Is this temporary to have just a set of avatars to choose from or is this permanent? I can understand why, I'm just wondering. Anyways, good job, avatars will bring some spice into the forums!
I have enabled custom avatars, you should be able to upload your own as long as it matches the size limits for custom avatars. Are you having a problem uploading a custom avatar?
I have added about a hundred more avatars to choose from and pruned out some of the ones I originally set. The basic set to choose from is about 250 and as time goes on I will add more but they will be different sets.
Please note that you can disable Avatars in your forum user options. If you are on a Dial Up or don't like Avatars just change the preference and it will be like they never existed.
The custom avatar upload function is at the bottom of that screen which I cannot see from your screenshot. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of that screen and see if you see the custom avatar section.
Coudl you perhaps make the avatar limit a little bit higher? Maybe like you had it, 100 X100. I've been wanting to upload Achika from Tenchi Muyo but it looks way to small for 50 x 50.
Posting pictures is bad? Ah well, it's no big deal, it's just easier to show a picture rather than explain exactly where it is, which they most likely won't understand.
I don't think it is posting pictures that is bad rather posting real big pictures that is the problem. I think what SD is trying to say is crop your pictures, cut out the parts that do not apply so that the forum does not have to display a picture that is bigger than the screen forcing you to have to scroll.
Oh no, we cannot have that - looks like I am going to have to spend some time this evening cutting down the size of allowed attachments, images, and avatars. I am sorry guys I have to protect the network's bandwidth.
It's actually remarkably easy to make mayonnaise though. Fun fact, it USED to kind of be a French mother sauce. I believe that Careme considered it one, it may have been aioli but that has also built a different meaning than it used to. An aioli is just mayonnaise I mixed with other shit typically, I didn't start it don't come at me
Depending on how you pour the oil the consistency can vary wildly, but that's true for most emulsions. I can only make about two quarts at a time with my robo coup, and if I have to make several in series because I forgot to order it becomes really obvious even when I do it. We have to wait and mix them all together to make sure we have the same thing.
Luckily I live in an age with electricity so it's way fucking faster, but when I was just a boy trying to find my place I had some hardcore chefs that made use do things like that by hand. It is WAY easier to get right by hand because you control it and can feel it, but it takes soooooo much longer. And on the scale a modern kitchen requires... I serve 400-500 guests on average per day right now, if I had 100 then we could do things way better
But we can't do that. In the winter yeah, but I HAVE to get people through here right now so I can afford the staff that we CAN do that. We have about 100 days of summer, and if that summer doesn't make us what it will, then I can't operate the other most of the year with my staff. The owner is talking about closing two days a week to cut down on labor, I told him he should cut down on vacations and it did not go great. I do think I won though, I have to keep my fucking core staff and they have to be gainfully employed
Sure some of them might take a second job, but I can't just cut my entire staff to unlivable hours, nor can I can cut them off all winter if I want them to come back.
And also, there is no fucking way I'm pulling these hours come september. I only do this right now because I have to, the second I don't have to be the one doing it I won't be
Though two of those people are likely not making it this year. One of them has been replaced, the other I am kind of trying to. He's being a giant bitch, today I had to get onto him because in the three hours before I left he had taken like thirty minutes for cigarette breaks
And he was also complaining to me the other day that he was out of weed so couldn't smoke any before work that day, and was confused about why I was annoyed he was telling me, his boss, that he is smoking weed everyday before work.
So now he's getting scrutinized and will not be top of the list. I know I don't have the smartest people but I do expect them to have some common fucking sense
I did do a rare thing for me and hire a girl last month without warning. Everyone was made at me because I started her at like 21, but she worked with me before and I was like don't care. She made 19 at her old job and I wanted her to come work with me, she is the best
I'm going to get her a raise at the end of the summer. She wants to go to school again, but I want her to still work with me so.... she kind of can just tell me what the price is. I can go to 25 if she keeps up. I need to get her onto line more, that's what she wants, but I need her where she is and it's not fair that she doesn't get the little bit of raise that comes with it. She can do it no problem, I've worked with her there.
It's just hard to move and train people unnecessarily right now. And also the line fucking sucks, it's not any more fun. This is turn and burn so I have the bankroll, and everyone suffers for it
I think it's gonna be a good fall and winter though. We're going to have a good staff, they will get along, they will be able to manage the workload and the complications, they know how to really cook this year, like every person on line knows their steak temps. Some of them use thermometers a lot and they don't always use them right, but they do know how to do it. Failure, especially in this field, is the only way to get better. They'll get it
They won't get feel down while they do the thermometer, but we didn't have an instant read probe when I was learning. Like they did but god knows how off it is, you HAD to do it by feel. Even if the chef was fine with me bringing my own, it takes too long. Poke and know
fyi I am going out of town to lake somewhere in bfe texas for the weekend will be gone Friday morning to sunday afternoon for a paranormal thing and some rest peace