Is “salsa jar” a standard size, or is this just a “use as much as is in your heart” kind of thing?

Feels like the thing to do is to just never buy “Live” games at launch. For any given one of these, if there’s a good game there in a year of two, I can have that experience without paying full price and if there isn’t I can just skip that one.

I mean if “bad PR that hurts the bottom line” is all they fundamentally care about, I figure they’d do better at this if they can somehow head off “Steam plans to sell a game about sexual violence” headlines before they have to make statements.

I feel like I had a natural advantage here, because unless you are uncommonly blessed with shamelessness you have to be able to feign some sort of interest in the topic if it’s called for - which is easy to do if the topic relates to like art, or history, or nature, or the universe... but I was in Math.

In grad school I would keep a spreadsheet of “which academic talks on the calendar were catered” and I sat through a great number of talks I had literally no interest on because I was banking on free pizza or bagels or fruit or something.

Mustard is so incredibly easy to make, I no longer buy it. All you need to do is coarsely grind mustard seeds, add salt and add-ins like honey or other spices, add cold liquid (water is fine), wait a minute or two (longer if you want it mellow), then add vinegar, and put it in the fridge. Mustard seeds are cheap, and…

Mustard is so incredibly easy to make, I no longer buy it. All you need to do is coarsely grind mustard seeds, add…

So what happens if I try to brew with more than one kind of yeast? Do we end up in a situation where the yeast populations compete and one ends up dying out? Do we just create something gross so no one does this a second time?

I no longer trust aioli. It’s supposed to be an emulsion of mashed garlic and good olive oil (garlic is an emulsifier). It’s been bastardized until it means “mayo with stuff in it, but not enough stuff to affect the texture.” Please, leave anything that’s not garlic, olive oil, and like salt, pepper, and lemon…

As someone who is allergic to shellfish who has rationalized that I am not really missing anything as the *real* reason people like sea bugs is that they are a socially acceptable vehicle for consuming unreasonable amounts of melted butter, this is troubling.

It feels like “a franchise that sells primarily chicken fingers” is the sort of thing that is within Guy Fieri’s ability to pull off. If it were something more ambitious or something that does not already exist which has proven itself successful (there’s a Raising Cane’s near me which is always inexplicably busy) I…

I mean, that’s why I put “Free Speech” in quotation marks. Very few advocates for “free speech” on reddit or one of the chans actually believe people should be allowed to express their opinion against sexism, homophobia, racism, etc. Just that *they* personally should not face repercussions for being sexist,…

I mean, if you really wanted to have an AMA with the edgy, toxic, “free speech” crowd free to participate, Reddit is *RIGHT THERE* and you will face zero scorn for just doing an AMA in the place that largely popularized (invented?) them.

I guess I’m not used to these sorts of games. It took me a month and a half to get to the end of Borderlands. So I was expecting something like that.

Didn’t the game come out like last week? If people are already at the endgame I’m kind of concerned there’s not enough pre-endgame there.

I believe them. Kansas City probably has its own signature style of pizza, as does Des Moines, and Milwaukee, and Springfield, and Portland, and every other place that makes/eats enough pizza to develop preferences and vendors catering to those preferences. It’s not totally different from how in other countries you…

I mean, the actor playing the titular Sheldon will eventually no longer qualify as “Young” which *should* free us from this cycle.  Unless there are reboots, I guess.

I feel like the solution for loaded fries is to McDLT them- give me the fries and the gloop separately and allow me to assemble them.

Since I figured out how to pasteurize eggs with the Anova, I’ve gotten back to drinking perhaps the most iconic of shaken cocktails: the silver gin fizz. Back in the heydey of that drink, popular establishments in New Orleans would have whole teams of people just to shake the drink- since you want to denature the egg…

I eat grapefruits by peeling them like an orange and eating the segments. Doing this is a lot more labor intensive than doing the same with an orange, since you have to spend about 5 minute scraping the pith off and you can only really do this with peak of the season grapefruits, but I contend it is the best way to…

Best substitute for the guanciale? It’s really hard to find around here. I’m guessing “good bacon” but there might be a better substitute.