I have been trying to find a certain chinese tea for the last 7 years. It made from some kind of chinese berry that is used for detoxing and cleaning out your body. It comes it cubes and you use 2 cubes per cup. It causes really disturbing dreams. The entire package was in chinese and i got it from a friend. Anyone have experience with teas like this?
>>9032213
The thing you're looking for is called "drugs". You bought drugs.
It wasnt opium it was legit tea made from some kind of berry.
>>9032213
I'm in Asia and shit like this is everywhere
some are very strong and you should take them seriously, people seem to thing that "herbs" are just these light things and you can take a bunch and have it be nbd when that's not the case
What say /ck? Think this will work?
http://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-turn-stainless-steel-skillet-nonstick-article?mbid=social_facebook
>>9032097
Nope, and if you can't flip an egg anyway just stop cooking.
>>9032097
I tried it once for making pancakes, and it worked. They slid around with no sticking at all. The only problem is it's a bit time consuming unless you dedicate a pan for it, because I still like to use mine for making sauces and things like that, and I don't want the oil or anything that's built up to get into it.
Stainless steel is literally the worst possible material for a pan. It sticks like a motherfucker, this coating of oil thing is such a fucking meme it drives me crazy, and the heat emmisivity is absolutely fucking garbage, you get hot spots, lower relative heat, and warping.
Even raw aluminum makes a better pan.
Inb4 "muh Alzheimers" do literally a 10 second Google on that one.
what is /ck/s view on this new drink
>>9032036
mailed-in shit festival. tastes worse than either of the three flavors combined, do not buy
Doesn't really taste like anything, just really sweet
>>9028736
Fuck off
hey /ck/ i make a bretty bomb watermelon juice, tastes fucking killer when its not busy separating in my fridge. how can i stop it from separating?
...just mix it up when you pull it out of the fridge?
>>9031963
Real juice separates, just like real peanut butter. Stir it before serving, drink, enjoy. It's not rocket surgery.
juice being juice
You must choose... but choose wisely.
I choose the McChicken, the best fast food sandwich.
What the fuck am I even looking. I feel like this is a plate from a Polish buffet in North Korea.
>>9031898
looks like a decent dinner plate
-spinach pie
-cabbage roll
-beans & rice
-? pie
-thin slice of something
>gluten free shortcake with plum sauce
I hate the gluten free meme but my wife was diagnosed with celiac about ten years ago so at least there's a much bigger variety of shit she can eat at a much lower price, even if I hate feeling like some fucking hipster buying GF products
>>9031896
Sweet blog, bro.
The only other dessert I make thats not custard or egg related is tres leches cake, this is gluten free with a blueberry gastrique
>>9031902
I know, I copy/paste all my tumblr posts here. I'll post my analysis of the most recent Dr who season and its parallels with Rick and Morty in a minute
Who is ready for some Mac and Cheese!!
My boss left the office early today for his daughter's softball game or some shit. He forgot that today was payday and left without printing our (there are 4 of us worker bees) checks.
Since my grocery store does not accept IOU's, we will be cooking with the ingredients that I have on hand (picture very related).
Before we get started, are there any suggestions on how this could be made better?
add black pepper, garlic powder and paprika
>>9031564
do you have bread crumbs? Make mac n cheese, put it in an oven-safe bowl, top with some bread crumbs, drizzle oil on top, and roast until the crumbs are golden. Do you have any veggies? I'd sautee whatever you have and mix them in also.
Add some half and half to make it a tad bit creamier. Also dig around ur place for some loose change to buy 1 or 2 jalapenos which you can dice and mix into ur pile of mush.
Can someone explain to me the science behind starch?
Ive heard to wash off excess starch from potato before you fry it, but ive also heard about coating them in a starchy powder before frying them?
>>9031443
What you're asking about has little to do with "starch" per se, but more to do with texture.
You want the potato to have a rough surface so that it becomes more crispy when you fry.
Both methods you described work. If you soak potatoes in water for a while then some of the starch on the outside will rinse away, leaving a rougher texture. Coating the potato in a starch powder achieves the same sort of rough texture, except instead of being created from the cellular structure of the potato it's now created by the particles of the powder you added. The starch coating also acts like a light breading.
>>9031443
>the science behind starch
It's a simple carbohydrate, a polymer of glucose.
How the fuck do I cook in a frying pan without it smoking so much? I use grapeseed oil which has a high smoke point and cook on medium heat normally.
For example, when I cook chicken breasts, all the extra stuff that comes off the chicken gets stuck to the bottom and after ~2 pieces it starts smoking.
>>9031414
Don't let the pan sit for too long without anything in it. As soon as you take the chicken out, add more as quick as you can. This should stop the oil from burning and smoking. I made a stir fry recently with the pan constantly on high heat and didn't have much smoke because I made sure that it wasn't sitting empty on the burner.
If you're doing breaded chicken, not much you can do about that though, since some of the breading is going to fall off and start to burn. Either just clean the pan between batches if it's breaded, or do it in the oven on a baking sheet.
>>9031414
Yeh pan frying is messy
I wish I had one of those hoods like in a restaurant
>>9031414
Just turn the fucking heat down. Smoking means your pan is too hot. Simple as that.
Also, if you're cooking meat, poultry, or fish that's not breaded you need to pat it dry before it goes into the pan, especially if you used a marinade.
I have no electricity or gas. What food can I buy to make a decent meal without this? I know this isn't typical territory for a lot of you, but I am in desperate need of ideas.
Was thinking nuts, canned beans and canned sardines and saltines.
>>9031399
>Was thinking nuts, canned beans and canned sardines and saltines.
That's all good shit, plus the cheap french bread or whatever at walmart is so preservative loaded it never goes bad, and peanut butter or almond butter, hard cheeses, salami and other cured sausages, preserved shit like pickles and olives, and so on.
>>9031399
Buy a cook stove or some Sterno.
Peanut butter honey sandwiches
Onion omelettes if you're in a first world country where eggs don't need to be in a fridge.
Canned tuna potato onion hash.
Hey should I go to the tea store and complain about the thermos they sold me? They said it would keep things hot for nine hours but they lied! or should I just let it go cause last time I tried something like this the employee I had an issue with lied even more and all the manager would say was that she was her best employee and I told them her employees must be pretty shitty then.
>>9031234
No, you should educate yourself about thermoses so you can make these determinations on your own without having to rely on others.
>>9031239
thermoses and tea store counts as cookery
some milk bruh?
got plenty. help urself. chocolate flavor is on the top shelf, inside the cubby hole.
Rate last nights dinner /ck/
>>9031078
Inb4 craft cucks make fun of my budweiser
>>9031083
Well, it's not just the pisswater.
It's also the soggy paper plate, wifey material salad, plastic handled steak "knife", horribly overdone and cheap piece of overseasoned meat, multiple empty and dirty glasses, shit on the floor, and the Nintendo Wii.
I'll give you a generous 1/10 for the Smash Bros.
Post-HIIT carb binge... With some empty liquid calories thrown in for good measure.
>Gas is better than Electric
>But Charcoal is better than Propane
So why don't aficionados use charcoal stoves indoors?
>>9031065
Because smoke
Many restaurants with an emphasis on that type of thing will have it. Not saying a ton do, but I've seen it.
>>9031118
>what is a hood
So due to reasons I have ended up with around 1 kg of entrecote in my fridge. I've been thinking about cutting it into smaller pieces and frying it since I live in an apartment and it's late to go out and grill it. Thing is I have little to no experience with cocking red meat so I was wondering was there anything I should have in mind or is it just cutting it, washing it, pepper and salt it and then throwing it on a frying pan with olive oil?
>>9030952
>olive oil
You should use butter.
>>9030952
That's boneless ribeye.
Brush with melted butter, salt and pepper and in the oven at 400 F until just under your desired doneness.
Then sear hard in a cast iron pan and let rest for 8-12 minutes.