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Geek Food: A Cookbook for the Technologically Inclined
thaen writes: "Might want to check out the latest offering from arstechnica.com. Somebody has compiled a 51-page book of recipes written by geeks, for geeks, and originally posted in the arstechnica 'Lounge' forum. Mmmm...the omelette..." I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.
who needs 51 pages to call up pizza hut?
This assumes, of course, that geeks are willing to brave anything even resembling a kitchen. Most people I know of the technical inclination much prefer something that either a) comes in a bag or b) gets delivered to your table. After all, geeks have far more important things to use their brain power on, such as....er....um....yeah.
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it's 42 or 64 pages long!
Wow. A book on how to cook 51 different types of HotPockets.
"One man's meat is another man's poison."
--Bugs Bunny
I will master the art of cooking using this book and challenge Iron Chef Morimoto!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.
Dear Lord. A Slashdot editor griping about Spelling.
Did I get off on the wrong planet?
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Disclaimer: I did not read the whole thing.
;-)
It looks like a buch of (often redundant) recipies for average food items. So if a geek eats food that is normal, and the old maxim "you are what you eat" is true, then geeks are normal
Blast, I always wanted to be abnormal
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I'm not implying anything but I've found that bachelors' cookbooks are great sources for easy to make food for geeks. Also, the recipes are great for college people who live in their own apartments and have a kitchen!
Check out ISBNs: 0919845622 and 0962845302
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Rangers Lead the Way!
Yeah, thanks for putting standard text into a 500k pdf. Seriously.
Anything that puts the words "cookbook", "omlette" and "flyingmember" together in the same sentence is...un-appetising, at best.
Soko
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I make a kick-ass shake when I have 5 minutes before leaving for work:
Small handful of icecubes in blender. Add heaping tablespoon of frozen concentrated o.j., about a half cup of plain nonfat yogurt, a banana, and any fruit you like. It works great with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and even pear if you don't mind a somewhat grainy consistency.
REALLY tasty and lots of fiber to boot.
Free (as in Happy hour) hot dogs
- 200 cheap wieners
- 200 cheap buns
- 2 gallons hot water
- 1 bottle ketchup
- 1 bottle mustard
Place hot water in a large tub, add wieners. Arrange all items on a folding table. Garnish with stale keg beer. Serve.The best Web site on the net is just such a cookbook, and it can be found here.
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By the way I have been looking for a geek style cookbook for a while.
Any one know of a cook book that specializes in recipes that can be cooked up a week in advance and in bulk that will not loose their flavor or require more than 30 ingredients?
I have visited numerous bookstores in the last month and have as of yet to find such a book.
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hehe. all this talk about food and planets reminded me of a story about this chick i know.
back in my high school days when half my friends worked at McD's, a friend of mine's sister was being teased because she was (still is) an airhead. upon being asked what planet she was from, she angrily replied "America".
anyways, i thought it would be good for a chuckle.
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can be found at AllRecipes.com. Search for the 4-star or 5-star recipes to find the best stuff. There are several great ones that work well for one person, including the tuna burgers one (yum!) and Chex Mix (your friends at work will love you when you bring a huge bag of it in.)
;)
My personal favorite 10-minute recipe requires a steamer:
Easy Ballpark Hot Dogs
-- Buy some good plump hot dogs and cheap hot dog buns at the store. Grab some shredded cheddar cheese and any other garnishes (onions, ketchup) while you're there.
-- Turn on steamer. Put in hot dog. Set timer for 10 minutes.
-- At 7 minutes, put hot dog bun in steamer (off to the side so it doesn't get soggy). Place cheese and other garnishes on bun before sticking it in the steamer.
3 minutes later, pull both out and eat. Voila! Real ballpark-style hot dogs in 10 minutes. Oh-so-good, and easy to make. It just goes to show that even total geeky klutzes like us can make great food!
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Perhaps he meant Tomacco Sauce. Mmmmm, tomacco.
-Steve
Somewhere along the line food got bastardized.. People accept prepackaged, canned, frozen, freeze dried, shrink wrapped whozits whatsits and god knows what else as "food"
Even the recipes in this book, although geared towards geeks or bachelors, falls prey to the same problem..
People have become convinced that prepackaged food is quicker, and better than actually COOKING something..
I'd urge anyone who likes to eat.. (you don't have to like to cook.. I don't like cooking, but i like to eat, so its an ends to mean)
Next time you go shopping.. Skip the boxed meals.. Skip the frozen meals.. (You can buy frozen vegetables if you don't want to store produce)
Pick up steaks, burgers, fish, shrimp, ANYTHING other than boxed macaroni and cheeze..
Buy real butter.. not margarine, not ICBINB..
Spring for some olive oil (do some reading on the grades, or buy some of each)
Take it all home, and cook some real food..
You won't be sorry..
And to facilitate this new eating experience.. Here's a quick steak recipe (thanks to alton brown)
Take 1 steak. (I like ny strips, but i think ribeyes work a bit better)
Take a cast iron, or solid metal pan
Put pan in 500 degree oven for 10 minutes
Cover steak in seasoning (Salt and pepper work nicely)
Coat steak lightly in oil
REmove pan, put on highest temperature stovetop burner
Turn on vent fan or unplug smoke detectors (IMPORTANT.. THIS MAKES A LOT OF SMOKE.)
Sear steak for 30-45 seconds each side (just let it sit)
Put entire pan into oven for 2 minutes
Flip steak, cook for 1.5-2 more minutes (depending on doneness)
Remove steak from oven
Let sit for 3 minutes (otherwise the juices will leak out)
Eat with gusto.
Life is short.. eat well..
Ultimately he got an industrial-strength utility light (the kind with a grating over the bulb) from the garage. He flipped it over, turned it on and left the meat on the grating for 20 minutes.
Alt.gourmand was archived, and various bits of unix software (deceptively close to the man page system) could be used to not only format the cookbook, but also to glom it together, build a permuted index, and drop the lot to your printer.
I have a lovely spiral bound edition from around 1986... Does anyone know where to get these collections anymore?
No problem here with Acrobat Reader.
All I can say is... "ewwwww".
Check out the "Breakfast Sandwich" on page 2. It involves frying a bagel and eggs in bacon grease! This gives you: greasy bagel/cheese/eggs/cheese/bacon/greasy bagel. A noxious concoction which would probably not only turn any surrounding napkins translucent with lipids, but maybe even the table itself. You may as well lick a Lard Pop (tm) every morning while drinking your coffee mixed with olive oil and Crisco.
This sort of stuff makes me proud to be a vegatarian.
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#nohup cat
- Chicken livers (raw, Mmm... =)
- chicken leg/thigh (raw)
- pecans (raw, in shell)
- pine nuts ("raw", but lightly oxygen roasted)
- walnuts (not really raw, but non-cooked)
- almonds (raw)
followed with: (all raw)- spinach
- Mustard greens
- purple kale
- celery
- some other bitter (yum =) purple-white vegetable (radicco?)
- broccoli
The human body really adheres well to the GIGO principle: Garbage In = Garbarge Out. It's been my experience that how well I feel is a function of my food inputs - ie, when I eat (*gasp*) cooked meat or processed foods, I feel noticeably less well. Some of these recipes don't sound too horribly bad from a puritanical standpoint, but "frito pie"? No thanks. But anything's better than Taco Bell every night I suppose...Check out the Superhealth report, it's what got me started...
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BTW, the magazines are much better than the books that they also publish... The books mostly contain only the final recipe, not the experimental log book that led to it.
The best "general" cookbook I've found is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. Each chapter starts up with several pages of "how to" and "How to do this right" information (such as how to dice tomatoes without making a mushy mess,) then follows up with tons of recipes.
No pictures but lots of drawings of techniques such as which part of the cow that steak came from... (IIRC, there's also some info on butchering that steak yourself.)
As illustrated by legendary PhD student Mike Slackenerny , a balanced diet consists of four main food groups (anyway, where is my beer???):
Sugar food
Caffeinated food
Fat food
Free food!!! ;-) Who need fruit, vegetable or milk?
The slashdotted recipe seems to have too much junk. I think most of us can survive on Coke/coffee, taco/potato chips and instant noodle
(Well, straightly speaking, these are refering to postgrad students. But, I think the scope can be extended a bit.)
Heh. I knew a chick in high school that thought Lake Erie was the Atlantic Ocean.
- Dan I.
Don't most slashdot readers just eat whatever mom puts on the table?
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Directionsthe lazy man's salad
those salad in a bag things
by Reid
Reid, whoever you are (don't read much Ars), you are a geek's geek. With the exception that you eat salad, instead of Doritos you picked up off the floor.
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It is still the dark of night.
I dont know if anyone's mentioned it...but there's a good
geekish cooking show on TVFN (Food Network) called Good Eats hosted by Alton Brown.
It's one part Julia Child, one part Bill Nye - not only does he show you how to cook dishes, he tells you why things are prepared the way they are.
Good Eats is by far my favorite show on Food Network - I find it much more interesting and entertaining than Iron Chef or BamBam.
Now I actually have some recipies to swap over all those peer-2-peer networks like Kazaa, Direct Connect, eDonkey, etc!
I mean, that's what those networks are all for, right? Right?
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
Kentucky Bourbon Deviled Crab
Bacon-Burger-Fried Okra
Potato Candy
Turmeric Potatoes
Hot Sweet Pickled Durian
Chocolate Steak
Sausage and Muenster Couscous
Chicken-Bacon-Banana Kebobs with Garlic Rice
Survival Biscuit Casserole
Rockcastle County Vampire Tonic
Bubblegum Sauce
Baked Calpis Soda Ham
Marzipan Milkshake
Appalachian Voodoo Beer Cheese
Sweet Potatoes Baked in Hazelnut Oil
Pocky-Paraffin Edible Architecture
Squambo
Something to terrify just about anyone. Some how I think some of these are weird enough to be japanese or geek recipes (thinking of the japanese mint beer)
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
... It's called WHY NO ONE EATS AT MY HOUSE.
t m :)
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Quite possibly the best thing I ever got for my kitchen. Hotdogs, humburgers, vegetables, if you can grill it, you can stick it on there.
;-)
Even works with hot pockets, and alot of other frozen foods that are usually just cooked in the microwave.
Oohhh, yeah, and when you see the fat dripping off, you know you're eating healty
Even better, myself and a couple of friends in HS convinced a friend of ours that the earth was being flattened out like a pancake due to "some unknown gravitational force". It did take us a few days of reinforcing the idea with her before she really seemed to believe it, but afterwards she ran around school for a week trying to convince everyone else she knew that the earth was flattening out.
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gee. this seems rather simple: do an Ask Slashdot on the subject and put top submissions into a Slashdot cookbook of our own, much like an interview.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Here...go nuts:
Ramen Recipe Database
Alright...there was at least ONE ramen recipe in there...but that guy has two hundred and five! If only ramen noodles weren't so scarce and expensive. Wait...nevermind. Notably absent now that I'm checking is "Prison Ramen", which IIRC was cooked in a bag of Cheet-O's for lack of an actual pot. In fact, I seem to remember there being more than 205 recipes last I was there (maybe got rid of more or less duplicate recipes), but that should hold you for awhile.
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
I recently moved out of that godforsaken place, and found it very common.
Course, I ate at pubs most the time where everything was marinated in guinness so that may have something to do with it.
If you want to go to a great restaurant that isn't too awful spending check out Bella Vista up on Skyline near the 84 intersection. Amazing view and good food.
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The money won't burn until 451'F. You should know that. The people in the book "Fahrenheit 451" had the right idea - burn the paper items which make people unhappy. They just got the wrong paper items.
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Input: Flour, water, sugar
Hardware: Toaster oven, spatula
Algorithm:
1) Mix up some flour and water. The ideal ratio is somewhere between watery and cementy.
2) Spoon the mixture onto the flat metal option and put in toaster oven. A light coat of anything oily is helpful.
3) Set the temperature somewhere in the 100-400 degree range.
4) They are done when they start to look sort of dry but before they brown too much. Set your timer to 5 minutes so you don't forget about them and burn your place down.
5) Stack them on a plate, dumping sugar on each one. You can use the sticky surface exposed when you bite into them to blot up more sugar from the plate.
I find that most things worth snacking on can be reduced to one or two ingredients (e.g. sweet potatoes, smoked turkey, cold apples, popcorn). This also makes it easier to count calories and to buy things in single-serving quantities.
I think those of us who were around in the BBS days know all about the real cookbook for geeks...
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And to the guy who down below who says potatoes are toxic when uncooked, please, get your facts straight, as well. Potatoes are NOT hazardous when uncooked, no more than fresh corn or green beans. Take it from someone who loves a good red potato raw. The last person I heard who still believed spuds were poisonous was my great grandmother, and she no longer bought into that crap, either.
sheesh, some people's facts....
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/ - Raw Paleo Diet Web Sitel
http://www.beyondveg.com, specifically http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/paleodiet/index.shtm
The second site is the "anti propoganda" - because I'm reasonable. A buddhist principle to keep in mind as you look through it (specifically in regard to raw animal foods) is to "rely on the teaching and not the person". (The author of _Instinictive Eating_ wasn't much of an instinctive eater, smoked, and died a couple of years ago of cancer - the author of some of the beyondveg pages seems to hold this against the diet).
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Snoot's got an infinite supply of randomly-generated recipes:
http://snoot.org/factory/recipe/
The author spends a lot of time explaining exactly what happens to food as you change the pH, explains what happens on the cellular level when you cook at different heats and for different times, basically reads like a chemistry text at times, all while giving some GREAT recipes.
I first heard the author on NPR a few years ago, and was very impressed. She would be talking your traditional cook-show talk, then suddently dive into these marvelously technical chemistry explanations that would just make Julia Childs fall over, foaming at the mouth.
I overclocked my microwave and now I am transported back in time whenever I make instant coffee.
Need to get back to the year 31337.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Crush noodles before opening packet (unless you like them dripping all over your close/keyboard)
Fill bowl, dish or whatever works in microwave with warm water
Add spice packet and nuke water a minute or so on high
(add frozen vegetables and maybe a crushed hot pepper if you're a gourmand)
Add noodles
Nuke until just boiling
For those who can't take MSG (gives me splitting headaches, shouldn't this stuff be printed with a Surgeon General type warning?), Taste of Thai (Thai kitchen has some cool little packets of rice noodles in various flavors with no MSG)
Other than that, sugar and caffeine make the world go 'round.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Why geek food is he way it is? It's not just fast, it's FAST and SIMPLE, because time spent fiddling around with it is time away from the project/keyboard/mouse/monitor/online/pr0n/slashdo t, whatever.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
When you cook with alcoholic drinks, the alcohol evaporates (alcohol has a low boiling point), leaving just the flavor. When you cook with tobacco, does the nicotine evaporate? No.
bp
A yogurt shake + wheat germ & bran flakes, wash it down with 1 large cup of hot black coffee. We used to call this combo The Pile-Driver . Try it, you'll find out why!
After cooking for a while, you usually come to the realization that exact measurements aren't as essential for most things (the main exception to this rule is baked goods, which can turn out significantly worse with not much variation in the amount of flour or liquids used). You eventually get a feel for how much oregano to add to spaghetti sauce, or how much chili powder to add to chili.
(The latter often ends up being a fair bit more than your mom probably used. Some 13 or 14 years ago on a Boy Scout camping trip, I dumped in most of an eight-ounce (or so) container of chili powder. That stuff was hot...most of the other kids had a tough time with it, but we had a Korean kid in our troop who thought it was great! An ounce or two in a 3-quart batch is what I normally use, now that I know better.)
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