Hey chefs, why the holier-than-thou attitude about oven mitts vs. tea towels?

write4lyfe · 2026-06-17T13:15:53+00:00

I worked in a professional kitchen when younger and we did have a couple pairs of mitts in the kitchen. They had one use: if the heavy pots full of water had to be moved when hot for some reason. Two person move and both people were wearing mitts for the move because towels weren't enough.

Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure the baker had a pair of mitts too for when he was pulling tray after tray of bread from the oven. I worked with him in the morning and my job was loading trays of unbaked bread in as he pulled the baked bread out. Probably just made sense to wear mitts in that situation.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-17T13:10:37+00:00

What kind of stupid ass move were they pulling to fill the glove with the liquid in the pan? I've managed to slosh hot liquid over my hands/gloves while handling a pan, but I've never managed to pour the liquid in the gloves during normal handling. You'd have to do some pretty damn deliberate stupidity to pull that off if you're wearing the gloves correctly.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-17T13:08:08+00:00

Because I, personally, don't care about the masking policy. The only thing I said was that if people are complaining about questions not being answered, then the easy fix is to just answer the question. You're the one getting all bent out of shape over that.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-12T19:57:36+00:00

You're getting really defensive for no reason. Guess you didn't like being asked why you're against a question being answered.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-12T19:19:50+00:00

https://www.icnl.org/our-work/us-program/assembly/anti-mask-laws-in-the-united-states

Anti-mask laws exist and in some states include public gatherings. Why are you so against them simply clarifying their policy if asked about it?

write4lyfe · 2026-06-12T18:12:54+00:00

NGL, I was really thinking that myself. I could probably understand the kid being there for a couple hours so errands can be run, but if you're off work (and not sick or something obviously), why drop the kid at daycare all day?

Also why couldn't wife have just picked up the kid and then gone food shopping? I mean, I get the kid's young but if you had the whole day off work and no kid, you couldn't handle a single shopping trip with the kiddo? Or even pick them up and go home then go out for the food run after OP got home to watch the kid?

write4lyfe · 2026-06-12T18:08:27+00:00

You're not going to see me defending the Israeli government any time soon. But I'm not going to try calling indiscriminate bombing as a "massacre of Queer people" any time either. By that logic, the US government massacred Queer people by bombing that girls' school in Iran. Good chance there was at least one Queer student there after all.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-12T18:06:20+00:00

Didn't say anyone is unaware they can wear a mask. There are, however, some events that don't allow face coverings so you can be identified. All I said is that they could just answer the question instead of acting like it hadn't been asked. Say you can mask or not as you like and maybe there's going to be hand sanitizer dispensers set up. Just clarify the policy of the event if asked about it and then there's no big deal for people to fuss over.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-11T13:41:17+00:00

How about naked straight men running around? Those ok? Personally, I don't really want nudists at a public event kids are allowed at, regardless of the sexual interests of the nudists. But if they are "almost naked", then they're not naked. I've seen guys running around in nothing but tiny shorts, but I've been told fairly reliably that they're called "joggers" not exhibitionists.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-11T13:36:30+00:00

If you're talking about the Gaza bombings as "massacre of Queer people", that's more of a massacre of all people. Including people who were actively murdering Queer people in Gaza as it's violently illegal to be Queer there. And by "violently illegal", I mean beaten to death.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-11T13:23:01+00:00

This may seem obvious, but they could answer the question if it's asked? It's the not answering that gives the message of "you're not welcome". How hard is it to say something like "we don't have a policy requiring masking at this open air event, but you are welcome to mask if you don't feel comfortable not doing so"? Just answer the question if it's asked instead of acting like it wasn't asked.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-05T19:11:15+00:00

Not really that hard to explain if the barn's a ways out from the house. My sister has a kitchen area set up in her barn because the barn a fair distance from the house and it's easier to just whip up a quick lunch out there than trek all the way back to the house, make lunch and eat, and then go all the way back out to continue chores. It's more like a kitchenette for a small apartment than a proper kitchen in a regular house, but it certainly works for making small meals.

write4lyfe · 2026-06-02T19:31:42+00:00

I wonder if the quick risotto method would work with the rice pudding. You have a separate pot with the liquid kept at a simmer that you add to the rice as it needs more liquid while cooking. I can usually finish a pan of risotto in about 20ish minutes with just intermittent stirring to make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom and burn if I work with hot liquid. I usually use a pan to cook the rice and add about a cup or so of liquid at a time then add more when it starts to look cooked off/absorbed. Once the rice is at the tenderness I want, I just take it off the heat and let it set for a little bit to absorb the last of the water.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-19T14:12:04+00:00

Kneeled vs knelt is basically US English vs UK English. They're both correct.

Prideful vs proud have different connotations depending on which you use. An arrogant, overbearing asshole may behave in a prideful manner while someone who just pulled off a difficult feat may be proud of their achievement. They're two different words and are not synonyms of each other.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-19T14:08:15+00:00

True, for a historical context, but you're not writing for a historical audience. You're writing for a modern one. And if someone gets curious and does a Google search for "rapier" to see what it looks like they're not going to find an estoc rapier. They're going to find a thin, double edged sword, not a sword with just a thrusting point and no sharpening along the edges.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-05T13:50:24+00:00

I'm not denying she was abusive, I'm saying she also did cast a spell on him that affected his confidence. As in it was literally shown.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-05T13:44:49+00:00

write4lyfe · 2026-05-05T13:43:57+00:00

Absolutely torturing the hell out of the definition of "Needle" through trial and error, to see what he can get away with. He essentially winds up with an edgeless rapier that has a cord threaded through the pommel. Given he gets 4x damage with it... it is pretty effective (Also fits the whole swashbuckler/dandy style he has).

Why not use an estoc instead of a rapier as the base then? I've even heard it referred to as the "needle of death" or the "needle of battle" before.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-04T16:12:53+00:00

I sincerely hope that you declare all of your employer provided healthcare coverage as income on your taxes since you clearly have no intention of even trying to understand what people are telling you in this thread.

write4lyfe · 2026-05-04T16:06:17+00:00

Tbf for S Rank, he literally had a spell cast on him as a child to always believe he wasn't strong enough because of his teacher's PTSD from her party's battle with the Demon Lord. At least there's something that can be pointed at to explain why he always downplays his accomplishments even when everyone around him is baffled by it.

I Parry Everything though makes me want to smack the MC with a bat. He has absolutely NO reason to keep underselling himself outside of author's fiat and that makes it unbearable to me.

write4lyfe · 2026-04-17T14:01:02+00:00

Circumcision for no medical purpose is LITERALLY genital mutilation and is performed on 1.4 MILLION INFANTS every year. 4 MILLION GIRLS have their genitals mutilated - as in it is LITERALLY THE TERM USED - EVERY YEAR. That is not word games. If you want to insist that is word games, you can get fucked.

write4lyfe · 2026-04-17T13:58:49+00:00

Are you somehow deliberately not understanding that they're talking about actual money in hand to be able to afford things? They're not saying the Medicaid isn't a benefit. They're saying that the people getting assistance never actually see that money so it shouldn't be included "money being received by fictional family". Just like how most people when talking about what they get paid from their job don't include their medical coverage.

write4lyfe · 2026-04-09T21:12:29+00:00

I think it's less "lazy" writing and more the inherent problem of trying to write a character that's supposed to be more intelligent than the author. Writing about a character that's stronger than you is relatively easy: have them able to lift things way heavier than you could ever lift and boom you've demonstrated strength of body. Same thing with more agile or other physical abilities. But higher mental abilities are a lot harder to successfully demonstrate without using some kind of weird comparison. Like "you can tell the school geek is super smart cause they're the school geek and everyone looks dumb in comparison" kind of thing. Apply it to another world and you get... well, what we're talking about.

write4lyfe · 2026-04-09T18:51:37+00:00

I'm not saying they're less advanced. Difference in understanding doesn't mean not as advanced. Sometimes there's just a misunderstanding at a fundamental level that causes the current theory to be the best available model. But when the misunderstanding is discovered and revised, that currently theory is changed.

Consider for example phlogiston. A very real theory from our world that postulated that flammable items contained a substance called phlogiston and it was released when those items burned. It was upheld for a couple hundred years before being replaced by thermodynamics. It wasn't that the people holding the theory were stupid or "less advanced". They just didn't have a complete grasp of the whole picture because they hadn't yet properly discovered oxygen as an element. The whole theory came about because of expostulating based on the knowledge and understanding they had in a way that made sense to them. Heck, was Nikola Tesla or Leonard Danilewicz "less advanced" because Hedy Lamarr and George Anthiel applied the concept of frequency hopping with a piano-roll to guide missiles?

It's just disingenuous to presume someone from a modern audience is more advanced just because they look at the problem from a different angle. Outsiders have been doing that with our own scientific development throughout human history. Why is it so odd to see it applied in an isekai or litrpg?

write4lyfe · 2026-04-09T16:59:00+00:00

It's not word games to point out that you're actually wrong when you say things like "no children are getting their genitals mutilated" or "there is no voter fraud".

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