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This was far and away the best chili I've made and probably even had. Replacing the cayenne with ancho last week and only using jalapeños for heat was a terrible mistake (chili was still good though). This time I used a single hab, two serranos, two jalapeños, some green chiles, a bunch of cayenne as far as 🌶️ goes and it worked out perfectly. I also used 6tsp of smoked paprika this time instead of the 2 last time which I think made a big difference and I doubled the ancho too. Phenomenal mixture of bullshit. Will try with corn in a few weeks and see if it's better or worse. I'm chili'd out for now though.

Thanks for coming on this journey with me.

I like this page, all of them are pretty easy and convenient:

https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/quick-easy-instant-pot-dinner-recipes/

I've done the Tortilla Soup one before and it's really good!

!goyslopenjoyers deep fried onion from texas roadhouse

look at that calorie count

•Jalapeño and Chedded bread from the farmers market (buttered and browned)

• 0.5 Lb Ground Wagyu Beef (not that expensive, but very tasty)

•Tillamook Pepper Jack (freshly grated)

•Horseradish Aioli on the side

The review is a bit weird for modern standards, it never tells the readers if pizza is tasty.

I got a free 2 month trial of Panera's Sip Club they are constantly shilling and I have opinions about it. I was planning to send this as feedback for the survey they send me via email almost every visit, but these frickers are so cheap you don't get anything for filling it out. Might as well get some DC instead.

The main problem with this whole thing is that the drinks at Panera just aren't very good. The quality of all the drinks (most of them!) I've had are middling at best. That immediately sets this thing up to fail, it doesn't matter how many options or how cheap the club is if the drinks aren't worth drinking.

The other main problem is that the selection is weird. There are a bunch of items, but they are almost all the same type of product with very few exceptions.

They may have 25 items, but let's break them down so you can see how little meaningful variety there is:

• Only 4 of those drinks are caffeine free, and 1 isn't available after 2 PM.

• 4 coffee options, but 2 of those aren't available after 2 PM (including the decaf!)

• If you want iced coffee, the dark roast is your only option, no decaf, hazelnut, or light roast.

• The hot tea has many flavors (6), but they only list the ingredients of the Br*tish Breakfast and they all taste pretty similar.

Another issue is the warped sense of value, they market it as "once you get 4 drinks, it pays for itself". However the drinks are an overpriced ripoff without the sip club, soft drinks are $3.19! If you pay that much for a soft drink, you might be r-slurred. This is the only place in town that serves soft drinks for anything over $3, and most places have a much wider selection of sodas. The coffee is $2.89 which isn't bad, if it wasn't gas station quality... None of the drinks they offer as part of the club are worth more than $2. This means you'd need to get 6 drinks a month to make it worth getting.

The frustrating part is they do offer some other nice interesting drinks, but they aren't part of the sip club. I understand why, they cost more to make, but they should have an option to get them for at least discounted. Even better would be making them free, but no refills, or even only allowing someone to claim 1 a week. Any of these solutions would allow someone to get these nice higher quality drinks as part of the sip club, without causing Panera to lose tons of money.

Also corporate has mandated that you get the cups with your order. They used to be right near the counter, however now they have to serve the empty cup with your food. This is brain dead. The time it takes to actually get the drink means your food is getting cold while getting your drink. It also means you can't enjoy your drink while waiting for the food, which takes time. This means the best way is to place 2 separate orders, one for just the drink first, and then another for the food. I don't need to explain why this is stupid. It also doesn't help that the app is slow as shit.

The program has one potential saving grace, the coupons. The idea is that every Saturday (and other days randomly) you get a coupon, not bad right? The problem is most of them suck; from a pathetic $2 off a Pick Two, to "Buy One Get One 50% Off" entrees, few are worth using. This means I usually just end up getting the Value Duets and using the entree coupons on them, as they are the only items that aren't a rip-off.

If Panera wants this to actually go somewhere it needs to do any one of the following:

• Reduce the cost of menu items to make eating here a better value.

• Make the coupons better, they don't need to be Burger King good, just better than what they are now.

• Allow the Sip Club to be used on premium drinks, whether that is only a discount, free with no refills, only so many a month, or some combination of those restrictions.

• Add more self serve drinks, specifically more soda and decaf options. Pepsi Zero, different Mt Dew or Pepsi flavors, fruit juices, iced decaf (and make the decaf coffee all day please!), and non caffeinated still lemonades would all be fine additions.

Note, it doesn't (nor should it) do all of these, that's unreasonable. However if they did even one of these it would be worth keeping the subscription. As it stands after my subscription ends, I don't plan to ever go back to Panera unless they fix the Sip Club or lower prices.

Also this is a small little tangent, but holy shit do a lot of the stuff they serve have too much sugar. All but 1 dessert item has more than 20g of sugar, and many are around ~50g! Also excluding the drinks that have 0g of sugar, most are around 50g a serving, I don't want to know how many people get refills on these... This place is one of the unhealthiest for desserts where I live, most donut places are much healthier! Kinda wild, it's not like the desserts really sell, so I'm not sure why they do this.

I am curious to see if other people view Panera differently these days so I'm going to make a poll. Do you go to Panera?

Disturbing trend on TT/YT/IG: entire social channels with nonsense recipes. They're clearly narrated by AI and likely written by it, but the videos appear real. The channels have no affiliate websites, but millions of subs. It's just chaos.

Like this egg horror: pic.twitter.com/TZuT6tG3RS

— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) May 7, 2024

I’ve been cooking for myself since I was 5 years old, which means my relationship with food is based on a 5 year-old’s heuristic understanding of a balanced diet. Could I have tried to learn some actual dietary fundamentals in the past 25 years? Sure, but my understanding of healthy is “am I still frickable” and that’s been affirmed (sometimes unfortunately) over the timespan.

Well now I’m 30, and the cycle of going 20 pounds over and then crash-dieting back to normal has gotten harder. My usual go-tos of cereal, sandwiches and rice-heavy stir fry has been making it really hard to keep pounds off as I work out less.

So a friend I was trying to have s*x with recommended keto and showed me recipes she’s been trying out, and so I gave it a shot.

Night and goddarn day. It’s only been a few weeks and I’ve had to cut coffee for black tea since I have too much energy now. I don’t feel like a bloated sack of shit if I don’t make dinner before 5pm anymore. And the best part is I haven’t bothered calorie counting. I’ve had MyFitnessPal, a food scale, heavily-invested into CICO through my 20s, where I’d go from 2500 calories a day to 1400 for a few weeks to carve off pounds. And it works, but going to bed hungry sucks. And when I finally am getting laid, why bother continuing to do it?

I’ve not counted once with Keto and I just feel good all the time. Probably shaving off 2-3 pounds a week, including this last week where I’ve been on bedrest with a back injury.

Anyway, tell me about your experiences with the diet too. Getting a lot of value out of my $70 air fryer.

The guy who tarnished the tendie Halls actually makes some good butt looking food, and https://old.reddit.com/u/Doggo-Lovato/submitted

shout out /u/Doggo-Lovato this turned from REEEE to REEspect

I'm quite baffled at how this is supposed to be better than just ordering a pizza and getting it delivered normally.

Robot-powered Zume Pizza, which was recently said to be valued at close to $4 billion, is no more—at least not as a pizza-making operation.

The 5-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company this week said it will cut 172 jobs there, 80 jobs in San Francisco and 78 positions in Seattle, according to documents filed with state labor agencies.

In laying off 53% of its workforce, Zume is shutting down its pizza delivery business and is shifting its focus to food packaging, production and delivery systems. The focus shift will require the company to add 100 new jobs, which the laid-off employees could apply for, according to a Zume spokesperson.

The company was reportedly burning through $10 million a day last summer, with that figure rising significantly by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg news service.

more details from wikipedia

Zume was founded in 2015 as Zume Pizza[4] by Chairman and CEO Alex Garden[5] and Julia Collins.[6][7] In 2016, it raised $6 million in Series A investment funding from Jerry Yang[8] and SignalFire, a venture capital firm.[9]

Zume's initial business proposition was the automated production and delivery of pizza, which would largely be made by robots and cooked en route to customers.[10][9] In September 2016, it delivered its first pizzas. They were cooked in a van equipped with 56 GPS-equipped automated ovens, timed to be ready shortly before arrival at the address, and then sliced by a self-cleaning robot cutter.[6][7][11] The pizza preparation process was partly automated by November 2016.[12]

The company secured a patent on cooking during delivery,[8][13] which included algorithms to predict customer choices, and planned to partner with businesses to provide other robot-prepared meal components, such as salads and desserts.[13] In fall 2017, Zume raised $48 million in Series B funding.[14]

Baking pizzas in a moving vehicle proved to be impractical, and customers complained about quality problems with the robot-made pizzas; the idea was eventually shelved.[15]

Crust pic

!grillers

Anyone else notice pictures from iPhone get a bluish tint and contrast reduction here? Maybe the newer phones shooting HDR?

It’s this new thing I’m trying out called “being gay for kitty”

2.5 inch top sirloin steak. $3.49 a pound, bought from my grocery store's expires today section.

Smother in seaweed salt, mustard, pepper, and worcestershire sauce marinade for two hours.

Heat grill to 700, cook for two minutes on one side, then 1 minute on the other.

Eat with milk and biscuits.

has anyone done this? i want to get some to use w/my soda stream so i can make caffeinated seltzer water, i'm sick of drinking dehydrating coffees and teas in the afternoon and can't tolerate store-bought energy drinks any more as they are too sweet.

problem is FDA says this is illegal

internet says buy preworkout (? wouldn't this have other stuff in it) and i've also found this which seems maybe interesting but expensive.

my dream beverage and what i hope to achieve, is something that's 24oz, tastes like a LaCroix, and has like 300mg of caffeine in it lol.

suggestions?

!edgelords !noalcohol

Made In 8” non stick in cobalt blue (cookin eggs in chink chili oil)

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