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  • rbn@sopuli.xyztomemes@lemmy.world*cel
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    8 hours ago

    My recommendation would be not to see it as some kind of battle or trying to enforce any kind of relationship. Try to be healthy and active in live. Learn to love yourself. If you love yourself, so will do others. You won’t find a partner necessarily but the more you work on your individual life, the higher the chances to find good friends or a partner.


  • Please try to find a different way to vent. I can see how that may feel satisfying, but driving any kind of vehicle when stressed or in an emotional situation can be highly dangerous - for you and everyone else involved.

    If hormone levels are high we’re unfortunately not always able to assess risks and our abilities correctly and won’t be as focused as required.








  • That bacon recipe I just learned today. That’s a great way to reduce waste. But still I wouldn’t know what to do with these vast amounts of bacon.

    I use around 200g of gluten powder per week (two people). Normal wheat flour contains around 10% gluten, so I’d need to wash out around 1800g of starch out of 2000g of flour to get there. And as the starch is mixed with water I’d have at least 4000g of starch water, giving me several kilograms of bacon. 😄




  • Looks delicious, but also like a lot of effort for preparing seitan to me. I make seitan 1-2 times a week and it doesn’t take me more than 20 minutes in total.

    I buy powdered gluten in bulk from a bakery wholesaler (5 kg per pack). It’s relatively cheap and saves me all the effort and mess of washing the flour. Also, if you start from flour, you have a lot of starch water as a byproduct which I couldn’t utilize properly.

    I often use similar spices like in the video (soy sauce, smokey powdered paprika, chili flakes, pepper, salt, some sugar, lemon juice, …) but instead of adding it to a broth, I just add it to the dough right away. Then, I add some water (not too much!) and knead it until it gets the texture of chewed chewing gum, maybe slightly firmer.

    Instead of cooking or steaming, I just microwave the dough. If you use a shorter time (4-5 minutes) with a high wattage, you’ll get a lot of pores that make your seitan look a bit like bread (but with a different consistency). If you go for a lower wattage and longer time (8-10 minutes) that effect will be reduced. If you want to have an even denser result, you can put your dough inbetween two plates while microwaving so you have some pressure from the top that further reduces the expansion.

    After the microwave, let it cool down until you can touch it and you’ll have a very similar result as shown in the video that you can tear apart with a fork, slice or dice it as required for your recipe. If you want to have it crispy or give it an even color, you can fry the result with some oil in a pan.




  • rbn@sopuli.xyzOPtoYe Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comFake vegans
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    4 days ago

    I’m sure there are better analogies than the one I made up. It was just one that I felt remotely comparable. That’s why I said ‘a bit!’. I’m open to replace it with a better one if you can make one up.

    Veganism is a choice

    I think that depends a bit on the person. In my case it was a mostly rational choice. If your decision is more emotionally motivated and becomes a very central part of your identity, it may rather feel like religion or fundamental morals. I can’t speak for Sunshine but apparantly in her mind, there’s little room for discussion or interpretation.



  • I’m not sure if there’s any species other than humans that would be considered ‘vegan’. My feeling is that it requires some kind of explicit choice to explicitly go plant-based only despite being able to digest all kind of food. An animal that’s 100% plant-based would be probably rather called herbivore than vegan. But maybe there are also some species or individuals that are exactly like that and we as humans just don’t know about it.


  • I would trip over your description “a vegan restaurant that serves a bit of meat” as well, because it doesn’t make sense to call it “vegan” then.

    I was almost certain that I wrote ‘mostly vegan restaurant’ or something similar. Indeed, my wording wasn’t ideal.

    You may have already advertised the “vegan” restaurant in good faith […] shows that the owners themselves are not vegan. And then, of course, you question everything

    That’s very good arguments that I can get behind and which I would have been very happy to hear in the original discussion. With such an explanation I can understand one’s reaction much better. From my perspective, that’s exactly the kind of discourse that I seek when I write to a vegan community.

    Different people have different opinions and not in all cases the one side will succeed to convince the other. But still we should at least try to explain our stand point and likewise try to understand others.

    With posts like yours, you have a chance to bring change to the world. If you just ban and censor your opponents, you just keep on dividing society.