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[Iduno]

I love sourdough but it's definitely to taste. I know some people that can't stand it.

That's a good way to know which people are terrible and should not be allowed opinions about food.

Sourdough is best bread.

This is correct.

[Telgin]

I'd like to make bread, but running my oven in the summer is a bad idea; my air conditioner is already running most of the time.

Bake it at night maybe?  Unless it's sweltering even at night.

Unrelated, but I managed to set a tea bag on fire while making tea yesterday.  The little tab at the end of the string was dangling a little too close to the stove eye...

[Iduno]

I'd like to make bread, but running my oven in the summer is a bad idea; my air conditioner is already running most of the time.

Bake it at night maybe?  Unless it's sweltering even at night.

It's supposed to be ~19 C/66 F at the coolest point of the night (right at dawn). Looks like Sunday morning before dawn will be tolerable, except the for the being awake at that hour portion. Good advice, thank you.

[nenjin]

I'd like to make bread, but running my oven in the summer is a bad idea; my air conditioner is already running most of the time.

Bake it at night maybe?  Unless it's sweltering even at night.

Unrelated, but I managed to set a tea bag on fire while making tea yesterday.  The little tab at the end of the string was dangling a little too close to the stove eye...

You put the teabag in while it's still on the stove?

[Iduno]

I'd like to make bread, but running my oven in the summer is a bad idea; my air conditioner is already running most of the time.

Bake it at night maybe?  Unless it's sweltering even at night.

Unrelated, but I managed to set a tea bag on fire while making tea yesterday.  The little tab at the end of the string was dangling a little too close to the stove eye...

You put the teabag in while it's still on the stove?

I think tea is supposed to be added to boiling water. I have seen people (in the US only) add it to slightly warm water and try to get that to work. But I have also seen people (again, in the US) add the boiling water to a plastic gallon (~2 liter) pitcher, put in 2-3 of the cheapest tea bags (including the paper tag on the end of the string) into the pitcher, and add sugar until it's cloudy and brownish. Then then chill it and think that, instead of being horribly ashamed of their life decisions, they made something you could reasonably consume.

[Telgin]

Yeah, I normally just make tea with the little mixes that you can add to cold water, but decided to buy it in bulk and make it like normal people.  It said to add to boiling water, so I put it in the pot while it was on the stove top and still hot.  I wasn't sure if it needed to actually boil for a while or if just being hot enough was good enough so I left it there for a minute, and that's what I got for my trouble.

[Ulfarr]

I thought you are supposed to put the tea into warm but not boiling water ~70-80 C.

Also don't put boiling water to just any plastic containers. If the container's walls are too thin it might get pierced or shrunk and you might get yourself burned from the spill (it happened to me with certain soda bottles when i tried to make a bed warmer) and if you are going to consume whatever you put inside you have to make sure that said plastic won't degrade/defuse into the liquid ( I think HDPE is the current standard for high temperature food grade polymers).

[nenjin]

Uhm, I boil water, put it in a tea kettle, then put my tea bags in. I didn't realize that makes me some kind of philistine in the tea world.

Sounds safer than draping combustible products over your stove though

[Ulfarr]

The tea crowd is going to crucify us for using tea bags anyway

[Imic]

I boil my water and pour it into a cup with a teabag, nothing more complicated than that. Sometimes I’ll stick a few teabags into a teapot and pour in some water if I want lots o’ tea.

[Iduno]

The tea crowd is going to crucify us for using tea bags anyway

Also, your body, for the plastics you're ingesting.

[Kagus]

Different kinds of teas "should" be steeped in different temperatures of water, for different amounts of time. Herbals are all over the place, black tea can usually withstand higher temperatures than green tea which can be damaged by near-boiling temps, and who the fuck even knows what kukicha is.

But as it turns out, most people don't know shit about tea and are perfectly fine putting some sort of vaguely hot water into a mug and leaving the bag in until the last drop. Like me.


I have a friend who's a massive coffee nerd and she's turned some attentions toward tea in recent months as well. Hence why I get to know about these things and how I'm doing it wrong.

[Ulfarr]

People drink hot coffee/tea because they like hot water but are too afraid to drink it by itself #changemymind#fightme

But as it turns out, most people don't know shit about tea and are perfectly fine putting some sort of vaguely hot water into a mug and leaving the bag in until the last drop. Like me.

I don't know shit about tea and I often just leave the bag inside until the end too

[Sirus]

I drink my tea













iced.

* Sirus flees

[Max™]

Ok so you know how sometimes with spaghetti you end up with no more noodles but there is still some meat and sauce left over?

Last time the mother-in-law made spaghetti she did some quick and easy provolone cheesetoast as well so after I ran out of noodles I scooped the last of the meat/sauce on one half of the toast and put the other on top to make a surprisingly nomnom sammich but I didn't know what to call it.

Since spaghetti is at least supposed to be pseudo-italian and the sammich resembles a sloppy joe I was spitballing names when the missus did the thing.

She says "sloppy guido?" and damned if that isn't the best one.

So now when I eat spaghetti I "finish it off with a sloppy guido" which is in no way a crude sexual joke how dare you sir?