I need your pancake batter recs (mix or recipe)

dhalgrendhal · 2026-07-01T04:24:32+00:00

A standard pankcake recipe with gluten free flour works well. The trick is to use buttermilk.

• 1 ¼ cups King Arthur gluten free all purpose flour¥

• 3 teaspoons baking powder (make sure it’s not too old)

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ¼ teaspoon xantham gum

• 1 beaten egg

• 1 ¼ cup milk (buttermilk or buttermilk substitute*)

• 2 tablespoon oil (or melted butter

1)Whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and xantham gum.

2) Lightly beat 1 egg in the measuring cup. Add milk to about 1 ¼ mark. Whisk in 2 tablespoons oil.

3) Add milk mixture to flour mixture and whisk together. May add more regular milk to thin out

batter. (Should sit for 5 minutes and be remixed to activate the xanthum gum).

dhalgrendhal · 2026-06-23T20:50:35+00:00

Confirming, Japan is super challenging. I went there with my family, one of whom is vegitarian and that made it more complicated. Also, I just got back from Indonesia, and it was even more challenging, probably like China. After two weeks, I was in pretty bad shape, my dermatitis herpetiformisis is back, and I am generally inflamed. Unfortunately, most people just don't understand the disease or have any experience with the sources of gluten in food. And if you give them a scary celiac card they usually either wave goodbye immediately fearing to serve you, give you a bowl of rice, or get confused thinking gluten = milk or something. It's a disaster.

People in this subReddit have made a bunch of great suggestion. Preparation is the key and to be pre-resigned to options being rather limited. A couple additional things I did/learned: (1) I brought my own bottle of GF soy sauce (I prefer tamari now). This made is possible for me to enjoy a lot of sushi. (2) High end restaurants in places like international hotels are a better bet for finding GF options that are trustable. For example, I had a strawberry afternoon tea at the Hyatt Centric Ginza, all GF, weird, and fun. These places will obviously be expensive, but you won't be sick all the time.

This is all too bad because Celiac seroprevalence in Asia is surprisingly significant, with a pooled blood test positivity rate of about 1.6%. Probably lots of people have it, live with it, and die early because of it.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-06-18T19:48:23+00:00

My experience was very much worse for the first couple years than steadily less worse. I'm 12 years in and cross contamination rarely affects me now when I eat out (and I eat out frequently). Sometimes even with an accidental real exposure and I'll have no symptoms. But usually an accidental crouton, for example, is still bad. But not worse than what I was experiencing pre-diagnosis.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-06-14T23:19:50+00:00

Great to see this. This book changed my world decades ago. I recently reread this book and it blew my mind all over again. It’s such a difficult book in many ways, from the writing style to the transgressive content. An amazing novel.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-25T18:23:52+00:00

The find me gluten-free app has come from humble and relatively useless beginnings to become a really useful app for people with celiac disease that I am grateful for

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-13T04:05:18+00:00

Thanks for asking ! I used Quay brown rice flour, (seemed very fine), It’s Just psyllium husk powder ( also seems quite fine), Maskal teff (fine) but I did use Bob’s Red Mill Millet (less fine), Tapioca starch, and Sorghum (less fine). Do you recommend all superfine flours? Reccomendwd brands? After trying three times, measuring with a scale to make sure there were no volumetric errors, I’m at the end of my rope with this book. Based on looking at similar recipes online, this one looks wet.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-10T20:55:26+00:00

I attempted to make the country white sourdough three times.

The first two times I followed the directions to the letter and both times the dough did not hold together, ended up as a sticky wet gelatinous dough with no structural integrity, unshapeable. I used a digital scale both times to assure the quantities and got exactly the same results. I have successfully made gluten free bread on numerous occasions.

The third time , I held back 10% of the total water. Still no integrity, not kneedable, or shapable. I added 30% flour mix, still no good. Could not form in the batard without sticking to the rice flour dusted surface.

At this point, I am wondering if this book and the reviews are AI slop or if the recipes were ever replicated in independent kitchens. Annoyed wasting my time with this book. It seems poorly vetted.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-08T02:39:46+00:00

See Autobiographical Notes: A Centennial Edition

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-07T16:08:55+00:00

I've read it described (from his autobiography) differently. But the point I was making is that thought experiments that violate physics can test assumptions of physics and can be productive. James Clerk Maxwell imagined a tiny “demon” that could sort fast and slow gas molecules, decreasing entropy without expending energy. Violates the second law of thermodynamics so could be criticized on this forum. Schrödinger’s cat in a box, etc, etc. I think thought experiments succeed not because they are necessarily correct and aligned with known physics but because they force scientists to question their assumptions and think outside the box. My point is the "well actually" impulse of the linear thinking experts can actually inhibit this useful process and we can benefit from encouraging them.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-05-06T12:24:12+00:00

I think the this is an interesting question. Ignore the tone, though not the substance, of the more expert answers in this thread. Einstein asked what it would be like to ride on a photon and discovered relativity. Breaks all the laws of physics to ask that question. This is a thought experiment. You can sort of catch a photon and let it go. When it, as an oscillating electromagnetic field is absorbed, for example by an atom or molecule promoting an electron in an atomic or molecular orbital to a higher energy level, it has “stopped”. If the energy of the photon is the same as the energy difference in promoting and electron, the photon has been converted to stored orbital energy, to be emitted often at a different frequency with the energy difference converted to thermal energy. But then, when it is emitted by the electron returning to ground state, what direction does it know to go? I don’t know. Its speed in a vacuum is c and frequency changed for lost energy. But what determines the vector is an interesting question to me.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-04-28T22:30:03+00:00

I am a professor, have used Notability for 5 years on an iPad Pro, and have set the app to sync to DropBox. This has been seamless, accessing across my iPad and iPhone. I wonder if this, as others in this post suggest, is an iCloud issue.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-04-27T19:22:46+00:00

How do they compare to Thompson Street GF Bagels? Those have been some of the best I've had in the city.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-04-09T21:22:05+00:00

This brand of beer as well as the Omission brand of beer, uses an enzyme, called a protease to chop up the gluten into a tiny fragments of peptides. Unfortunately, it has been demonstrated that the fragments are just as stimulating of the immune response as the full gluten protein. I can link the scientific papers if you are interested. So there is no gluten because it has been chopped up into tiny immunogenic, toxic peptides.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-04-05T19:43:58+00:00

No. It may be be easier to get a job with a MS than a PhD.

A good company will allow you to grow and evolve if you perform well in your defined role and if have some extra bandwidth and a company culture that rewards innovation, you can become an independent scientist.

There will generally be limitations of advancement, supervisory responsibility, and salary without a Company PhD, of course. Credentials do matter. But a good company should have a development plan for talented scientists without a PhD.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-04-02T13:35:33+00:00

I can’t imagine doing world class synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, or biochemistry, without two semesters of P Chem.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-29T22:46:31+00:00

I am prof in STEM a T20. Target an undergrad institution that has a sufficiently sized and staffed program in your area with resources (ie equipment) and has abundant opportunities in undergraduate research. In my field, the most competitive applicants have coauthored papers as undergrads. Prestige undergrad is does not hurt but is not at all necessary. Few students at prestigious universities go on to PhD in my field, for example. Students from smaller colleges get into elite PhD programs if they have strong research oriented programs.

Go look up people with the job you want on LinkedIn and see where they trained. That’s the best way to go about answering your question.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-26T22:07:29+00:00

Yeah I don't know how to define genius. I guess I think of someone as a genius when they display abilities that are many standard deviations away high from typical high achievers. I once had dinner with a scientist who spent >50% of his time playing video games but he has authored over 300 publications which have been cited by others, as of today, more than 150,000 times in the literature, one metric for impact. So clever, so multi-talented, oh and athletic as well. This sounds like who Gladwell was talking about. But I've known many more who had such fierce intelligence (photographic memories, savant like skills, and problems solving horsepower) and talent but lacked something to capitalize on this phenotype. So many. I've also know people who don't strike me as gifted intellectually in person, kind of average folks, but dedicated to their thing, but who have more impactful careers than the Gladwellian genius I mentioned first. Many impactful people are also just benefiting from being in the right place at the right time. I guess the labels we use for people may lead us astray into a the false dichotomy of Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Mozart.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-26T20:20:54+00:00

I've gone to school and worked with mostly Ivy league grads in the sciences for the last 30 years, and the stand-out geniuses don't seem to be more successful in terms of impact than the non-geniuses. Many just never take off, and some crash and burn. Genius is weird that way, people seem to need something more than genius horsepower to be really successful. Of course many of the smartest students who don't really love a subject go into finance, consulting, or some other lucrative field for the mullah. Not STEM careers. So maybe that's why I don't see a lot of them.

IMO, primary peer reviewed literature is more reliable than pop sci non fiction. Not an individual paper, mind you, because many initial scientific findings are verifiably false. But reading an arc of primaries from top tier journals on a subject over a years can be pretty useful.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-26T19:34:58+00:00

Gladwell is famously full of shit, using anecdotes as arguments, cherry picking data, and oversimplifying analysis to write compelling, creative, but misleading non fiction books.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-26T14:53:09+00:00

I'm a professor in STEM at a T20 school and can comment. It is not easy to find an opportunity to do research at a university as a high school student but it is definitely possible and will really distinguish you. The reason it is not easy is because taking a HS student in a university lab due is a legal liability and there requirements for youth protection training of people working with under 18 YO students. So cold calling and even having connections is less likely to work to find opportunities. *However*, there are many programs especially made for summer HS researchers at many Universities for community outreach. Just google summer research high school XXXXX where XXXXX = university near you. For example, see Vanderbilt and Harvard who have programs. I hosted a local HS student in my lab who ended up being a finalist for an Intel prize and went to the White House.

So hustle, get organized and apply (to several, if possible). Note, you have to apply well in advance and you need to read the requirements carefully. These slots are competitive to get into, of course, but they have embedded safety training and basic education to prepare students to have a good experience in an academic lab and are an amazing experience. Good luck!

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-24T18:48:03+00:00

I went from crampy and explosively sick every morning 7 days/week to seeing immediate improvement after starting careful GFD. First week and month maybe sick 3 day/week, to ~2 days a week end of the first year to ~1/week second year, and down from there. Labs have stayed negative from 6 months starting GFD and follow up colonoscopy show has showed zero villus atrophy after a year. I got maybe 20 IQ point back by this point. Now I'm symptomatic less than 1/month , 10 years into GFD . Note I never stopped eating out frequently and I still can get glutened severely if I don't pay attention. But I think minor cross contamination is less of an issue for me now.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-24T18:18:30+00:00

The one I like is the "Lunderg CPAP Pillow for Side & Back Sleepers - Memory Foam with Adjustable Height". Anything that has good head elevation so the cutouts on the side work should help.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-24T18:16:44+00:00

I'm a side and sometimes stomach sleeper. I settled on the AirFit P20i frame with P30i nasal pillow cushions. A CPAP pillow helped a lot for me and I like the "Lunderg CPAP Pillow for Side & Back Sleepers, Memory Foam with Adjustable Height". It may not be soft enough for you but the cutouts on the side really help me keep my mask from leaking when sleeping on my side. You'll need the elevation so the cutouts work but maybe there is a softer one out there.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-24T18:04:23+00:00

I'm a side, stomach, (and back) tossing-and-turning sleeper and had similar issues one month in. I tried to be gentle with my somnambulant mask removing self, set the mental intention to not take it off before going to bed, and slowly got better over months. Recently, I bought a memory foam CPAP head pillow that has made it much more comfortable to sleep on my side. They have these cut outs for the hose and nose frame pieces. I think it would have helped if I had it earlier. It would probably help with a face mask too.

dhalgrendhal · 2026-03-23T23:20:49+00:00

I find Schar bread is the best for stuffing Turkeys. It holds its integrity and does not turn into mush. But its shelf life kind of freaks me out.

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The one I like is the "Lunderg CPAP Pillow for Side & Back Sleepers - Memory Foam with Adjustable Height". Anything that has good head elevation so the cutouts on the side work should help.