start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

What is a skillet? Is it different to a frying pan?

Same thing. Well, in the non-stick sense. I've not heard a cast iron skillet called anything else, and I'm not sure you would fry in it.

Cast iron skillet:
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Non-stick skillet:
https://www.surlatable.com/images/customers/c1079/PRO-819680/PRO-819680_pdp/main_variation_Default_view_1_425x425.

I use skillets mainly to saute, not to fry. Occasionally to bake, like a frittata.

Come to think of I mostly don't try at home at all, because restaurants do a better job of it. Plus it's messy and smelly and I hate dealing with waste oil.

Yeah, frying at home is gross. Still cooking oil in general is super smelly and messy, and I'm always worried I'm going to get it in the eye.

Not to get too far down the UK/US terminology divide, but guessing you are talking about deep-frying rather than shallow-frying? I would never do the former at home, but often do the latter.

Because sauté is just another name for shallow frying?

And yeah, would call both of those "frying pans"

Because sauté is just another name for shallow frying?

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 8:14 AM

no

go on

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/125/whats-the-difference-between-pan-frying-sauteing-and-shallow-frying

hmm

that sounds very made-up

i mean whats the difference between sauteeing and stirfrying so

conversations about taxonomy are more polite than conversations that involve understanding bc more ppl can contribute

Sautéing means shaking the pan back and forth - making the food "jump"

I think I'll stick to rotating the food with a spatula, you shouldn't need PPE for cooking.

Yeah to me sauteeing is distinct from frying. Yeah I guess one could argue it's a difference of degree. Amount and type of fat? When and how it is added and heated?

Bear in mind that depending on the cookware, some foods don't require additional oil/fat (though one might still add some, because fat is frequently delicious).

In my (USian) lexicon, immersing sliced potatoes in very hot, fairly deep oil is definitely frying.

Pan-searing a piece of fish is not frying (indeed, with some fish in some nonstick cookware, the fat that is already in the food is sufficient).

Sauteeing some vegetables, with or without with a splash of olive oil? Not frying, sorry, even if some would call it "stir-fry," a term I didn't hear until adulthood.

(Also, is a hot dog a sandwich, is cereal a soup, etc.)

irosh perspective: if its in a frying pan yer frying it, fat or no

If you put a soup in a frying pan to reheat it, would you be frying

Or not

If you put soup in a saucepan, is it now a sauce?

What if you put a pie in a cake pan?

If you put a soup in a frying pan to reheat it

ymp excused from knowing anything duties, no one has ever done this

yeah if this is gonna be that kind of party, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes

*taps non-stick label in alarm*

any excuse xp

Sautéing strikes me as a word that rose in popularity because it sounded more appetizing than frying

let's do broiling next

seething is alas the most likely end destination

Broiling is a dry-heat method, seething uses steam.

I get irrationally narked at this
I'm on a facebook group where people buy & sell baby/kids' stuff
Occasionally you get people selling loads of the same thing as 'bundles' - like not just a generic bundle of toys but 10 teethers or 5 different types of tambourines, rather than a useful mixed selection. Latest was a bundle of two keyboards and they wouldn't sell them individually, like who tf wants two keyboards.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/41/7b/00417b44d08e58ff717a504f4f6f4e76.jpg

haha maybe if all those buttons play nursery rhyme tunes

ugh those kids-stuff-selling groups all seem to be 80% populated by people (parents!) who don’t understand what basic civil communication is and think their stuff is worth more than it actually is. I cannot deal. And it makes me worry (more) about the world!

This one is generally lovely and civilised, not too many 'huns'

I am cursed with serious eyebrows (more like one very serious eyebrow tbh) and regularly do a wee bit of maintenance to avoid becoming Dennis Healey.

I am irrationally angry at men who don't. Guys who apparently don't mind random hairs growing out and down and floating around in front of their eyes.

getting rid of extraneous eyebrow and ear hair will make you look years younger as you and your non-grooming peers age imo

they get tough and wirey the more you do it tho

my ear prongs are like spikes theae days

Finding it odd that next door neighbour who share a street door with has reached late 20s or mid 30s or whatever without realising how to use a door latch. She stopped me on the stairs as I was heading home at the weekend and said she wanted to have the door locked at night and she would make sure it was unlocked during the day. NOw I've gone down and found the door open but in a way that if it shut, blew shut whatver it would be instantly locked.
She left me a rather creepy note a couple of years ago after she managed to lock herself out cos she went out without a street door key. & presumably some kid came along and messedaround with the latch meaning it shut. So assumed she might have learnt the way it worked by now.

Just wondering how you get to taht age without having encountered a door latch since I thought they'd be something most people would encounter in childhood. Or is it viewed as archaic technology these days. Thought it was a pretty basic every day fixture most people would have to deal with regularly. & she's been here for like 3 years.

I have encountered people way into adulthood that did not know i) how to load a stapler, ii)how to change a lightbulb iii)that when a smoke detector beeps the battery needs to be changed etc. etc. Most people are completely clueless or just have random holes of basic knowledge.

When she stopped you on the stairs you should've confirmed whatever but also let her know that the door can automatically lock if blah blah...so she should keep a spare key hidden somewhere.

Usually get IA when a speaker in an auditorium steps from behind the lectern and saunters to centerstage, usually with arms extended and bellows I DON'T NEED A MIC, EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME, RIGHT?

Today was great though. We had a guy pull that trick and our boss was "Well, actually, some of our employees work remotely and can only hear you through the microphone."

TAKE TWO STEPS BACK, ZIG ZIGLER.

Ugh yeah I hate that
"Actually people may need to use a hearing loop" is a good one

I am super annoyed by the way even (or especially) the best produced podcasts all rely on similarly generic moody or whimsical music farting around in the background. I get it for a visual documentary; if you have a long slow shot of trees, sure, play some music. But when someone's being interviewed for an audio presentation, I don't need some minor key drone or dixieland jazz to tell me how to feel.

It's like the podcast version of a laugh track.

I listen to several podcasts that acquire their laugh track by recording in front of an audience who are laughing. You should write to them and tell them they're doing it wrong.

That's how to do it right! Live audiences are cool with me.

But I'm not sure there are usually live audiences invited for in-depth true crime podcasts.

true crime podcasts make me IA. or maybe not totally I tbh. my gf listens to podcasts to sleep - and it doesn't really bother me or assist me in sleeping usually - and the other night she was listening to that super popular one "my favourite murder" and just how glib and mawkish it was bugged the hell out of me

Podcasts where the hosts are drinking. Like this kind of shit: Martinis & Murder: Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher chat about creepy crimes and mysterious murders... while mixing up martinis!

xpost Yeah, my wife wanted me to listen to Broken Harts, and it just felt so gross, not just because of what made me IR, but because in the end there were 6 kids killed, and I really don't gaf about the "mysterious" state of mind of those responsible.

Basically shit like that xpost is just an excuse to use whimsical musical cues and the sound of people mixing and sipping drinks.

I am super annoyed by the way even (or especially) the best produced podcasts all rely on similarly generic moody or whimsical music farting around in the background.

doubly annoying when you use a podcast app which trims silence

Amazon pricing the same product drastically different according to what color it comes in. Like, this was an aspect of capitalism we used to try to obscure or keep secret, but now it's like, ahh fuck it lol

I kind of love that one, assuming I'm not all that concerned with the color. It's why my kid has had three insanely bright orange winter jackets in a row and now has a pair of fucked up red and blue camouflage boots - he doesn't care, and they were half the price of the 'normal' colors.