I’m up to eating biscuits with tea now. touch wood The Woolies gingernuts are really nice but a have a fair bit more ginger than the Arnotts. Hot 😳🫚
Cookies are today’s DD Thread theme. 🍪🙂
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really like the coles honeycomb ones! but 3 bucks a packet is taking the piss a bit
I’m back from Chapel st and the book store. Scored a small pile of Melodiya and Supraphon LPs and 2 Yehudi Menuhin records. from the op shop. $1 each
Job application for animal tech role completed! Fuck I hope I get an interview at least, so I can see what those types of roles are looking for specifically.
I still don’t know if I want to go vet nurse or animal tech though. I can do the Cert IV Vet Nurse at my current TAFE, or go to Box Hill for the Diploma in Animal Tech. Vet Nurses are needed quite desperately, but so are Animal Techs, and Animal Tech is very lab-based research - which is extremely up my alley haha.
I’d love to be an advocate for animal welfare in animal tech spaces, and I’m not sure I could handle vet nursing due to the clients (many unknowingly mistreat their pets), but either way I just want to help animals. Vet nursing means I can help owners understand their pets needs, and animal tech means I could contribute to life saving medicine and research.
I was also considering animal agriculture as well, but I’ll 100% need my driver’s license for that!
I love all the animals! Choices choices!!!
When I volunteered at Lort Smith, many people were there to build up their resume for animal/vet roles. In case you’re looking for more ways to get good things on your resume.
Thank you!! Just applied as a volunteer!!
They’ll probably start you in the laundry room for three months. It’s a pretty easy four hour shift doing industrial laundry and delivering clean towels to the areas. I later moved to kennels. The laundry shift is great in winter, it’s really warm with the big dryers. I left because a kennel tech cracked the shits at me for playing with a ‘red’ coded dog that I’d asked the lead tech about. The dog wasn’t aggressive but it was strong and would jump at people with an open mouth creating a bite risk. I’m also a big strong dude so I was trying to help socialise the dog in a calm manner and the mid range tech came in an yelled at me without knowing the full story so I quit.
I don’t know much about careers and stuff but if they’re equally appealing you could go for whichever has the higher salary, so you have a bit more financial stability if you want to change to the other one in future?
Or whichever offers experience to help you get into the other (if it works like that)
If I was being selfish I’d say vet nutrition so you could invent poultry free prescription food.
True true! I think I’d just happy working with animals at this point, regardless of the actual job! And I have about six months before I get my cert III so plenty of time to think and research and apply :D
True about the poultry free!! So hard because I think a lot of it is chickens are pretty cheap to process, and taurine is a requirement for cats specifically, so it’s an easy way to get that amino acid. I think there is taurine powder available, that can be added to their diet, but I don’t know much about that or what else is in it! But thank you! Another career option to consider!!!
Good luck :)
I had an interest in a certain line of work around 10 years ago. I literally drove to those companies unannounced and asked the the owners if I could chat about the career for a bit. To my surprise they were very accommodating and answered all my questions. It helped immensely.
Maybe try that?
E: maybe make an appointment first lol. I can be passionate and impulsive at times.
I’m planning on emailing local shelters and vet clinics and see if they’re willing to take me on (either volunteer or part time, so I can still go to school).
Anyone else got a thing for cute brunettes in Kilts? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGTEHyUysM it’s Tennant being gloriously silly
Oh he is a delight 😎
I’ve got a thing for Tennant.
Success!!! After weeks of procrastination and increasingly yucky feelings, I’ve finally used some super janky half-manual method to randomly sample my fucking points and loaded them onto my field app SO NOW I HAVE ABSOLUTELY ZERO EXCUSE TO START ON MY FIELDWORK TOMORROW. FINALLY.
Just need to wait for the message advising me what time my dishwasher will arrive, hopefully it’s in the afternoon so I can get a few hours done in the morning without having to drive all the way out west then back.
While I’m at it, maybe I’ll finally do this dumbshit fb marketplace listing I’ve been procrastinating on, and brave the horrors of my fridge crisper to see which vegetables I can salvage.
Yay you! Such a good feeling getting past one of those mental roadblocks
Thank you!! Feels like I’ve finally had the most satisfying shit of my life 😂 I’m going to be kind to myself and not look back on all the weeks “wasted”. Onward ho!
I’m giving myself all the time/leeway possible. Gonna apply for max special consideration extension as well
Well done!!! Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started and I think you’ve nailed it!! You got this!! So proud of youuuu! 💜💜💜
Thank you!! It’s felt really hard to get back into gear after the holidays but I think I can handle this, just gotta keep everything in balance for a few more months.
I’m inching forwards a bit financially too, finally back to where I was last year before I bought my car. If I can grow my savings by a bit more by the end of uni I’ll be very grateful…
New bike rides an absolute treat. I’ve missed bicycle rock star parking where I can ride up to the door of a place and lock it to the nearest pole. The seat is hard as, but my bum is also lacking conditioning.
If I was to buy another bike I’d get one with the most comfortable seat possible and get someone else to ride it for me while I’m in the back. People love bike riding and I’m like “My back can’t cope with being bent over like that and my fanny hurts”. I do envy bike riders.
This is my 3rd bike, that I currently have. Frankenbike tourer, AusPost BMX cargo bike, and the new racer/road bike. There’s fanny friendly gel seats now days.
Gel seats!!! I like that!
Having children alters the way you can ride a bike!
That was before and after. My bike had a sticker on it that said NO STUNT. I tell you what, it felt like I had every single time.
What kind of bike did you get?
Full carbon racer. Giant tcr composite 1. $200, which was a great price.
Got jokingly teased at work today because I couldn’t lift stuff that everyone else could lift. I think it’s time to potentially invest in a PT. Or just head to the gym and try to go consistently to actually see results. My muscle mass is low, but I also think the tension is low, and that’s not something that’s as fixable.
Got my bike after about a decade from a relative’s house because we have no room, and whilst the bike is still an okay size (I haven’t grown since I was probably 13), the helmet is not. My head must’ve grown.
MFW we’re drunkenly discussing US politics and neonazis and the Polish dude starts getting weirdly insistent about how many Jews his family saved during the war.
Sounds like he doesn’t want to be mistaken for a neonazi haha!
My fam and I had a big rant about US politics the other weekend when I saw them. My Opa was a lil boy in Nazi Germany and has some wild, wild anecdotes from that time. Crazy shit. He’s pissed AF the US is going down the same route. Nan is also pissed as well, we all are.
I was teased for being a Nazi when I was in PS and HS, because my surname always attracts questions. Kids are kids, but because of Opa and my experiences, and history, I FUCKING HATE NAZIS!
There should be no place for them in today’s society, no matter how anyone spins it. It’s fucked up to the highest degree, and is extremely insulting and offensive to everyone who fought for our freedom and liberty, our rights and our right to be our honest authentic selves.
We should NOT tolerate intolerance.
Jsyk, paradox of intolerance goes right tf away when you realise we’re talking about a social contract violation.
My aunt’s parents were kids in nazi germany as well. Fuck they have some heartbreaking stories.
My mother was young during wwii.
She told me her Jewish neighbours were taken away. No description, just a statement. One of the very few things she said about her war experience.
Aunt’s father was one of the kids stuffed into uniforms and given guns once the allies started taking german territory. Dude was barely four foot in his 80’s recalled being captured by a US platoon, all of them HUGE in comparison. He spoke no english and they spoke no german. Freely admitted he pissed himself.
Aunts mother complains about the rats. Always the rats. Only spoke of the actual nazi tenure once, when very drunk. Friends, neighbours, people were disappearing and everyone knew why but no one said or did anything. She broke down in tears. “We were so stupid”
I should add: they were both prepubescent kids at the time. He was ten, she was six.
😢
I have a question for our bakers and chefs and general kitchen superstars - whenever I try to make something doughy - like pretzels or scones - the mix is always way too sticky. I follow the advice on the ingredients, but yeah, too sticky so I end up essentially eating half the mix off my fingertips.
Any suggestions on how to combat this? Is it simply needing to add more flour?
Be sparing when adding more flour as you can accidentally use too much and throw off the ratio. I’m told that continuing to knead makes it go smooth elastic and become less sticky but maybe a dough scraper would help get it off the surface and back into the dough ball until it reaches that point.
I’m not a hugely experienced baker but hopefully that helps somewhat
Thanks. I’m going to try make a pizza from scratch next weekend to put in the smoker so trying to figure out ways to avoid the sticky problem. I’ll see if I can grab a dough scraper as well :)
he says do a lower hydration dough (ratio water to flour). He does a 60% hydration, 3-5 day ferment, allows more gluten to form. Kenji has a “fool proof no knead pizza” recipe online that’s easy and a banger apparently. Seriouseats.com
Thanks! I’ll take a look. Might save me a headache.
To be clear you can add flour! Just a little at a time. I’ve definitely added too much before and the dough becomes stiff and dense.
Also I googled and you can make dough less sticky by resting in the fridge.
Ooh let me pester His Lordship, he’s all anout the puzza dough and long chain proteins and kneading
I’ve made bread, pizza bases, focaccia, and pretzels - I tend to add the moisture in bits and used a silicone dough scraper or silicone spatula to mix it together initially in the bowl. Keep adding the moisture in bits and mix it in.
Sometimes it may require more flour or moisture than what the recipe calls for, depending on room temp and humidity, so add those in bits, mix in, and see what it looks like. Once it starts coming together naturally into a ball, add oil to your hands, lightly flour the benchtop and start kneading. Olive oil is good for making pizza bases, adds a lil flavour. For bread, try veggie or sunflower oil, less flavour added to the dough. The oil will help prevent the dough from sticking to your hands and will also allow the dough to stay together.
Rest it until it doubles in size and follow the recipe (some call for another kneading and rest, others will say to move on to baking/rolling it out into pizza shape). You don’t need to bake the pizza dough before adding ingredients, but you can if you want a crunchy base.
If you’re using yeast, add just a small small pinch of sugar. Sugar helps the yeast get started, and a small enough pinch you won’t notice it in the final product. Be careful using American recipes, as they tend to want you to add quite a lot of sugar; their bread is quite sweet - which can be off-putting if you’re looking for a more savoury loaf.
If you’re making pretzels, shape into the pretzel shape, and you will need to boil them before baking. I don’t use lye (because I don’t know how to dispose of it safely while in an apartment), but baking soda or powder does the trick.
Baking soda will require some kind of acid to activate, so you can use baking powder which doesn’t require that step :)It takes trial and error to get the dough right. You might not get it the way you want it on the first, second, or third attempt, but keep trying! It’s best to start with a recipe, and then alter it as needed. Eventually you’ll just be able to do it without looking at a recipe - at least from my experience :) good luck sir!
Because I don’t know if I did it wrong - what about when you knead, rise, then knead again and roll it out? It turned out ok for my pizza dough but I have a feeling that wouldn’t work for bread
Pizza is fine for that process :) mainly because it is being rolled out so the gluten structures don’t need to be massive, and it’s going to be baked as a flat circle.
For bread loafs, I would knead, rise, knead, rise - then handle carefully into the bread tin (or whatever baking tin you’re using) without pounding or kneading it again. The kneading is to get the gluten to stick to itself and form “chambers”, and the rising is so the yeast gas is trapped in those “chambers” - makes it fluffy! By kneading it again before adding to the bread tin, it causes those bubbles to collapse, trapping less yeast-gas. Your going to collapse them slightly by moving the dough, but not as much by pounding it again :) Again, trial and error as room temp and humidity does affect it, my loafs turn out different in summer vs winter.
Thanks. I’m not really making either these days but it was something I was a little unclear on after so long
No stress at all! It’s really labour intensive, works all the muscles in the arms and back!
I did quite a bit of research, and trial and error when I was super into baking breads. More than happy to impart any knowledge I can! 💜💜💜
I made pizza/pizza scrolls a few times and it was edible but my one bread turned out like a rock from too much flour.
I hope I can get back to having them in future because carbs
An easy way to make “homemade pizza” is to get those pita/flat bread circles from woolies. Usually under $2-$3 for (iirc) a pack of six. Keep them in the fridge for longevity. Slap some tomato paste on them (or whatever you prefer), and the ingredients you want (I usually go cheap ham/deli meat, capsicum, onion, cheese, etc) and 15mins in the oven at 200c and bam! Delicious cheap pizza!
Saves using energy and time to make the pizza dough from scratch!
This is awesome. Thank you :)
Don’t add all your moisture at once. The weather can change things a fair bit. Either flour or oil your hands.
Hadn’t considered oil…
Flour to HANDS, not to the dough. I’m serious. What is happening is that the oils/moisture on your skin is sticking to the dough (whatever sort). So wash hands, dry well and then dust with flour back AND front- use at least 1 tablespoon and shake off excess to one side to use under the dough later. Then punch the dough, fold and whack it until it comes together. At least 3-5 times. Then knead or not depending on recipie. DON"T KNEAD MUFFINS, and scones only lightly. Chilling the dough once it’s come together does help.
Or you can embrace the sticky, and then when the dough comes together rub off the sticky bits into the dough (only if hands are clean). Dough behaves a bit like bluetack in that it can be rubbed into balls that attract other balls.I have tried flour to the hands, and it does seem to improve it a bit. But the rest of what you said I haven’t. I will give it a go. Thanks :)
Use lots of flour on the bench or board, rub flour into your rolling pin and rub flour onto your hands before handling dough.
I have floured the board and hands previously, but my work area isn’t the best and I need a bigger board too (and one that doesn’t move). Thanks!
When you’re mixing in the bowl, if your dough is coming away from the bowl easy then you’ve got enough flour in there. Before you chuck your hands in there flour them too.
Hello everyone. I wonder when the next lemmy canvas will be, hopefully we get the aussie flag completed (itI’ll have bluey on it)
The cooling weather is depressing.
it’s nice cuddling weather 🙂😸
You’re right, I’m warming a furry little egg in our nest right now 🪺
“What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!”
Pour l’essentiel, l’homme est ce qu’il cache : un misérable petit tas de secrets. André Malraux
Translation: “Essentially, man is what he hides: a miserable little pile of secrets.”
StudSpud: “I say less secrets and more Castlevania!” Thumps table
tosses goblet
“Now is the time to put aside your weak human side and join me in remaking this world!”
made some oven roasted tomato pasta last night. Tomatoes out of my garden, grown with love. It was horrible! I ate 2 bites. Mrs ate half of one. Kiddo ate a bit though I’m pretty sure he’d eat pasta with a dirt sauce so long as it was real pasta.
Off work today and tomorrow to try and beat myself into getting this uni fieldwork started - adhd tendencies in hyperdrive… just unable to focus on the random sampling bit so that I can get out there already while the weather’s good. I’ll get there, beating myself up is not helpful…
…but the good news is, today’s been a day for procrastiductivity: I FINALLY PULLED THE TRIGGER and bought an 8-place benchtop dishwasher after some research. As it always goes: it really wasn’t that difficult after all!
It’s arriving tomorrow; hopefully Appliances Online will bring it up the stairs for me. Installation should be super easy, just attach it directly to the spare washing machine tap I mysteriously have, and drain out to the laundry sink immediately adjacent.
I only have 3 months left on my lease (hopefully can extend to 4-5 to see me through the end of uni), but dishes are an obvious pain point for me that drags down my mood and momentum, so $315 is worth it - it’s about an extra day of work after tax, I can make up for it easily. And it should be easy to sell on afterwards if I don’t need it later
Remember: if you don’t have kitchen hookups there is nothing stopping you putting it in the laundry! That’s what we did :)
I almost have no choice but to put it in the “laundry” as I can’t sacrifice any more benchtop space in the kitchen; as it is I have to keep putting away my air fryer and rice cooker after use and haven’t even taken my toaster out, all of which shits me. But the “laundry” works a lot better because it’s basically a cupboard right next to the kitchen anyway - so minimal steps to transfer items, and makes use of empty space on top of the washing machine.
