Hi, friends!
I hope your weekend went well. Tonight’s theme is stuff that makes you cringe a little. Or a lot.
I like to watch the facebook fake tiktoks (reels? I think), and one of the things I saw a ton of this weekend was people doing food prep in wooden bowls. Specifically involving raw meats. And I know you can safely use wooden bowls if correctly treated and sanitized, but also ewwwww that involves a lot of trust.
Also, why can’t preteens brush their teeth? Like I understand why parents get to the point of the kid is old enough to manage basic hygiene so fuck it, but also I was around a friend’s thirteen year old kid and wow that boy had the most disgusting front teeth that I was like do you need a file at this point?
Hand hygiene is a BIG one for me. I’m 100% with you,** on that “no meat touching wooden tools in the kitchen” thing!
Also; If you’re gonna have long nails, clean under your fingernails!!!
I’m weird, I know, on my opinions about fingernails (sometimes I’m unreasonably grossed out by natural, long nails–i don’t quite know why!)… but I WILL think you are a NASTY, gross person, if you have long nails and the area under your nails, at the tips of your fingers, carries a line of grey/brown/black-ish sludge allllll the time!!!
I will question your morals (unreasonably!), question the ways you were raised, I *WILL* question (to myself!) whether or not you ever bathe properly, and I will trust NOTHING that comes out of your kitchen!!!
Because if you’re inattentive enough *to NOT notice that grossness*?!?!?
I’ma suspect you’re *also* inattentive when it comes to basic food safety!🤔🤨🧐
**You here being the “general” form of you–not any one, specific, person!!😉💖
And on an unrelated/only tangentially-related note, I was sad to discover today, that the Chowhound website apparently shuttered back in March😕💔
Somehow, I’d missed it–i only found out, because I was reading a Buzzfeed article, that led me to Reddit’s Kitchen Confidential board… where I found the r/castiron board…
Someone on the cast iron board asked a question about re-starting a vintage pan, so I tried to look up *my* old go-to, when it came to cast iron & enameled cast iron pans–Chowhound’s cookware board…
Then I discovered this;
https://www.chowhound.com/
and felt nearly as adrift as I did, back when we lost GT for good…
That was the place, where I learned so much about cookware, knives, food safety, and alllll the good local places to eat & shop.
It was also the place where amazing folks like Sam Fujisaka & Jfood regaled us with fabulous food & cooking stories, and where Sam “Live(d) in a Magic House”... (the reason why tonight’s topic reminded me *immediately* of losing Chowhound!)
There was SO MUCH really great information on those old boards!
Between the lost information, and the fact that there are definitely beloved former/regular Chowhounds who’ve since died–but whose writing *was* still around on the site for folks to go back, re-read, & think of them fondly (like the great, cantankerous, & sometimes incorrigible Sam F)… it’s just a bit bittersweet, that there isn’t a better way to keep that info existing💖
That’s depressing as fuck. I always thought it would be around forever.
Same!
There appears to be *some* talk about archiving it… buuuut I don’t know if that’ll actually happen, or if it was just entirely nuked.
There was SO much great info there that I hope that someday it pops back up as a searchable archive.💖
Is there a National Digital Archive? If not, there should be… by digital I mean internet thingies.
That is too bad. This seems to give more background.
https://jimleff.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-farm-upstate-where-he-can-run-and-run.html
Like any community-wisdom place it had its ups and downs in places, but it was generally good for some decent input on a ton of things.
I do wonder to what degree they got slammed by Google’s algorithm which is generally garbage when it comes to food. They seemed to show up less and less as time went by and search results that show up are generally junk.
Open mouth chewers.
I differ juuuuust a bit from you on this, Manchu!
They don’t make me go “Ew!” as much as they make me stabby!
(and I sometimes have to walk away, so that the pen in my hair–or any other sharp objects nearby–don’t end up pinning their hand to the table, so I no longer have to hear *that noise*!😉)
I get all twitchy with open mouth chewers, but it takes a while before I want to go stabby. My dad immediately goes insane (like you.)
He hated it when I chewed with my mouth open (which wasn’t easy when I had adenoids and had a hard time breathing through my nose which might explain why he was so gungho on the operation.) I always check to see if I’m making sounds.
One thing that used to drive me nuts about my 4 year old boy trapped in a 40 year old man former housemate was how he ate chicken wings. It basically sounded like he was fucking them. I couldn’t stay in the same room with him more than 10 minutes if he was there eating chicken wings.
I’ll take open mouth chewers over lip smackers.
You use cutting boards right? Same principle. Just wash your shit and it’s fine.
Oh, agreed. I think the tiktok/facebook video etc people use wood bowls for the aesthetic though and I’m like great a bunch of dipshits out there are going to assume it’s fine.
They’re beautiful bowls though, I definitely see the aesthetic appeal. My grandma had a set of woven looking wood bowls from who knows what decade and we loved them for fruit salad. 🙂
Any photo or video appearance of Ted Cruz.