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[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I want to learn more about these 48 hour chocolate chip cookies

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Simple way, make your preferred dough and then stash it in the fridge for a few days. Even just a few hours can make a difference, gives time for flour to hydrate at the minimum, longer is better for flavour.

Applicable to almost any baked good too, bread/pizza benefits from long, slow ferments, get some complexity of flavour + can help with the dough's structure. Sour dough kinda forces you into these long fermentation periods, I tend to use a preferment (like a biga or poolish) when I'll use bakers yeast.

Also can be convenient if you're busy, it's quick to mix things together, let the dough do the hard work for you.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Most things by King Arthur flour are good! I like the Cornish pasty dough recipe they have!

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[–] henfredemars 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But I have to be at work at 8 AM tomorrow. How do I find the time to take it slow?

[–] Fletcher@lemmy.today 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's the real question, isn't it? When our employers demand more of our time than we get to spend with our actual families, the take-it-slow life just isn't a possibility. Unless you're independently wealthy.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

I've reached a point of just not giving a fuck. I've begun to wonder if that's why I'm getting laid off but if so, then I deserve it but with an asterisk.

I worked 30-40 hours and delivered exceptional work. Quality of which was on par with my peers who easily work 50-60 hours a week. My boss works 80+ hours a week and I just keep asking myself "why give the company so much of your life and it doesn't give a flying fuck about you?"

I'm sorry if you don't see me hustling. I'm going to give you my everything, but within the timebox we've agreed to. Yes, I'll agree to work the occasional overtime for incident management, etc. but I am for sure not going to work 50-60 hours a week regularly.

My life is worth more than the job and I am not going to waste it behind a screen moving numbers around for more time than I need to.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are jobs.

Im a flight attendant and work 72 hrs a month, my husband is a professor and is in front of a class 60 hrs a month.

(My husband and I certainly both came from privileged backgrounds (say middle class ish) and both got degrees that although our parents didn't pay for they gave us resources - either way I wouldnt say our lifestyle is unobtainable)

Having said all that...in general you're correct. Our case is certainly an outlier. We can't all be flight attendants

Edit: our parents aren't dead yet, but when they do pop off they each have a house we will get a share of (to your point)

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hence why beta 1.7.3 minecraft is such a gem. It's the last major version that understands that the game is meant to be played slowly.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The next version added sprinting.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's funny because I recently started playing a modpack through Prism Launcher and I only eat because it is tied to health regeneration. It's a minor inconvenience and doesn't add anything else. Even the various foods the modpack adds can be distilled to what provides the most benefit for the least work because it is a chore instead of a rewarding and engaging experience.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago

Shameless sloth propaganda

Upvote

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I didn't get a slow cooker until I was an adult, and it was a life changer. I love a recipe that consists of "ingredients, plus 6-8 hours."

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's nice to put ingredients into it, leave/sleep/something and come back to food!!! I love it. Mine died recently, I was very sad.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I love my Le Creuset dutch oven. It’s just like you said (ingredients + 6-8 hours) but I add a stovetop browning step at the beginning followed by a deglaze, then add the ingredients, lid on, and into the low oven until fork tender!

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mostly meh, but those long time cookies are amazing.

Just letting regular recipes sit in the fridge a few hours is a big shift in texture and taste that are beneficial to most palates. Obviously, preferences vary and there's no single "best" anything food wise, but you can get significant changes in intensity and depth of flavor with the long recipes

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell us your wisdom oh Baker of the Mountain. Do you just use the same recipe or is it modified somehow to benefit from the dwell time? Best type of cookie for this treatment? Teach me something new that's not another reason to be depressed please.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, it can be done with any recipe usually. It does benefit when you start with more complex flavors to begin with, but even the most basic tollhouse recipe gets changed over time just by chilling.

Basically, it lets the flour fully hydrate, and the enzymes present break down sugars. You end up with layers of flavor as you eat each cookie.

There is an upper limit to how long a given recipe can go, but the "48 hour" label kinda dials in the sweet spot for most.

The absolute best cookie recipe I've seen that makes the best use of the method is Any version of Levain style cookies. That particular recipe is real forgiving, and they actually give a little info on what's going on. I've had them stay in the fridge for a week a couple of times, and be just as good as on day 2 or 3. IIRC, they specify overnight for the rest period, but unless you're getting started at dawn of the first day, you'll want to give them at least 36 hours in the fridge.

The exception is recipes meant to be thin and crispy. They don't benefit at all, and you end up losing some crispness by trying.

I've done pretty much every standard cookie type with the long rest, and with the possible exception of snickerdoodles, you'll see some difference in outcome that most people enjoy. Peanut butter cookies do great with it. So do the reddit-famous murder cookies. Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, I find I really notice more enjoyable flavors. Sugar cookies, and butter cookies, I'm on the fence with because you get a bit more chew, so the shift in complexity is kind of a side grade.

[–] tired_lemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just wanna say thanks for sharing this baking tip. It's so interesting that chilling the dough can make such a difference. I gotta try it some day.

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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need to turn off your grindcore and listen to some progressive doom metal.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Just listen to sleep and you’ll be good to go.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

4 day fridge fermented pizza dough

3 day air drying jerky after a 3 day marinade.

I'm down with that.

But cleaning still needs to be 90mph because I'm gonna get bored and give up.

[–] EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It already takes me 15 minutes to brew about 10 cups of coffee for myself.

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[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

My wife got me into audiobooks. We're both avid readers, and wanted to read when we couldn't read. My wife, however, cranks her shit up to 2x to consume, consume, consume, and chastises me for listening at normal speed. I want to enjoy what I'm reading, bask in the world building.

[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly it really depends on how boring parts are. If it's 1x speed for some content and highly predictable what they are going to say, I for some reason assume I know the rest of the sentence they will say, then use the "extra time" I just gained and let my mind wander. Then I miss the next sentence. So strangely, I can understand things better at a higher speed because it doesn't give me time for that bad habit. Maybe she is like that too, finding she understands it better if she listens to it faster because it makes her focus better.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I disagree with you completely! Out of principle, I can't do that, it's practically skipping ahead!

I did uparrow you, because despite our opposite perspectives, I appreciate your contribution to the discussion.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Does she not pause audiobook to think about economic currency conversion rates in that fictional world?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have some podcasts I'll listen to at 1.2x speed but it's usually because I'm trying to get it to properly fit a given drive. I have one relatively frequent drive that I can nicely fit 3 episodes of a daily podcast at 1.2x speed, but otherwise is too long for 2 episodes or too short for a third at 1x speed. For audiobooks though I stick with 1x so I can fully take in the content.

For reading I really only read in bed now, so it takes me about 2-4 weeks to finish a book usually

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Too poor, I'm either working or dying

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

slowmaxxxing is a privilege

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not me. I require an external factor to force a sense of urgency or I don't do shit. When I was dating and had girls over all the time, house was spotless. Now that I'm married, not so much.

Always rocked out in primary school. Always got the same report to my parents, "Doesn't do well in unstructured activities." Add my chaotic good nature to that, yeah, I have to be forced to give a fuck.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

As someone with ADHD, I feel this.

If there isn't someone constantly pressuring me to get it done, I will never start it. The only way I know how to work is under constant pressure. I perform my best when scrambling at the last minute to get it done before it's too late.

[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

48 hour cookies? The hell does it need to take that damn long?

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

mostly sit in the fridge for a while

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

the cookie wrapping part of melon pan? I make 3 batches worth of the cookie dough which has a sit in the fridge step, and make the buns over 2 or 3 days and take out the cookie dough as needed.

[–] threshold_dweller@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

I recently heard Michele Obama talking about wanting more slow boring days. For some reason it felt good to hear despite me ostensibly having very little in common with her.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I got the 15 minute coffee down at least. I’m one of those coffee snobs, hand a Hario pour over and a French press, and use a gooseneck kettle. There’s no rushing a good coffee. I make myself about 20 oz twice a day. First thing before work, and again on my lunch break.

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[–] j_z@feddit.nu 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds chill but are there actual evidence that taking it this slow improves your (mental?) health significantly?

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My personal experience tends to agree.

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Smoked some bacon the other day. Took 8 hours after a week of curing the bacon. There's not a moment I regretted from any of that time spent, and the bacon is delicious.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Live slow, die old!

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Need to get amongst some Slow TV!

Those Norwegian train rides are some comfy viewing.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

My boss disagrees with this.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought that was called "being sloth-pilled." I just can't keep up with the kids' slang these days.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
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