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The reason endermen don’t like it when you look at them is because they communicate telepathically with one another by locking eyes! Humans are absolutely not designed to do this so when we look at them we are accidentally projecting all of our thoughts into them at the same time and it hurts :(

ice-block

But like, since the player is not of the Minecraft world, the player is just what the use to explore it, what if it’s like:

Enderman: *looks at player’s eyes*

Player: 01010010 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100001 00100000 01010010 01100001 01110011 01110000 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01010010 01110101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101111 01101000 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110

Enderman: oh ok *attacks player*

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viostormcaller

This kills me every single fucking time

grossrabbit

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

grossrabbit

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

crows-cats-and-cackles

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?”
I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years.
You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper.
destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

boonbucks-city-beach

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

unbossed

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

petermorwood

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

rae-napier

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

alaija

There’s a much easier method to making bread, soda bread. Not having to deal with yeast takes out a few of the steps, and it’s even easier if you use self-raising flour.

Damper is the classic example.And if you really want to go oldschool you can cook that directly in the hot ashes of a (camp) fire.

Scones are better known, but they normally aren’t done as an actual bread.

And the reason it is seen as a luxury, and the realm of retirees, is that it takes time. Time that you either don’t have spare or could be doing something else with. It may be better value for money, but it’s the labour involved that makes it expensive.

such-justice-wow

I love when people say its not a luxury and “only takes 4 hours” as if time isnt a luxury

stalins-dirty-secret

It ain’t like you have to sit and watch it.

such-justice-wow

But you still need that period of 4 hours to be free or near enough to your house to run back which isnt something everyone has and to get a loaf of bread out of it isnt really much

alaija

Let’s say that it takes half an hour of actual involvement.

How much is that in terms of your wages?

Even the luxury $5 loaves are cheap compared to that.

A bread maker makes it much easier and less time consuming. Thus bringing the cost (including your labour) down.

siryouarebeingmocked

> I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

Making your own food - or paying servants - was basically the norm until a few decades ago when people got too busy to cook. And these days, lots of people are learning about bulk meal prep, and there are capitalist services like Blue Apron or Hello Fresh to help people cook.

On the other hand, I’ve seen people defending the idea it’s easier for poor people to get fast food than to cook. They tried to claim buying basic cooking utensils was too expensive for someone who could afford to eat out all the time. Apparently it takes more effort to make sandwiches than to stand in line at Wendy’s. You don’t even have to do meal prep to save money.

It’s not about capitalism, it’s about practicality and simple lack of knowledge.

cheshireinthemiddle

OP just wanted to make a jab at capitalism.

Plenty of poorer countries make their own food under capitalism as a regular thing.

The reason that we see making our own food as a hassle is simply because we are used to luxuries. Same reason why people demand for free disposable tampons. People treat it as if women just bled all over the place instead of using cloths, because they are so used to the luxury of a disposable alternative.

We as people are used to an easy alternative to making bread. You can buy it with less effort. That doesn make the option of buying it bad. It’s just that you shouldnt rely on that option alone. It is important to learn how to do things the harder way just in case the easier way isnt an option.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.