Getting into the weeds here, but a liquid measure is like your pyrex 2C (or whatever) and you get down at eye level to read below the miniscus. I hate that I know this, but it was engineer dad's instruction when I was a kid.
Dry is less precise. And I was also taught to level off with the back of a knife. At best, we weighed the dry stuff.
In reality none of it really matters, really, unless you really need absolute precision. I was told that there was no way my gramma's pie would work unless x,y,z. It scared everyone. It always worked for me. In multiple countries and using whatever I could.
But, basics are dry in the cups and spoons. Wets are in the pyrex (or similar). Reality, who cares.
Yeah, when I’m baking I weigh my dry ingredients. Wet ingredients are always just kind of a suggestion (based on humidity, temperature, etc), so I don’t pay as much attention to being precise and just adjust as needed .
You know those Pampers diapers with the blowout barrier? The commercial says they are “up to 100% effective” at containing blowouts. I get that they can’t legally say they prevent 100% of blowouts. But WHAT THE HECK does “up to 100%” even mean anyway?!? That could include 0%, and an infinite number of percents up to and including 100%. Meaningless.
It reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Lisa’s class visits the newspaper printing facility, and the tour guide says “Each newspaper is printed on paper made with a certain percentage of recycled material.” And Lisa says “What percentage is that?” And the tour guide smiles and says “Zero.”
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Post by fancynewbeesly on Mar 12, 2024 21:00:22 GMT -5
Work is driving me insane. I teach in two separate schools--I have for 17 years. For 17 years, I have done the budget at one of my school's.--even though I was never there full time at that school. Either two days or three days. There was always a full time tech teacher. Well this year, someone else is the full time tech teacher and she literally is just taking over EVERYTHING.
She was annoyed that they gave me the ordering and not her. Even though, I had zero issue during it for 17 years. But omg. I am getting super frustrated dealing with her. I would love to put in for a transfer (also she is the administrative pet of the principal I am not fond of) . I love my other school SO much and don't want to transfer and lose that school. So I deal with this one.
Ditto, but double when the person mispronouncing it is a school administrator. I thought our head counselor was going to start throwing things at an assistant principal during our last faculty meeting because he kept mispronouncing it during a presentation over how FAFSA Night was going to operate.
Haha! I have a person from our state financial aid agency come and speak to students every year, and she pronounces it FASFA also. How is this getting past everyone?!
I am an aid admin, I've worked in financial aid for over 20 years I know it's FAFSA, but my mouth almost always defaults to fasfa, it's a tongue twister for me. I have to really pause before I say it or it comes out wrong. I usually say it very, very slowly because if I say it too fast out comes fasfa. Either way I sound like an idiot when trying to say it out loud. I've had the conversation with many of my colleagues about the pronunciation, we know what it stands for and how it should be said, but just can't seem to get our mouths to work right.
"I'll be there in 10 minutes" is fine, chit chatting in the cereal aisle about fucking nothing of importance is not.
ETA The very worst is while on public transport. I don't want to hear about your warts Mildred but I'm trapped in here.
100 percent. My husband can tune it out and I just can’t! Also some people blare their music or have their mileage log on speaker in races. So if they are on my pace, I might need to hear an alert every half mile for a half marathon! My brain tunes into all of this and I can’t block out even inane conversations. I really don’t like to run with music either to fix this. If someone on the train is talking about a grocery list, I’m still invested. Part of it is my nosiness for sure.
I'm irrationally annoyed at all the breezy posters who kept saying the time change is "no big deal". It is awful in our house, I'm exhausted because I cannot fall asleep at the new bedtime and I feel like crap. Kids are awful in the morning because they don't want to get up an hour earlier (and I don't blame them!). FUCK DST.
I'm irrationally annoyed at all the breezy posters who kept saying the time change is "no big deal". It is awful in our house, I'm exhausted because I cannot fall asleep at the new bedtime and I feel like crap. Kids are awful in the morning because they don't want to get up an hour earlier (and I don't blame them!). FUCK DST.
It takes my family at least a week to adjust every March and November.
I'm irrationally annoyed at all the breezy posters who kept saying the time change is "no big deal". It is awful in our house, I'm exhausted because I cannot fall asleep at the new bedtime and I feel like crap. Kids are awful in the morning because they don't want to get up an hour earlier (and I don't blame them!). FUCK DST.
It takes my family at least a week to adjust every March and November.
I was going to ask in Randoms today how the eff you get over DST so quickly? I went to bed earlier last night only to wake up a few times in the night (stress), and then be up for the day an hour early, when my body feels like it's already getting up earlier. I'm also (ir)rationally annoyed, more so with people I know IRL, who act like DST only effects people with kids. Yes it's harder if your kids are off schedule, but us adults without kids are still off schedule and ex-effing-hausted. I hope to finally sleep in this Sunday, but that can't come soon enough. Once again pick one thing and stick with it (no more flip flop), or give everyone Monday after DST the day off to catch up on sleep.
My other silly irrational annoyance is reality, I guess more so competition shows where people wear the same outfits for several episodes. I started noticing this on the Domino's show (Fox/Hulu) and went down the rabbit hole. I think some of it is competitions that take more than 1 day to film, but they don't want the audience to know that. Some of it though is like you can change your clothes between filming/days. I just finished "The Floor" (Fox/Hulu) and they could have had contestants change as the show was sequential so we knew they would stop and re-start filming. I also like the "Penn and Teller Fool Us" (CW/streaming?), however the host always in the same, rather unflattering for their lovely figure outfit just makes me nuts. They must piece together different acts from different filming, but let them change their outfits.
Anyway, I'm really sad that's my excitement right now, lol.
My irrational annoyance of the day is when people are writing and they say “and yes, blah blah blah,” or “and no, blah blah blah” as if someone asked them a question. No one asked you a question! Just describe the situation.
Getting into the weeds here, but a liquid measure is like your pyrex 2C (or whatever) and you get down at eye level to read below the miniscus. I hate that I know this, but it was engineer dad's instruction when I was a kid.
Dry is less precise. And I was also taught to level off with the back of a knife. At best, we weighed the dry stuff.
In reality none of it really matters, really, unless you really need absolute precision. I was told that there was no way my gramma's pie would work unless x,y,z. It scared everyone. It always worked for me. In multiple countries and using whatever I could.
But, basics are dry in the cups and spoons. Wets are in the pyrex (or similar). Reality, who cares.
Yeah, when I’m baking I weigh my dry ingredients. Wet ingredients are always just kind of a suggestion (based on humidity, temperature, etc), so I don’t pay as much attention to being precise and just adjust as needed .
I definitely used the word "really" way too much. I guess it was on my mind.
But, most of it should be done by feel. If it's too wet or too dry, adjust.
So this is why I get upset at my tv when they freak out at wet/dry measure. Do we really think that existed centuries ago? No way.
I recently took a cooking class, and her only measurements were her tea glass. Half, full, whatever. Food was great, and we were not poisoned. She did tease me, so I'm not promoting myself as an expert. But my annoyance is with tv shows that freak out. We'll all pretty much end up ok even if we are mere mg apart.
BlendJet had a recall and they sent out replacement bases for your blender for free which is great and proactive but you couldn’t get bases that matched your original BlendJet. I had a cute purple swirl design and they sent me plain matte black.