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1. Chopped mix of milk and dark chocolate bars. The silky and snappier the better. The mix of light and dark will add a bit of fun, the chopped chocolate bars will melt into the dough improving taste and texture. Always load those cookies up. I usually use about 20 ounces of chocolate for 24 oversized cookies

2. Freeze dough overnight before putting in the oven. Soft chewy inside, brown crispy outside

3. FINISHING SALT. Yes it has to be very coarse or flaky. Cuts through the sugar and chocolate beautifully. My favorites are french grey salt and black lava salt

4. Yes you can flavor them. Lemon lavender, a bit of orange extract and apple pie spice, trade the chocolate for andes mints, fresh ground black pepper on top, make good use of the free will. Heck, if you have the time BROWN that butter

5. Use more white sugar for a crispy cookie and more brown sugar for a moist cookie

6. The more you manhandle the dough, the more gluten. Crumbly and soft=mix til barely together, chewy=beat it up with a spatula

7. The chewiest cookies come from crushed oats or oat flour plus a scoop of sour cream, the crispiest smaller dough balls and mixed with a high strength beater, the softest extra milk+butter+yolks and a cake flour base

8. Add extra vanilla for high temperature cooking

9. Dip in hot milk flavored with vanilla bean paste

10. Cook on aluminum for crispy bottoms, cook on parchment paper and transfer off as soon as firm for soft but not soggy bottoms

1. Tyranny: An icon, very trope based but popular tropes are popular for a reason, would love to hear her narrate a history book. 10/10

2. Bolaire: Unused potential, very Talisan, the definition of an unreliable narrator. Would rather be a serial killer than trust people. Gay for Hal. I can see him being my favorite character but we aren't there yet for sure. 6/10

3. Kattigan: A whole vibe. Not much to say besides wolf cute. 7.5/10

4. Occtis: Another has blorbo potential character. A little too safe a play for me at the moment. Love reborns. Interesting, would love to see a harder lean into the undead aspects and why he/thaisha are close. My favorite portrayal of him is still definitely episode one. 6/10

5. Thaisha: I think she's played well, but I think she's also (in my personal opinion) a bit boring. A character I'd probably eat up in an animated show but as a live show there's so many I enjoyed more. Surprisingly good sleeper comedy that reminds me this is the player that dm'd misfits and magic. Would love if she gave me a hug but would hold a grudge if she was my mother. 6.5/10

6. Thimble: I just.. Don't like her. I don't have an emotional connection to the character, I don't know enough about her relationships with people, and I've never been a big fan of the midsummer night's dream type portrayal of hill folk. See why people like her though. 3.5/10

7. Hal: Very well executed character, most interesting in the context of how he relates to other charecter's. Top tier parent. Really don't care about the romantic relationship stuff with Thaisha, to me the least interesting story thread of both their characters. High key theatre kid in a low key way. 5/10.

8. Wick: At present my favorite. Him and Tyranny are my favorite duo. In a different genre than everyone else. Pulls off "ensemble cast chosen one" shockingly well. Bisexual disaster but can you blame him. Hard ship with Tyranny. Somehow very heartfelt and comedic at the same time. Definition of not quite there but has the spirit. Infectiously earnest. Hard to believe he's played by scanlan. 9/10

9. Julien: Like Thimble I get why people like him, I just don't. Maybe I'm just too ace. Still, Matt's enjoyment of Julien is enjoyable and the character development is well executed if slow paced. Maybe I'll like him later on in the series. Also, never enjoyed f*ckboys. Even in fiction it hits a personal point of discomfort. Too close to the real thing to not make me uncomfortable. (Why I could never enjoy Scanlan) 3/10

10. Murray: Weird spot of I don't click with Marisha's humor but I love the character. Complicated feelings about how her story commentates on the cultural discrimination and devaluing of the south. Not sure what age she's supposed to be. I'll be enjoying her character immensely and then rainbow skunk spray happens. Idk/10

11. I feel like I'm missing someone, but Azune: He's good, enjoyable. Think I would have liked him better if his story and development was more paced out. Watching people fake cry always feels weird. Deserves all the hugs. Go bag that king buddy. 7/10

1. Mix sugar into your bread wash for extra carmelization

2. Use tempered egg or custard when making french toast to avoid the egg bits

3. Brown butter flavored whip cream is possible, just brown powdered milk on the stove top and mix it into your cream. No need to worry about emulsion

4. Lemon plus dairy desserts go bad quickly. Always make the day off

5. The crackle top on brownies comes from sugar content and how well it's dissolved. For an extra crackly top use concentrated simple syrup or let your granular sugar soak before turning on that mixer

*A quarter of my nail falls off on the ingrown side*

Welp. Can't wait for that to be a problem in two weeks

I made a pot of pasta with three types of canned veggies and tragically had to throw half of it out because I didn't have the freezer space or the stomach capacity to finish it before it went bad.

If I had like.. Quarter cup cans or something, I could have avoided so much food waste. :(((

Idk.

I have received hundreds of scam Palestine fundraiser messages over the last two-three months

Copy and pastes of the same texts, the same pleas, the same profile pics, shuffled in a randomizer wheel.

Heck, I can't even find news on palestine because mostly(though not entirely fake) fundraiser posts have clogged my feed up so heavily. Sometimes I'll check for new posts and there won't be even 1 in 50 posts about actual news or updates.

There's even fake vetting lists and fake vetting profiles.

Tumbler should fix it, but I'm not placing any pennies on it happening.

Zootopia 2 heard the zootopia criticism and went, welp, time to talk indepth about systemic racism and teach people how to protect themselves from the police when the police force is obstructing justice

(minor spoilers under cut)

And let me tell you, the decline of brand loyalty is earned.

My obsession with peanut butter cups has only been stopped by the simple lack of good peanut butter cups. Reeses cups have become sickly sweet and chalky, unreal cups have lost their beautiful snap and dripping filling, Justin's quality control has fallen to the wayside..

Lunchables were my school meal of choice, and then they had to change the recipe to the point of inedibility. My favorite boba tea place? Prices up more than 40 percent, the pastries so doughy and gross I can't even swallow them. Lays: burnt and chewy?? Canada dry changed their ginger intensity and got sweeter. Even calypso lemonade has lost it's smooth mouth feel and bright flavor, tasting closer to country time than a melted snow cone.

About 2 years back? I bought a pair of gloves for a family member of neiman marcus. So of course, they arrived uncushioned, rattling around in the box without even a proper baggie and I kid you not, SCOTCHTAPED TOGETHER.

My favorite clothing brands have forsaken me. Tums have forsaken me. My safe foods have forsaken me. Even douglas has forsaken me in my never ending quest to drown in stuffed animals. KITCHENAID FORSOOK ME.

I don't really have a point to this. I'm just mad.

It feels like I'm being mocked every time I see a news article talking about consumer spending habits.