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[Frumple]

Y'know, 'till this day I had never thought to season frozen french fries prior to cooking. After, sure, but... never while they were still cold.

Turns out it works just like and just as well as seasoning unfrozen home fries. Think it does add like a minute or two to the cooking time, but the normal cooking time worked out just fine, just slightly less crunchy than I'd prefer.

Today's seasoning mix: Chill powder/black pepper/paprika 1:1:1 mix as main seasoning, then parsley, garlic powder, and rosemary (first time I've added rosemary to the mix, but checking online to see if seasoning frozen fries had any complications, it was recommended, so...) as supplementary, with a little bit (sub 1 serving) of olive oil to help it cover stuff. Light bit of shredded (fiesta, whatever the blazes gets put in that) cheese and very light sprinkle of bacon bits after it cooked. It, uh. It turned out really good.

E: Though next time is probably going to get a dash of cayenne. It'd be even better with just a hint of a kick to it. Probably some butter, too, I'unno.

[pisskop]

I buy alexia fries and I presalt and pregarlic them

figured I was being selfish

P: should prefunction that by saying I watch my own intake, even if it isnt 'ideal', so while a treat, it isnt just an excuse to dump sodium.

[Frumple]

Dunno why it'd be selfish? 'Bout the worst thing about frozen fries is usually the sodium in 'em, and as things go they're usually not that bad on the salt front. Just don't go too crazy on them or eat light for the rest of the day and you're good.

I'd totes recommend doing more than just salt and garlic, though, especially for fries what already got salt in 'em. You can go pretty wild on seasoning spud and it'll still taste real good, so... go wild

[Kagus]

Won't the heat and time required for frozen fries end up cooking off a lot of volatiles like garlic, chili, pepper and the like?

[dragdeler]

Great now I lust for fries drowned in sourcream red cabbage and pulled chicken.

[pisskop]

As you should.

If you let the frozen fries defrost prior to cooking they wont unless youre deep frying them

[Frumple]

Won't the heat and time required for frozen fries end up cooking off a lot of volatiles like garlic, chili, pepper and the like?

It sure didn't taste like it :V

At least for air frying, frozen spud only needs to cook for, like... two or three more minutes at the same heat, or something like that? There's barely any difference in cooking time between frozen and homemade, and pre-seasoned home fries come out the cooker tastin' even better than they do if you season after you pull them out, least to me.

So that... might be a concern if you're oil/deep frying? I don't think it would, because the last few times I've actually used an oil fryer with pre-seasoned home fries, while some of the seasoning did come off in the cooking oil, most of it cooked into the fries real well -- and as with air frying, doing frozen doesn't actually change your cooking profile much in terms of time or heat.

Most other cooking methods it's definitely neither hot enough nor cooked long enough to burn off much seasoning, in any case. Like, idle checking suggests it happens to some degree, but from what I've seen all my life, if you throw a pile of black pepper (or whatever) onto spud before cooking it, there's still going to be a pile of black pepper on it even if some amount of it cooks off, and that's true if you're boiling it, baking it, frying it, air frying it, microwaving it, pan cooking it, grilling it, steaming it, and probably some method or another I'm forgetting. I can't remember if I've broiled or braised potatoes before, but now I kinda' wanna' try braised potatoes...

[MrRoboto75]

Dumbass of a friend suggested I get into streaming as my next big career.

Like there isn't thousands of unsuccessful streamers for every one good one.

Like I don't have the charisma of a half brined pickle.

Like I don't have a face for radio.

Told them my job is shitty and underpaying, just do a job that's 1 in a million chance successful of working and still underpaying, or another job just as shitty and underpaying for exactly the same reason (uber). Just like people that tell me to pull a self owned business out of my ass, like 90% don't fail in a year.

[hector13]

Oh ffs Roboto just do it. You don’t get to tell other people what they like, and if you can get to the point you can live off the income without being super-duper popular, more power to you.

Stop looking for reason to not do something and do it.

Like, if you want to I mean. Do you, not what someone wants you to be.

[MrRoboto75]

Having realistic expectations is "reasons not to do something", okay.

[hector13]

If you have expectations it’ll fail you’re not going to lose out much if it does. You might even enjoy yourself on the journey to that point

[nenjin]

If you crave attention, you'll do it. That's what sets streamers aside from others. They want celebrity and they'll chase it even if they're not successful, at all or at first. If you don't have that fundamental craving for fame I don't see a reason to try.

[lemon10]

I very much agree with Roberto. Going into streaming with the expectation of actually making money and being able to pay your bills with it is borderline delusional.

Like if you enjoy streaming as a hobby then great, do it. If its your dream, then sure, pursue it.
For the average person however into it to make money is an absolutely terrible idea.

[dragdeler]

Well it could work, charles white isn't exactly the king of inflection...


What is much more essential: do you enjoy speaking and commenting while you play a game? Because that is exhausting, not everybody is good at it, and thats what seperates the wheat from the chaff. But since you get to pick the topics you engage with I do not think autism is really a barrier.


hihihi senior roberto I find this funnier than it has any right to be

[Jopax]

Had our bi-annual health checkup at work, turns out I have some degree of color blindness. Never really noticed much of a problem in the past 30 years tho :V