But he does want you to sift it this time.>> ^rkone:

I'm not big on sifting either.

Am I the only one getting literally sick of eating pancakes?
I can't eat more than one at most otherwise I will feel nauseated...
Any ideas? I like the diarrhea thing, sounds ... different.

Ingredients for about 12 small pancakes: (from foodwishes site, for the video)
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted

you forgot apples and cinnamon.

>> ^berticus:

My pancake topping preference, in order from favourite to least:
Lemon juice and brown sugar.
Banana and melted chocolate.
Berries and yoghurt.
Maple syrup.
Diarrhea.

Yeah, seriously. Warmed berries and plain yoghurt. It's actually not bad. Nowhere near as good as lemon and sugar though.
>> ^hpqp:

I was about to quote you pointing out how our tastes were identical, but then I read again... berries and yoghurt, seriously?
>> ^berticus:
My pancake topping preference, in order from favourite to least:
Lemon juice and brown sugar.
Banana and melted chocolate.
Berries and yoghurt.
Maple syrup.
Diarrhea.

I was about to quote you pointing out how our tastes were identical, but then I read again... berries and yoghurt, seriously?

>> ^berticus:

My pancake topping preference, in order from favourite to least:
Lemon juice and brown sugar.
Banana and melted chocolate.
Berries and yoghurt.
Maple syrup.
Diarrhea.

My pancake topping preference, in order from favourite to least:

Lemon juice and brown sugar.
Banana and melted chocolate.
Berries and yoghurt.
Maple syrup.
Diarrhea.

One of the problems I have with a lot of pancakes is they're too dry, I shouldn't need a tub of butter and a gallon of syrup to make them moist enough that they don't get stuck in my throat halfway down.

I'm dubious on the use of melted butter, I generally find vegetable oil produces better results for moistness in baked goods.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Melt butter? Wait for baking powder to do something? Who has that kind of time?
They gots a plastic jug now, you add water and shake the jug for 30 seconds.
Then you pour one giant pancake. When the house fills with smoke, turn it over. Drink syrup straight from bottle.


HOT DIGGIDY DOG!! .. we got ourselves a ranch chef .. let's shoot some guns *BANG* *BANG* I'm sorry miss, your dog shouldn't have been there

Melt butter? Wait for baking powder to do something? Who has that kind of time?

They gots a plastic jug now, you add water and shake the jug for 30 seconds.

Then you pour one giant pancake. When the house fills with smoke, turn it over. Drink syrup straight from bottle.

remember, this is just a plain pancake recipe. you can add bannana's, strawberries.. scotch and cardboard .. whatever you like

Guess I'm having some of these "pancakes" for dinner. Makes a change from scotch and flakes of cardboard, I guess.

Fuck IKEA. I'm done with them . Everything in their store is well below shit quality. I don't care how cheap it is, most of it is not even worth having. I'll never buy another piece of furniture from IKEA.

First example: their tealights. Wow, 100 tealights for $5!? Seems like an incredible bargain. But a tealight that won't even stay lit is worthless at any price. IKEA tealights just don't stay lit... the wax doesn't burn away fast enough, and the wick is limp. So the wick dips over and snuffs itself in the liquid wax. Don't ask me why I'm fucking around with tea-lights (I used to have girls over and light candles etc... now that seems like a previous life). I'd rather pay $10 for 40 tealights that will actually stay lit until the wax is gone. I bought a bunch of IKEA tealights back when I moved into this place... I was there every week for a couple months, and half the time I'd just snag a pack of tealights thinking they were a great bargain. It took me a couple years to finally accept that those tealights were worth less than the plastic wrapped around them, and just throw them all out.

Don't get me started on the lightbulbs they sell... Every once in a while I get some new bulbs for all the little underlights I have around for vases and shit... the bulbs last a few weeks of infrequent use on average.

Their tea-lights

I bought a whole bunch of IKEA shit just under five years ago when I moved into this apartment. Shelves, lamps, some mats. Most of it has literally started to fall apart from regular use. One of my BILLY bookshelf sets sufferend a "pancake collapse" of the shelves inside, which could not (ironically) support the weight of the (comic) books I was storing on them... the shelves are now basically useless until I figure out some kind of repair on the parts where the shelves connect to the bookshelf body... that's where it all came apart.

And once you've put doors onto a BILLY shelf it's up around $250 for a set (maybe more? I can't remember), at which point you may as well look at some real shelves made for grown-ups.

>> ^dag:

For Rama, I'd stick with the original. I'm not a fan of the sequels, especially after Gentry Lee got involved in Clarke's dotage.
Speaking of SF remakes, I'd love John Varley's Titan series to be done on the big screen. I think CGI would now make it more than possible.

Maybe it's just me, but I honestly can't remember any events of significance happening in the original book. It's like almost all Clarke books, it's got a great idea as a set piece, but the characters are flat as pancakes, and the plot doesn't really go anywhere either.

I tended to like Clarke's collaborative books better, because they usually had better characters and plot, but were still wrapped around an awesome Clarke idea.

I haven't read the Titan series, but again, that's a Hugo-award winning sci fi novel post-1970. It's also annoying because if you go and check, some major movie house already owns the movie rights on all these novels. Clearly someone has the foresight to go and acquire it, but it never percolates up to the bigwigs to green light an actual film.

"Nosh" is from Yiddish and means "to eat", especially in the case of a light snack or an appetizer or something else that's less than a meal.

I've never heard the slang definition of "flapjack" that Michael explains. It's another word for pancake.

I learned "faff" from Zero Punctuation's Assassin's Creed review.