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    i've been watching loads of videos about cheesemaking while killing time in my folks' house. they're very relaxing.
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    ah!
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    too much rice? you weigh it? i just use the 'one third of a mug per portion' option when i do it.
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    We were in Lidl earlier and they have a (not steel) Bluetooth kitchen scales. If ever I've seen an appliance that doesn't need Bluetooth capability...
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    a few years before my wife went veggie, we bought a whole lamb from a place called fieldstown farm in north dublin. was interesting, learning how to use the less used cuts; the slow cooker was handy for some of the fattier ones.
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    This chap paid a little extra to have all the meat blast frozen in some place in Blanchardstown, was saying he was warned against loading that much meat at room temperature in a freezer in one go.
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    i was once talking to a chap who bought a whole cow for the beef. i think it cost him about €1600 and it filled three large freezers.
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    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-06-09/sriracha-makers-shortage-warning-has-spice-lovers-sweating
  9. M

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    someone needs to open up a cafe serving the likes of the above and call it 'the minestrone cowboy'.
  10. M

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    yeah, very easy to make a good tomato and basil soup without a load of ingredients.
  11. M

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    it prevents cancer, too.
  12. M

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    *your* biggest fart, or *the* biggest fart, of 2021?
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    not sure if you're being euphemistic or not.
  14. M

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    i have a slow wet grinder (for the woodturning) which is good for reprofiling an edge, but i really need to get a decent whetstone.
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    i learned a while back that there's quite an active kitchen knife and knife sharpening ecosystem on youtube. often young american men who are inordinately proud of how sharp they can get their knives. i am unsure of their actual level of cooking skills though.
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time very interesting. it doesn't mention why 'chicken' was first to market, but i assume it's because it's a more uniform meat, it'd be much harder to do some sort of ribeye with fatty marbling, etc.
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    for my 40th, my brother and sister in law got myself and my wife a day's cooking lesson in saba. was good fun, and featured more food than i think i've ever eaten in my life. not cheap though, as i found out after; €150 each. but that seems to be the going rate for a day long cookery lesson in...
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