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Quoth Mongo Skruddgemire View PostMe - One stick of butter softened, add honey until it's sweet enough for your tastes.
Her - But how did you make it?
In other words a procedure. Which any recipe has, and which she'd never be able to follow.
Clearly she's on the wrong side of the competence line when it comes to cooking.Life: Reality TV for deities. - dalesys
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I remember a job once asked me to bring in a Dr note for being sick once. I believe my reaction was "We're not in f**king primary, I'm not going to bring you a f**king note" and hung up. Amazingly nothing was said to me when I walked in for my next shift.
Mind you this is a place where people were ALWAYS calling out and I was the one who ALWAYS covered their shift. I don't miss that place one bit.Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb. - exmocaptainmoroni
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Quoth raudf View PostThinking about the period it came from, measuring cups were probably unheard of. From what I gathered, most recipes just told you what was used and left it up to you to figure out how much of what you needed for it.
You still needed the knowledge of what it should look and taste like since it was based on approximation (rare was the cook that had a scale in the kitchen), but the ratios helped dial it in close so only minor tweaking was needed.
Which is amazing in the light that you can tell people what ingredients, what amounts, how to measure the amounts, how to put it all together step by excruciating step and detailing every little detail to the most minute degree...and they still can't sort it out.
Even sadder is the fact that I've let children use my cook book (supervised by me of course) and let them try their hand at making a cake or a batch of cookies. THEY usually do a better job of following the directions far better than the adults who often call me up and ask "What do you mean by this instruction here? It says to blanch the almonds by putting them into a bowl and covering them with boiling water until they're barely covered, letting them sit for a minute (no more, no less) and then rinsing them under cold water. I don't understand. I don't know what blanching is."
<headdesk>I never lost my faith in humanity. Can't lose what you never had right?
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I'm actually in the ironic position where I DON'T need a sick note if I call in sick O.o
Seirously, my boss actually looked at me funny when I walked in with a sick note the day after I called outThe best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
Now queen of USSR-Land...
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Quoth Mongo Skruddgemire View PostActually a lot of the recipes that I've dealt with used ratios. For example they say that for every egg you use, use roughly three times the weight of the egg in flour.
And whenever I made honey butter or garlic herb cream cheese, I keep track of the exact measurements and am able to provide 1 stick/quarter pound butter and1 tablespoon/3 teaspoons honey as the recipe. [most people make it too sweet - though it is really nice if you add a really tiny amount of cinnamon. And in period it was a food provided to the sick, not served at table. Ask Cariadoc if you want the discussion in excruciating detail.]Last edited by MadMike; 09-24-2013, 09:32 PM. Reason: Please don't quote the entire post. We've already read it.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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So, Mongo....can I get that recipe for honey butter?
Quoth raudf View PostMy grandmother had a couple of recipes that she said, "Don't bother measuring, it's all to taste."
Quoth raudf View PostIn rocket science, things can go 'splodey, so measuring is important. In cooking, it's not. Unless you're a terrible cook. Then things could go all 'splodey.
Quoth Mystic View PostI remember a job once asked me to bring in a Dr note for being sick once. I believe my reaction was "We're not in f**king primary, I'm not going to bring you a f**king note" and hung up.
Speaking of notes, when my beloved Grandma died in the early Nineties, I went in to my job to let them know I'd be missing work, as I might be flying off to New Jersey for the funeral, but even if I didn't, I'd be in no emotional state to wait on people. This one mid-level manager, upon hearing me say my grandmother had died, sarcastically asked, "Oh, did she really?" I had no history of questionable callouts nor anything that would lead a reasonable person to believe I was the type to make something like that up just to get off work. Her attitude, added to the fact that I was not talking to her, but to a higher level manager while she just happened to be there, added to my pain of having just lost the only Grandma I'd ever known (I met my Dad's mother once or twice, and she was already rather senile at that point in her life) made me lash out. I whipped around on her and asked, with fire shooting from my eyes, "Would you like me to bring you her fucking corpse?!?" Shut her right the hell up.
I was not asked for any kind of note after that.
Quoth AccountingDrone View PostSome people are incapable of making the jump from cooking is an exact science/engineering project to cooking is a freeform art.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth AccountingDrone View PostSome people are incapable of making the jump from cooking is an exact science/engineering project to cooking is a freeform art.
And I completely agree with Jester. Baking is totally a science!"Redheads have at least a 95% chance of being gorgeous. They're also concentrated evil." - Irv
"This is all strange, uncharted territory and your hamster only has three legs." - Gravekeeper
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I sometimes make tinned soup. This is of the "just add water" variety, having been partially dehydrated to make the can smaller. The amount of water to add, however, needs to be quite precisely controlled - but I do it without measuring (at least, no more precisely than eyeballing it using the can the mixture came out of). Too little, and the soup is too thick and the lumps won't go away. Too much, and it'll overflow the small saucepan I use. The difference between the two extremes is a matter of a few millilitres - but it's still not difficult. If it's coming out lumpy, I add a bit more. If it starts to overflow, it makes a mess but oh well.
I may have mentioned before how my mother once set fire to my kitchen. Luckily it caused no damage, since it was just a small amount of cooking oil left unattended on a lit gas hob, with nothing inflammable directly above it, but it did set off every smoke detector in the house - except for one which I later determined to be faulty. But even with the noise of the smoke detector (the kitchen's one being the first to go off), I got there from upstairs faster than she did from the front door... I wasn't best pleased.
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Quoth sms001 View PostIf you don't mind me asking, what's a decent tip at a buffet these days? I think we generally stick with the usual 20%, even though it's not full service and we're pretty undemanding/low maintenance. Is that what most people do or is that high?
Of course, we have regulars who we enjoy interacting with: we know each other's hobbies, kids' (or grandkids') names, etc, and we also know what they always like to drink--or when they want coffee--so they don't even have to remind us. One couple leaves me 5-7 dollars, a few others have left me $10 and one sweet old couple even cleans their own table! (even though I tell them I'd be happy to do that for them)
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Quoth Mongo Skruddgemire View PostI was helping in the kitchen at an SCA event and we had someone after feast ask for the recipe for honey butter.
Last edited by MadMike; 09-26-2013, 09:42 PM. Reason: Please don't quote the entire post. We've already read it, thank you.sooo many people are apparently aliterate morons. -- ThanosIsKing
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Quoth Athaelia View PostWhat I think is appropriate is, for a party of two,
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The SC part reminds me of the time when I worked for two buffet restaurants, and the SC was furious about us having no peking duck.
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Quoth Racket_Man View PostNOR will management allow them to call off
No I did not return to work.Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes
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