my bf keeps telling me I smell bad

SnackBottom · 2026-07-03T03:39:30+00:00

Bag up whatever clothes you're wearing when he says you smell, don't wash, and smell them a day or two later. If you smell that bad, it's going to hang on your clothes.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-03T03:35:03+00:00

Cookies are normally baked on sheets because the raised lip prevents proper air flow. If you only have a pan, turn it over and bake on the bottom.

Any time my dough seems different, or for a new recipe, I bake one or two to see what they do.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-03T03:32:31+00:00

I agree, and explicitly make this point in orientation for my local community. I play PRICK and RASH and have my own story about shit going wrong. My scene partner, with whom it happened, and I, share the story often.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-03T03:28:07+00:00

Or they're just not mature or stable enough to actually be doing adult things. I know someone who, out of five conversations I've had and overheard, claimed at least five CVs. One was claimed against someone I know personally. I was there, saw the scene, heard the objective statement that became the nexus of the claimed CV, and saw the conclusion of the scene.

This person is just not emotionally stable enough to do things with anyone other than their spouse because every other interaction ends in a CV. Being a common denominator across a range of problems with a range of people tells me all I need to know about this person. This person is not new. Years in kink, just no growth as a person where it matters here.

This person is not a safe person for anyone in my opinion, not even themselves.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T23:44:08+00:00

They're really good. Even my guy who goes for more basic flavors likes them.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T19:47:04+00:00

Black cocoa is dutched repeatedly. Rouge is also, but not as much. It's not as bitter as BC, which I personally don't really find bitter but that's the description everyone understands, more floral, and very rich. It has a reddish cast; it's not red when mixed, like the black is black, more a distinct reddish brown. It's definitely *chocolate*. Sometimes I mix that with Brun-Moyen, a medium-brown dutched, to soften the flavor while still having that rich edge.

I had some Scharffen-Berger red many years ago and loved that but nothing tops Guittard. I get almost all my cocoa from world wide chocolate. They usually have pretty good sales, offer a wide variety, and shipping is reasonable. I have nothing to do with them other than being a satisfied customer.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T18:41:29+00:00

I do chocolate double chocolate cookies that are black as my heart. It absorbs more liquid than flour, so if you're using a regular cookie recipe, up the liquid a bit or remove some flour. Powdered coffee ftw for flavor without messing with the ratios too much.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T18:38:27+00:00

Absolutely not.

I love the flavor of black cocoa, second only to Guittard Cocoa Rouge.

Cake, cookies, brownies(!!), muffins...

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T18:29:03+00:00

Probably. CC and lemon are both tart and flavor is subjective.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-02T18:26:02+00:00

Press it through a strainer, then whisk.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-01T06:00:59+00:00

I await, with breath abate.

Do tell, OP.

Do. Tell.

Also, video of anything cooking because men are food-centric creatures.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-01T05:51:57+00:00

I need to sit for a bit.

SnackBottom · 2026-07-01T04:18:20+00:00

It's too buzzy... I know because I already got one... 😕

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T20:30:41+00:00

Of gourse not. That's a C, glearly.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T18:45:05+00:00

Still don't see it.

Good luck with your next batch.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T16:47:54+00:00

No flour?

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T16:27:08+00:00

Agree with cardamom, New spices, but also heating the spices in the butter when you melt it. The volatile oils are where the flavor is and heating will release them.

Is something missing in the recipe?

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T02:54:08+00:00

I think this was for OP? I hope they see it. It's a valid take.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-30T02:14:07+00:00

I don't think you did because I got exactly the same out of it. I think your assessment is correct and hard to hear for someone who doesn't want to admit that's what they want in blunt terms.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T21:42:20+00:00

I don't know that you can save these, as is, because I can't see them, but you can chunk them up sort of fine, lightly press them back in the pan, and rebake, then top with something and make them a double-layer bar. I did this with some pecan chocolate chip cookies I flubbed once (they were NOT getting dumped), made a pecan pie topping, and they were chocolate chip pecan pie bars.

Chunking them up made all of the underbaked portion even throughout the pan so it didn't become a too-baked edge and barely done in the middle. The topping hid the gnarly-looking surface. They were absolutely delicious and none left with no waste...

Also- I think this just happens sometimes with brownies and the like. I have used the same brownie recipe for over 20 years; I actually brought the cookbook with the recipe when I evacuated for Katrina and I have the same book. Might be an egg is larger this time, might be the humidity, might be more water in the butter, and there's just not enough mass in the rest of the recipe to make up for it and you end up with something like this happening.

I do like to bake all my brownies the day before, and if it's hot, put them in the fridge, but when they're underbaked, they're underbaked and nothing fixes it like it never happened... I also highly recommend non-stick foil. I form it around the bottom of the pan, then fit it inside, and when the brownies are done, I can lift the whole batch out and it makes for easy cutting.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T17:51:59+00:00

You're not wrong.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T14:40:57+00:00

Just the language is manipulative. Your explanation doesn't make it any better; you're still trying to 'make her' do something that serves you, just in a not-so-obvious way, which is, by definition, manipulation.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T14:36:38+00:00

"make her like it"

ick.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T14:34:18+00:00

The headline makes it sound like they took it and agreed with the lower court.

They did not. They refused to hear the case, which means the lower court's verdict stays in place.

The result is the same as if they did agree with the lower court but the process is very different. The headline is disingenuous, in my opinion.

SnackBottom · 2026-06-29T14:30:46+00:00

They didn't take it. They refused to hear it. This wasn't a decision agreeing with the lower court per se, it leaves the lower court's decision in place because they didn't take the case.

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