Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Il Palazzo]

I've been adding it in its dried and powdered form to meals since forever. But only when I made some caramelised ginger did I realise it's a proper hot condiment.
In a meal, the most noticeable taste component is the fruity, citrusy bit. And I suppose since the meals it goes into usually call for chillies as well, you don't immediately associate the resultant heat with ginger.
Also, when it's fresh, it doesn't exactly burn your everything like a chilli pepper.

[Frumple]

Yeah, it's a different kind of spicy. Stuff in it's related to capsaicin, but, y'know... ain't it. Milder, more or less. So it very much can have a burn to it, but it'd take shenanigans to get it to be managing chili pepper burn.

I don't cook with it much outside of whatever's in some of the other seasoning I use (mostly the curry powder, I think), but we've been keeping some ginger chew candy around the house lately, and it's got a noticeable kick to it. It's just not nearly as strident of one as say a red hot (spicy candy, for those that haven't encountered it) or actual chili (or even cayenne) pepper. It's a much smoother spicy, more soothing than painful.

[King Zultan]

That... so you were touching/prepping it, but never actually ate any? 'Cause you ain't gotta' be told that stuff is spicy, you just gotta' get some on your tongue, heh.

I don't usually eat stuff while helping make food, and didn't eat any of the stuff the ginger went into until way after I rubbed my eyes.

[Great Order]

the onion residue is nothing compared to chili pepper residue.

I don't know if I'm super sensitive to chillis, but I have to wear gloves when cutting them or I'll spend the next 24 hours feeling like my fingers have some low, deep burning in them. It's not an allergy because I can eat them fine, it's like the capsaicin just soaks into my fingers and can't be removed.

[bloop_bleep]

Capsaicin can indeed take effect through skin contact, according to Wikipedia.

[delphonso]

Just been a rough week. I'm meant to be on holiday, but feel more stressed and exhausted than usual.

Starting on the first day of my holiday, my daughter spent one night puking, had a fever, then developed a rash which luckily isn't chicken pox, then got bitten by a stray cat, and now seems back to normal...rash is allergen based, so creams and caution. Add on top of that, we haven't had hot water for a week (the water heater broke and shorted our entire apartment on the second day of my holiday). The repair guys are now on their fourth visit, and have removed a bathtub, opening a hole to the outside for rats to make their glorious entrance to our apartment. They'll be back Monday to 'finish it up'. Meanwhile, no running hot water.

A classic, when it rains it storms situation out here. Certainly could be worse, but looking forward to things being better too.

[scriver]

Get yer raburs checked delphons

[Great Order]

Looks like the What Birds Know webcomic's gone. Site seems to be dead and I can't find a mirror.

Shame, it was decent.

[heydude6]

Here's an archive on the wayback machine.

Buttons work and everything. Loading times are excruciating though. Apparently the comic was finished.

[Great Order]

Oh yeah, but the site was still up a year or two ago when I last checked.

[lemon10]

I ordered a set of gel pens because I've been drawing/coloring at work, and instead of it being 48 glitter pens and 48 non glitter pens with some metallic mixed in (as claimed) it was actually like 48 super glitter, 20 regular glitter, a dozen metallic, and 12 non-glitter.

Since I was only buying it for the non glitter and metalic pens and don't want glitter everywhere over my arms when I color stuff that the pack only had half as many actual pens I was going to use as I thought.

Ima return it and have already made the stupid decision to buy a more expensive one instead.

(If I was smart I would just spend like 10/20 bucks buying a small set of plain and another of metallic gel pens, but I ain't, so I won't)
E:
I've finally reached the teenage girl stage of my life.

[Frumple]

Probably going to be handing in my two weeks notice in the next day or three. Found out today the new boss considers this to be truthful and accurate material, and not far right propaganda by a right-wing conspiracy theorist and a further right wing religious school grifter. Ordered me to get it on our shelves, unchallenged, no material on differing viewpoints, nothing. It's arguably against our library's previous collection development policies, and 100% against our previous practices before they were hired -- our last director wouldn't touch shit that biased with a ten foot pole, and especially not without material from differing positions on the subject.

It's also pretty damn strongly against my personal and professional ethics and inclinations. I got no interest whatsoever in helping to turn a public library into a far right propaganda outlet. I ain't got the energy to fight it with everything else going on, but I damn sure don't have to be the one to help.

So... yeah. Kinda' sucks. I liked most of my coworkers pretty well, the actual work was something I could handle and enjoyable enough in its own right, but just. Nah. Fuck that noise, y'know?

[Kagus]

I mean, the top review does make it clear that this book is indeed "100% factual". So it must be true, despite whatever lingering misgivings some among us might have.

Just slightly further down the page and you can see someone else praising it as "Excitingly intellegent!"

[Frumple]

Boss's words were that they had worked in a public school for years and every word of the summary was correct, heh. Impressive how two people who'd never spent a day teaching in a public school managed that one, I guess.

[Magmacube_tr]

I am playing Terragenesis, a planet terraforming game thing. And there are these buildings that allow you to house lifeforms on the planet, as they are initially sterile. It is Reef Institude; it gives 3 lifeform slots and gives off 20 water and 10 oxygen. Cool, right?

WRONG

The ecology structures are only useful when all the planets parameters are already conductive of life! This fact makes its water and oxygen output not only completely useless, but also detrimental! Their addition of water and oxygen gradually increases them to levels too high to be conductive to life!

To prevent that, you have to build more structures to counter the additions, which creates more clutter! More you wanna build, even more you have to build to keep those in check!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-