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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    The wife's Mother lives a few blocks away and has three chickens, so we've been getting very fresh eggs (about a dozen a week) for about a year. The difference for stuff like poached eggs really is incredible. Seriously considering getting our own chickens. Coops honestly aren't that big and you...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Pasta squash (you roast the squash till it is soft and then make noodles by reaming it with a fork). Veggies of all kinds really, you'd be surprised how versatile and delicious vegetables are. The squash trick is just one thing you can do.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Collagen to gelatin reactions. At these temps the denaturing is very slow, so it takes a lot of time.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have one and for me it is worth it, because super fine texture matters to me. I will say when doing frozen cocktails everyone is always super impressed. That said it is very loud at full speed, so if that matters to you. My kitchen gadget use goes through rotations. I won't use my mixer for...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Basically this. The meat is usually, but not always, fried which is unusual. It is usually served with a softer than normal french bread, but normal french bread is fine. Etc. I lived in New Orleans for a year or two and the variation is pretty substantial.
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    Home Improvement

    Well the area I have to work with is 59" long and it can stick out as far as I need/is practical. Nothing in the way. We have a fair number of glasses and plan on adding more. We like the presentation of having brandy snifters, port glasses, etc., and they all have stems. So a big solution would...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I do pressure cooker stuff all the time. Modernist Cuisine has a huge section on it and you can do crazy things with it, like polenta or rice dishes in almost no time at all.
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    Home Improvement

    So I knocked down half a wall between the kitchen and the dining room and built a bar. There is a 4x8 beam directly above the middle of the bar so I can stably mount just about anything I want to it. What I want to mount to it is wine glass racks, projecting towards the kitchen side. But for the...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Try it out with the cooler version, see if you like it enough to justify the price tag. Which honestly isn't that much with some of the recent sales.
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    Heroes of the Storm

    Nope, happens to me too. Stream still going btw.
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    Heroes of the Storm

    I'm doing my first 24 hour stream and I'll be playing a lot of heroes. I intend to play with viewers, so if anyone wants to join in or watch. I'm not very good but I'm getting better. Twitch.tv/cavalierguest
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Modernist Cuisine has two preferred sear methods. Blowtorch is one, pan of oil hot enough to sear each side in 30s per side is the other. I prefer the latter for chicken, fish, and all but the tenderloin cut of pork. @Crone: If you want JUST a smoker, a wooden box, a hot plate, old corks, a...
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    Heroes of the Storm

    Playing around with the new rotation in QM for the next couple of hours if anyone wants to group. TheGentleman#1373
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It is used in smoke bombs and can be used to make various explosives. But since using it to make smoke bombs is a semi-common middle school science project, I think you're safe regardless of what you do with it. They aren't tracking thousands of eighth graders.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    All hardware stores have it... as a tree stump remover. Also available on Amazon. If you go to a local butcher, he'll either sell it to you or tell you where he gets it. It isn't a grocery store item, but is relatively easy to track down if you ask around. Also sold at feed stores in 5-10lb...
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    Hearthstone

    100% Kripp knew this was coming and Challengestone was his interpretation of how it might work.
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    Heroes of the Storm

    TheGentleman#1373 if anyone wants to add me. I'm a scrub, but I soak, go for objectives, and group after 10, which near as I can tell makes me better than at least half the people I get queued with.
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    Disneyland

    Touring Plans | Disney World | Disneyland | Universal Orlando | Disney Cruise Line - Vacation Planning Tools I highly encourage you to check that out. It is a group that does unofficial statistical analysis of all traffic patterns in the park. It can save you literally hours if you follow one...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have them all downloaded from way back, but yeah they are hard to find on YT.
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    Hearthstone

    My sample for Patron Warrior is 114 games (finished my golden Warrior with it). Granted some of that was early on when no one knew how to play around it. My historic win rate for control Warrior, across the last like four seasons, is right around 73%. But I like to switch classes too much, even...
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    Hearthstone

    People playing Patron are usually free wins, because the deck is hard. I've been avoiding playing Warrior since I got it golden which is a shame because historically it is my highest win class and I've been struggling to break into single-digits this season... and I play Patron Warrior well (85%...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    A dry aged steak taste the way it does because of the reduced water content, think of a watery sauce vs the luster of a reduced one, and because of a boost of activity in two enzymes.... and you can boost their activity by even more by wet aging your steak, via sous-vide. Adds two steps. Is very...
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    Hearthstone

    Fel Reaver actually did see play for a day... then everyone was running Boom. Even agro decks. So everyone was running BGH and in a meta where nearly everyone runs at least one BGH, Fel Reaver is awful.
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    Hearthstone

    The spell has a very simple check. Did Light heal it's target to full? No? Summon a Lightwarden. Was your dead minion healed to full? No. Lightwarden.
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    Emma Sulkowicz (mattress girl) releases sex tape as art project

    Speaking for the BDSM community: Yes, they are.
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    My little town needs your help! TITS, TITS and TITS!

    Nah. The one time we came close to losing Requiem made a script that made anyone visiting the homepage of FoH vote. Tyen's bot army only got involved in that one bullshit radio contest that had already decided who they wanted to win and changed the votes accordingly. FoH just had more traffic in...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I've noticed the ethnicity thing. I can cook Japanese (I have cooked 3/4 of Shizua Tsuji's Japanese Cooking), Vietnamese, Thai, and Mexican. I can do a little bit of Korean (mostly Korean BBQ style dishes). There isn't a standard meat that I can't break down/work with (I've butchered a whole...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yeah, I just watched that episode. Honestly I've never tried to do a chemically leavened cinnamon roll. I would have done a basic dough, put some cinnamon, sugar, butter mixture on it, rolled it, cut it, baked it, and prayed. That probably would have been enough to get by (Simple things executed...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    So.... Masterchef US auditions usually start in October. I'm debating auditioning. Having watched a ton of cooking shows, the main things are precise execution of basic techniques, keeping it simple, correct seasoning, and finding ways to do things faster than usual. I wanted to audition last...
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    Hearthstone

    Adding a Healbot to Freeze Mage improves the Hunter match up considerably.
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    Have you had the tit's for payment talk yet?

    I have two girls willing to be marker branded and post tits if I needed it for something, sans face. Though I can't imagine what kind of poll I'd need to win. I know this because they saw me looking at the most recent thread and asked what was going on. Then volunteered if I ever needed their...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have one, but I only use it for mandolins in place of the hand guard.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Chaos, apparently it sucks but you can get a series of shots to permanently cure allergies. If you just have a wheat allergy, you can fix it.
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    Hearthstone

    Kripp usually doesn't. If he isn't streaming, odds are he is traveling or making YT videos.
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    Hearthstone

    I can't imagine ever passing up an Ancient of Lore in an arena draft. I would have taken that, the Wrath (over roar), and the Wolfrider over Mark of Nature.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My food processor has a large enough feed tube that I can do chip sized potato pieces on the slicing round. If I had to do that on a mandolin, I don't think I'd ever make big batches of chips.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    There is a lot more variety than that actually. But I think for the purposes of this thread most people will be in an open relationship/marriage.
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    Hearthstone

    Just made it up myself. I'll post a screen later.
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    Hearthstone

    Went on a ridiculous win streak today with Patron Warrior. Went from 2 starts into rank 14 to rank 9 5 stars with only one loss.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Just reseason it.