Goon Apetit

Various helpful hints from Goons With Spoons? You decide.

[goonapetit]

How much wine is in a box? 1/12th hogshead?

Drifter

[goonapetit]

Am I looking at a breast pump, or does my mind just run in certain channels?

Hexigrammus

[goonapetit]

just grab the middle nipple part and yank hard. It pops right back in when you're done cleaning.

hope and vaseline

[goonapetit]

Sweet Potatoes are notoriously untrustworthy. Hell, I wouldn't trust one to babysit a neighbor's kid. And I hate my neighbors. The problem is they probably didn't fear and/or respect you. While most tubers can often be convinced by the glory of higher purpose, sweet potatoes are godless heathens and only capable of acting out of a baser self interest. You might have poked holes in their surface arguments, but the problem is that their fundamental beliefs hadn't been pierced through in any effective fashion. Give them a stern talking-to beforehand. Torturing them with a fork is a great time to delineate your expectations and future goals. Also, your oven might be inconsistent. Do you have an oven thermometer that you can keep in there? Also, did you preheat the first time and not this time?

-- Drifter

[goonapetit]

Pretty much any drink tastes good if you add condensed milk and ice.

-- Mu Zeta

[goonapetit]

Trip report on my first cup ever with my Hario V60: yum yum in my tum tum, that is all.

Google Butt

[goonapetit]

"Hey, um... did anyone else get massive gas when they started drinking coffee regularly" -- Steve Yun

"Well it is a laxative." -- withak

"They don't call it the coffee shits for nothing." -- Casull

"Does it go away" -- Steve Yun

[goonapetit]

Sorry I misgendered your nutmeat.

-- Kenning

[goonapetit]

You can watch a bunch of videos with terrible music on Youtube to help.

-- Mu Zeta

[goonapetit]

Honeycomb tripe is used in menudo and is braised until tender and it has a almost, well, I mean it's a stomach lining so... It tastes like a grassy hillside after a rain in someways, in a good way.

-- GrAviTy84

[goonapetit]

Bhut Jolokia is serious stuff. If you look it up on Wikipedia, you'll find that the bit about its potential military uses is longer than the one about cooking. Try it if you can find it in your area.

-- mcustic

[goonapetit]

Religious toleration is a pretty controversial topic but I want to bring up an even more controversial topic: chocolate chip cookie recipes.

- TychoCelchuuu

[goonapetit]

What you are doing is not cooking, it's mixing and waiting.

- EAT THE EGGS RICOLA

[goonapetit]

Curry is just a dish with a blend of spices. There are many curries. Chili is a subset of curry. Curry is not necessarily chili. There are curries with legumes. There are curries without.  The "ideal" curry is comprised of meat chunks braised in ground up dried chilies with some other spices such as cumin, pepper, bay. Chili is not a tomato based meat dish. It is a chile based meat dish. Hence the name, "chili".  Chili is short for chili con carne. Chilies with meat. The "ideal" chili is just that. Chili sauce. Meat.

- GrAviTy84

[goonapetit]

Every time I look at this thread I get this awful pain right in my kitchen like there is a hole where a food mill is supposed to be.

- signalnoise

[goonapetit]

I think the whole "educate the consumer" thing is in play, peaking with pretentious speakeasy bars*. Customers are better informed about whiskey, and more willing to try new spirits than even a half dozen years ago when that education was needed. A bartender can talk with me about whiskey, not at me. Making it into a light-hearted "Single malt and coke? Should I try that, I always drink it straight to get the nuances of smoke/fruit/whatever" is different then "Wow, you're clueless- no drinks for you". Though refusing to mix some wacky $250 limited edition bottle with coke with probably for the best.

[goonapetit]

That reminds me of a few weeks ago when I mentioned in passing to an old friend that I really enjoyed scotch. He lightened up and told me, "Hey, I went to the store to celebrate and I just bought the first expensive scotch that looked good." He goes on to tell me he got a bottle of Lagavulin 16, and when I eagerly asked him how he enjoyed it he responded, "Oh, it's pretty good. Not great for doing shots, but it goes down smooth with a little coke."