somewhere that it's automatic

based on votes etc

Jay

But I do really like your palindrome question

Jeroen

:D thx

Jay

very interesting

Jeroen

gonna try the first answer tonight

Jay

1:43 PM

I'd be very unwilling to actually drink it after spending so long making it

Jeroen

nerds and cocktails, a great combo :)

even if you can make another?

Jay

haha it is.

hmmm maybe if i take a lot of photos

Are you making it because someone said you can't or its just an idea that popped up that you wanted to try, or you are making it to impress a nerdette

Jeroen

haha

Jay

or all of the above combined

Jeroen

Someone mentioned European palindrome day on 12-02-2012 a while ago, just when we were planning a cocktail party, so that was 1+1 in my mind.

Jay

1:46 PM

ahhh :)

Jeroen

But I would not be unhappy if it happens to impress the ladies too lol

Jay

although 12-02-2012 isn't a true palindrome :/

Jeroen

err you're right :S

Jay

But its still cool nonetheless. I want to do that now... have a palindrome party

where everyone has to wear palindrome colored clothes

Jeroen

21022012 was the date then probably?

Jay

1:48 PM

drink palindrome drinks

ahhh right

oh yea european date with the day ahead of the month

so the party already passed

Jeroen

:'(

well i'm making it nonetheless!

anyways gtg, duty's calling again

nice talking to ya!

Jay

haha while you are at it, make a time machine too

lol bye

Jeroen

bb

rfusca

@Jay ya I don't know who they are and as far as I know, I haven't offended anybody

but THEIR ASS IS MINE TONIGHT if they try it. There's a motion tracking camera in the window, that triggers two cameras out by the street to start recording where they're running off to. :)

Jay

@rfusca LOL sounds fun. Post the video on youtube and put up a bounty for their heads

rfusca

2:00 PM

I think @Sob would appreciate the solution. When the commercial software on the camera inside starts recording because it detects motion, it beeps. SO there is a msp430 with a microphone and a transmitter that waits for the beep....when it hears the beep it sends the signal to the mailbox msp430 and triggers the other cameras (because there's no motion tracking for them). Luckily this was all parts sitting around my house.

@Jay Actually, the cops are involved and said they'll prosecute if they find em - they think its the same people that were egging cars a few weeks ago around the same area

Jay

@rfusca REALLY?

what were you building? or do you randomly have those parts around just because

@rfusca stupid kids

I did stupid things when i was younger but I never did anything that was destructive towards other peoples properties

that's just malicious

rfusca

@Jay really

@Jay just stuff laying around

Jay

Are you actually a spy?

ElendilTheTall

sup bitches

not sure why I said that

but the sentiment is real

rfusca

@Jay i could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you

Jay

2:10 PM

cause you were feeling belligerent, its k. we love you

btw, in your cake answer, also tell the OP to add more vanilla extract

1 tsp isnt that much for a vanilla cake

and I dont think you really answer his question that well in terms of converting to other types of cake

ElendilTheTall

Yeah, I'm in the process of adding the various bits in now

Hit submit accidentally

Jay

o ok

Yea I was thinking it was a bit short ^^

But i guess you hear that often from your wife

ElendilTheTall

Yeah, when I show her your photo

Jay

@ElendilTheTall ah aha aha no

Hmmm I would probably even omit the coconut milk or change it to something else, I feel like the coconut flavour would fight with say a vanilla cake or a lemon cake

lemon and coconut just sounds weird

You know what, ill just write my own answer :)

Jefromi

yeah everyone knows you put the lime in the coconut

Jay

2:40 PM

How long is @rumtscho's presentation thinger. Is it a several day thing or was it just yeterday?

Sobachatina

3:01 PM

@rfusca That is awesome. Now all you need is a targetable water cannon and software that will track the trajectory of a flying egg and shoot it out of the sky.

rfusca

@Sobachatina if I have a targetable water canon - it would not be aimed at the eggs lol

dpollitt

anyone watch "the walking dead"?

rfusca

i've seen one episode

dpollitt

pretty awesome season finale this past sunday.

rfusca

interesting

i finished watching the entire MacGyver series last night

dpollitt

3:15 PM

that is quite an accomplishment. how many season? like 12?

rfusca

nah, just 7

but by season 4 he'd already had an encounter with big foot and aliens, in season 6 he pretty much time traveled - so it was really hard to finish - especially since each episode contained less and less MacGyverisms

dpollitt

so you are saying the real crafty episodes are in seasons 1-4?

rfusca

definitely

Jay

bleh i hate when answers like this is accepted because it is the only answer: cooking.stackexchange.com/a/22412/8305

it is semi-right but doesnt deserve the accept

Specifically I think he didn't really understand what he was saying. The "(Be careful with the heat)" comment is quite indicative of this. I think he was referring to the smoking point of butter and vegetable oil... but thats irrelevant in baked goods.

rfusca

@Jay you're smoking crack

if I make a good with veg oil and a good with butter - the butter one browns/burns much faster

dpollitt

3:26 PM

well, i think it deserves to be accepted because obviously the question asker wanted a quick "im cooking right now tell me what to do!" - and this answer worked for them.

Jay

@rfusca i have never notice a difference. i will have to experiment...

@dpollitt but the thing is the OP didnt even use what the answerer said.

dpollitt

good point, i missed that

Jay

the answer talked about butter and the OP used shortening

Shog9

@Jay So edit it then.

Jay

@Shog9 that would change the essence of the original post

like almost entirely

Shog9

3:31 PM

@Jay You're saying the answer is incorrect? Or unclear?

If it's unclear, edit to clarify. If you feel it's unsalvageable, then just post your own answer. "Accept" isn't final, and doesn't really mean that much anyway.

Jay

ok

Btw who is Tristan?

rfusca

Tristan

Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; ; also known as Tristran, Tristram , etc.) is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain. He is the son of Blancheflor and Rivalen (in later versions Isabelle and Meliodas), and the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, sent to fetch Iseult back from Ireland to wed the king. However, he and Iseult accidentally consume a love potion while en route and fall helplessly in love. The pair undergo numerous trials that test their secret affair. Tristan...

Jay

lol not that. i was mistaken. There was a announcement about Tristan in my chat but it from from the gaming chatroom, not for here

rfusca

@Jay oh, i know :)

Jay

@rfusca You dont know everything. dont lie

Oh wow i am such a noob... i just found the review page: cooking.stackexchange.com/review

For some reason i thought only higher rep users can get to that

rfusca

3:46 PM

lol

Sobachatina

I'm trying again.

Jay

trying what again

Sobachatina

If this also devolves into an emotional pseudoscience festival then I will give up.

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A: Can soured raw milk be used to make yogurt?

Based on your edit to your question, and with some additional thought, I'm going to answer this differently. Soured milk differs from what you called "spoiled" milk in only one way- what wild bacteria reproduced faster: bacteria with tasty waste products or bacteria with disgusting waste product...

I realized that the question isn't bad if you remove the word "raw"

The fact that the milk was raw has nothing to do with anything really.

And it was that term (along with homogenization) that seems to cause the crazies to come out of the woodwork.

Jay

oh my, you and rumtscho are intending to write books for answers

specifically i saw a answer, and kept scrolling and scorlling and scrolling until i got to the end of the answer and saw rumtschos name

Sobachatina

I don't go as far as she does.

dpollitt

3:57 PM

yea, those are some seriously long answers

Sobachatina

But in this case they don't seem to get it and more words are necessary.

Jay

lol

Sobachatina

The part that drives me nuts in particular is how they keep implying that "soured" milk is somehow just normal milk reincarnated and not due to bacteria.

dpollitt

you guys seem to know a lot about milk. are you a farmer?

Sobachatina

@dpollitt No but I've done some reading and experimenting with yogurt, cheese, etc.

Jay

3:59 PM

well he has his own chickens

that's farmer enough by my standards

Sobachatina

@rumtscho just knows everything.

@Jay That's a shame but it seems like that mentality is the majority.

Jay

@Sobachatina shes a robot, what do you expect

Sobachatina

Chickens are so easy and useful that it pains me that people now see them as weird.

Jay

@Sobachatina i dont think a lot of people around here have the place or time to raise their own chickens

mostly space

Sobachatina

It's a recent development. It seems like 50 years ago they were less weird.

Jay

4:02 PM

if I were to raise several chickens in my backyard and had a date over, i think he/she would be freaked out. lol

Sobachatina

@Jay This is true. I don't think I could live in an urban setting again. There's no where to put my experiments.

Jay

but anyways im going to lunch. hungry as a hippo

dpollitt

we aren't allowed to have chickens in my city

Sobachatina

@Jay Unless they were chicks then she would love you.

Jay

@Sobachatina true... lol

dpollitt

4:02 PM

i wouldn't mind having some, but i would have to move to do so

Sobachatina

@dpollitt When I lived in the suburbs we could have 5. City ordinances vary.

Jay

actaully i dont know if i want to go out to eat

maybe ill just skip lunch

i dont feel like moving

yea screw lunch.

dpollitt

@jay - order in

Jay

@dpollitt that's true... hmmm gotta look up the address of my office lol

dpollitt

packing my bags for vacation. i think i might have "too many" cameras this time

i didn't think it was possible, but i might have hit the mark

Jay

4:06 PM

@dpollitt how many is too many

dpollitt

1.dslr 2.underwater p&s 3.gopro 4.rangefinder 5.iphone 6.ipad

yes i know the idevices are a stretch, but they do capture pictures, and I will use them for video

i already left out my regular high end point and shoot

that would have put me at 7

Jay

I just have... my phone :)

and it has ummmm auto focus. the end

dpollitt

nothing wrong with that

Jay

yea thats pretty much all i can say about my camera haha

dpollitt

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A: Is the iPhone 4S camera good enough to serve as one's "everyday-carry"?

The iPhone 4s alongside iOS5 makes a very compelling argument against a standard point and shoot camera in addition to a phone. The backside-illuminated CMOS sensor included in the iPhone 4s(iPhone) is the same sensor found in the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and the Xperia Neo. Both of these camera...

Jay

4:08 PM

its a HTC HD7. The camera is decent if I use my autofocus correctly

dpollitt

check out those examples

Jay

i actually saw that post arleady

dpollitt

well, you don't need a high end camera :)

just a camera

Jay

I am a creeper and check out people porfiles and top answer/questions

Then i print out a picture of their face and stick it on my voodoo doll

dpollitt

oh cool

Jay

4:09 PM

You know... the usual

dpollitt

@Jay windows phone.. ouch. sorry to hear that

Jay

And yes i do have a voodoo doll of you. Now i just need to figure out a way to get your hair

@dpollitt haha i dont mind it. But there are several apps that i want that is only on android and iphone

specifically pandora app and my TD bank app

dpollitt

pandora is nice

surprised they dont have one for windows

Jay

yea... they are stupid i was pissed when i found out their didnt

especially after i subsribed for the yearly fee

dpollitt

i use spotify

not sure if they have a windows app though

Jay

4:13 PM

there is slacker radio on my phone

but i dont really use it much

its pretty similar to pandora as far as i know

Man I kinda hate you. i want to go to belize too :(

But ill be stuck here

dpollitt

ha

tripadvisor.com/…

Jay

make sure to take ALOT LOT LOT LOt of photos so i can live vicariously thru you

uuuuuu suuuuuuucccckkkkkk :( lol

stop gloating haha

Do becareful tho

You dont want to end up in jail there

Its quite lawless in the less tourisy places

dpollitt

i dont know how i would end up in jail

the resort is 15miles by boat to the nearest city

no roads, you cant walk to anything else but 1 other nearby resort

its on an island

Jay

@dpollitt lol anything can happen. you are still young

dpollitt

Im pretty sure i am going to be by a pool/beach with no option to get in trouble for 1 week :)

Jay

4:20 PM

are you not going to drink? lol

drinking = trouble in most cases

dpollitt

'eh i'll drink quite a few pina coladas

some beers

nothing wild

Jay

haha I like how you quickly added and beers to redeem your manhood

dpollitt

ha

Jay

it's k. girly drinks are fun to drink

dpollitt

well we will see what the local beer tastes like, i dont think they have anything that im used to drinking. and i dont particularly like red stripe

well my 2 favorite drinks are manhattans and pina coladas. so take that as you wish

Jay

4:22 PM

my favorite "dessert shot" is dirty girlscouts

@dpollitt what kind of manhattan.

or rather whats your favorite preparation of the manhattan

dpollitt

when i make it at home? i use crown royal, argosta bitters, 1 cherry, and sweet vermouth

when the bartender makes it, i let them decide what is best

Jay

i prefer mine with makers mark and 2 cherries

thats right! 2 of them!

dpollitt

oh snap

Jay

im such a rebellious person. i dont know how i do it

dpollitt

i also would like one with makers. i just have a nice 1.75l handle of crown right now that it has been what works for a while

i dont drink very often these days

Jay

4:28 PM

I find that whiskey and bourbon make we want to puke nowadays too

mostly after my halloween debacle

dpollitt

ha

Jay

where i tried to have a shot taking war with my 250+lb russian roommate

in about 15 minutes we drank over 10+ shots of jack daniels

oh god i want to puke thinking about it

i think it was 100 proof too

either 100 or 120

not sure but i know it was above the normal jack

and the terrible thing is, the only reason we stop drinking more shots is because my other roommates stopped us... otherwise we would have been stupid and tried to finish the whole handle between the two of us because neither want to quit or admit defeat

So note to self, never do shot wars ever again

Or drink tequila shots... those are evil and puts people in the hospital

dpollitt

yea those sound like good college days

i am out of my prime for sure

Jay

@dpollitt oh stop it, you are still young. stop making it sound like you are 30

dpollitt

ill be 28 this year

close enough

Jay

4:34 PM