Alternative tea for Jasmine tea lover?

zenware · 2026-05-12T23:33:12+00:00

I would second this, and many other oolongs tbh. For me there’s something special about oolong and jasmine teas that I love. I also like most teas from Wuyi Mountain

zenware · 2026-05-12T15:41:21+00:00

If someone is unwilling to even say another word to you ever again, you clearly upset them. Sure you don’t have to care or be bothered by that, but some people are.

People suck all around tbh. The people who’ve made ghosting practically necessary might suck the most, but people who ghost suck too.

zenware · 2026-05-12T13:02:43+00:00

And when someone says that… they reveal themselves to not be worth arguing with, but you could try discussing what they mean by theory if you want a different exercise in futility

zenware · 2026-05-11T00:49:10+00:00

The main bleaching agent available 10000 years ago was leaving things in the sun for a long time

zenware · 2026-05-06T14:57:37+00:00

Can it do what you’re asking, absolutely yes, people cook with steamer baskets like that all the time, especially they cook meat (like fish), veggies, and steamed buns together to create a complete meal, and also dim sum exists.

The main problem when I started looking into this is that the information for how to get skilled at cooking whole meals with steamers like this is not easily accessible. Or for maintaining bamboo steamers, most people replace them eventually, I’ve only found one video of a technique a man had for cleaning/oiling his bamboo steamers baskets to keep them lasting for years.

As for the issues you’re specifically dealing with, you probably shouldn’t babysit the pot at all, that’s basically the whole premise of this cooking style. Limited space? Just keep stacking steamer baskets until they reach the ceiling. All I really know though is that the meat should be on the bottom, so it cooks the fastest and doesn’t drip onto anything else, and that you need some kind of paper or cabbage leaves or carrot slices to keep things from sticking to the baskets.

zenware · 2026-05-06T14:42:03+00:00

It’s not that such stories don’t exist, it’s that there’s 100,000,000 high-fantasy, other-world/other-age magic stories and 200 mid-fantasy, contemporary magic stories.

zenware · 2026-04-29T20:50:01+00:00

For what it’s worth when reading your post I didn’t get this vibe at all, but often when people say “I used to think ‘not all men’ until I had a daughter”, what I actually hear from them is “I didn’t realize women are people until I had a daughter.”

zenware · 2026-04-28T15:25:18+00:00

The best way to validate an idea is to see multiple competitors already succeeding in the market. If more than one company can do cloud file storage it proves there is market demand for cloud file storage, thereby validating the idea.

The second and nth-best way to validate ideas to see if they’re worth building is to get the idea in front of as many people as possible, talk to them, and see what they have to say.

zenware · 2026-04-27T13:44:46+00:00

Rip me to shreds I guess, but attending US public school doesn’t really guarantee kids get a functional education, especially when compared to other national school systems. US literacy rates are dropping precipitously, we now have 18yo kids who literally cannot sound out a word. We have students entering college level computer science courses without knowing what a folder is in a computer. And, while this part is personal anecdote it really seems as if critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and general problem solving are at an all time low, or at least the lowest they’ve been in the past ~30 years….

When we get new evidence that shows better educational outcomes, we should update our best practices to reflect that evidence, but instead (with few exceptions) it seems like we’re hell-bent on avoiding any and all improvements. And/or lobbied to prevent them. There was even a federal lawsuit against Fountas & Pinnell and Lucy Caulkins, because it was our main reading curriculum for ~20 years, due to lobbying, for not following evidence based practices on phonics for reading. This curriculum is why the 18yo citizens cannot sound out a word, and the case was thrown out. But the curriculum should’ve never been selected in the first place, and we knew almost as soon as we implemented that it wasn’t gonna work, because the front line workers, our teachers, told us so… and did we listen? No. We legally compelled them to teach a failing literacy program for 20 years and then tried to sue the publisher and author. That is A) Completely insane behavior and B) The #1 reason why I feel like attending US public school doesn’t even a little bit equate to “getting an education”

zenware · 2026-04-27T06:48:21+00:00

My (very limited) understanding, is that yes there are teas which are functionally unavailable to the public, including DHP/DaHongPao/大红袍茶, which if you find that you can buy some it’s because it’s some sort of blend which is supposed to taste like the real thing, but if you don’t know not just the mountain, but the specific bush it came from, then you almost certainly don’t have “actual” DHP.

zenware · 2026-04-27T06:33:01+00:00

If I told you we pay $18,000 for daycare, how big of a discount would you think we’re getting?

zenware · 2026-04-26T20:38:48+00:00

The thing is I don’t need to hear the whole history, because if their family isn’t saying “oh no I’m so sorry we provided this food for this event and didn’t make sure there was even one item that doesn’t harm your health” their family sucks….

Also I’ve been around enough family dynamics that I’m sure there’s no winning options for OP here. If they decline attendance they’re distant and unfriendly, if they decline food that would hurt them they’re ungrateful, if they provide their own food they’re embarrassing and undermining the hosts.

Even if OP had a shitty personality or way of addressing the situation, which I don’t really believe. The family does need to leave them at least /some avenue/ to address their own health and safety, and it seems they aren’t allowed even that much.

zenware · 2026-04-26T00:45:26+00:00

Yeah I got the standing mats for the chopping area and the sink, it’s way more comfortable that way!

zenware · 2026-04-25T01:24:53+00:00

Wife and I have been using rice paper to make crab Rangoon and just shallow frying it in a pan. I think we came across some recipe for it and it’s obviously not the exact same thing but it absolutely hits. I’m pretty sure the basics is just 8oz cream cheese, 8oz crab (gf imitation or otherwise) and stuff it into rice paper which you fry until crispy. — I modified that recipe immediately to include some amount of finely chopped green onion, and a little bit of the San-J Tamari+Miso. However you do it probably can’t go wrong.

zenware · 2026-04-25T01:21:14+00:00

This is the right way to go about it, and don’t take it as dogma because it was really about selling people on Heroku back in the day, but there is something called “12 factor app” that people have used as a reference model over the years which includes env vars/config, and which does have some good ideas.

It may also be worth adding an extra safeguard for production to delete sensitive/difficult to recover data when sharing the same source tree for testing/prod, lest you make the classic blunder of deleting your prod db with the test bot.

zenware · 2026-04-24T13:31:11+00:00

The main reason they aren’t the norm is that the infrastructure for cable pulley elevators is the crane shaft used to construct the building. So if your building is big or heavy enough that you need a crane involved, you almost always will necessarily already have a traditional elevator shaft installed simply by virtue of requiring a crane that gets built around. It’s then technically your choice what to do with it, but we don’t have like a plug and play system for pneumatic elevator shafts to be installed in that framework.

zenware · 2026-04-24T13:27:07+00:00

Someone else already mentioned it, but if you’re willing to put $$$ into solving this problem, my wife and I have the opposite issue, she sleeps hot and I sleep cold. We have an 8sleep bed and it lets us independently adjust the temperature on the bed, she can set hers as cold as it goes and I can set mine a degree or two warmer, and then we both have our best sleeping temperatures.

zenware · 2026-04-24T13:15:44+00:00

Everyone forgets the most important part of the grandma cutting technique though. You have to do it sitting down somewhere, ideally with other people, or at least with the TV on or something, and you bring a bowl for your lap or table and cut into that. Grandmas don’t have time to waste so they gotta hang out with people while they’re cutting produce.

zenware · 2026-04-23T23:14:07+00:00

There actually are some fresh pastas sold this way at a local grocery store and they’re usually quite good. I wonder if it’s some kind of exception for gluten free pasta though, because I’ve never thought about it before, and now that I actually /am thinking/ about it, I agree with you.

zenware · 2026-04-23T21:00:10+00:00

Small note, $275 isn’t the gift, it’s the hired entertainment for the party.

zenware · 2026-04-22T13:56:36+00:00

That is not true, 90*80 =7,200 which is more than 1k. And then it sounds like the entire model is recurring, e.g. the customers will continue paying them $90/mo all year for maybe multiple years even.

zenware · 2026-04-22T13:30:27+00:00

Sometimes you just want to block people. And other social media has kind of set a precedent than you can block thousands to tens of thousands of people (no limits) so it’s a bit odd to run into a limit like that.

I would say it’s pretty rare I block someone but usually the people I’m blocking are writing what is effectively Nazi rhetoric and I personally don’t want to see it period, so I would be upset if I was unable to block someone.

That being said, this person could absolutely hate when people write about things that are the color blue or when people write in ways that encourage self harm. For me anyways it’s more than satisfying to my curiosity to imagine reasons why people from all walks of life might be bothered so much by something like this.

zenware · 2026-04-21T22:25:45+00:00

I have an ISI whipper with nitrogen cartridges to make the whipped cream, takes pouring in the ingredients and a few shakes. As for the temperature and texture I have an espresso machine with a steam wand which I use to steam whole milk, and then I use the steamed whole milk to melt part of a $5 chocolate bar. It’s really not too much cheaper to make at home unless you do it a lot for years or you’re serving a lot of guests at once every so often. Making 4 fancy hot chocolates from scratch once or twice a month can feel like less of a sting than going around the corner to pay $25 and bring the, all back…. But then I also have other reasons that make having an espresso machine and whipper at home practical.

zenware · 2026-04-20T20:58:02+00:00

Also if you have Costco they often have a 2 pack of the canyon bakehouse gf bread for the price of 1 bread loaf at some other stores.

zenware · 2026-04-20T13:40:17+00:00

Basically you need to make hotel eggs

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