Generally people who answer a lot of questions on the forum and who have been around for a while will be offered the honour, if there is enough traffic to need more mods.
If anyones curious, I do heavy perl and html programming. I also do light ammounts of java, c++, and event action programming at work (trigger code, PLC, Kurt). I am the webmaster for my teams site, and for my company site (I made both).
If you go the the fighters page on my team site, my name is Dan Krempel. There is also a picture of me on the news page, for "Extreme Combat Challenge "Chaos in the Cage" - Now you can associate a face with a name.
LOL I get that a lot. Never been in a street fight though.
Not easy to climb into a cube made of chain link fence, surrounded by 1,000 people booing you because your on the visitor team and another trained professional - ready to kill you - is standing at the other end grinning.
Point is - No matter how bad you think you are, you still want to wet yourself when the time comes - but you grin RIGHT BACK anyway.
Its exersize and eating right. No pop for us. Havn't seen much beer in the last few years either. No Mcdonalds. No fudge cake, no dougnut Granted, we eat a lot more, because we burn it up so fast.
Hardest part is keeping motivation high. Bodies don't change in one month, and thats discouraging. Gotta have the "want". Gotta bust your rear. Lotta people do situps for two weeks, see nothing and stop doing em. If you attend the gym, I'm sure you can relate exactly!
oh yeah I can totally relate. I keep starting and stopping with my gym work cause uni keeps getting in the way, and thus going for 2-3 month stints gets me nowhere. Now that I'm pretty much done, hopefully I can keep it going and get some nice bulk happening. I've been back for about 2 months now, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
And I'm one of those weirdos who has problems putting on weight, I can eat whatever junky rubbish fast food I like, and I will never get heavier. Many might envy me for this, but I assure you not being able to put on weight is something I really hate.
I'm fed up with being a skinny dude, I wanna be big!!! lol
It's a neat ingredient. But yeah it's eggs. But a LOT of people think eggs count as dairy because of the fucking food pyramid the US keeps trying to make a thing
I think on the new one they did change it, but idk. I don't really care whatever the government is doing right now because it's consistently absurd. Like what is RFK doing in charge of health anything? I love the bear story because WTF was that, but also, pretty much every time he talks it's WTF. Like even his voice sounds microwaved
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