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Cooking for Engineers
gbjbaanb writes "It's not often I post about a website, but this one is different. It is Cooking For Engineers. No big deal, you'd think - a web site about recipes and cooking. But go look at how he's presented it. Most recipes are designed for women, and their funny way of looking at the world. These are very different and instantly understandable for tech geeks like us. Oh yes, although he's been affected by firefox, he blames Microsoft. :)"
I thought there was already a Patron Saint chef of geeks... Alton Brown!
1. Find a woman who can tolerate you.
2. Enter the kitchen with her.
3. Do whatever she says.
Actually, if you leave out step 2 the other steps nearly always apply.
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As a food geek, I'm impresed. If more recepis were written out like that I know more people who would relise that they didn't need to be slaves to processed food.....your right, who am I kidding?
We are the Borg...
Come on ... "cooking for engineers" ... use Metric for chrissakes.
... no kidding.
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I once read a recipe : "1 cup banana"
Americans
1. Goto store
2. Insert 12, eggs, cart
3. Insert 1lb, butter, cart
4. Mov $5.00, wallet, store_clerk
5. Goto home
6. Mov pan, grill
7. heating = 05
8. Mov 1oz, butter, pan
9. Mov 2, eggs, pan
10. sleep (1000)
11. Mov product, oral_cavity
12. end
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Yeah, but where do I find an oven that's calibrated in degrees Kelvin?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
"Microwave Until Hot"
yep, and I'm an engineer too
Cooking Foreigners
Needs more salt.
It's just "Kelvin," not "degrees Kelvin," damn it :).</nerd>
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
What's a woman?
1) Point out that IE is not standards compliant.
2) Submit story.
3) Allow web server to bake until golden brown.
4) Enjoy!
Bah! Unlike scientists, engineers are bilingual. Just remember, there are about 0.1554slugs of flour in a five-pound bag.
I always thought that cooking involved various types of physical/chemical reactions taking place within organic substances that, when combined properly, stimulated human tastebuds in a pleasurable manner (with some deviation among test subjects -- I don't like mustard, myself).
Why can't cooking be a combination of art and science?
You know, you can replace references to 'cooking' and 'programming' with 'sex' in the second paragraph, and it still holds true.
Not that you're not absolutely right about cooking, though.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
Sorry... but the first recipie I saw has the first ingredient of "about 20 lady's fingers" for those bi-atches that really pi$$ you off. :D
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
I think NASA tried using both and it didn't work out so well.
"People wonder why we can't get laid?"
1) Turn the box off.
2) Open the blinds, curtains, shades, etc. and check to see if it is day or night.
3) Clean up the old pizza boxes, dirty dishes, and other assorted junk around the box.
4) Clean and bleach the kitchen and bathroom, and change the sheets on the bed.
5) Shower, brush your teeth, slath on some deoderant, and dress in clean street clothes. (Put the the old plaid bathrobe you have been wearing for the past 3 months in a strong plastic bag. Or better yet burn it.)
6) Walk out the door.
This method isn't foolproof, but with the simple act of getting the hell out of the house you will increase your odds of getting laid by 100%.
Oh yes......if you do find yourself in the company of an interesting female you may further increase your odds by asking for what you want. We can't read your minds.
Just a thought from a female...
... It must be open sauce ...
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
The standard Recipe isn't even primarily meant to be a set of instructions at all. It's there so that the cook can explain to the employer (you *surely* aren't one of those common riff-raff who have no staff and have to cook their own food?) why they've bought 18 eggs this week, and what happened to the 2 lbs of butter you've paid for, and why on earth they spent your money on this 'coriander' stuff.
After a while, this Itemised Invoice From the Kitchen evolved into a set of instructions, but at heart, it's just an Invoice.