What things bother you the most?

phlargo wrote:I'm afraid I have become quite the ovaphile.

If you like fried chicken embryos, you'll expose yourself as a Conehead. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
If you like fried chicken embryos, you'll expose yourself as a Conehead. :hehe:

Alas! I am undone.

phlargo wrote:Alas! I am undone.

Time to consume mass quantities....! :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Time to consume mass quantities....! :hehe:

Make sure the parental units aren't around! [/list:u]

phlargo wrote:

This is truly tragic. I will tell you, however, that some eggs are just destined to have broken yolks. I make a good number of eggs and about 1 in 10 seem to include yolks which are irreconcilable.

Here are some things to factor into your yolk-breaking calculus:

How are you cracking the egg? Many people use an edge surface to break an egg. Alton Brown of Good Eats turned me onto the flat surface breaking method - no egg shrapnel and it seems much more likely to merit an unbroken egg yolk.

How are you dumping the egg into the pan? Keep the half shell low to the pan and you'll be less likely to break the yolk. Pour it out over the pan rather than dropping it from height.

How hot is the pan? If the pan is too hot, the thermal shock your egg experiences upon contact which can rupture the proteins that make up the membrane around the yolk.

How old are your eggs? Newer eggs will have yolks which have a stronger connection to their whites and can make separating an egg yolk from a white more likely to break the yolk. That being said, if you aren't separating the whites, it shouldn't make a huge difference.

i will factor in all these parameters next time. many thanks. :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:
We have a Food thread.

yeah but it annoys me.

I just mowed the lawn. It took three people to do it and I can't feel my arms or legs.

Definitely need to buy one of those tractors. :shakehead:

Wynter wrote:I just mowed the lawn. It took three people to do it and I can't feel my arms or legs.

Definitely need to buy one of those tractors. :shakehead:

Sounds like an arduous task...good exercise!

Wynter wrote:I just mowed the lawn. It took three people to do it and I can't feel my arms or legs.

You need to do it more often. :victory:

Wynter wrote:I just mowed the lawn. It took three people to do it and I can't feel my arms or legs.

Definitely need to buy one of those tractors. :shakehead:

That must be a really large lawn you have if it took 3 people to do. :sweat:

On topic: I'm having a lot of trouble with my Yahoo mail for these past 2 weeks or so. It's been really slow and draggy and it would just "time out" a lot of the times. I'm tempted to get gmail, but I can never think of what username to make. *cue in the clowns with the weirdo suggestions* :beaten:

Hmm...now this site is getting timed out. Maybe it's my damn internet connection. :grumble:

cori wrote:That must be a really large lawn you have if it took 3 people to do.

Or three lousy mowers. :beaten: :hehe: :rofl:

Tu_triky wrote:

Sounds like an arduous task...good exercise!

It was great exercise. I was sweating buckets.

bmwracer wrote:
You need to do it more often. :victory:

They just laid the grass down like a week ago... :sweat:

So I probably mentioned this before, but my downstairs neighbor is ridiculous about noise. I've been playing Bioshock (my friend bought it for my steam account as a reward for my passing the bar) and I was playing last night. Granted, I had the volume up so I could really enjoy the amazing environmental audio.. but it wasn't anywhere near offensively loud.

I saw her standing outside my door for a minute and then she knocked and said "I can't hear my TV two floors below". That's BS. I have my EQ settings so that my 31 hz, 62 hz and 100 hz are at -12, -10, and -8 db - they're practically muted. I also have my sub down to the minimum level. She could probably hear something.. but I suspect that she was just being pissy.

I feel a little bad though.. I found out that her husband (who lived in the studio apartment next door and was even more sensitive about noise) died last week. I know there was a fire truck here, but I didn't realize he had expired.

There is a possibility I may need to move (I interviewed for a new job as an associate last week and it's about 2 hours away and I was likely the top candidate). If I do, finding a place that is more acoustically sound will be a high priority. I can hear my neighbors talking in normal voices through the walls.. at all hours of the night.

Wynter wrote:

They just laid the grass down like a week ago... :sweat:

I miss being involved in yard work.. Good for you to get out and do some work!

Ah .. crying babies on airplanes? :tired:

phlargo wrote:So I probably mentioned this before, but my downstairs neighbor is ridiculous about noise. I've been playing Bioshock (my friend bought it for my steam account as a reward for my passing the bar) and I was playing last night. Granted, I had the volume up so I could really enjoy the amazing environmental audio.. but it wasn't anywhere near offensively loud.

I saw her standing outside my door for a minute and then she knocked and said "I can't hear my TV two floors below". That's BS. I have my EQ settings so that my 31 hz, 62 hz and 100 hz are at -12, -10, and -8 db - they're practically muted. I also have my sub down to the minimum level. She could probably hear something.. but I suspect that she was just being pissy.

I feel a little bad though.. I found out that her husband (who lived in the studio apartment next door and was even more sensitive about noise) died last week. I know there was a fire truck here, but I didn't realize he had expired.

There is a possibility I may need to move (I interviewed for a new job as an associate last week and it's about 2 hours away and I was likely the top candidate). If I do, finding a place that is more acoustically sound will be a high priority. I can hear my neighbors talking in normal voices through the walls.. at all hours of the night.

I had a similar situation during my sophomore year, when I was just a plain naive college student who didn't know any better about acoustics. There was an elderly lady who lived downstairs and did not like my late night Counterstrike sessions. No matter how low the volume was, or the sub level was, that bass was always a problem. I guess some people just have very good hearing (my hearing is shot :beaten: ). I just ended up with earphones for late night gaming.

deseipher wrote:

I had a similar situation during my sophomore year, when I was just a plain naive college student who didn't know any better about acoustics. There was an elderly lady who lived downstairs and did not like my late night Counterstrike sessions. No matter how low the volume was, or the sub level was, that bass was always a problem. I guess some people just have very good hearing (my hearing is shot :beaten: ). I just ended up with earphones for late night gaming.

Sad.. I have such a decent (I have really good listening ears - most would consider it pretty great ;-)) 5.1 set and Bioshock just has amazing environmental audio. This is not my first run in with "them" though. When I first moved in, I was listening to some Brahms while making dinner and they pulled the same stunt. Considering how few things I have going on in my life, it's so much worse to have my music curtailed by the community. It's really one of the only things I have going on in my apartment :bleh:

Wynter wrote:
It was great exercise. I was sweating buckets.

It's nice to get a workout in the outdoors instead of inside the house or at the gym...:)

Tu_triky wrote:

It's nice to get a workout in the outdoors instead of inside the house or at the gym...:)

I agree completely. It's a nice thing to work hard and feel the fruits of your labor. I go to the gym all the time, but what I really like is going on a hike where I can enjoy my ability to pull myself up a rock face or something like that - the practical application is so much more rewarding!

phlargo wrote:

I agree completely. It's a nice thing to work hard and feel the fruits of your labor. I go to the gym all the time, but what I really like is going on a hike where I can enjoy my ability to pull myself up a rock face or something like that - the practical application is so much more rewarding!

Yeah...I haven't been hiking in a couple of years...but I want to get back into it...I hiked to the Hollywood sign a couple of times...it's a b*tch but the view of L.A. is awesome.

Here are a couple of pics I took on the way up and basically behind the sign once I got to the top...there's a fence so that's the closest you can get to it.

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phlargo wrote:

I miss being involved in yard work.. Good for you to get out and do some work!

I have always HATED yard work. Yay for apartment dwelling!!! :woot: [/list:u]

I can hear my neighbors talking in normal voices through the walls.. at all hours of the night

[/list:u] Just "talking" eh? :naughty: [/list:u]