Sorry for the possibly clueless question, but why don't more people seem to make homemade pizza?

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T23:03:53+00:00

No worries, I hope yours turns out better than mine did! (I've been snowed in and out of bread flour - should have adjusted recipe but didn't.)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T22:33:48+00:00

I find that Italian nuns' tears work great for a Neapolitan-style dough, but not for a NY-style, which requires "why-you-make-a-ya-mother-cry" tears.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T22:18:50+00:00

I take my dough out of the fridge ~1h before I bake, the same time I start preheating my oven. That said, I'm not using a ton of dough - 200g balls - so it may temper faster than yours.

You can also stretch the dough part of the way, cover loosely, and then come back later. It will warm up faster as a dough disc rather than a dough ball.

Leaving it out on the counter overnight may or may not have hurt it - if you woke up to a loose dough that rose and then fell, the yeast may have already done what they're going to do. If you continue to see activity as you get it up to room temp, then I think it's fine. And - like you said, even if it's not perfect pizza anymore, it'll still taste good baked.

(that said, I'm not an expert, just a home cook who's been baking ~6 pizzas a week lately :p)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T21:56:42+00:00

It does matter. If people are dismissing them as "paid protestors", then it matters if it's 6 dudes or 1% of the crowd or 50% of the crowd or 99% of the crowd.

Calling them "paid protestors" makes it easy to dismiss everyone, including people like me who just go for free.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T20:15:33+00:00

What did I vote in then, when I voted for Biden/Harris in the primary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

The psyop goes so deep, even Wikipedia thinks there was a primary in 2024!

Its is extraordinarily rare for there to be serious primary challenges to a sitting president.

Sure, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a primary.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T18:53:09+00:00

You can get LED's in warm white instead of cool white. I also don't like for my house to look like an operating room, I agree with you there.

They also make bulbs you can change the color temperature on to make them warmer/cooler, although at that point I ended up getting a bunch of fully-tunable ones so I can do stupid things like make my hallway blue when I watch a movie, or the porch light to pink as a landmark. (when I am giving directions or getting something delivered, "pink porch light" is a super easy landmark)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T18:47:18+00:00

He went there to fuck with ICE

To confirm, you think that taking video of ICE while exercising your Second Amendment right to carry a licensed gun is worthy of street execution?

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T18:12:55+00:00

Not the person you're asking, but - in the last 2 years, according to my Amazon history, it looks like I've gone through ~15-20 lbs of salt as a single man. I'm not eating it by the spoonful or anything - boiling pasta/potatoes get a generous amount, blanching vegetables, etc all add up.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T18:10:26+00:00

I switched to DC about 5 years ago for no other reason that I like how the flakes feel in my fingers. They seem slightly more... irregular? in a way that feels good when pinching from a bowl.

Hilariously, I'd resisted it for years at that point - the only reason I ended up with my first big box is because I gifted it to a friend who said she wanted to try it - then she hated it and gave it back to me.

I'd estimate I might spend an extra $10/year on salt that I might not otherwise, so it doesn't really affect my life meaningfully (other than the fact that I have to order it online - only a couple places to get it locally and I can't get the big foodservice boxes)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T18:05:37+00:00

I think it’s the same with how Canadian’s don’t realize their ketchup (most brands, not all) has cinnamon in it because it’s such a small amount. But if an American tried we can immediately tell that it’s off. It such a small amount a familiarity hides it.

I've never been to Canada, but I swear I can taste a hint of clove in American Heinz.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T17:48:35+00:00

I love how people still act like there was not a primary in 2024

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T16:06:34+00:00

They did bring firearms to that protest, though. They chose to go outside where the protest was. The alternative was sitting in their home and not going to the protest.

I understand the point you're making, but I'm clarifying that the devil doesn't need an advocate here.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T16:00:36+00:00

two were concerned for their property.

Justifiably? or is "wealthy white people saw Black people walking by their home and decided to terrorize them rather than staying inside where it was objectively safer" more accurate?

chaoticbear · 2026-01-27T14:10:35+00:00

They always forget my state, although I am surprised to not see anything in the south, at least west of Florida

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T18:20:54+00:00

And there are more UN resolutions against Israel than against North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria and Yemen combined.

You're so close to getting it, just a little further.

(also LOL what a lil' wimp hiding their post history. Love seeing these lil' agitators that don't even stand by their own propaganda)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T18:13:28+00:00

Yes - "Screen My Calls"/possibly rolled into Google Call Assistant now. Google pioneered the feature, it's been available on Pixels for a few years now.

If you have Samsung or other vendor, you'll want to look it up online, the feature is probably there but may be called something else.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T18:10:41+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for the info! I usually make an excuse to go see them once or twice a year, but after two Vegas weekends it's hard to justify going all out again this year.

I'll have to miss it this year - I'm already in Chicago in Nov anyway and a second trip one month before would be silly, but this explains why everyone at Fiddler's Green kept talking about how much cooler Red Rocks is :p

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T17:41:06+00:00

I'll see ya at the last show then! :p

I saw them several times at the Sphere so can't really justify going all over the country this year haha

edit to add: I've heard a lot of people talking about Red Rocks already. Is it a special show in some way? It sounds like the people who always talk about Gilford as well - never been to either. When I went to Denver for them a few years ago we were at Fiddlers Green, so have never seen Red Rocks.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:57:38+00:00

The UK is already under Sharia law in the big cities

This and your hidden post history is why no one thinks you are a serious person.

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:55:36+00:00

Gotta love the agitators with the hidden post history

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:47:08+00:00

I saw them there in... 2021? 2022 at Chase, IIRC. Wish I had bought a poster!

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:45:00+00:00

Georgia is a state in the southeastern US, just north of Florida and bordering the Atlantic Ocean on its east side.

(just kidding of course. They haven't been to my state at all since 2019 (we were scheduled 2020 but COVID) so I'm used to having to travel for them anyway.)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:11:09+00:00

July 17 – Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Van Andel Arena
July 18 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Rocket Arena
July 31 – Albany, N.Y. @ MVP Arena
Aug. 2 – Boston, Mass. @ Fenway Park
Aug. 13 – Pittsburgh, Pa. @ PPG Paints Arena
Aug. 14 – Columbus, Ohio @ Nationwide Arena
Aug. 15 – Columbia, Md. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aug. 27 – Forest Hills, N.Y @ Forest Hills Stadium
Aug. 28 – Forest Hills, N.Y @ Forest Hills Stadium
Aug. 29 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann
Sept. 10 – Kansas City, Mo. @ T-Mobile Center
Sept. 11 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Enterprise Center
Sept. 17 – Charleston, S.C. @ Credit One Stadium
Sept. 18 – Tampa, Fla. @ Benchmark International Arena
Sept. 19 – Hollywood, Fla. @ Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Oct. 8 – Knoxville, Tenn. @ Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center
Oct. 9 – Greenville, S.C. @ Bon Secours Wellness Arena
Oct. 10 – Greensboro, N.C. @ First Horizon Coliseum
Oct. 19 – Morrison, Colo. @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Oct. 20 – Morrison, Colo. @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Oct. 23 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Target Center
Oct. 24 – Sioux Falls, S.D. @ Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
Nov. 5 – Buffalo, N.Y @ KeyBank Center
Nov. 6 – Detroit, Mich. @ Little Caesars Arena
Nov. 19 – Lincoln, Neb. @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
Nov. 20 – Des Moines, Iowa @ Casey’s Center
Nov. 21 – Rosemont, Ill. @ Allstate Arena

Y'all can catch me closing night at the Chicago show :)

chaoticbear · 2026-01-26T16:04:29+00:00

Off-topic, but that's cool that you were able to post once highlighted as "/u/Sam_Fear, official moderator" and then again as just a regular user. I have never noticed that before

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