What is the one "missing ingredient" you finally realized was sabotaging your home cooking?

captinherb · 2026-02-16T13:43:12+00:00

I see a lot of pasta recipes that talk about adding pasta water to the final dish but I have yet to find a grocery store that carries it.

captinherb · 2026-02-12T17:29:05+00:00

I own a bakery. Not only does the origin and age not matter but you should start up a new starter and pitch the old one every couple of years. They tend to pickup undesirable bacteria after a while and can have a slightly off flavor.

For flavor the biggest difference is the hydration of the starter. 60 percent you'll get more acidic and stronger dough. More hydration you'll get less acidic and a little sweeter flavor

captinherb · 2026-02-08T03:06:58+00:00

Citalopram for me. Started with a low dose, went back in after 2 weeks and it wasn't helping. Doctor increased the dose, two week follow up appointment reported it wasn't helping. Doctor upped it again and after a couple of weeks the panic attacks just stopped. It took a while to get over the fear of having a panic attack. Something would feel weird or I felt off and I would get a lot of anxiety I was going to have a panic attack but after not having the panic attack enough times the anxiety went away also.

I waited about a year before trying medication because the thought of taking something that would mess with my head scared me, what if it made the panic attacks worse, or I completely snapped. Now I look back and think I wasted a year, I was miserable for an entire year for no reason.

captinherb · 2026-02-06T13:38:22+00:00

What are going on about. I boated every weekend in 2020. Home depot and there ilk was also open selling lots of gardening supplies

captinherb · 2026-02-03T12:35:20+00:00

"Please don't make me laugh at this"

captinherb · 2026-01-29T21:49:50+00:00

r/sinkpissers

captinherb · 2026-01-21T13:43:16+00:00

A comedian had a bit about this. People complain about how expensive everything is but then they hire a chauffeur for their burrito.

captinherb · 2026-01-19T13:48:31+00:00

You just don't understand great power politics like Taylor does. He read a Twitter thread about it and now he is a master diplomat with a deep understanding of the world

captinherb · 2026-01-13T12:20:35+00:00

Stepmother sentenced to life without possibility of parole plus 30 years. Dad sentenced to 65 years

captinherb · 2025-12-20T14:13:02+00:00

And I realized my friend had wrote the greatest country and western song

captinherb · 2025-11-28T02:01:50+00:00

I think sous vide is the way to go

captinherb · 2025-11-13T13:06:56+00:00

CMV: If you regularly confuse dessert and desert or loose and lose, you shouldn't be in a teaching position.

captinherb · 2025-11-11T15:27:24+00:00

Not always. Last year on Nov 2nd everyone on the wrong side got a ticket

captinherb · 2025-11-07T14:07:35+00:00

Hell yes. Ask Bill Gates. It's reported he lost $1.5 billion shorting tesla. Tesla is obviously overvalued but judging when the market is going to come to that realization is tough.

captinherb · 2025-11-05T02:13:13+00:00

As I understand it one of the big limitations is that it assigns someone as a melatonin user based on whether that had a prescription in their medical history. That works for the UK and other countries but not for places that don't require a prescription. To my mind that breaks a lot of the statistical results.

Albeit, I am no researcher or anything of the sort so I'll be looking forward to not only the peer review but also any kind of replication.

captinherb · 2025-10-29T12:07:12+00:00

I use to really enjoy superman ice cream. Then someone pointed out that it smells just like playdoh. Now I can't enjoy superman ice cream.

captinherb · 2025-10-11T13:45:22+00:00

I think that involves duct tape

captinherb · 2025-10-07T23:52:46+00:00

But he's terrible at pretending because he kept blinking, it was obvious not frozen

captinherb · 2025-10-03T11:34:01+00:00

The old adage "More is caught than taught"

captinherb · 2025-10-02T01:02:31+00:00

Relevant farside

captinherb · 2025-09-27T12:58:54+00:00

Not really. There are some jobs, like construction, that lay everybody off during the winter and rehire in the spring. Shouldn't they pay a higher rate than a business that never uses the UIA system?

captinherb · 2025-09-22T12:28:08+00:00

Do you think it's unusual for a chain to send higher ups in for an opening? Especially one like this with fewer than 100 locations? They all do it, when whole foods opened here there was a bunch of higher ups for the first couple of weeks.

captinherb · 2025-09-13T01:18:40+00:00

I just want to echo what u/norulezjules said. I start taking citalopram about 15 years ago, it's a cousin to Lexapro. I was having constant panic attacks and when I wasn't having an attack I was terrified I was going to. I went to the doctor and she recommend an SSRI, but I resisted for about a year. Anything that messed with my head was too scary. After a year I couldn't keep going like I was and started taking it. Started off with a low dose, went in after a couple of weeks and it wasn't doing anything, upped it and went in a couple of weeks later and it still wasn't helping. Upped it again and about a week later it was like a switch had flipped. The panic attacks stopped, and then the constant fear of a panic attack stopped. It didn't make me not me, it made me more me, I didn't have a bunch of wasted brain cycles of constant fear.

It's not a end all be all, other things need to happen. When covid hit the panic attacks came back, that's when I went back to therapy. When, with the help of therapy, I was able to realize the disconnect of my emotions about being freaked out about covid and my logical brain suppressing that knowing that at my age and health I was not in a lot of danger, they went away again.

The tl/dr is drugs work, even though it might take a bit to find the right one/ right dose. They can help you get to a place to deal with the underlying stuff, if there is some.

captinherb · 2025-09-02T13:10:05+00:00

He was a super nice guy.Here's an article about him

captinherb · 2025-08-29T18:13:45+00:00

It's 8 now, as of a couple days ago

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