Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 30, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Wrong. It's an excellent lyric, used by only the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted October 30, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) All fine choices, however my gripe stems from bands/artists 2005-onwards who used it like cheap lyrical Pritt Stick. Edited October 30, 2018 by Accident Prone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Come on, boy, don't tear me apart. Can't you see you're breaking my heart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 9 hours ago, scratchdj said: Soaps Fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted October 31, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted October 31, 2018 Quite bespoke to me but: seeing American recipes dominate recipe searches in Google. If I'm searching for pumpkin pie or tater tots; fine. But just looking for anything else and being confronted with 'sticks' and 'cups' and 'quarts of heavy cream' winds me the fuck up with their oversweet, overseasoned tastebuds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: Quite bespoke to me but: seeing American recipes dominate recipe searches in Google. If I'm searching for pumpkin pie or tater tots; fine. But just looking for anything else and being confronted with 'sticks' and 'cups' and 'quarts of heavy cream' winds me the fuck up with their oversweet, overseasoned tastebuds. As resident spud whisperer, can you explain cups to me? I just find it a fantastically unwieldy unit of measurement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted October 31, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted October 31, 2018 Just now, Gus Mears said: As resident spud whisperer, can you explain cups to me? I just find it a fantastically unwieldy unit of measurement. They are a standard measurement which are good for some recipes, but in very specific cases. There is a set of cups you can buy, but here's the kicker: cups of dry matter are different to cups of wet matter. And there is no consistency of whether this should packed in, levelled off, heaped etc. Websites that aren't dumb (e.g. Serious Eats) translate everything into pounds and ounces which isn't perfect but is closer to something workable. And using cups for baking is utter nonsense. At it's heart is a decent idea of ratio: twice as much flour to fat etc. But a cup of broccoli? What is that? Just the florets? it's just flawed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 1 minute ago, Gus Mears said: As resident spud whisperer, can you explain cups to me? I just find it a fantastically unwieldy unit of measurement. It's simply meant to be units of proportion. If a recipe calls for, say, 1 cup of flour and 2 cups of sugar, it just means that it's a ratio of 1:2 for flour to sugar. The cups system was intended to make cooking simpler; if you had to vary the amount you were cooking, the cups meant you could adjust accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, johnnyboy said: As if using the power of maths to double the ounces of flour would somehow be too complicated. It does let you cook without scales as long as you use the same cup. Just don't use a mug for your flour and then a teacup for your dried fruit. Well, yeah - I personally would just use maths, but I guess for some people it might be a stretch, particularly for adjustments that weren't whole multiples, i.e. 1.5x, 2.5x, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 It's a fuckabout though. If i see cups as measurements, I move on to something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 I've got a lovely set of cups and feel much the same. Onyx is bang on the money with it being pretty useless when it comes to solid items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 I have a set of spoons that go from a quarter of a tea spoon up to a table spoon in increments for baking. The whole cups measurement is fucking annoying to me. Because unless you have a proper set of measuring cups, getting a quarter cup is bloody awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 31, 2018 18 minutes ago, Gus Mears said: I've got a lovely set of cups Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted October 31, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted October 31, 2018 46 minutes ago, Carbomb said: The cups system was intended to make cooking simpler Except there is such a thing as a standard cup, which has a gram value. So what have we simplified here? And YAY American cup measurements are different to Australian ones, which are different to Canadian ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 On Saturday I was getting ready to go out for a Halloween party. I spent ages painting my face in a corpse paint style and got suited up. I then picked up my phone to see I have got a text from my mate who was hosting the party saying that he was cancelling it, because his son was ill. Why did he wait until gone 7 to tell everyone? Also after washing off the makeup, I woke up on Sunday morning with panda eyes. I had to wait until gone 10 for a supermarket to open to quickly buy some makeup removal wipes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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