[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3015098 29-Dec-2022 14:49

Tinkerisk:
Or the historical package from 1894:

Which shows just how hidebound this ingredient is - the historic, as in 1700s, way to get vanilla flavour was to stick a vanilla pod in sugar and wait for the flavour to be absorbed. This stuff, late 1800s, is vanillin sugar, so with synthetic vanilla essence. So for at least 130 years what everyone else calls "a few drops vanilla essence" has been listed as "vanillin sugar" in German recipes, to the puzzlement of everyone else.

Same with the yeast quantities, it's always 42g because back in the middle ages you could only buy yeast from bakers and they divided a 500g block into a dozen cubes, each of which weighed 42g. Ingredients for a loaf of bread: 42g. Two loaves of bread: 42g. Small cake: 42g. Large cake: 42g. Ciabatta roll: 42g. Picnic for 5,000 followers: 42g and some fishes.

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#3015143 29-Dec-2022 17:21

Whoever may be interested. But it was also always clear to every child that this is a purely artificial product and never got to see a vanilla pod. Just like Maggi seasoning never saw any meat. Often these things were invented in times of war or shortages, were produced industrially and cheaply for everyone and have remained on the shelves ever since.

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#3015147 29-Dec-2022 17:36

That baked goods contain far too much yeast (and usually only ready-made baking mixtures) to safe time. A 1.5kg loaf of sourdough bread, if made by hand with the necessary time, only needs a rice-grain-sized amount of baker's yeast to start the process. Therefore, we bake proper bread ourselves every 14 days (and freeze half the quantity for the second week without any problems). We use only 6 ingredients as a base: Flour, live sourdough culture, a very tiny amount of yeast, water, salt and -most important- time.

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#3015180 29-Dec-2022 20:33

Tinkerisk:

Well now we know where Terry Pratchett got the idea for Dwarf Bread from... is that also not only baked but forged, and dropped in rivers and dried out again, and sat on and left, and looked at every day and then put away again?

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#3015189 29-Dec-2022 21:26

Tinkerisk:
That baked goods contain far too much yeast (and usually only ready-made baking mixtures) to safe time. A 1.5kg loaf of sourdough bread, if made by hand with the necessary time, only needs a rice-grain-sized amount of baker's yeast to start the process. Therefore, we bake proper bread ourselves every 14 days (and freeze half the quantity for the second week without any problems). We use only 6 ingredients as a base: Flour, live sourdough culture, a very tiny amount of yeast, water, salt and -most important- time.

Personally I don’t much like Sourdough. Do I need the same amount for normal bread?

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#3015413 30-Dec-2022 19:10

Cracked Windscreens! Actually, maybe its the conditions of the roads that lead to cracked windscreens that annoys me.

I've been driving for 32yrs. Never once have I had to replace a windscreen in the first 27yrs of driving through Australia, UK, Ireland, Europe, Japan, and North America. 5yrs in NZ and this is the 3rd windscreen that I've had to replace.

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#3015420 30-Dec-2022 20:29

I’m on the plane about to take off from Singapore. When we got to the gate we asked miss 8 where the Nintendo was.

“I don’t know.”

Ran back to the lounge, got it, ran back to the gate. Last one on the plane. All’s well that ends well and I am somewhat happier as she’s very upset about leaving it but………..

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#3015421 30-Dec-2022 20:36

neb:

Well now we know where Terry Pratchett got the idea for Dwarf Bread from... is that also not only baked but forged, and dropped in rivers and dried out again, and sat on and left, and looked at every day and then put away again?

No, this dwarf bread is indeed baked individually for each guest - for the traditional New Year's gathering of the good fairies the day after tomorrow. It is artfully topped with my new hand-forged bread sword, then hollowed out, filled with an enchanted chestnut soup and then sealed again with its own lid. But you can also just throw cubed slices of bread from the supermarket into a plate of soup, but then you don't have to make a fuss about holidays either, after all, they pass just like any other day - with or without pleasant memories.

Do you see the sparkling knight's helmet on my head? Then you've had too much drinks! 😏

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#3015423 30-Dec-2022 20:39

Handle9: I’m on the plane about to take off from Singapore. When we got to the gate we asked miss 8 where the Nintendo was.

“I don’t know.”

Ran back to the lounge, got it, ran back to the gate. Last one on the plane. All’s well that ends well and I am somewhat happier as she’s very upset about leaving it but………..

Lol and yep. I left my passport on an AUS flight, same deal, they let me back, found it, rush rush rush. Its good when common sense prevails.

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#3015424 30-Dec-2022 20:40

Geektastic:

Personally I don’t much like Sourdough. Do I need the same amount for normal bread?

Unfortunately, I can't answer that. For everyone, "normal bread" is something completely different. However, I can send you the recipe for Rewena Paraoa from my collection if you want to make it traditionally - but it is also a "normal" sourdough bread.

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#3015438 30-Dec-2022 20:58

Handle9: I’m on the plane about to take off from Singapore. When we got to the gate we asked miss 8 where the Nintendo was.

“I don’t know.”

Ran back to the lounge, got it, ran back to the gate. Last one on the plane. All’s well that ends well and I am somewhat happier as she’s very upset about leaving it but………..

Had an identical thing happen about 30 years ago - we were in our seats on the plane when our 7 year-old son realised he’d left his Gameboy in the international gate lounge. Before we could stop him he was out of his seat, ran off the plane and back up the air bridge. He was back in a few minutes, all smiles. No sweat. Not sure he would get away with that now.

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#3015442 30-Dec-2022 21:47

Tinkerisk:
Unfortunately, I can't answer that. For everyone, "normal bread" is something completely different.

For me, "normal bread" is anything but Bauernbrot, which is why I was making fun of it earlier :-). Like Dwarf bread it's great for sustaining you, you'll eat absolutely anything else if some of that stuff is the only other alternative.

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#3015448 30-Dec-2022 23:04

neb:
Tinkerisk:

Unfortunately, I can't answer that. For everyone, "normal bread" is something completely different.

For me, "normal bread" is anything but Bauernbrot, which is why I was making fun of it earlier :-). Like Dwarf bread it's great for sustaining you, you'll eat absolutely anything else if some of that stuff is the only other alternative.

Not everything with this crust is a farmhouse bread/Bauernbrot! We (here) almost always have crusty bread! That's because of the stone oven and the moistening process. And if you want to use it as an edible soup container, it should better be crusty bread - like Clam Chowder I once had in Santa Monica CA. 😉

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#3015451 30-Dec-2022 23:48

Tinkerisk:
And if you want to use it as an edible soup container, it should better be crusty bread - like Clam Chowder I once had in Santa Monica CA. 😉

I've had borscht like that in Russia, thankfully a loaf of crunchy-crust white bread rather than Borodinsky or similar which would have been an unfortunate combination (that's soggy dark Russian rye bread). Even then the bread quickly went from being crusty bread to soggy mushy bread. I think it was some invention of the chef to impress guests.

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#3015473 31-Dec-2022 08:40

I just installed a new game. The process went something like this:

MacOS: This game wants to access your Documents folder. Is that OK?

Me: Games don't have documents, so no. Deny.

Game: How dare you block me from putting my tendrils everywhere? Just for that, I'm going to load to a black screen and not let you do anything.

Edit: Having had a poke around, it's created a subfolder in my Documents folder called "My Games", and is using it to store temporary files. What idiot programmed this?!

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