Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !askculinary, !food, !recipes, !bbq, !foodporn, !sousvide, !koreanfood
I usually just steam some veggies in the microwave, drain out the water, toss a pat of cream cheese in the bowl and leave it covered for a bit while it melts in the steamy veggies. Hit it with some garlic powder and sea salt and pepper. Good eatin’!
What else do you eat cream cheese with? Genuine question, I only recently started eating cream cheese, and I’ve only ever eaten it with bagels or toasted bread
As a cook with an Asian wife I say: don‘t wash it for Italian risotto and other creamy stuff, but do so for everything else. If it could be dirty rice, rinse it once.
!Cooking will become the new main LW culinary community. !AskCulinary, !Food, and !Recipes will be locked until such time we have a larger user base that can support those similar communities. We will periodically check in with each community to gauge whether it’s the right time to reopen. There will be a pinned post pointing user to join !cooking in each community.
This is not meant to be a permanent decision and we hope Lemmy grows to be able to support every niche there is.
!Cooking will become the new main LW culinary community but we will NOT be locking any of the other communities. We will treat !AskCulinary, !food, and !recipes the same as all the other niche communities in that we would encourage cross-posting to the main !cooking community as well as look into possibly automating this in the future. There will be a pinned post encouraging cross-posting in each community.
Me too. There is always rice sludge on the lid of the rice cooker and dribbled down the sides if I don’t do at least one rinse. Definitely better texture too.
The washing away of some(…) microplastics and arsenic sounds nice, and I’m not concerned over the loss of whatever trace minerals white rice would even have.
White rice in the US is enriched with various vitamins, in a sad attempt to replace the nutrition stripped from milling away the outer part and bran. Better to just eat brown rice, though it also has more arsenic. Ah, isn’t modern food lovely.
The article does seem to accurately portray the findings of the peer reviewed research that it links to. Not saying that it’s infallible, but probably worth considering.
I believe the article, in the very narrow thing it actually claims, which is that the starches that come off of rice in washing don’t matter much in how sticky the rice is. That’s mostly down to what kind of rice you’re using. Short grain is stickier, longer grains are not.
I’m still 100% going to wash my rice because I don’t want to deal with the cleanup on that extra starch, it gets everywhere. And while I haven’t had bugs in my rice for a while, it happens sometimes.
I have posted here, and the top comments were from people who only commented (and contribute no OC) that it looked bad despite the posts being about technique/ ingredients. If everything needs to be Foodporn I’m out.
There should be a native crosspost feature allowing users to crosspost to other communities but instead of creating a new instance of the post, it’s a link back to the original instance of the post.
Ngl I do kinda like option 1 to prevent a bunch of duplicate posts in the feed, but if thats the choice we should have some kind of parameter for when reopening would be appropriate. Like a yearly check in post, or a total sub size, or something.
I have no idea what the mod tools and such are like on Lemmy, so I don’t know how feasible it is, but I feel like a good way to do it would be to enforce tagging posts, and once we hit a certain threshold of users using that tag the relevant community gets reopened
Making up numbers on the fly, but maybe something like after 100 different users have made posts with a certain tag and at least 10 of them have made at least 5 posts the relevant community gets reopened, and the main cooking community makes a stickied post and makes some automod comments or something advertising that it’s back open.
A lot of online communities get a lot of their content from a handful of power-users, so making sure that you have a handful of people who are repeatedly making relevant content I think is just as important as making sure you have bulk people who may only contribute occasionally, which is why I included having some users who have made multiple posts
Also when that critical mass is reached, some strategic timing for when to reopen them may be a good idea. Might get some extra buzz and activity to kick things off by reopening BBQ a couple weeks before memorial day when people are getting ready for summer cookouts and ask culinary around November as people are starting to plan for thanksgiving and Christmas
When the rush happened from redditors joining Lemmy, they basically went and remade every single subreddit, not once on a single instance, but many many times over many instances. This is a problem, because now we have a ton of dead spaces across the federation that are useless.
I am for merging, because the userbase is too small to sustain multiple niche communities. Lock 'em up, boys!
This is exactly the reason why we’re exploring these options. We’re still somewhat trying find out how we want grow and form the cooking communities as a whole hence why we’re asking for community feedback.
It’ll grow over time as the Lemmy userbase grows. It’s not like people are cooking less, if anything we’re cooking more given the amount of knowledge available on the internet allowing us to do crazy creations we never thought of ourselves.
Since the pandemic I’ve gotten a lot more into cooking and baking, and it’s mostly with the help of guides and stuff from the internet.
I would make it mandatory to share the recipe, personally. That’s my growth driver; providing value.
This is true, but what we’re seeing is lack of content which doesn’t entice people to sub and slows down growth. The idea is that if we can get more people posting and more content, more people will want to sub and then hopefully more people will post and we can get to a point where all the communities can serve their own niches and thrive.
I support the merge for now, but I’d want there to be a plan in place to reopen them at some point if/when there is enough of a user base to support them
Ideally those communities do serve different niches even though there’s a lot of overlap and it would be kind of a shame if we reach a point where there’s enough of a community ready to use them but they’re stuck with the community locked up
This is definitely the plan for sure. Whether we lock or leave open the niche communities, we don’t want them gone forever. This merge is just something we’re looking at to help encourage more posts and content in general, which hopefully will give people more reason to sub, and then once the userbase is enough to support, those niche communities can thrive. Locking those communities, if we go that route, is always meant to be temporary.
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