This is classic right wing “humor”. They get butt hurt because we make fun of them so they think that humor just means hurting the other guys. They try, and fail, and we laugh at them which makes them even more butt hurt.
MapleEngineer
25 years in the federal government in guns and badges, 22 of those in Corrections, then 10 years in hacker hunting and breach detection, now an information security sales engineer. Homestead farmer, amateur welder, equipment operator, electronic designer, 40 years soldering, husband and father.
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Ok…several people have asked. The recipe that I used is not good. I’m still working on it. I promise that when I get it right I will post it here for everyone to try.
I used the recipe from this video. I’m not suggesting that the recipe is bad but it did not produce what I wanted which was light, stretchy, chewy naan bread like you get in a restaurant.
In discussing my progress with my Indian coworkers I know that I’m never going to get restaurant tandoor quality naan at home but what I want is to get something better than the dry, stale fake naan that I can buy at my local grocery store.
So…I’m going to try again, this time using 2/3 bread flour (I used all purpose with baking powder, salt, and baking soda to approximate self-rising flour) and 1/3 whole wheat flour. I also bought a bag of nigella seeds…
The pan that I used was a 10" round griddle pan.
It approximates a tawa (or tava depending on how you pronounce it) which is like a small, very shallow upside down wok.
I made up the dough, kneaded it aggressively (I’m a 115 kg farmer and I was sweating in the end) for 15 minutes. I’m talking a two handed, left right knead for 15 straight minutes. I then allowed the dough to ferment at room temperature for 6 hours and cooked half of it. It was not good. I then let if ferment for another 6 hours at room temperature then put it in the fridge overnight and took it out the next afternoon. It was markedly better but still not great.
The process is you divide the dough up into approximately 120 g balls. Let it rest, then put the pan on a high flame (or the highest your stove will go) and heat it up screeching hot, like steak searing hot. Roll your dough out to around 25 cm in diameter, oil the top then flip it over and wet the other side. Rub the water around. You want it to be wet and sticky. Now slap it onto the pan water side down. It will start to bubble up within seconds. Once you have a nice crop of bubbles pick the pan up, turn it over, and hold the oiled side about 15 cm above the flame and move it around in a circular motion. This will obviously not work for a non-stick pan. Once the bubbles are nice and brown set the pan down, use a spatula to unstick it from the pan, and give it a healthy buttering on the bubble side. Pan back on the flame, roll, oil, water, slap, bubbles, invert, brown bubbles, spatula, butter, repeat.
The one that I made this evening after more than 24 hours of fermenting was more chewy. I hope very much that switching to bread flour from all purpose will help. I also plan to let it ferment at room temperature for 24 hours. This is not for the faint of heart given that it has raw eggs in it but I know the chickens that lay them.
That’s awesome. It’s lasted longer than modern flash does.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.cato Chat@beehaw.org•Hello all who have migrated from Reddit, if it's your first time using the Fediverse, whaddaya think?English1·2 years agoThanks!
I’ve got Jerboa installed and am using it most of the time. I just installed Connect. It’s very basic but I’m giving it a chance.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.cato Chat@beehaw.org•Hello all who have migrated from Reddit, if it's your first time using the Fediverse, whaddaya think?English7·2 years agoI’m finding the interface a little confusing and the app on Android a little clunky but I’m spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. I expect to be here almost full time after the first of July. I’ve started a few communities of interest to me and am posting as often as I can. I am commenting on other people’s posts and generally trying to contribute. I hope this really takes off.
That’s awesome! I have a MicroVAX-II that hasn’t been powered up for about 20 years. I want to replace the power supplies and see if I can get it up and running at some point. Future project.
I think that they’re a wonder of engineering and I also thing they’re beautiful.
It was a great machine. I was one of only 3 people in my high school who could enter the bootloader code using the front toggle switches so I would regularly be pulled out of class to run down to the computer trim and reboot the pdp-8/e.
It really is. They did so much more with so much less back then. Their code was massive but had zero fat. So much of our software now consists of self-celebration.
Rope memory went to the moon.
Has Google considered making their advertising engine better? Allow us to skip every ad. Allow us to block all those fucking cryptocurrency scam ads. Forcing me to watch an ad for a company that I’m not interested in guarantees that I will hate that company and never buy their product even if I need it. I will go out of my way to buy something from a company that hasn’t tried to ram their advertisements down my throat. If ads weren’t so fucking terrible I might agree to watch them.