Still better than calling tuna “tuna fish”

These are some interesting questions, I would love to respond to all of them but honestly to correctly answer them I’d be here typing a whole essay.

This would be really cool indeed, but would probably be too difficult for me to showcase. At least at first.

I’ve looked and haven’t found anything to my satisfaction. I found that pretty much all channels either give you too much details in way too much of a robotic way or they don’t go deep enough into a subject. I’m not gonna say I’m gonna have a easy time finding the middle ground myself, but I do feel there’s still a place for that on YouTube and at least I feel I have the required knowledge for that.

I was a vegetarian for environmental reasons for almost 11 years. I started eating meat again when I started my studies, although still very little. I feel I’d be the perfect candidate for this.

Oh definitely. I was thinking about starting the video out by saying that all technique explanations can be found in the comments, then when it comes up in the video show a number or something corresponding to the link for it in the description. Hopefully this won’t break the flow of the video and still keeps it easy for people to find more information

Good points! Thanks bud. Those questions are exactly what I would want to resolve. I don’t want to put out recipe videos as much as to give people the tools to answer these questions for themselves when watching or reading recipes from other people. Be able to tweak recipes to their liking, instead of getting worried when you can’t find a certain ingredient.

These are all great things to keep in mind, thank you. People with pretty much no knowledge is who I want to focus on. I have a cousin who om learning to cook and hence am seeing how limiting not knowing how to cook can be.

Also, to sort of respond to the recipe critism in your comment and to showcase what I want to do with the channel:

Step 3 for the topping put potatoes into a large saucepan and cover with cold water, bring to boil then reduce the heat slightly and simmer for 10 min. Add the leaks return to simmer and cook for 2 min.

Say I’d have this step in a recipe (I’m not planning on doing a lot of recipe videos, but still) i would not only want to be really clear on what to do and tell people to put the potatoes in cold water. I want to explain that there’s a good reason for starting potatoes out in cold water. Understanding why things are done makes it much easier to translate that knowledge and techniques in other areas of the kitchen.

Btw, you start potatoes out in cold water because they’re fairly dense as to vegetables go and have a super high starch content. If, like you do with pasta, drop them in boiling water the ourside of the potatoes will be overcooked before the inside in done. This will give you an almost waxy skin over potatoes because of those starches coagulating.

One of the ideas I had was to make a series of short 2-3 minute long videos where I explain either 1 technique or some industry lingo. Then, whenever I use those techniques in a recipe video, link back to them in the video description so people can get a super condensed explanation without having to search for them or put the recipe video in pause for long.

It’s bad, but it’s a ritual I love: wake up, put on my bathrobe, shuffle over to my espresso machine, make myself a nice espresso or cappuccino, light up a smoke and cuddle with my cat a for a bit. Then when my brain wakes up as well, have a shower while my cat is screaming at me, horrified that I’m willing standing in water.

Natalie Koch - De Verborgen Universiteit ( the hidden college)

It’s a dutch book, so not too useful for most people here, but it’s a great book. It’s very clear that the author get her inspiration from Harry Potter and doesn’t try to hide it. Which is fine, because it was written for an older audience.

The story is set in the modern world, on a university in London. Where normal teachings go on, but there also exists a paralel school for magically gifted young adults. It focuses on a 20 or so girl going there and finding out the history and mystery of her dad on that school. It still has a decent tween factor, but like I said, it’s written for an older audience than HP was.The book managed to fill a void I felt after HP ended and I grew old enough to not enjoy the earlier books anymore. It’ll always hold a special place in my heart for that.

Also, I used to want to be a writer myself and the writer of that book was al too happy to chat with me on Facebook and give me pointers on how to write better. She didn’t have to chat to a random fan, but she did and that scored her massive bonus points as well.

This is honestly really fitting since I used to be homeless and addicted. Used to be. :)

I don’t think you got what I was trying to say. I was wearing water proof boots, but those don’t do shit when you throw the water right into that waterproof boot. If anything, they just help to keep water in. My problem was not being able to get the damn thing off

Oh gawd no! Saw someone say they never thought about tying both shoes before in the comments here, but doing that would never have occurred to me. Yeah, you really must be a psychopath to do that.

How does one do that? Without being more difficult than just doing it again

Pretty much any difference is too big of a difference for me

I’m a chef, so being able to walk around comfortably is a must for me. Even a slight difference in tightness will annoy me like hell

I’m a Chef and I used to do that as well. Up untill a managed to splash boiling water right into one of my shoes and because of the double knot couldn’t get them off… Had a nice bracelet of blisters for weeks after that

I kinda have to get good work boots if I wanna get through a day of running around in a kitchen. No laces for me in my free time either.

Speed cubing. You can spend a whole lot of different speed cubes, lubes and other stuff. It’s mostly the actual training and learning it can require: CFOP, the most used method of solving in competitions requires you to learn 78 different algorithms and another 41 if you really want to compete. Just learning those, not even practicing doing them fast, is pretty insane