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The racists on Gab are sharing obscene advice for cooking pasta (and other goodies)

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  1. [4]
    DMonitor
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    Adding more water isn’t what helps pasta not stick. It’s stirring the pot. Source: The Food Lab

    Adding more water isn’t what helps pasta not stick. It’s stirring the pot. Source: The Food Lab

    7 votes
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      vakieh
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      I suspect there is a threshold below which adding more water would help.

      I suspect there is a threshold below which adding more water would help.

      5 votes
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        atg
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        Here is the article if you are interested

        Here is the article if you are interested

        The problem is that first stage of cooking—the one in which starch molecules first burst and release their starch. With such a high concentration of starch right on the surface of the pasta, sticking is inevitable. However, once the starch gets rinsed away in the water, the problem is completely gone.

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        1. vakieh
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          I was mostly making a joke that if you were to eg cook the pasta with zero water it is likely to stick together. And turn black as a side effect, but definitely sticking would be involved.

          I was mostly making a joke that if you were to eg cook the pasta with zero water it is likely to stick together. And turn black as a side effect, but definitely sticking would be involved.

          2 votes
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    alyaza
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    gab is awful and racist but today's focus has a bit more levity: most gab users are apparently not very good at cooking, and boy does it show. i have literally no idea how you fuck up "lasagna" as...

    gab is awful and racist but today's focus has a bit more levity: most gab users are apparently not very good at cooking, and boy does it show. i have literally no idea how you fuck up "lasagna" as badly as this, for example, but apparently it's possible and a gab user thought it was edible enough to post about. i think you'd probably have to pay me to eat that, personally.

    6 votes
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      DMonitor
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      This article is pretty funny, but I feel like if you go to any social media site you will find some disgusting bottom of the barrel “cooks”. The whole trope of “I went to a bad place and look at...

      This article is pretty funny, but I feel like if you go to any social media site you will find some disgusting bottom of the barrel “cooks”.

      The whole trope of “I went to a bad place and look at these idiots!” isn’t very constructive since both sides of any topic can have success doing it.

      17 votes
      1. culturedleftfoot
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        The irony of the Huffington Post's love of pointing fingers is beyond palpable. That said, I've long figured that white supremacists would surely have the worst taste in food in America, and I...

        The irony of the Huffington Post's love of pointing fingers is beyond palpable.

        That said, I've long figured that white supremacists would surely have the worst taste in food in America, and I just might be on the money.

    2. determinism
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      "Like my ex-wife's grandmother used to make" contains more layers than that lasagna.

      "Like my ex-wife's grandmother used to make" contains more layers than that lasagna.

      15 votes
    3. mftrhu
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      What the fuck is that? That's definitely not any kind of lasagna or lasagna-adjacent dish.

      i have literally no idea how you fuck up "lasagna" as badly as this, for example, but apparently it's possible and a gab user thought it was edible enough to post about

      What the fuck is that? That's definitely not any kind of lasagna or lasagna-adjacent dish.

      2 votes
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      CrazedGeek
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      Despite the nasty photo, the recipe can apparently be made "delicious".
      2 votes
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        1. alyaza
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          i mean, i guess just looking at it in the context of an ingredients list and nothing else, i could see it used in limited quantities to give some additional flavor and maybe thicken things a bit....

          I mean, you gotta admit the thought of cream of mushroom soup doesnt really vibe with "queso"

          i mean, i guess just looking at it in the context of an ingredients list and nothing else, i could see it used in limited quantities to give some additional flavor and maybe thicken things a bit. but honestly i think if you're getting to a point like that, you're probably making something that isn't really queso and basically just uses the queso as a base for something else.

          1 vote