@Jefromi The benefit is that it helps people who see the front page understand that this is a Q&A site and not a forum - and that we expect some effort to go into writing posts.
It's fine that you made the question more specific (I guess - I didn't think it was that bad in the first place) but changing a well-formed sentence into a sentence fragment?
I also don't see how it needed to be changed to be specific to scallops... food colouring is food colouring.
@Aaronut Okay, by all means, change it back halfway. I think that a lot of people do tend to focus on titles when answering, though, which is what leads to answers like the existing one which makes a list (which can't be complete) and doesn't talk about the colors the OP really was interested in.
Insisting on question marks sounds a little like bikeshedding to me but I'm not opposed to it, if it doesn't clutter the titles overly much.
We have had quite a few discussions here in the past of whether titles should be phrased as complete questions. For example:
Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)
What's in a Title (line)?
How can we get more people to make their title a question?
Our guidance is a li...
There's a bit of controversy around that... Some folks think they should, because it looks professional and makes it clear that it's a... *question*. Some folks feel they shouldn't, because the extra words are just noise - you're already on a Q&A site, *of course* it's a question. Most folks don't know what they're asking and/or can't form complete, grammatical sentences anyway.
@Jefromi Yeah - getting useful information into the title in a way that doesn't make eyes gush blood is a pretty good first step regardless of where you go from there.
If you write a phrase that's a grammatical question if you prepend "how do I" you've pretty much done all the "hard" work.
"Coloring scallops blue or green without food dye" vs "What natural ingredients can be used to color food blue or green?" - the thing that really strikes me is that the important words are all at the end in the question form.
so it takes a little more effort to skim the question page
anyway, if you google [pasta dough multiple times machine]
the title is too long, so you get "What happens to pasta dough when it is run multiple times through..." and it doesn't actually manage to say machine in the snippet either...
so I don't think density of information is entirely useless.
@Aaronut The reason I changed it to scallops is that I figured, based on examples given by the OP, some things might be both flavor and color, and maybe some blue things would taste really bad with scallops.
@rfusca, when you made the recipe of cinnamon buns from the BBA, did you make it exactly like the recipe said? I think it's a bit too lemony
I'm going to make it with 1/2 tsp lemon extract instead and put in 1/2-1tsp vanilla extract in the dough
And for the sugary topping I'm going to use just vanilla extract. I like the freshness of the lemon but it was just too much
But other than that my test run was delicious! So soft and moist and it rose beautifully
And my roommate said something else really dirty without meaning to. She said, "I really like your buns, especially with that white stuff all over it."
But this comment the OP replied to you, made me go" HUH WTF?"
"neither, as I know relatively little about the practice of cheesemaking and have yet to attempt it. But I was referring to concocting a cheese from scratch."
Your original comment was asking if she was trying to make her own cheese or flavoring cheese
So shes saying, "no im not making my cheese or flavoring cheese, Im just making cheese." Or am i just not understanding correctly
Our hero, the valiant Spaceman Spiff, is marooned on a strange world... "I'll set my mertilizer on 'deep fat fry.' "
Or from wiki: "The Death Ray Blaster had various cooking-based settings ('Shake-n'-Bake', 'Medium Well', 'Deep Fat-fry','Liquefy' and 'Frappe'), yet they prove useless against every enemy Spiff faced."
mostly because i've seen aaronut manually go through bad tags and edit and etc
And by seen I meant I've seen the results of that in the "active" section, not that I watch him do it through his window or something creepy like that.
Well, there are several ways a tag can expire. One of them is to have no new questions tagged that for long enough (and, apparently have few enough questioned tagged that)... but that takes 6 months, it seems
Another way is to have 0 questions under the tag for 24 hours
So, when someone puts in a bad tag (because its a meta tag, or otherwise unwanted), @Aaronut (and anyone else with edit privileges, really) remove it from questions, to get it the quick 24-hour cleanup
@Jay I'd assume you'd check Aaronut's activity by visiting his profile page. Much less risk of arrest than peeping through his windows.
Yeah. It could still use a little more focus. Though I'm having a hard time coming up with anything that can really replace the flavor of freshly-ground black pepper. (Though, I guess, if you're used to pre-ground, cardboard could work)
Just to be clear, you're talking about black peppercorns (Piper nigrum) not chili peppers, correct?
If so, are you also allergic to pink "pepper" (Schinus molle or Schinus terebinthifolius)? If not, those would probably be your closest substitutes.
Depending again on what exactly you're allergi...
@Sobachatina write a really really long answer with the first 2-3 paragraphs that makes sense and the last 2-3 paragraphs that makes sense but put gibberish in the center couple paragraphs and see if anyone notices
strange i wonder why i didnt get enlightened badge on that question. first answer, 10 upvote and accepted. i guess thre is a delay. But i got the nice answer badge almost immediately
@Mien I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline your 100°C cream bath. A little warm for me. And, @Jay, shouldn't she be simmering that at maybe 85–90°C anyway? But still too warm.
Right now just peas and spinach but they aren't doing well. It takes a couple years of trying (or a LOT of money) before a garden is really productive.
I hope I get a lot of tomatoes and peppers but the main product of the garden this year will be from the compost piles.
i bought about 5 lbs of tomatoes yesterday and was going to make so pasta sauce but i forgot to buy tomato paste. technically i can make the sauce without the paste but i like it better with the paste
@derobert Very true. They're on the list but they are waiting until I get the garden planned out and the soil much improved.
The native soil around here is very alkaline and dense clay. Luckily we have a ton of oak leaves and chicken manure to fix the soil but that will take a while.
@Mien yeah, that's a "dead key", a different method. There aren't any dead keys traditionally on a US keyboard. Or a compose key for that matter. But there is a caps-lock key, and that works for one.
We have had quite a few discussions here in the past of whether titles should be phrased as complete questions. For example:
Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)
What's in a Title (line)?
How can we get more people to make their title a question?
Our guidance is a li...
Just to be clear, you're talking about black peppercorns (Piper nigrum) not chili peppers, correct?
If so, are you also allergic to pink "pepper" (Schinus molle or Schinus terebinthifolius)? If not, those would probably be your closest substitutes.
Depending again on what exactly you're allergi...
