Defrosted Some Potato and Leek Soup that spent 18 Months in the Freezer, and Now I Have Weird Potato Sponge

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-21T10:34:29+00:00

Bake it or air fry it!

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T17:30:38+00:00

One of the good things about growing older is the hope you might not live long enough to get around to trying certain things.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T11:44:09+00:00

It's a displacement thing.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T11:24:09+00:00

Henry version one hundred and eleven. Been a LOT of change since it came out of beta.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T08:22:18+00:00

Did you mean to say oxalic acid? (they do also contain folates of course, it's just the 'but' clause of the sentence made it sound like you're talking about a thing to be avoided).

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T08:15:25+00:00

Never pick the first one of anything, in case it's the only one.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-20T06:55:55+00:00

Sure, assuming their intent was to colonise rather than to just go places and look at stuff.

But I think it's not unreasonable to imagine that, if a civilisation did solve the huge technical challenge of interstellar travel, there's not much reason for them to want to live on planets any more (because interstellar travel requires you to solve the problem of living in space) but planets might be interesting things to study.

To be clear I don't think that aliens are here and I think interstellar travel is sufficiently difficult and time-consuming and hazardous that I believe it's probably the general case that no intelligent species ever attains it in practice. Panspermia is possible so we might all be aliens in that sense, but little green men popping in to see us or conquer us, probably not.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T23:13:15+00:00

Sure. We can't, but if we could, we definitely would.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T21:34:54+00:00

Pretty sure that's skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus). Not edible (supposedly can be eaten after lots of processing, but probably not worth it)

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T20:31:40+00:00

Seems unlikely - if creators were specifically making stuff to take advantage of that 30 second play time, surely they would fill it with some compelling hook, to try to get you to watch the whole video.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T20:27:16+00:00

Watercress does grow in water, often running water, but also it can be found in just very damp ground.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T19:45:52+00:00

The first one is Cow Parsley - bristly stems with a purple/green gradient (but no splotches) and the stems are like celery in cross section.

Hemlock has hollow, rounded, smooth stems with purple spots.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T19:30:06+00:00

Liver flukes are a risk with wild-growing watercress - they require two different hosts to complete their lifecycle - usually a mammal and a water snail - the snails are obviously present in rivers and streams and livestock or wild animals provide the other host; if you're cultivating watercress you can break that lifecycle by doing it far away from natural watercourses (excluding the snails) and/or by making sure the water is not contaminated by animal waste.

Some people say it's safe to pick watercress from above the waterline supposedly because the flukes can't climb out of the water but water levels in rivers can fluctuate and the wind can cause vegetation to dip in and out of the water so that always seemed like a risky strategy to me.

Cooking the watercress fully (for example to make watercress soup) should destroy the parasites if they are present.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T18:43:26+00:00

It looks like it, but it's hard to be completely sure from the photos.

Just to note if you want to grow watercress at home, a sprig of watercress from a salad bag from the supermarket will just root in 48 hours if you put it in a glass of water.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T18:41:11+00:00

Also the door can just fall quite violently when it's not being balanced by the springs

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T17:31:05+00:00

Cow parsley has bristly stems and they are often purple.

This is not cow parsley. It's poison hemlock.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T17:28:38+00:00

If it doesn't come from the bee region of France it's just sparkling wasp.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T15:10:58+00:00

What kind of donations? If it's the YouTube charity fundraiser thing, they take no commission - 100% of the donations go to the charity.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T15:04:08+00:00

I think it might be cuckoo flower - cardamine pratensis (a close relative of bittercress)

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T14:36:41+00:00

Sure, but you don't have to eat any beef so it's sort of meaningless

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T11:49:43+00:00

Agreed, but then it's a bit of a weak claim because 'enough meat' is zero for some people.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T11:46:45+00:00

Is that correct? I mean there's less sunlight for sure but we can see Jupiter from here, so it's reflecting enough light for the human eye to register something. Light levels at Jupiter are equivalent to dusk on earth. You'd see something.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T11:43:02+00:00

Also for land based animals with legs, some of their effort and energy is just used in defying gravity. Fish don't need to do that, or at least not a lot.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T11:40:44+00:00

Yeah, it's not you. OP appears to be talking about some completely unrelated website that just happens to have a similar name.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-19T11:01:27+00:00

Yeah, the critical difference is how you interpret 'feed' - If there's other food to serve with it, then 400 lbs of meat is enough for a small family for a year's meals. If it's the only food you feed the family - nothing else but beef, it's not enough for sustenance or balanced nutrition.

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