It’s a similar concept to chicken and waffles- pair the salty greasy thing with the sweet thing. But KFC’s not going to start producing waffles, so we get doughnuts. The ideal ratio of chicken to waffle is something like “one chicken part (drumstick, breast, or good sized wing) to one mini-waffle” (this helps plating…

Definitely. Forged in Fire is similarly positive, supportive, non-toxic, whatever for a competition show (even if Doug Marcaida’s “It will kill” is a little creepy.)

I mean, so the problem of here is that a doughnut has a lot of air in it and doesn’t have the same gluten structure as like a bagel.  So the solution here is to freeze the donuts at the factory, cut them (with an electric knife, say) then ship them bisected to the stores.

Is the whole idea “it is less shameful to spread cream cheese on something, if that thing is a bagel” since otherwise I don’t really get it.  I mean, “cheese on bread” is a thing that is generally acceptable, isn’t it?

Why is it always UK based people who have extremely particular diets that are almost certainly a bad idea. I’m lead to recall the case of Stacey Irvine, who for 24 years ate nothing but chicken nuggets. Do we just hear about the British people who are like this because of their tabloid/busybody culture? Like is there…

Along these lines, I think the most refreshing thing about the GBBO is that the prize is- a trophy and some flowers. Every American reality show makes a big deal about the magnitude of the cash infusion the winner is set to receive, even if it’s not precisely life changing (I mean winning $6,000 on Guy’s Grocery Games…

Wouldn’t this be better if we cut the doughnut in half like a bagel, just to get the doughnut to chicken ratio right?

While I’m saddened to see a book destroyed/defaced, I also recognize that the value of “a nonspecific book” is so low there are multiple companies whose business it is to sell bulk books so your shelves can look nice- you can choose the color or the binding, but not the content!

I’m curious about these 5% of things I can put incredibly hoppy beers into.

Oddly enough, what I’m most excited about is Steve Agee as King Shark.

But the thing is, being allergic to shellfish I have no idea what crab legs taste like. So my only avenue for discovering this was to take up vaping.

Now I’m never going to know what “crab leg” flavored vape juice tastes like.  Alas.

That’s what I’m counting on (the “or hurt you” part).

I started with Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything” as a novice and I would probably recommend that to a novice. It’s a good mixture of “things which are extremely easy” and “things which are recognizable and a bit more ambitious” that will let someone balance the feeling of accomplishment with gentle encouragement to…

Inspired by the culinary traditions of Chicago. Does that mean there will be absolutely no ketchup in the coffee, or will there be just one cup of coffee with ketchup in it so that everybody can unite around throwing scorn at it? The sort of Pharmakon of coffee.

Also, there’s 30 stadia and 17 weeks of games, so getting to all of them is going to require a lot of creative traveling involving Monday and (most likely) Thursday Night Games.

So I get that people were ordering these kinds of things for stunts, but were they actually drinking them? I guess the 20oz of espresso wouldn’t be too bad if you pace yourself, but “drinking a cup of syrup” doesn’t sound attractive whether it’s hazelnut, maple, simple, or corn.

Does it make a difference what kind of orange soda I use?  Like “artisinal orange soda sold only in glass bottles” versus “orange crush”?

I think I’m just going to make your mom’s recipe. 1.25 lbs of beef (instead of 1) and having to eyeball “cutting something into 12" seems super inconvenient.  I’m not above baking my own dinner rolls for this.

I remember in college, making a point to arrange at least 2 hours for lunch.