Put the item in the refrigerator and let it thaw. Otherwise, use the defrost setting on your microwave. Or run it under cold water.

I forget where I learned it, but I've always thought, "Freeze fast, thaw slow." Try to plan so that you can thaw your food in the refrigerator over a couple days, or a week for a brisket, turkey, rib roast, etc. For beef, you can cook steaks and hamburgers from frozen. Chicken doesn't fare so well though.

I stayed at a Hyatt recently this summer as a stop-over during a longer trip. Couldn’t order room service or even see the menu without downloading their stupid World Of Hyatt phone app, which I then couldn’t activate, because apparently I was automatically signed up for some other “Hyatt” rewards program when I stayed…

While i’m sure this helps, real deal is to look and see a few things:

I don’t know about angry vegans but pretty much every vegan I met has been a preachy vegan. I literally give 0 fucks about what you eat, why do you care what I eat? 

Came here to say, I find vegans more sanctimonious than angry. 

The vocal self-righteous asshole vegans are the indelibly etched into people’s brains ones that come to the forefront of a topical concersation most quickly, not because they’re vegans but because they’re assholes. Many vegans I’ve known personally are performative fucks, virtue signaling with their veganism while…

I think the whole “angry vegan” thins was always kind of overstated, at least the angry part. I think it was more so their almost insistence of TELLING you they are vegan, when it’s not something as part of the conversation. Almost as if it is a personality trait more than a lifestyle choice to not eat animal…

This One Simple Trick to Tell if a Restaurant is Any Good:

Similarly vanilla ice cream when trying out a new brand.

I’ve got a good test, too. I order what looks good to me on the menu. My wife orders what looks good to her. If we both like what we ordered, we judge it to be a good restaurant. Hasn’t failed us yet.

Myself and my wife follow a lot of local artists and illustrators. The anger and disappointment has been through the roof, the service effectively hobbling their ability to not just share their work - but make money from it. These wouldn’t be massive accounts, so of course Meta doesn’t care, but large enough all the…

Mayo is one of those things (like ketchup) that you can make yourself, but at the end of the day, it’s just not light years better than the stuff you can get in a jar. Unlike chicken stock.

I just don’t use that much mayo (32 oz. is generally the biggest I’ll buy — I tried getting a 40 oz. container from Costco once, and it was just unwieldly), and I probably don’t have space in my fridge for a jar that size. But now I REALLY want to dip some fries in that, or make a shit ton of ranch dressing, or sour…

Depression meals makes me think of eating meals I had as a kid. Like a PB&J or Spaghetti-O’s and buttered bread.

Your example is Kevin McNally and a two restaurants with high price points, three separate daily menus and while not a hole in the wall, not exactly expansive seating. The new Pastis can’t even seat 250.

Speaking of mayo, what is up with McDonalds mayo?  I normally am fine with some (but not a lot or whatever) mayo.  But they add tons of mayo to things (like the McChicken) and while it looks gross, it tastes really good.  Do they use some sort of super/fake mayo that hits differently?

Saying it doesn’t have the shelf life of store bought mayo is REALLY underselling it. Store bought mayo can last months in the fridge after opening...every time I’ve made mayo, in less than a week the oils start to go a little rancid. It’s not technically “gone bad” in that it would potentially make me sick, but it…

That’s cool and all except for when you’re an incredibly high volume restaurant that doesn’t feel the need to write aioli on every menu item and just wants to get through the day without having to stop prep work or pull cooks off the line just to make 5 gallon batches of mayo when someone inevitably forgets to check…

The Chocotaco was basically a drumstick/cornetto. Just buy some sticks, enjoy the same damn thing.