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  • Okay, so you need:

    • 1 kg rolled oats
    • 1 dl honey
    • 0.8 dl rapeseed oil
    • some cocoa powder
    • optional: salt
    • optional: whatever seeds, nuts, or grains you like
    • optional: dried berries or fruit

    First, get a big bowl. Pour all the oats (and other grains, seeds and nuts if you have them). Put a tablespoon or two of cocoa there and mix it with a large spoon.

    Then get a smaller bowl (metal) and put 1dl honey in there, then a few table spoons of cocoa, and 0.8 or a tiny bit more of rapeseed oil. Add some salt if you like. To mix these together into a goo, you need to heat it first.

    Get a kettle and pour water in there. Make sure that there isn’t too much water; if the water can touch the bottom of the bowl, the goo will get too hot. Put the kettle on the stove and the bowl on it. You’ll need to stir the goo a lot, and the bowl and even the spoon get hot quick, so use oven mitts or something similar when handling them.

    At this point, turn on the oven. It should heat to 150 ℃. If your oven has an option to use fans or such (similar to a convection oven), use it! It’ll make the granola more crunchy/crispy and not get mushy as soon.

    When your oil and honey has became a homogenous goo and they have mixed together, pour it slowly on the oats while stirring the oats. Here it’s really good if you get someone else to pour for you or to stir for you. If someone else is pouring the goo, you can stir rapidly. (hold the bowl still if you can, you don’t want your hard work ending up on the floor!)

    Line two baking trays with parchment paper. Make sure that the paper covers everything. You might need two pieces of paper per tray. Scoop/pour the granola on them. Use a large spoon to spread it evenly across the tray.

    When the oven has reached 150 degrees, put the trays in there and set a timer for 20 minutes. (I recommend checking in on them in ten minutes the first few times you make this or if you’re using a new oven though, because ovens are different and what doesn’t burn in one oven might burn in another one.)

    In 20 minutes, pull them out and turn over the granola. Switch places of the trays when putting them back in the oven so that the one that was higher before is lower now and vice versa.

    You can lick the goo bowl while waiting, don’t let anything go into waste.

    Wait another 20 minutes before taking them from the oven. Put the trays on a table until the granola has fully cooled, (add your dried berries or fruits now if you have them) then put it in a container, preferably an airtight glass jar.


  • Okay, so you need:

    • 1 kg rolled oats
    • 1 dl honey
    • 0.8 dl rapeseed oil
    • some cocoa powder
    • optional: salt
    • optional: whatever seeds, nuts, or grains you like
    • optional: dried berries or fruit

    First, get a big bowl. Pour all the oats (and other grains, seeds and nuts if you have them). Put a tablespoon or two of cocoa there and mix it with a large spoon.

    Then get a smaller bowl (metal) and put 1dl honey in there, then a few table spoons of cocoa, and 0.8 or a tiny bit more of rapeseed oil. Add some salt if you like. To mix these together into a goo, you need to heat it first.

    Get a kettle and pour water in there. Make sure that there isn’t too much water; if the water can touch the bottom of the bowl, the goo will get too hot. Put the kettle on the stove and the bowl on it. You’ll need to stir the goo a lot, and the bowl and even the spoon get hot quick, so use oven mitts or something similar when handling them.

    At this point, turn on the oven. It should heat to 150 ℃. If your oven has an option to use fans or such (similar to a convection oven), use it! It’ll make the granola more crunchy/crispy and not get mushy as soon.

    When your oil and honey has became a homogenous goo and they have mixed together, pour it slowly on the oats while stirring the oats. Here it’s really good if you get someone else to pour for you or to stir for you. If someone else is pouring the goo, you can stir rapidly. (hold the bowl still if you can, you don’t want your hard work ending up on the floor!)

    Line two baking trays with parchment paper. Make sure that the paper covers everything. You might need two pieces of paper per tray. Scoop/pour the granola on them. Use a large spoon to spread it evenly across the tray.

    When the oven has reached 150 degrees, put the trays in there and set a timer for 20 minutes. (I recommend checking in on them in ten minutes the first few times you make this or if you’re using a new oven though, because ovens are different and what doesn’t burn in one oven might burn in another one.)

    In 20 minutes, pull them out and turn over the granola. Switch places of the trays when putting them back in the oven so that the one that was higher before is lower now and vice versa.

    You can lick the goo bowl while waiting, don’t let anything go into waste.

    Wait another 20 minutes before taking them from the oven. Put the trays on a table until the granola has fully cooled, (add your dried berries or fruits now if you have them) then put it in a container, preferably an airtight glass jar.






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    • not having bright as hell lights and loud music everywhere
    • not being stared at like a fucking zoo animal or some kind of spectacle when I go out in public
    • not being told to “get out of my comfort zone” when that ‘cOmFoRt ZoNe’ is actually my “not in physical or mental pain-zone”
    • people not throwing the r-slur around like it has no history or meaning behind it at all
    • not being expected to be up and about so fucking early
    • not being treated like I’m either some innate genius or completely brainless

    Just people not being inconsiderate, ableist pieces of shit in general.






  • Why are we still using so much fucking plastic?

    Capitalism, gotta make that line go up.

    Let’s take clothing for example. It’s way easier to say, make a polyester shirt that breaks in a few months in a sweatshop than make a linen shirt that lasts for 20 years.

    Now, let’s say that these two shirts have been made and now they are in a store. Someone goes there and chances are that they will take the polyester shirt because it’s cheaper. (also: plastic fibers feel soft at first, but soon become rough and itchy, while natural fibers like linen or cotton are rough at first and become softer with time. For example, the linen clothing I’m wearing right now was very rough and kinda uncomfortable at first but now is soft.)

    Another reason is that plastic can be made into nearly any form. Combined with the fact that plastic items are cheaper to make than longer-lasting and/or enviriomentally friendly items, this leads to companies making a lot of plastic items.

    I presume costs for most products would creep up

    Yes, they would. But the thing is that in a world where items weren’t made of plastic, they would be more durable, especially if we made items to be actually used not just to be sold. Companies don’t care if your new shirt breaks the very next day, all they care is that they got that sweet, sweet money.

    And if there were only, say, well-made, durable linen shirts instead of polyester ones sewn up by a Vietnamese child in 50 minutes, they would be way more expensive, yes, but you would need to buy new shirts very rarely. If all shirts could last 20 years, you wouldn’t have to buy that many shirts.

    Last but not least, in order to achieve this kind of world, we’d need to let go of the “buy, buy, buy” consumer mentality and replace it with quality over quantity, because chances are that in a world like this, you would have less stuff than you do now. For example, if you look back a couple of centuries, clothing was very valuable. You’d have like, three shirts unless you were really rich, but those shirts would last you decades, assuming you or someone else would mend them and moths wouldn’t find their way to your wardrobe. (of course, with modern farming technology and mechanised spinning and weaving, clothes would still be far less expensive)

    So in conclusion: there’s so much plastic shit because it’s cheaper to make plastic shit than actually good products. And yes, prices would go up, and we would need to have less stuff over all, since the amount of stuff we have nowadays is ridiculously unsustainable. Humans have done just fine without single-use plastics for millenia.