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My pre-coffee brain sees neither punchline nor mention of laundry and is confused.
Blackberry cobbler sounds amazing, however.
I'm not at work, so the laundry I did last night was mine, which doesn't bother me. Also, surprisingly, not everything I say is a joke.My pre-coffee brain sees neither punchline nor mention of laundry and is confused.
Blackberry cobbler sounds amazing, however.
Lol! That is hilarious!!
Shirley you are joking.
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There really is no accounting for taste.
As a "special treat" for the family, on Thursday I picked up a package of Nestle Toll House Cookie dough. Last night I made cookies.
GothBard and I agreed: They were flavorless and awful. We'll never buy them again, and will continue to wonder how Nestle manages to make a profit when their products are so amazingly poor.
This morning Impus Minor got up, said, "Morning cookies!", then told me I should buy them again because they're good.
I won't. I'll just make cookies from scratch. Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
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ALL(DE) has an engineering degree (or part of an engineering degree), so I'm not sure why it's my job to do the fixy fixy things whenever I go around, but it is. Most likely she's just flattering the male ego. Today, it was chairs; I did a better job of those than I have with the abomination in the back garden, which becomes more of a horrific bodge-job the more gooderer I try to make it.
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Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Impus Minor is still a teenagers right? I mean, I ate some utter crap as a teenagers that I wouldnt eat today because of the horrid taste. But hungry is hunry and growing teenagers hungry is a special kind of hungry I found out.
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I'll just be honest and say that I think that dough tastes fine cooked, not great but warm cookies of pretty much ANY kind are better than even the world's best cookie when it is cold/solid.
Regardless, it's probably not a fair judge because we grab that from the store the wife and I usually just end up eating it raw far before we preheat the oven.
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As they say, "Hunger is the best spice." "Free food is tastiest."
But warm chocolate chip cookies and brownies are enough to make me cry tears of joy.
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There really is no accounting for taste.
As a "special treat" for the family, on Thursday I picked up a package of Nestle Toll House Cookie dough. Last night I made cookies.
GothBard and I agreed: They were flavorless and awful. We'll never buy them again, and will continue to wonder how Nestle manages to make a profit when their products are so amazingly poor.
This morning Impus Minor got up, said, "Morning cookies!", then told me I should buy them again because they're good.
I won't. I'll just make cookies from scratch. Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Or you need to make cookies more often.
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Impus Minor is still a teenagers right? I mean, I ate some utter crap as a teenagers that I wouldnt eat today because of the horrid taste. But hungry is hunry and growing teenagers hungry is a special kind of hungry I found out.Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Right?
In high school, I loved microwavable frozen burritos. The Kwik-e-mart kind.
Also fat-free yogurt spread over Eggos.
In college, my favorite breakfast was a packet of Hostess Sno-Balls and a Coke.
I like to pretend that my palate has grown more sophisticated with age, but Nobody's Home can attest to my fondness for Que Bueno queso.
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Or you need to make cookies more often.There really is no accounting for taste.
As a "special treat" for the family, on Thursday I picked up a package of Nestle Toll House Cookie dough. Last night I made cookies.
GothBard and I agreed: They were flavorless and awful. We'll never buy them again, and will continue to wonder how Nestle manages to make a profit when their products are so amazingly poor.
This morning Impus Minor got up, said, "Morning cookies!", then told me I should buy them again because they're good.
I won't. I'll just make cookies from scratch. Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Everybody needs to make cookies more often. The world would be a happier place with less rancid b!~@&@$+. You can't fight while you're eating a good cookie.
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Impus Minor is still a teenagers right? I mean, I ate some utter crap as a teenagers that I wouldnt eat today because of the horrid taste. But hungry is hunry and growing teenagers hungry is a special kind of hungry I found out.Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Right?
In high school, I loved microwavable frozen burritos. The Kwik-e-mart kind.
Also fat-free yogurt spread over Eggos.
In college, my favorite breakfast was a packet of Hostess Sno-Balls and a Coke.I like to pretend that my palate has grown more sophisticated with age, but Nobody's Home can attest to my fondness for Que Bueno queso.
I used to eat Hot Pockets regularly when I was in High School/Middle School. Can't stand eating them regularly anymore. One is a infrequent delight, two is "what is this garbage I'm eating?"
Froot Loops and beer.
My friend's "Breakfast of Champions" whenever he was hung over.
Which was a LOT.
Everybody needs to make cookies more often. The world would be a happier place with less rancid b*!@$$**.Or you need to make cookies more often.There really is no accounting for taste.
As a "special treat" for the family, on Thursday I picked up a package of Nestle Toll House Cookie dough. Last night I made cookies.
GothBard and I agreed: They were flavorless and awful. We'll never buy them again, and will continue to wonder how Nestle manages to make a profit when their products are so amazingly poor.
This morning Impus Minor got up, said, "Morning cookies!", then told me I should buy them again because they're good.
I won't. I'll just make cookies from scratch. Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
No, no, no... It would end with mess, tears, spilled flour, drying batter everywhere, and burnt cookies. No. I prefer to buy them.
Also, I might have eaten too many petit beurres today and I do not want to look at more cookies. For a hour or two, at least.
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Impus Minor is still a teenagers right? I mean, I ate some utter crap as a teenagers that I wouldnt eat today because of the horrid taste. But hungry is hunry and growing teenagers hungry is a special kind of hungry I found out.Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Right?
In high school, I loved microwavable frozen burritos. The Kwik-e-mart kind.
Also fat-free yogurt spread over Eggos.
In college, my favorite breakfast was a packet of Hostess Sno-Balls and a Coke.I like to pretend that my palate has grown more sophisticated with age, but Nobody's Home can attest to my fondness for Que Bueno queso.
As a teenager I was once so hungry I went trough 1,5 plate of cold pasta salad before the taste even hit me. I think cold pasta salad is disgusting.
I started playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla, should be a fun time!
I'm pretty far in Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut as well. Definitely one of the best games ever in my opinion.
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Fantasy NPC: Peeping Hob. A peeping ghost of a dead peeper.
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Today I Found Out...
...that ping-pong balls are almost exactly the same diameter as the downspouts for Dutch gutters; they're just small enough to drop into the downspout and completely block it.
Curse you, kids!
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Everybody needs to make cookies more often. The world would be a happier place with less rancid b%#%+*@+. You can't fight while you're eating a good cookie.Or you need to make cookies more often.There really is no accounting for taste.
As a "special treat" for the family, on Thursday I picked up a package of Nestle Toll House Cookie dough. Last night I made cookies.
GothBard and I agreed: They were flavorless and awful. We'll never buy them again, and will continue to wonder how Nestle manages to make a profit when their products are so amazingly poor.
This morning Impus Minor got up, said, "Morning cookies!", then told me I should buy them again because they're good.
I won't. I'll just make cookies from scratch. Not much harder, much better, and I need to teach the boy some taste.
Challenge accepted! I'm going to try that tomorrow, and probably spray damp crumbs all over the inside of my fencing mask in the process. Mmm lovely.
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I spent nine hours in Hermione's room today unpacking the last of the boxes from our move, organizing and cleaning. I didn't finally change out of my pajamas or get a shower until 430, and now all that remains of the day is cooking dinner and catching up on laundry.
But.
It's done.
And now I can finally focus on getting my own room finished.
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Also, I'm making Cuban roast pork and black beans and rice for dinner, if anyone feels like coming over.
Just had a guy check in. Asked him to put on a mask. He said "I'm vaccinated." I said "Illinois requires masks regardless of vaccination status." His reply? "Well, what's the f@$#ing point of getting vaccinated if you still gotta wear a mask?"
I was thinking "If you only got vaxed so you wouldn't have to wear a mask, you did it for the wrong reason." But he did put on a mask. Briefly. He took it off as soon as he walked away from the desk.
You at least have the option of requesting guests wear masks.
Our Management at Ye Olde Locale Retaile Chaine in the same state apparently had reproductive organ removal surgery because:
A; The rule is 'Masks indoors'
B. We have masks available for customers should they need them.
C. Management refuses to tell customers to put masks on, because "It'd be bad for the customer shopping experience."
D. Said Management has been giving those of us who have been practicing 'safe' social distancing have been getting Looks and the maskless have been complaining non-stop that we're not helping them.
Well, our section of the store is down to six people (from nine pre-pandemic, we recently picked up a couple of part-timers, but one of our full-timers is out with a long-term injury).
If any of us get sick, there won't be anyone else to pretend to cover the bases!
Hi there, John!
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Today I Found Out...
...that ping-pong balls are almost exactly the same diameter as the downspouts for Dutch gutters; they're just small enough to drop into the downspout and completely block it.Curse you, kids!
You learn something new every day
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Today's a fine example of how well we in the U.S. deal with mental health.
Impus Minor's feeling low, and would like to take a "mental health" day. We do it all the time at work (up to 10 sick days/year for any reason, including just needing a day off), and in college, heck, they really don't particularly care whether or not you show up to a particular lecture.
But the high school's policy could have been included in Catch-22 without anyone batting an eye:
(1) The only valid reasons for taking a sick day are illnesses (list of symptoms), medical appointment, death in the family, religious reasons, court appearance, or "exclusion from school for contagious disease".
(2) If you cross-check the list of "valid" symptoms from (1) against the list of COVID symptoms they provide, there's a 100% match.
(3) If a student has a matching symptom from (2), they must self-isolate for 10 days.
So, either I lie and make up a death in the family or a religious holiday, or Impus Minor has to stay home for 10 days because he wants a day off.
Stupid, stupid school district. (OK, this time it's the state's fault, but still...)
I'll be SO happy when my kids have graduated.
Can he not just take the day off as an "unexcused" absence? My school had those. You could just not show up, not offering any reason, if you wanted. If you did it too often, you would get punished. Lunch detention, then after-school detention, then in-school suspension, possibly even expulsion if you did it too much. But a day or two each semester? Not that big a deal.Today's a fine example of how well we in the U.S. deal with mental health.
Impus Minor's feeling low, and would like to take a "mental health" day. We do it all the time at work (up to 10 sick days/year for any reason, including just needing a day off), and in college, heck, they really don't particularly care whether or not you show up to a particular lecture.
But the high school's policy could have been included in Catch-22 without anyone batting an eye:
(1) The only valid reasons for taking a sick day are illnesses (list of symptoms), medical appointment, death in the family, religious reasons, court appearance, or "exclusion from school for contagious disease".(2) If you cross-check the list of "valid" symptoms from (1) against the list of COVID symptoms they provide, there's a 100% match.
(3) If a student has a matching symptom from (2), they must self-isolate for 10 days.
So, either I lie and make up a death in the family or a religious holiday, or Impus Minor has to stay home for 10 days because he wants a day off.
Stupid, stupid school district. (OK, this time it's the state's fault, but still...)
I'll be SO happy when my kids have graduated.
Yeah, the school allows two unexcused absences PER YEAR. After that you get reported to the truancy office. The kid doesn't get detention -- I get threatening letters, threats to turn me over to Child Protective Services, etc.
The last year he was absent A LOT (I think 17 absences) I had to have a meeting with the principal, vice principal, and counselor to justify my actions.
So letting him take unexcused absences is a possibility, it's just one I'd like to use as a "last recourse". Considering this is the second day this semester he's wanted to take off (not exactly a truancy issue in my book), it would add up to 18 unexcused absences in the year and I'd be hosed and have to go to all kinds of stupid meetings.
Ghost of Tsushima continues to amaze me, if you don't have a playstation get one so you can play it, it's that good!
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Today's a fine example of how well we in the U.S. deal with mental health.
Impus Minor's feeling low, and would like to take a "mental health" day. We do it all the time at work (up to 10 sick days/year for any reason, including just needing a day off), and in college, heck, they really don't particularly care whether or not you show up to a particular lecture.
But the high school's policy could have been included in Catch-22 without anyone batting an eye:
(1) The only valid reasons for taking a sick day are illnesses (list of symptoms), medical appointment, death in the family, religious reasons, court appearance, or "exclusion from school for contagious disease".(2) If you cross-check the list of "valid" symptoms from (1) against the list of COVID symptoms they provide, there's a 100% match.
(3) If a student has a matching symptom from (2), they must self-isolate for 10 days.
So, either I lie and make up a death in the family or a religious holiday, or Impus Minor has to stay home for 10 days because he wants a day off.
Stupid, stupid school district. (OK, this time it's the state's fault, but still...)
I'll be SO happy when my kids have graduated.
It's both Uncle Sam Day AND Roald Dahl Day, if those aren't cause for a religious celebration then you're obviously living in the wrong place.
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Today's a fine example of how well we in the U.S. deal with mental health.
Impus Minor's feeling low, and would like to take a "mental health" day. We do it all the time at work (up to 10 sick days/year for any reason, including just needing a day off), and in college, heck, they really don't particularly care whether or not you show up to a particular lecture.
But the high school's policy could have been included in Catch-22 without anyone batting an eye:
(1) The only valid reasons for taking a sick day are illnesses (list of symptoms), medical appointment, death in the family, religious reasons, court appearance, or "exclusion from school for contagious disease".(2) If you cross-check the list of "valid" symptoms from (1) against the list of COVID symptoms they provide, there's a 100% match.
(3) If a student has a matching symptom from (2), they must self-isolate for 10 days.
So, either I lie and make up a death in the family or a religious holiday, or Impus Minor has to stay home for 10 days because he wants a day off.
Stupid, stupid school district. (OK, this time it's the state's fault, but still...)
I'll be SO happy when my kids have graduated.
Tell them you're considering converting to Judaism and you're celebrating the New Year a week late, just to try it out.
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Ghost of Tsushima continues to amaze me, if you don't have a playstation get one so you can play it, it's that good!
No.
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Today's a fine example of how well we in the U.S. deal with mental health.
Impus Minor's feeling low, and would like to take a "mental health" day. We do it all the time at work (up to 10 sick days/year for any reason, including just needing a day off), and in college, heck, they really don't particularly care whether or not you show up to a particular lecture.
But the high school's policy could have been included in Catch-22 without anyone batting an eye:
(1) The only valid reasons for taking a sick day are illnesses (list of symptoms), medical appointment, death in the family, religious reasons, court appearance, or "exclusion from school for contagious disease".(2) If you cross-check the list of "valid" symptoms from (1) against the list of COVID symptoms they provide, there's a 100% match.
(3) If a student has a matching symptom from (2), they must self-isolate for 10 days.
So, either I lie and make up a death in the family or a religious holiday, or Impus Minor has to stay home for 10 days because he wants a day off.
Stupid, stupid school district. (OK, this time it's the state's fault, but still...)
I'll be SO happy when my kids have graduated.
Surely the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. is a religious holiday in the US?
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Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
Let's see... handymen:
2002: Our realtor recommended a handyman to brace our bathroom floor, replace the toilet, and install a kitchen drain. Within 10 years the toilet leaked and the kitchen drain broke.
2004: We got a tankless water heater put in by a cranky retired engineer. It's been an unbelievable workhorse, but the man would do nothing but tankless water heaters. "I'm retired. I don't do work I don't want to."
2006-2008: We had a guy who did work on both houses. In spite of our insistence that he use high-quality materials and spend the time to do things right, he cut corners every time our backs were turned, and every single thing he's done has fallen apart in one way or another.
2021: With COVID, it would be around $1000 for a half-day's work. I'd rather learn to fix the door myself.
Shiro put it brutally well: "A handyman is a guy who couldn't cut it working for a general contractor. It says something either about their work ethic or the quality of their work. Take your pick."
Yes. There are exceptions. True artisans who are magnificent craftspeople. But how the heck do you FIND them? I sure haven't had any luck.
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Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
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This is the 'mission creep' of home repair.
When you get to the door sill and start working on that you'll find that there is something ELSE that needs doing that you've ALSO been putting off, and then that will lead to another thing... and by the time you get done doing the fifth item on the list you've temporarily forgotten the reason you started on the path of repair in the first place.
This is also how my Mom plans does home repairs. Sometimes she does this chain so quickly she's six to ten jobs away from whatever she started at. So my Dad, who's much more practical, focused, and to the point will ask her "I thought you were working on 'X' and not 'AAAA', what do you need me to do for 'AAAA' -- and then get a blank stare
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Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
** spoiler omitted **
This is the 'mission creep' of home repair.
When you get to the door sill and start working on that you'll find that there is something ELSE that needs doing that you've ALSO been putting off, and then that will lead to another thing... and by the time you get done doing the fifth item on the list you've temporarily forgotten the reason you started on the path of repair in the first place.
This is also how my Mom
plansdoes home repairs. Sometimes she does this chain so quickly she's six to ten jobs away from whatever she started at. So my Dad, who's much more practical, focused, and to the point will ask her "I thought you were working on 'X' and not 'AAAA', what do you need me to do for 'AAAA' -- and then get a blank stare
Fortunately, I have a simple stop: The wood framing under the porch is mostly rotted through. Within the next 5-10 years I have to have someone remove and rebuild our entire porch. So if it isn't a quick cosmetic fix that I want to last for a few years (the sidelight; the door sill), I'm not inclined to do it.
Ghost of Tsushima continues to amaze me, if you don't have a playstation get one so you can play it, it's that good!No.
It is heading to PC soon.
Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
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We finally found a handyman (plus crew) that we really like.
He's a foreman for another GC, does side jobs evenings/weekends under his own name with a couple of guys he likes and trusts, and charges reasonable rates for pretty good work. But, they are infuriatingly slow getting things done because they're working around their other schedules.
Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
** spoiler omitted **
We finally found a handyman (plus crew) that we really like.
He's a foreman for another GC, does side jobs evenings/weekends under his own name with a couple of guys he likes and trusts, and charges reasonable rates for pretty good work. But, they are infuriatingly slow getting things done because they're working around their other schedules.
Yeah, Whingy was positively offended I never called the handyman he recommended, so don't tell him I'm doing the work on my own and complaining about handyman again. I'll never hear the end of it.
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Yeah, Whingy was positively offended I never called the handyman he recommended, so don't tell him I'm doing the work on my own and complaining about handyman again. I'll never hear the end of it.Signs That You Are A Homeowner:
(1) NobodysHome tries to throw keys to GothBard, misses, and they fly right through the sidelight, shattering it (safety glass, you know).
(2) NobodysHome thinks, "Oh, good. While I'm pulling off the wood to fix the sidelight I can pull the wood around the door sill and replace it as well; I've needed to do that forever."
** spoiler omitted **
We finally found a handyman (plus crew) that we really like.
He's a foreman for another GC, does side jobs evenings/weekends under his own name with a couple of guys he likes and trusts, and charges reasonable rates for pretty good work. But, they are infuriatingly slow getting things done because they're working around their other schedules.
Oh, did he recommend Aikido Bill?
He does excellent work, but he is a grade-A d****ebag a*****e.He brought a date to Aidan's funeral.
F*** him.
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He brought a date to [any] funeral.
I've done some Questionable S**t in my life. That is not, and never shall be, one of them.
Oh, did he recommend Aikido Bill?
He does excellent work, but he is a grade-A d****ebag a*****e.
He brought a date to Aidan's funeral.
F*** him.
I am speechless.
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Cookie Fail #2:
I decided to try homemade cookies, so I bought some Ghiradelli chips and make the recipe from their bag.
I was extremely concerned: 2 1/4 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and one teaspoon of baking soda.
For those of you who don't cook, breakfast items such as pancakes and waffles typically use a ratio of 2 teaspoons per cup (so this recipe was already around 1/4 of what I'd expect), and use baking powder. The huge difference? Baking soda requires an acid to release its carbon dioxide, while baking powder only requires enough heat or moisture to liquify the built-in acid.
Someone puts it really well: Baking soda is 3-4x stronger than baking powder, but there must be acid in the recipe. Vanilla? Eggs? Butter? Sugar? Flour? Chocolate chips? Salt? Those are all the rest of the ingredients, and I don't see any acid there.
So yeah, the cookies arose exactly 0% and are flat disks.
The flavor isn't nearly as good as the Nestle recipe, either (though better than the store-bought dough), so Ghiradelli's a loser.
Next trip: Nestle original recipe.
EDIT: Interesting. The article I was reading about baking soda vs. baking powder also mentioned that if you didn't use an acid to neutralize the baking soda, your dish would have a metallic aftertaste. Impus Minor complained that the cookies are "really salty". I think he's tasting that aftertaste.
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OK, I did due diligence, and apparently the general consensus is that baking soda will make chocolate chip cookies, but it's a PITA:
- You have to put the cookies in the oven the moment you're done mixing
- You can't mix too much (probably my mistake, as I use a mixer)
- The dough can't be too cold
- etc.
In short, if you're not ready to make a serious commitment to getting everything right, then baking soda cookies aren't for you.
And now I know...
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OK, I did due diligence, and apparently the general consensus is that baking soda will make chocolate chip cookies, but it's a PITA:
- You have to put the cookies in the oven the moment you're done mixing
- You can't mix too much (probably my mistake, as I use a mixer)
- The dough can't be too cold
- etc.In short, if you're not ready to make a serious commitment to getting everything right, then baking soda cookies aren't for you.
And now I know...
I do not consider myself a good cook. However, I am good at the few things I do make. I've been told this by the survivors.
Cookies are not one of those things I'm good at. You can ask one of the survivors, if you can find any.