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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


-t - Apr 21, 2013 5:08:30 pm PDT #20022 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It sits in the bowl not in the tins? Huh. I would be tempted to let it sit longer, just to see if that helped or hindered. Also, the extra fluff from whipping the egg whites can come back when I don't expect it to, I've accidentally let things sit that didn't have any other leavening that still rose up nice, although I do not know whether that's something you can count on.

Now I just randomly leak and cry as if it were as natural as breathing. I know it's really not that normal to me, but I am getting used to crying.

Yeah, that transition feels pretty strange. I think, and this is not based on anything but my own feelings, that that's a healthy and almost pleasant state. Pleasant is probably going to far, but making friends with crying is, I don't know, it's something positive.


Jesse - Apr 21, 2013 5:12:08 pm PDT #20023 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Do you think that will help if the batter sits for 20 minutes before going into the pan?

Can't hurt?


Beverly - Apr 21, 2013 5:14:24 pm PDT #20024 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

My second child was born nine days before my first's first birthday. Despite having used two concurrent forms of birth control. IJS.


Pix - Apr 21, 2013 5:28:34 pm PDT #20025 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.

Totally is. And Pix knows how fun he can be too.

This! He runs a lovely, relaxing and joyous class.


Burrell - Apr 21, 2013 5:32:20 pm PDT #20026 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I was born 5 days after my sister's first birthday. Story was my mom's doctor told her that a woman as old as she was (She was probably 35 or 36) was unlikely to have more kids, esp as she had a couple miscarriages. Mom figured she didn't have to worry, and then... ooops!


Trudy Booth - Apr 21, 2013 5:49:07 pm PDT #20027 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I know a couple of people who've been caught out on that one. Shark week hasn't resumed, libido finally comes back on-line, you sieze the moment and then... nine months later... wha wha wha.


Juliebird - Apr 21, 2013 6:12:44 pm PDT #20028 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I was going through photos I took from our Daffodil Day festival, and the one thing that stood out for me is how dead-eyed the parents/guardians in the pictures are. If I hadn't already had no desire to have kids, this would be the final straw. Pics where their kids are right there and I'm thinking it's all delightful and sh** and they're just slack-faced and grim.


§ ita § - Apr 21, 2013 6:24:00 pm PDT #20029 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Get the perfect muffin and then get it to the right size. Because it seems like it will affect more than just baking time.

It rises fine in normal tins. I already know that. I can't half make it in jumbo pans--that's one variable, and it's the variable I'm looking to compensate for.

It occurs to me that if I make the tins less slippery, that might help too.

Can't hurt?

No, but it could put the recipe over the limt for "first thing Sunday morning" since that's an additional electrical device It needs a food processor already, which is irritating. I will test next week.

If I hadn't already had no desire to have kids, this would be the final straw

You frame it like parents just are dead-eyed, and it's because of their kids. But they're also bubbling with pride or tenderness or whatever other emotions humans have--I'm not up to date on the most recent releases.


askye - Apr 21, 2013 6:29:24 pm PDT #20030 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

My Mom found out she was pregnant when she went to get birth control a few months after I was born. She'd been breast feeding and didn't think she could get pregnant.

Surprise! She was and my brother and I are 14 months a part.


-t - Apr 21, 2013 6:34:07 pm PDT #20031 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's only now occurring to me, I've never made any alterations when switching between muffins and loaves of the same batter other than time in oven. And I generally do just use baking powder (and sourdough, but that hardly counts as leavening in a quick bread, right?). Hm.

Do you not fill the tin to the top, then, if it climbs the walls?