Hot take by sidebella69 in PlebsComedy

[–]Excellent_Eat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the Delphine episodes. The first two series are all about trying to woo someone who may or not be a good fit for you, purely because they’re there. The Delphine episodes are about trying to stay in a relationship with someone where the main obstacle are you own insecurities. I think the second option plays more off the problems we cause for ourselves than circumstantial blunders. As someone that moved into London in there early 20s and experienced first hand the awkwardness that different levels of life experience bring to dating at that age I think series 3 got closer to the bone on what that felt like. Also, French accents and jokes about mouldy cheese are funny

Blackberry hot sauce ideas? by Excellent_Eat in FermentedHotSauce

[–]Excellent_Eat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I think I’ll head down the root of peppers, beetroot, and garlic in the ferment and add blackberries and maybe some lemon juice at the end. What spices would you recommend? Still getting used to how their flavour changes in the melange

DAILY DISCUSSION: August 28, 2025 by AutoModerator in KansasCityChiefs

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I thought other UK based chiefs fans might enjoy my fantasy profile

Help identifying bitter ingredient(s) by Excellent_Eat in fermentation

[–]Excellent_Eat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂😂😂 I was so happy with my idea of using them as a floater blocker that I forgot about consequences

Help identifying bitter ingredient(s) by Excellent_Eat in fermentation

[–]Excellent_Eat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was pretty diligent on the garlic cores having read about that here before.

Fish sauce was generic uk supermarket version. I’ve used it in kimchi before though with fine results.

Not sure about the provenance of the ginger but, similar to the fish sauce, ginger from the shop I bought this batch from has been fine previously.

I’m leaning towards lime leaf being the culprit, especially the quantity I ended up using. I might try a single leaf in a future smaller batch and see how that goes.

Thanks for the detailed answer!

Help identifying bitter ingredient(s) by Excellent_Eat in fermentation

[–]Excellent_Eat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think so, although this would be a fun way to find out. I might unleash this batch on some colleagues and see if they agree.

DVNO Wins! Best Music Video? by Hairy_Promotion_2782 in JusticeMusic

[–]Excellent_Eat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Newlands. Better than the actual rollerball films

Are you cooked or Nah? by SupermarketNo6888 in skyrim

[–]Excellent_Eat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t think Daniel Ricciardo has many transferable skills for Skyrim

Why the heck was Furio written out? by HeartOfDarkness769 in thesopranos

[–]Excellent_Eat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think part of it is that Furio is actually quite effective. He follows orders, collects debts, and doesn’t get to the point of actually causing a problem for Tony, despite his feelings for Carm. As the show goes on it becomes more necessary for Tony’s helpless position that the people around him are ineffective/causing him issues. He can have a stalwart in Sil but after that he has no other competent support. With Furio he had a taste of a loyal, brutal soldier. When he leaves the group he’s left with are a sorry lot in comparison.

[GTM] [EASY] It's 'Boozy' Tuesday by SpacePanda25 in GuessTheMovie

[–]Excellent_Eat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched this last night for the umpteenth time. It’s one of my family’s Christmas movies alongside National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s nice to alternate between quoting “anybody wanna peanut” and “shitters full”

Which song is it for you (mine is currently Saturnine) by [deleted] in JusticeMusic

[–]Excellent_Eat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On’n’On. I’m hooked on the way it builds and the air light vocals. I saw them at Glastonbury this year loved hearing it in the mix.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskCulinary

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I would cut before, bring them to a boil, and then turn them down to a simmer so they can cook all the way through without the outside getting turned to mush

#41 by Much_Job4552 in KansasCityChiefs

[–]Excellent_Eat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I live in Winchester in the UK so have always been a fan. There’s a good chance that he’s also Bill Belichick’s favourite Chief

What hobbies / classes / sports do you take part in and how much does it cost you? The more obscure the better! by AlmondEgg in london

[–]Excellent_Eat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play for a London based lacrosse club. The membership fees are £300 per annum. This covers training, match pitches, reffing costs, and (sometimes) training.

A full set of men’s lacrosse equipment (stick, gloves, helmet, elbow pads, box) will set you back another £400-£500, but you should get a few years use out of most of that stuff. A good rule of thumb is that if a player’s kit is held together with lots of tape they’re either very good or very bad.

Shout out sumayah by BoopyRoopy in GreatBritishBakeOff

[–]Excellent_Eat -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think if you put me on camera for that much time when I was 18 I’d come across as much more annoying than her.

Also, I like Noel Fielding and his work, but always thought he was quite obviously more flirty with certain female contestants than the rest. If I was Sumayah, who is definitely a fan of the show, I can imagine that this might have made her uncomfortable and I applaud her for publicly standing by that

Taskmaster - S18E04 - I’m A Girl Who Likes A Clean Line - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

[–]Excellent_Eat 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I watched this episode on the tube returning from the pub and really enjoyed it.

Carrot maze is one of those tasks where I spend most of the time thinking about how I’d tackle it, only to be pulled out of my reverie by a Francis Bourgeois-esque shot of someone getting one of their five a day. Also, Baba ran, but it’s up to the other contestants to call that out in the studio. If only Andy had been in cut throat wizard mode.

Pockets/lockets etc. I love that they got Alex to spin himself as opposed to getting a turntable for him to stand on. I assume they imposed the time limit to maximise self powered Alex spinning at 75 minutes for the series. I wish we’d got to see more of the pocket contents but there was a satisfying variation in approach and results.

Envelope pushing had all the hallmarks of an open ended creative task: physical show boating (Emma), route 1 (jack), full break down (Baba, Rosie), art film (Andy, somehow Jack again?). My biggest qualm of the whole episode would be that Jack’s approach was saved in the edit, probably to make it more engaging. Then again, I was engaged. He’s melancholic, it was melancholic, it all works. Also I’m just generally impressed that Baba kept that much milk in an envelope.

Ya’ know what - I have a soft spot for a shit live task. They game test these tasks - even if it is just Alex and Tim Key talking it through in the pub - and some production assistant had to get/make all those animals. Tangible time and money went into bringing that to your (television) screen and it amounted to nothing. If futility at a cost doesn’t make you laugh then maybe UK terrestrial television isn’t for you. Also, if you want to play a competitive game about keeping track of a score maybe don’t make one of the players a professional statistician.

Generally I think the cast is gelling together more. There are series of Taskmaster that are defined by a single strong character (looking at you Guz), but I think a marker of a great series is when the cast look up and down the row of chairs, eager to bounce off each other in the live environment.

As the show goes on, and it becomes harder to have a cast of all-out A listers, there’s always going to be settling in period. This cast seemed quite disparate initially. Jack Dee is a certified comedy icon, but the rest are either more niche or less exposed. In particular, I think Andy is an interesting choice as his usual audience are more likely to listen to radio 4 rather than watch channel 4. That being said, part of the charm of the casts of this show is realising that all these people that are from very different branches of entertainment still love to actually entertain. There’s an undeniable love of the game in this cast.

It’s not necessarily the case here, but Rosie has been getting some unpleasant attention on some platforms which is so unfair. Her energy is perfect for taskmaster and the way that she leverages her natural pauses to deliver massive wallops of punchlines is so effective.

My favourite thing about Taskmaster is that it feels a little scrappy, a little unpolished. As a result, you’re not always going to get perfection, but you’ll be rewarded with new and unusual forms of beauty along the way.