Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


dcp - Dec 14, 2008 4:48:59 pm PST #6137 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

ita, I'd say the typo is more likely to be in the recipe than on the butter. Standard US packaging is 4 oz. per stick.

The brownie recipe I like uses 4 oz. melted butter per batch, one batch per 8"x8"x2" pan, and they are very rich.

eta: Hah! Wow, look at the x-posts!


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 5:08:31 pm PST #6138 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I hate to assume that Cook's Illustrated ever makes a mistake, so maybe more fool me. We shall see in about an hour.


sarameg - Dec 14, 2008 5:11:03 pm PST #6139 of 10002

Well, even if they were wrong, it just mean super gooey brownies, right? Or double volume. Either way, it is still brownies. Spoon or extra.


Liese S. - Dec 14, 2008 5:18:25 pm PST #6140 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Now I'm craving brownies. I have cocoa. I have butter. Who better than me?


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 5:20:11 pm PST #6141 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's cream cheese in mine.


msbelle - Dec 14, 2008 5:22:18 pm PST #6142 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

baking word problem:

each section of dough yields two trays of cookies. each tray holds 12-14 cookies. It takes me 5 minutes to roll out and cut the dough and 7 minutes for each tray to bake. If I have 1.5 sections of dough left, how long before I'm done?


Kat - Dec 14, 2008 5:22:22 pm PST #6143 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Mmm.... Want brownies!!

I have enough peripheral heartbreak, thankyewverymuch.

Liese is me.

Also, Target at 7 on a Sunday night before Xmas is not as bad as I thought it might be.

I'm having issues thinking of something good for my secret santa buffista.


dcp - Dec 14, 2008 5:24:33 pm PST #6144 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

24 minutes. Half a section of dough takes just as long as a full one.

eta: Errrr, maybe not. You didn't say whether you could bake more than one tray at a time, but assuming not, I suppose that you could be prepping the 2nd tray while the first is baking.


Amy - Dec 14, 2008 5:25:04 pm PST #6145 of 10002
Because books.

each section of dough yields two trays of cookies. each tray holds 12-14 cookies. It takes me 5 minutes to roll out and cut the dough and 7 minutes for each tray to bake. If I have 1.5 sections of dough left, how long before I'm done?

Wow, I can't even do baking math.

::wanders off to find cake::


Jesse - Dec 14, 2008 5:25:47 pm PST #6146 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Missing variable! How many trays fit in your oven?