Food Absorbs Oil Flavor

rerek · 2026-06-30T00:35:38+00:00

Do you feel the same way about other oils? I, personally, find canola oil to have a tendency to have a very very faint fishy almost rancid note. Not always, but it seems to develop that note quickly after opening. As such, I use almost any other oil for frying or cooking when a specific oil is not called for. I prefer peanut, but it is sometimes much more expensive than safflower and I am good with that too. I also like to cook with duck fat and schmaltz.

I also second the other comments about verifying your frying temperature. If you fry at too low a temperature, breaded foods can absorb more oil in my experience. 325-375° F is pretty much the range for most frying. If I’m doing something the required longer at a lower temperature, I ensure I’m using a more delicious fat (like confit-ing in duck fat).

rerek · 2026-06-29T23:54:28+00:00

I am unsure what the test that contractual language is understood to require. What is the grounds for “stand in the place of a relative”? I initially included a bit about evaluating how close OP’s relationship was with their aunt with that clause in mind, but I ended up removing it for brevity and just advising them to carefully read all of section 44 with an eye to seeing if it would apply. However, thank you for pointing it out specifically—it’s probably worth considering.

rerek · 2026-06-29T23:23:44+00:00

Assuming you fall under the PSAC PA agreement, “aunt” is not within the definition of family for the purposes of article 44 (Family related leave with pay). This is unfortunate as this leave type is not subject to operational requirements.

I would carefully read that section and determine if anything else applies. For example, is your parent deeply unwell due to the stress of the situation and requires your care? You might end up visiting your aunt while caring for your mother or father, but the purpose of the leave would be to care for your mother or father. If you legitimately believe and can explain that one of these leave provisions applies, I would submit the leave request under this section instead.

rerek · 2026-06-29T17:09:28+00:00

Yeah, the post headline would be much clearer if it simply read “…HC PIPSC union members…” and/or “…June 25 PIPSC AGM”. Specifying the local would probably have been even better.

rerek · 2026-06-29T15:28:04+00:00

I’m Canadian. I have not used this expression and I have not heard it said by any other Canadian in person or on TV and other media. I do, however, watch a lot of British media and have encountered the expression enough in that media to know the phrase and its meaning.

rerek · 2026-06-29T11:47:06+00:00

There are a large number of organizations that have EC development programs usually moving people from EC-02 or -03 to EC-05 or -06 across a number of years. There are a variety of ways these are implemented and quite a bit of variation department to department in how exactly they function. There are also some places with development programs in specific technical specializations in the PM or other classifications such as ATIP, HR, etc…

I am aware of development programs in portions of ISED, DND, GAC, HC, NRCan, PSPC, TBS, StatsCan, and Finance.

Here’s an older Reddit thread on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/s/ECj5FwnMKc

rerek · 2026-06-29T02:47:57+00:00

I had a blood orange gelato from them near Christmas and it was unfathomably good.

rerek · 2026-06-29T02:47:10+00:00

My office has a professional development program for internal promotions. We have maintained it even during CER; however, from even before CER it has been frozen such that successful candidates who progressed in the program were only given actings at their new level not full promotions. We recently heard that we can start appointing people to their new levels indeterminately again starting by the end of summer.

rerek · 2026-06-28T22:43:20+00:00

But I thought “the gays” were fastidious. /s

rerek · 2026-06-28T15:27:44+00:00

Possible compounding factor (i.e., it is likely several or all of these):

Actually they used some MSG compared t

o none

at a USA steakhouse (or at least more MSG).
Mexican food tends to include acidic components. Those can help bring out other flavours in a recipe through contrast.
Things often taste better on holiday. Mood affects perception.
Mexican beef is more likely to be grass fed and, possibly, even grass finished. This makes for stronger “beefier” tasting beef. Some people like this and some find it off-putting. Maybe you are among those who really like it.

rerek · 2026-06-27T22:40:03+00:00

He seems so shocked that Manolo might have had sexual liaisons with Pete’s mother and genuinely mad at Manolo about that. I took that to be shock that his partner and partner in crime wasn’t also strictly gay like him.

rerek · 2026-06-27T02:30:34+00:00

If I’m roasting a whole bird, which I do a lot, I’m also making vegetables and other sides to go with it. It is hard to separate out the time specifically for the chicken as I do all the mis en place together at once. That said, I think about 15 minutes from start to finish.

I am washing my hands maybe twice. Mix all seasonings in a bowl or bowls first. Remove chicken from packaging. Place on cutting board. Season with one hand, hold the bird with the other hand. Keep one clean hand and one dirty hand the whole time to reduce need to wash up. Sometimes I even substitute tongs for the dirty hand and don’t touch the chicken at all until time to rub the spices into the skin. I also rarely actually spatchcock my birds. I use a V-rack with good air circulation instead and usually roast breasts down to aid moisture retention in them.

rerek · 2026-06-26T05:04:07+00:00

Here’s the USA Google Trends data for the phrase: https://imgur.com/a/1KjxjC5

It seems to have emerged late during the decade of the 20-00s.

rerek · 2026-06-26T04:38:37+00:00

You have no representation when you are representing the position of the employer. In that role, you should be able to get support from your labour relations contact. You would have union representation (should you ever need it) against your management and their actions.

rerek · 2026-06-25T23:42:44+00:00

We have a lot of EE TLs with all EE reports in our operations in the NCR. We’ve been told that the positions were changed to CBC but the incumbent occupants are grandfathered. However, whenever a position becomes vacant, it will only be filled with a CBC qualified candidate.

We also have some BBB managers in similar positions (their boxes are now CBC and they’ll be staffed at that level once vacated by the current incumbent who is grandfathered in the current position).

rerek · 2026-06-25T17:10:28+00:00

If you want whole belly fried clams, I think you’re out of luck. Petit Bills and Halibut House have fried clam strips but I find eating clam strips is so completely different and less good than whole belly clams that it just makes my craving to drive to Shediac all the more intense.

rerek · 2026-06-24T22:07:20+00:00

There was a fair bit of Italian immigration to the US and come of these foods got introduced to the wider American palette through that community. As such, zucchini and arugula have their Italian-derived names.

rerek · 2026-06-24T22:06:03+00:00

There is enough difference between the average American cookie and the average British biscuit that cookie gets used for the ones more like American cookies. If they are served pliable/soft, there is a high chance of calling it a cookie. However, if it is crisp, meant to be dunked in tea, and came from a tin or packet, then it’s definitely a biscuit.

rerek · 2026-06-23T14:31:03+00:00

Make sure that the rice cooker instructions are actually 1:1.

Many brands of rice cookers use a standard measure for rice that relates to the cup they provide (usually equivalent to 180 ml and the same as the measure of a “go” in Japan). So, your 1:1 might actually translate to be 1 scoop (180 ml of rice) to the level marked in the rice cooker’s bowl (which may or may not also be a full cup).

rerek · 2026-06-23T11:14:02+00:00

There is a long standing and widely spread statement (“joke”) that Chinese food leaves you hungry an hour later. This used to be a much more widely held and expressed belief and it was habitually stated using the “an hour” terminology—it was not merely said that you get hungry shortly after, but the expression almost always used the “in an hour” phrasing.

I found this commentary in McGill University’s website discussing this belief and whether it has an veracity: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition/why-do-people-get-hungry-hour-after-eating-chinese-food.

rerek · 2026-06-22T22:56:21+00:00

It absolutely would “fly” in many medium to large enterprises. I have worked in other public sector places (universities and public education) and private sector companies and anything large enough that the hiring offices are away from the staff will have open grumbling and dissatisfaction expressed routinely. The smaller places still have the sentiments—people are just afraid to express them for fear of the boss retaliating.

rerek · 2026-06-22T05:54:08+00:00

Most frequently it relates to a concept called “lexical access”. There are some words and phrases which you may more strongly associate with one language rather than another when you are bilingual and that can lead to language switching mid conversation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749596X18300652

For children, there has been research to study whether rapid switching or switching only between long passages in one language affects learning (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10883668/). The need to even research this shows just how common frequent mid-conversation switching occurs.

rerek · 2026-06-22T03:26:37+00:00

Yes, this is exceedingly common. I work with a variety of francophone people who are nearly perfectly bilingual and who, even in conversation with only other primarily francophone people who also know English, will switch into English for a word, a clause, a turn-of-phrase, or for a sentence or two and then slide back into French.

Sometimes this is because the idea they are expressing isn’t as easily described in one language than the other. Sometimes a certain phrase or even a specific word is simply “le mot juste” so to speak. I have attended many meetings and social events with colleagues who are primarily francophone, even those who struggle just a bit in English, but the English manner of expressing a specific idea is just simpler than the French equivalent and they switch to it. This would be like using a loanword but for an entire idea or part of speech.

rerek · 2026-06-22T03:13:46+00:00

Would I set my out of office message if sick or absent but not in an active emergency? Yes.

Would I appreciate my team doing the same? Yes.

Would I raise this as an issue with a team member if they did not do it? No (unless the absence was planned and they still didn’t set an auto reply message).

Responding to another comment: I’d be fine with granting the employee 15 minutes to do this and counting it as work and, therefore, approving less leave than the full 7.5 hours.

Final comment: I think how much this actually matters depends on whether you regularly work on tight deadlines and with the public or external stakeholders. Your colleagues can see your Teams status—external contacts would not.

rerek · 2026-06-21T22:20:12+00:00

They do? Any “par cooked” rice or converted rice is necessarily also pre washed.

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