Outed from the closet!

[elfs]

So, I'm "working" with a cadre of three other guys, and we're trying to get to minimum viable product to show to potential investors and/or clients, so I've been doing full time sucking up every last dollop of data I can about the Facebook API, especially Facebook Connect, and proper Django development. It turns out that Rails and Django, when it comes to mindset, are lightyears apart. Django has no notion of a "has many" relationship, and once you understand why, you'll understand why that's a good thing.

I was talking to the project lead (I guess), the guy who owns the trademark and had the Big Idea that we've all bought into, over lunch. Since our product involves Facebook profiles and semantic scraping, we were discussing stemming and stopwords and such. I'm not sure how the conversation got around to cooking, but it did, and I mentioned that my recent experiment with freezable had revealed that risotto was not freezable.

"Why not?" he said.

"Because rice has a certain fiber content, and when you freeze it, the ice crystals break through the fiber. The mouthfeel's not quite the same."

"You really are a foody, aren't you?" he said. "You just used the word 'mouthfeel' in a sentence!"

Comments

[urox.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if freezing would speed the making of jook (Chinese porridge).

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

In briefly skimming over your post at first, I accidentally interpreted "freezable" and "risotto" as software terms. ie, freezable being some serialization framework, and risotto being a data type of some sort. It didn't quite parse, though.

Freezing

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Given that metals can be frozen quickly enough to prevent significant crystal formation, surely risotto can be too. Try scraping some out into a thin layer on a pre-frozen heavy aluminum plate like the bottom of a saute pan. Then once it's frozen, chip it off into a ziploc bag.

Hey, you like sous vide because it's geeky, right? :-)

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Re: Freezing

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

And if that doesn't work, extrude a thin line from a pastry bag into liquid nitrogen.

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Re: Freezing

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Liquid nitrogen is cheaper than milk! :-)

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Re: Freezing

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they ding you for the carafe's around here. The nearest dealer is twenty miles. I've done it (it's fun for ice cream).

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Foody is just a special case of hedonist.

Wouldn't it be fair to describe you as a hedonist with a word fetish?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Ah, then I'm an Epicurean! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism)

But then, this is not a new observation.