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Sometimes, you're mixing up more flour[1] so that you can bake muffins and then you spend over an hour...
converting the original recipe from a volume ratio to mass via weighing the ingredients,
figuring out an appropriate multiplier to fill 2/3-3/4ths of your container[2],
actually mixing the flour,
realizing your multiplier is extremely wrong (ended up doubling it),
mixing more flour,
making a little label for the container (a sticky note with packing tape serving as lamination)
typing up a silly tumblr post about the experience,
finding the original webpage to link it in the tumblr post,
realizing the recipe actually has grams already but the ratios are radically different than what you got,
reweighing the ingredients and recalculating the amounts (but at least you know you want about cups total this time),
making a new label, and
actually finishing the tumblr post.
No, I have not started making the muffins themselves.
[1] I can't have gluten or potatos and have only found ONE gf all purpose flour that doesn't contain potato starch within a managable price range. And that one flour isn't sold anywhere in this region (or the last area I lived in). Thus I make this blend myself.
[2] A large plastic container I bought years ago. I only partially fill it up so that I can just shake it to mix instead of need to use a mixing bowl and whisk.
Links to the recipes (with even more commentary) under the cut.
The original flour: https://www.whattheforkfoodblog.com/2016/01/14/nightshade-free-gluten-free-flour-mix/
By volume:
1 cup white rice flour
1 cup brown rice flour
2/3 cup arrowroot starch
1/3 cup tapioca starch
By mass from my measurements (you can look at the webpage for theirs) to make about 3 cups total:
140 g white rice flour
140 g brown rice flour
80 g arrowroot starch
40 g tapioca starch
Bob's red mill works well for all of the ingredients, but I hop between various brands depending on what's available or on sale. The rice flours needed here are *not* the kind of extremely fine rice flours you often find in asian grocery stores though. (Probably use bob's red mill as a reference even if you end up buying something else.)
I find it to be a very forgiving blend (thankfully, given my conversion/calculation nightmare). From what I've seen, the important thing is to keep the rice flour to starches ratio fairly close, though even that isn't super sensative.
I've done all brown rice flour and all white rice flour and many ratios in between. I've also done many different ratios of arrowroot and tapioca. I think I've even replaced some of the starches with corn starch (not a very large porportion though) because I didn't have quite enough.
(They're indeed correct that the rice flours don't have the same density. However, I found that the difference was only about 20g/cup so I just averaged them.)
Also the muffin recipe: https://meaningfuleats.com/the-best-gluten-free-zucchini-muffins/#wprm-recipe-container-28797
I made it once about two weeks ago and they were great. I also added (about) 1/2 tsp of xantham gum (also chocolate chips and walnuts). Though, tbh, I honestly don't know if xantham gum makes much of a difference in most recipes. I should probably do some tests at some point but not today.
I'm gonna try it with chia eggs this time though. I've found this to be an extremely safe sub for lighter baked goods like cakes or muffins (and it often works great in other baked goods too).
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never thought this day would come but i’m currently having a customer service experience so bad right now that i’m defecting from the employee regiment and joining the customers in their next battle. i don’t know who i am anymore.
experience that makes me research local customer service supervisors for a global corporation and tag them in a LinkedIn post, to fall upon their mercy.
long story short i have worked for a call center in customer service before and i knew something was not working out. i've had to call about this issue 5 times in 4 weeks because it's still not resolved, and each time the conversation has ended i've asked for an email confirmation of our conversation and a ticket number so i can call back and reference it with a new representative.
well every time i've called, the new representative has been like "i'm so sorry, but there's no ticket by that number. i have no record of you ever calling about this. i'll start a ticket for you."
finally, the fifth time i nearly burst into tears of frustration and i said "i don't want you to start a ticket for me, because it will be the sixth ticket created for this same issue. every week, one of your colleagues tells me they'll create a a new ticket for me, and then nothing happens."
they said, "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing." and i was like i KNOW. but they doooooo what is happening.
finally i got transferred to a supervisor's supervisor.
if you've ever worked in online customer service, you know that when a customer calls with a problem, you create a "ticket" that puts that issue into the system. if you can't resolve it, it goes into a ticket queue, where other people with the ability to resolve it select it, put it into their personal working queue, and resolve it.
well after 30 minutes of searching, this supervisor tells me, dumbfounded, that she's discovered a completely unique queue she's never seen before, where my tickets have been going somehow. a pocket universe queue that no one has access to or can edit or select from, not even her. she has no idea what's happening. she's like "yes, here are all your tickets, and no one can open them or comment on them or resolve them.....this is crazy......" and it's JUST my tickets in there. no one else's. of tens of thousands of customers.
all professionalism fell by the wayside. i told her i've worked with those queues before and also found that totally wild. she was like "what the hell is going on...." and talked me through everything she was seeing and how gobsmacked she was. we were both like "this is one for the books truly"
tells me she's going to have to bring this up above herself because this is a really big error on like, a coding level, that she has no idea how to resolve. tells me she will personally call me back tomorrow to update me.
four days pass with no word.
i call customer service again. random agent. explain the entire situation, including that last bit.
agent says "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing. i'll have to start a ticket for you. rest assured, it will be resolved."
i said, "no it won't be. it never will be. because they're in the special queue."
clearly not believing me, they said, "i've heard nothing about that. i'll start a new ticket for you."
