oats_son
1d ago
For me, our house gets a bunch of Chewy boxes in the mail, so spare cardboard is handy at about any moment.
I hope I abuse this smaller grill enough to break it so I can get a proper Weber kettle soon.
oats_son
2d ago
I've experimented a little with marinades before when trying to perfect my fajitas, but there are some things I am unsure about with them still. For instance, do you always throw your marinade out once you're done with the meat? It seems a bit of a waste to me. Glazing it on is an option I've seen floated, but that seems like it adds extra considerations. And let's say that my marinade is 100% acid. How long is it safe to leave the meat marinating in it? How about 50%? I know that meat gets mealy if you marinate too long, but I don't know how long it needs to get an effect at all.
Since fajitas are just about my favorite meal, maybe I can give grilled pork or chicken fajitas a shot. Also, I can see clearly that I'll need to order a couple thermometers to do grilling correctly. Thankfully, chicken thighs are forgiving. I will take your leg quarter advice under consideration. They do really well in the oven anyway. I tried a soy honey marinade once with leg quarters, and then baked it in with the marinade, but it just turned out really watery and the soy honey flavor didn't come through very well.
oats_son
2d ago
Yes! Yes! This is the grilling content I wanted! Thanks for the amazingribs link.
I do not possess lighter fluid. I figured even if it was true that lighter fluid burned off before it got on the food, a charcoal chimney would probably be cheaper over a long period of time because you do not have to buy fluid continuously.
I have a very tiny 14 inch used Char-Broil tabletop kettle grill. We'll see if I can do two-zone with that.
I think the first thing I cook will be brats and chicken thighs and then maybe chicken leg quarters, too. I might try grilling up the cabbage in the fridge. Do you do marinades or anything like that? My lazy air frying usually involves just seasoned salt and a meat and it usually turns out pretty great, but then my uncle (who grills a lot) avails me of his complicated adventures involving brining and marinades and rubs and I feel bad.
I'm too cheap to experiment with steaks. Steaks are very expensive, especially lately.
oats_son
2d ago
$50 grill, are you buying used? About the only new thing I see in that price is a Weber Smokey Joe, which is probably not most people's ideal grill for most things. What model you got?
You have to be careful to make sure you don't have a hot spot at one end where the burgers burn and a cold spot at the other where they're raw.
Two-zone grilling follows a philosophy of having a hot spot and a cold spot so that you have indirect cooking and direct cooking. Sear and then move over. You don't do that?
oats_son
2d ago
Grilling. Do you grill? What do you grill? How do you grill? What are you grilling with? How often?
Recently I had an incident where I wanted to cook a meal at my grandmother's house, but for four people, I didn't see any way to make multiple pounds of nicely and uncontroversially roasted meat without using an oven. So now I want to learn charcoal grilling, but the Weber charcoal chimney is in the mail, so I must burn with passion regarding grilling quietly to myself. Charcoal grilling seems a lot better to me because it's a lot more unique than stovetop, offers unique flavors, offers variety like smoking meats, and has way less moving parts and the grills cost a lot less and they seem generally more portable. Also I hate running out of propane in the middle of a cook. I actually haven't used the propane grill much because it feels like a hassle compared to stovetop. So if it's a hassle either way, I might as well pick charcoal, is the way I see it.
oats_son
4d ago
Grave of the Fireflies may be my favorite anime film, and ranks very highly among all general films for me. What don't you like about the motif?
oats_son
8d ago
oats_son
9d ago
Since I asked my question about protein Sunday, I went and bought a proper food scale and found that a pound of meat really isn't that much after all. In fact, my default "gonna eat some air fried pork or chicken with some seasoned salt on it now" meal is around a pound. And two chicken leg quarters seem to weigh something over 2 pounds before cooking, with the bones weighing something negligible like 3 or 4 ounces between them, which makes it make sense that I don't want to eat any more chicken after eating two chicken leg quarters.
Now my question is: what's the cheapest protein nowadays, and what protein isn't even worth your time? A few years ago, I tried tracking "protein per dollar". I think chicken breast and chicken thighs ranked pretty high in protein per dollar, but dried beans made a pretty good showing, too. The problem with beans in my opinion is that they're pretty high calorie for the protein they have on offer, and they also need a good amount of fat on top of that to make them palatable. Bad deal, I think.
Kettlebell get-ups and swings are fun. Get-ups are surprisingly tiring and work out a surprising amount of your body, and kettlebell swings are pretty exhausting. I'm wondering when I should start trying some of the exercises later in the book; I started doing one-armed swings the other day, and my left hand somehow didn't know how to grip like the right hand did and I ended up going too far away from a hook grip and every swing pinched the base of my fingers. This incident really progressed the state of my calluses.
oats_son
10d ago
Hmm, I may have a skewed idea of how much a pound of meat looks like. Maybe I really ought to start tracking like some other people say in this thread. My kitchen scale kind of sucks. Maybe I'll buy a neat digital one.
oats_son
11d ago
1 gram per kilogram is pretty hard to get, though, isn't it? You'd have to eat like, a pound of chicken thighs to get that far. That's a lot of meat... I try to get some protein in every meal, but that's kind of a lot.
oats_son
11d ago
Lifters in this thread, do you track your calories or try to hit protein targets? I didn't really advance my lifts very much when I was doing barbell training last year, and I'm seeing on reddit that apparently properly bulking is a big component of lifting nowadays. But I don't know how much I want to do dieting stuff.
oats_son
14d ago
Way to call it. And then it happened anyway. What an obnoxious thing to do. I don't understand. I think humans should have less variability in behavior.
oats_son
23d ago
My kettlebell finally came in the mail. The thing is a lot more intimidating in person, and just doing the "halo" move is sort of exhausting. The "face-the-wall" squat (thank you for being Russian themed, Pavel) feels easy, and I have yet to try the "pump" warmup exercise or the main Turkish get-up exercise. The swings are surprisingly exhausting, though I am still not quite sure I am doing it with proper form, though I managed to swing it with a towel attached like the book said and it went okay. It's fun. I will take it slow and try to find the right spot to swing it in, but I can already feel it in my legs and back, and arms a little bit, though I'm not sure how, since the swing doesn't really seem to use arms much.
oats_son
28d ago
You'll be disappointed by my answer. I just cook the fish. I never really cared that much about the taste of raw fish. The texture is interesting, but I never could taste any subtleties. The thing I like most about sushi at home is the hot vinegared rice; salted cooked salmon or trout is good in it, and so is cooked chicken, and so are the other crap I like to add. Spicy mayo can taste good on the top or inside, unagi sauce can taste good on the top or inside, but usually I just dip each piece in some tamari soy sauce and have at it.
As for fish, yes, I have a sushi book that says flash frozen is best. I think freezing at all will kill parasites, so if you're paranoid, you can just freeze it yourself. Or just cook it.
oats_son
28d ago
I manage it by not eating during the workday or anything for breakfast at all. I look forward to the black coffee I have after noon. I also take a nap at lunchtime.
My real weakness is the weekends. The association of home = food time is very strong for me. Not eating at all at work is comparatively extremely easy, especially since my boss stopped ordering full pizzas for lunch and letting me have the leftovers multiple times per week.
Related: for some reason, when I am by myself, I am never motivated to go get fast food or takeout or eat anywhere except home.
oats_son
28d ago
Now he probably valued money over self actualization(no one dreams of becoming an accountant, let’s be real) when he was ~20, which is a red tribe value that does go a ways towards explaining the conservative under representation in academia
Yes, thank you for saying this. Conservatives tend to be a lot more practical about career choice, and working at a museum just isn't the kind of thing you can make a career out of that can support a family. When I was growing up, my parents told me a big long list of careers I should not get into, including music and art.
oats_son
28d ago
Posts get pretty bloated if you want to say something snappy but then also have to put in every single thing wrong with gender changing operations. I see this as a point where pretty much everyone knew what hydroacetylene was getting at, but more... analytical? minded people could want to demonstrate that that argument alone is bad. I suppose he should have written it better. I've always gotten annoyed at the "I know what you meant but let's argue out the phrasing" types.
oats_son
28d ago
Great post and actually reverses my opinion. You've Singal-pilled me. I don't understand how any of those studies can be taken seriously by anyone else, but I guess it is important we get anything at all to satiate the people pushing this before axing it. Though I will point out that there are still plenty of communists, even though the communist experiment has failed several times over now.
I guess I'm Singal-pilled in that I see the utility in continuing experiments. I don't actually care if they're government funded or not. Certainly, if I was cutting research, research into something I despise would be one of the first things I cut. But, more nuanced than what I thought, I guess.
oats_son
28d ago
What's cookin' this weekend, The Motte?
Ever since I restarted intermittent fasting, my passion for creating and eating exotic foods has increased quite dramatically, since I'm thinking about food nearly constantly in the latter half of the workday. It is probably for the same reason that I am torn about what I should be doing: creating new exotic foods with ingredients from the Asian grocery store? Eating old food that I don't even know exists yet? Or maybe I should be going cheap and cooking up old beans in the cabinet or roasting/boiling some chicken leg quarters?
Yesterday I went with a compromise option, maki sushi with slightly old frozen fish that had been taking up space for a while, along with some taberu rayu (Japanese spicy chili oil) I had never been brave enough to actually use. It was great. Now there seem to be plans for going to a new wings place tomorrow, which really throws a wrench in the rest of the dinner plans, if you ask me, but I also have been craving wings recently, too, so not the worst thing in the world.
oats_son
29d ago
My God, yes. I got so mad seeing the ~40k year old human fossils be buried. On the one hand, we're enlightened by science and we don't need this pesky Christianity anymore. On the other hand, give into (some of! not even all of them are calling for this!) the natives' homebrewed ideas about what belongs to whom and ancient customs and destroy priceless artifacts. Western civilization deserves to die if it's gonna be like this.
It seems like no country anywhere can stand up to indigenous peoples when they want something unreasonable. Even the Russians caved when it came to the Siberian Ice Queen. Look at this, too. Thirteen thousand year old kid. Modern Native Americans don't even have any more claim to that than we do, man. There's no way their cultures resemble each other at all at that point. And I don't see European natives kicking up a fuss that Otzi the Ice Man got dug up and put on display.
oats_son
29d ago
A return to 2000s norms on this is hardly a wrong. The only reason we're here at all is due to about a decade of Overton window pushing. When these studies and techniques are the best they've got to offer on a fight they picked, it's a moral imperative to just kill it without even asking anymore.
I'm an American and I care, but I am assuming that like always, people will take what they want from Europe and sneer at the stuff they don't like. That goes for both sides. One side sneers at TERF Island but praises the public healthcare that it has (such as it is), one side praises the lockdown pullbacks and other Covid studies from Scandinavia but sneers at their high tax rate and large safety net. Seems like the good-science-enthusiasts have been getting Ws out of the area, though.
Edit: The comment got deleted. It asked something about whether Americans care about what happens in Europe, mentioning the Cass Report and the slow pullback of gender affirming care for minors across the continent.
I'm glad someone finally posted it, but I would not say that it's flown under the radar. TracingWoodgrains also saw it yesterday pretty quickly.
If disparate impact was a part of the Civil Rights act, and if it's been upheld by the Supreme Court previously (I thought it had), how can it be eliminated with an executive order? Is the hope that it gets adjudicated by the courts and eventually stricken down?
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