Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@The_T i mean, also weird choice of topic to turn into a joke but

@pastelsinmysky kinda reminds me of how people will take the mere knowledge of you being vegetarian as an invitation to expound at length about their own feelings about eating meat

@The_T sourdough is only a little trickier than regular bread except you need to keep a starter fed which is kinda a pain if you dont make bread often enough.

@The_T if you enjoy how it tastes fresh i’d just make croutons / bread crumbs with the stale bits tho tbh

@The_T there’s a lot of reasons bread might go stale too quickly so its hard to say why!

if you’ve done everything right but want it to stay fresh longer, sourdough is traditionally thought to go stale slower than yeasted bread, or else you’ll want to add a gelling/emulsifying agent like pectin or lecithin. or you can make tangzhong, which would certainly justify the thermometer lol

@The_T its nice for unfamiliar recipes where you don’t know how it looks when its done, or if your oven is being kinda sus

@The_T actually the real thing i use my instant read thermometer for is bread

@The_T very small quantities of candy

@The_T this also means you can now make candy

@villainousfriend @imp @kate literally any helicoptering at all is far too much when you’re sick so this seems like a very reasonable assumption

(i live near a hospital with a helipad so i am literally never free of the choppers)

@The_T this is why i have never done a nomic

@alis distressingly plausible — and it incentivizes them improving their benefits packages because they have to pretend to loose against the the next rescue mission anytime someone wants out (which is fun in moderation! but a lot more work than just winning if you’re trying to keep casualties down)

@alis split the difference and still do kidnappings but you only take the people on the signup sheet

its such a hassle kidnapping people who are going to say no, then you have to figure out how to put them back!

@alis you could probably even skip the kidnappings and just have a signup form if the muffins and comprehensive health and childcare policies were good enough

@packetcat sodas originally evolved from “health tonics” where the presence of stimulants was the main point (sometimes much stronger ones than the caffeine + sugar combo of modern sodas!) Eg. the cola in coca-cola comes from the name of the kola nut (which has a high caffeine content and had originally been popularized in Europe & the Americas through those aforementioned health tonics). Early soda advertising was quite similar to that of the older health tonics, putting a high emphasis on the stimulant-containing ingredients they used and their “invigorating” nature.

So kind of the real question is why we got so obsessed with making something who’s main point was being a questionable health drink chock full of stimulants delicious enough that a subset of the market wants to drink it completely stimulant free (a trend which is also evidenced with tea and coffee tbf)