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[Bumblebee]

I am fire.
I am death.
I made tom yum.

4/10, not a haiku at all. Maybe it's a reference I don't get... How about 'Now I am become death, maker of tom yum'?

I think it's related to something Smaug says in the Hobbit movies?

Yup. Smaug. The right tom yum makes one breath fire.

[Comrade P.]

I got into pancake game.

By the second batch I sort of managed to stop fucking them up when flipping 'em with a spatula. And I think I sort of zeroed the optimal proportions of ingridients to go without written recipe.

[Helgoland]

Yup. Smaug. The right tom yum makes one breath fire.

That sort of makes me want to try your tom yum. Then again, it doesn't. Then again, it does...

[Arx]

Do we have different definitions of a pancake? Flipping them with a spatula seems far less efficient than just tossing them up and spinning them in the air.

[Comrade P.]

Do we have different definitions of a pancake? Flipping them with a spatula seems far less efficient than just tossing them up and spinning them in the air.

Spoiler: Well I mean this sort of pancakes (click to show/hide)

[Arx]

Yeah, I find it much faster and easier to twitch the pan to loosen the cake and then flick it so the pancake flips through the air. Not only is it undoubtedly the most ninja way to cook breakfast, it's a bunch quicker and less messy (if your hand-eye coordination is good, anyway).

[Rose]

I tend to end up with folded over or broken or half-off-the-pan cakes.

[Comrade P.]

I tend to end up with folded over or broken or half-off-the-pan cakes.

Yeah, same here. So I just drive the spatula up to the center, then quickly lift it, flip it and slam it back, so it doesn't crumple.

[Yoink]

I've been eating a depressing amount of 2-minute noodles lately.
Not so much because they're cheap and ridiculously easy to cook (though they are both of those things), but because with the water left in they're very good for warming oneself up in this weather. In less-unpleasant temperatures I would usually drain the water, same as I would with fancier instant noodles like mi goreng, but lately the feeling of a hot bowl of flavoured water has been keeping me... well, "alive" would make it sound far too dramatic, but it's certainly cheered me up a bit.

Would be nice if I could muster up the motivation (and learn) to cook actual soup or something.

[Arx]

1. Gently cook vegetables and/or other stuff in butter/oil until softish I guess.
2. Add a bit of flour or whatever, allow to cook a bit.
3. Add a bunch of water and let simmer a bit.
4. Either consume, or introduce to high angular momentum blades and then consume.
5.
6. Soup.

[Ghills]

Made apple-cherry crumble the other day because we had a ton of both.  Downside: I'm not sure we can eat this all before it spoils. Going to give it my best effort though. 

Yeah, I find it much faster and easier to twitch the pan to loosen the cake and then flick it so the pancake flips through the air. Not only is it undoubtedly the most ninja way to cook breakfast, it's a bunch quicker and less messy (if your hand-eye coordination is good, anyway).

Easier?   

You are some kind of crazy kitchen ninja.  Or you use a ton of oil.  Or both.

[Arx]

Yeah, I find it much faster and easier to twitch the pan to loosen the cake and then flick it so the pancake flips through the air. Not only is it undoubtedly the most ninja way to cook breakfast, it's a bunch quicker and less messy (if your hand-eye coordination is good, anyway).

Easier?   

You are some kind of crazy kitchen ninja.  Or you use a ton of oil.  Or both.

Using a ton of oil would make it more messy. Which I guess means I'm a ninja? It's a skill learnt from Scouts, where such super serious things as pancake flipping competitions do happen.

[BFEL]

Swensons is so good. I am sad that I have eaten it all now.

They cook their burgers with brown sugar and then they have like barbeque and thousand island/bigmacishsauce on the burger and its SOOOO fuckin good. Also banana malt. I AM SO FULL OF SUGAR NAO

[Sirus]

Banana malt? Hoshit, I must try that next time I'm at a malt place.

[Akura]

Speaking of malt, I just picked up some Goya-brand Malta today. I was turned off by my mother saying it's "just non-alcoholic beer", which it's sorta not(it's the stuff beer is made of though). So, it's been sitting on the counter all day. Now, I really hate the smell of beer, let alone the taste, but I'm looking it up and various sources have said it smells like soy sauce and tastes like caramel or bran cereal. So... does anyone here have any opinion on what it tastes like. I'd rather not just toss it, since I'm still upset from losing a bag of groceries earlier today.