u/thelivsterette1

Going on a 6 hour train ride tomorrow. What's your fav episode/XL episode so I have stuff to binge?

Also would love some YT links to your fav official QI complications!

Don't often get cross-country trains (never really) and I'm going from London Paddington to Penzance (first class) I'm wondering what the catering options would be like.

I am bringing myself lunch because not being able to have gluten and dairy means that I probably won't find much in terms of lunch but what about snacks and stuff? As far as I'm aware it's just a trolley (unlike the trains I've taken from Paris to Cannes which have a food carriage) My plan right now is I've got a Pepsi in my fridge and I'm not leaving until 12:00pm or later tomorrow (2pm train, 20min drive; what time should I aim to be there?) I'm going to wake up early and order a gluten-free bagel and a gluten-free vegan oat cookie to take with me but shall I take snacks or will I be okay in terms of finding something there on the train?

I'm saying this as a customer: Amazon Fresh lets you choose your substitutions, right? Is that an option which Deliveroo has or ever will get or is this just wishful thinking?

If I order a buttermilk vegan bar, I understand it might be out of stock and it might have to get replaced. Fair enough but is there a way to actually choose the substitutions? Very often and at least the last few times that I have ordered a buttermilk bar, they've gone and replaced it with a milk chocolate bar, which is not something I can eat, which is very annoying. I can't eat milk chocolate because I'm can't tolerate dairy so it's actually fucking pointless and it gets wasted because no one in my family can or wants to eat it.

I'm on the EYB website, and it mentions CKBK and the fact that they've partnered with them. Am I right in thinking that CKBK is basically an un-indexed EYB, in the sense that you have access to any book or recipe which has been indexed, regardless of whether you own it and you can view the ingredients and the method recipes, but EYB kind of forces you to use the cookbooks you already have?

I own over 300 cookbooks. I'm wondering whether I should fork out for a year of CKBK as an alternative to buying all the new books I want; I've got like 80 Amazon links saved on OneTab. I built my own book indexing app with Base44, as I don't want to pay extra - especially as a subscription, because I always forget to cancel subscriptions - to have to index my own books. And looking at EYB's forms and abreviations, they look so incredibly confusing, whereas mine does it all automatically for me

I certainly did (as a customer)

And before anyone asks why, it often happens with major fuck ups from Deliveroo (the stores, not the riders). For example, today I ordered things including a razor with spare cartridges and dark chocolate. The rest of the stuff was fine, but they brought me milk chocolate (can’t eat dairy), no razor and somehow decided an acceptable substitution (?? I’m not quite sure what happened here tbh) was 2x8 packs of slimline tonic water, 2 onions, a potato, a tomato, and a cucumber?!

Not the only time I’ve got random stuff; about a week ago (same shop, Sainsbury’s Finchley Rd. Even though they’re close and have a short delivery time of about 10-15 minutes, the last couple orders of them ended up being closer to an hour. I’ve only recently been using them as they’re the only place I can find vegan Buttermilk chocolate bars which I’m obsessed with) not only did they forget 3 of my items, they bought me a giant tub of Greek yoghurt I didn’t order? And another time (a restaurant) I got an extra smoked salmon cream cheese bagel I didn’t order (though my food was fine)

But because there’s a reason I order this stuff ie I need it, I end up claiming as credit and using it to ordering the stuff I do need from somewhere else, often essentially getting a free or very heavily reduced order (like I got the dark chocolate I needed, plus a couple Alpro berry yoghurts - slight impulse buy - for £1.28 as credit covered everything else) and quite often it tends to be the same rider; not something I can control.

If the Deliveroo order wasn’t fucked up (tbh the amount of times Sainsbury’s FR are doing this, they must be losing so much money as they pay out) I wouldn’t do this.

I have a feeling this must happen fairly often? Even when not ordering from Sainsbury’s, I’ve had fuck ups like when my whole order was stolen, the guy showed up, tried to speak to me in French (don’t speak any French) then made me talk to the store manager who could only speak broken English (that one was bizarre: I didn’t reorder; as only cos I was in my grandparents place in France and Deliveroo drivers there do not seem to understand the very detailed instructions to my grandparents apartment in the complex give so I didn’t bother) so it’s reasonable to think if someone needs something and can’t go get it for whatever reason and it goes wrong, they get credit and reorder.

Have any riders been in this situation & how did you feel?

Seriously I've had so many bugs in the app that I've built that I had gone from the free plan to builder or Now it's saying that unless I don't want to work for three days, which is annoying because I'm trying to index as many books as possible of my cookbooks before I go to Cornwall for a week and would like to actually use them. It basically says that I can pay $50 now and then from August 17th (3 days) get charged $100 a month, which is fucking mental (I'm a nearly broke student, this is a personal app for me, maybe a web app I wanna put on Google Play, I'm not a pro developer) It just goes through so many credits because it has so many bugs and then I say, "Can you fix X, Y, Z?" It says it fixes it and then it doesn't work and then I have to use more credits saying, "Can you fix it again?" and the cycle just repeats.

I used up all my credits and it gaver me the possibility to upgrade at a reduced fee until they renew (5 days time) then put me on the $50/m plan. I don't want that, so I downgraded completely, but then it said something about the Lite version and that users will still have access to your apps. Does that mean you have to keep paying monthly for users to have access to your apps, or can you be on the free tier and publish a web app? I would love to publish my web app on Google Play but not if I'm paying monthly for it; its got a free and premium tier but not sure it would be financially successful if I had to pay $10/m just to keep it active.

I say this as it is Sunday at 4:45 in the morning because my brother's 30th birthday party just ended (the last stragglers just left). I have to hand in my dissertation, which I have not written, at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. My plan was to spend Monday putting together the appendices and tomorrow (today) writing it. I have put together six documents that will help me write it so I've been writing effectively as I've gone along, but I haven't actually written much other than the introduction.

I still have about 4,000 words to write and about two days left. I'm just curious whether I'm incredibly behind, or if anyone else submitted it and spent ages on it, and whether I'm super late.

Before anyone judges me for not being able to use my time wisely, I want to say that I have unmedicated severe ADHD (not by choice, but by medication intolerance to 4 types of medications so far. I am hopefully speaking to my GP about trying a 5th as I'm also obese and about 85% of my relationship with food is related to ADHD andfhe agrees its like me fighting with my hands tied behind my back, but he is on holiday until the end of August) I have had a deferral, and my university has been really helpful, but obviously there's only so much they can do.

I'm currently writing up my dissertation (I got a deferral due to getting deferrals on other assignments and a study plan. I'm also really struggling with unmedicated ADHD/prioritising/motivation/organisational skills, which my uni has been fantastic for in terms of accommodations. Not by choice; four different types of medication have not helped so far)

Mine is a systematic review of all of the literature (right now about 20 studies) for the link between gut microbiota-brain axis and autistic and ADHD symptoms and how supplementation can help (not cure! Even if I could improve some of my symptoms, autism and ADHD are still literal differencee in brain structure I would still have. But sadly the general public think 'treat symptoms = cure')

With my assessment tools table listing all the different assessment tools I'm looking at, and my actual studies, etc my bibliography is 95 references and counting. I'm just curious what everyone else's is.

I've had issues with my Pixel 8 Pro. I updated it in January, and since January, I have had no Wi-Fi and no Bluetooth. I think Bluetooth very briefly works. It doesn't work in general. Even if I try going into Settings to connect to Wi-Fi, it crashes the whole Settings app, and I have to open and close Settings and then reopen it. Same with Bluetooth: it will just say Bluetooth keeps stopping, or Wi-Fi settings keep stopping.

Back in January, my SIM card stopped working, and I had to go to O2 and get a SIM swap because I had a brick basically. I've got the same issue again. I don't know if it'a from slight water damage because I dropped my phone in the toilet the other day. It works absolutely fine, except that my SIM is not recognised (the screen feels a bit loose and wobbly, and I have other issues. I think that's just because I dropped it a few too many times because I'm quite clumsy and also, I have no space on it because I download every single app, so those are things I can fix, really. At least the space issues) so I have no Wi-Fi and no service. It's basically a dead brick.

I would need to go to O2 and switch over, but I probably can't use it, since they wouldn't take my phone back because of the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth issue. This is a known issue with the January updates, which I didn't know about until a month after I had auto-updated it; when I had updated it, there wasn't much information about these issues. They only came out, I think, later in February or March.

O2 Switch Up used to be every 90 days. That would have been beneficial because I could have switched to the 10 Pro XL now to solve my issues with the phone, and then effectively switched to the 11 Pro XL when it came out. Now they are very stupidly only letting you update it once a year (once every 11 months)

It's actually not that expensive for me to pay off the rest of my phone. I think it's only about £275, which is not that bad in general especially if I'm getting a new phone via finance and not buying it outright.

I was going to upgrade to the 10 Pro XL, especially because of the camera and some of the AI camera/photo features. I do have a professional DSLR that I need to get fixed, and I don't use it all the time anyway.
As they say, your best camera is the one that is in your pocket. I'm not going to break out my giant camera if I just want to snap a few cute pictures of my little brother, or if I'm going away to France for a week and staying in my grandparents' apartment that I grew up in every summer.

I was thinking either the Pixel 10 Pro XL or waiting until the 11 Pro XL and then getting it on finance (either one) instead of paying off my phone through O2. I wanted to switch to a Slice e-SIM, which includes EU roaming and an e-SIM, so I won't have this issue. Slice also gives you cash back. They give you:

• 10% cash back the first year
• 15% cash back the second year
• 20% cash back every year from year three onwards

Plus, currently with O2, I'm paying £28 a month for 150 GB of data (plus £22.75/month for the actual phone) f I go with the eSIM one, I could be paying £20 a month for 200 GB. A lot of that is because I was staying at my grandparents' apartment in France, and we didn't have Wi-Fi. Now we've got Wi-Fi, so I should be using a lot less data.
At least if I get cash back while on the Slice e-SIM, I can use the cash back to pay off some of my new phone, if that makes sense.

I just don't know whether to get the Pixel 10 Pro XL or wait until mid-August for the 11 Pro XL especially because I have no working phone, which is really awkward if I go out. I can go and get a SIM swap from O2, which will hopefully fix the problem (also a schelp across town, which I want to avoid if I can help it; there used to be one within walking distance of my house, but it got turned into an Amorino ice cream parlour), but it might not. I would need to test my SIM in another phone first.

I've definitely been struggling with Aaron Goyoaga's recipes, and through Reddit and a little from ChatGPT, 've deduced that the culprit is probably the grind of the sorghum flour, especially because I struggled more with the pan de mie, which has a lot more sorghum flour than the brioche to make the cinnamon rolls.

When I tried to make the cinnamon rolls and the pain de mie as well, I used a random sorghum flour that I got on Amazon, which I had not bought before (it had next-day delivery and I was impatient). I don't know if it was super fine, which is tricky because in the UK, flour is not labelled as stone-ground or super fine. I had no issues using this specific sorghum flour for my rice-free, gluten-free flour blend, but I think plain flour for baking is much more forgiving than in bread, where there are lots more variables.

I recently re-looked on Amazon as I was looking for something else and found a didfferent one I've ordered before, which I've had a lot of success with in the loopy whisks recipes. I don't know if it's super fine or not, but it's sweet white sorghum flour.

I'm wondering whether the sweet white sorghum flour matters compared to regular sorghum flour.

Because I found somewhere where I can get super fine sorghum flour (well the listing says 'finely ground' so I'm hoping that's enough?) but I can get other stuff if I need it as well (like millet flour; my GF plain flour blend has millet flour. I made some today with millet grain I ground myself but still a little gritty)

I honestly don't get it. I just kind of want to give up and maybe even give the book away, which is a real shame.

In fact I would probably give the book to a charity shop because I wouldn't want any of my friends suffering the same humiliation I have and waste. Then guilt because I'm wasting all my mum's money and then my mum gets annoyed at me for wasting her money and doesn't want me baking anymore because it's not going to work out and go in the bin again and be a waste of costly ingredients again.

When you buy a book there is that inherent trust, which is obviously not there for me right now unfortunately. That is really really sad because all I want is just to be able to enjoy bread again. That's it! Other things I'm fine because I can successfully make those gluten and dairy free bread. Not so much!

The last time I tried to make cinnamon rolls, it took four attempts because every which way I tried to mix the yeast in with the psyllium , it just basically turned into a gooey porridge mess instead of gelling, yes, that included running my KMix mixer and pouring in the psyllium through the top while it was running. It ended up in the bin every single time. There was one time where I successfully made it into dough but it didn't rise or something and that also ended up in the bin. The fourth time kind of turned out lucky.

I reverse-engineered a formula with ChatGPT, basically using psyllium powder and a roughly 10:1 ratio of water to and a 5% ratio of psyllium powder to the total weight of the flour (and subsequently reducing the liquids by that much) and adding the liquids to the psyllium gel, which is what the loopy whisk does (not the reducing the liquid)

TLW's bread, I have never ever ever ever had any issues with it. It makes the most amazing gluten-free bread. Probably gonna to back to her recipes because I trust them. That's a real shame because everyone was raving about this fantastic amazing cookbook and I guess maybe it's not for me. TLW's bread and results are the kind of bread I expected from this book since it's a gluten free bread baking bible everyone's raving about. Not the substandard results I'm getting, which, four times out of 5 attempts to make 2 different recipes, have ended up being in the bin.

I followed the reverse engineered method with the cinnamon rolls. The dough worked out really really well apart from when I added my vegan butter in there. Even though the butter is supposed to be soft, my vegan butter just ended up being so soft it was almost melted. I added some of this gluten-free bread flour mix I had in the cupboard from before I bought the book that I had made. I added some of that and then I needed it in a lot of that as well. I made the cinnamon rolls and they weren't great. My sister and my brother-in-law-to-be really thought they were delicious. I thought they were quite bready and dense and I do think part of that is because I used the gluten-free bread flour mix.

They were okay but they could have gone better if I didn't add the extra gluten-free bread flour mix that I'd had. This is all with the right flours, no weird substitutions like I tried last time (and even the third attempt at cinnamon rolls which ended up in the bin had all the right flours)

I tried it again with the pain de mie and even reduced the total amount of liquid (water) by 135 mL because I used 27 g of powder to 135 mL of warm water, as well as the 300 ml of oat milk, which I made myself with the powder and 40 g of honey. The other times with the cinnamon rolls I used soy milk, which I don't know if it's making any difference here. When I added the liquids to the psyllium, even though I reduced them, the psyllium was basically swimming in a sea of liquid after being perfectly gelled before.

My K-Mix mixer doesn't seem to scrape the actual machine properly. It was like a thick cake batter and I had to keep stopping it and scraping the machine.

Even then the recipe said it's supposed to be moist but hold together. It was kind of like thick dropping consistency..I had to knead it with extra flour. I actually ended up dumping the entirety of the leftover gluten-free bread flour mix I made on the work surface and using a lot of it (out of frustration and the hope I could fix it) and that was probably like a kilo. It just ended up in the bin again.

I don't understand why the whole mixing in the psyllium husk or the psyllium powder with the yeast and the liquid does not work for me. If it worked for me I wouldn't be reengineering the recipes with ChatGPT.

I thought it was the smart thing to do because even the very first time I made the loopy whisk bread, no problem whatsoever. All this book is giving me is just problems. I don't know if I'm using the wrong brand of psyllium or the wrong brand of psyllium powder, even though it was the same psyllium powder I use whenever I make the loopy whisk spread, or because my K-Mix mixer isn't very good for baking bread.

I don't know. This is the first time I've used a K-Mix because my old (12 year old) KitchenAid broke and although I found someone to fix it, I got ghosted and it was only a £100 more to get a KMix on sale which tbh I kinda regret because it doesn't seem to do a good job with bread. All I want is just a nice gluten-free loaf of bread. This is supposed to be a gluten free bread baking bible that everyone's raving about.

I feel like a dumb idiot because it's not working and I feel like I'm the one doing something wrong. I don't know. I just need help really or I'm just going to give the cookbook away which is the first time I've even thought of that.

I wonder why I'm getting downvoted for saying I'm actually struggling and that it's impossible to get super fine flour here in the UK as it's not listed as such??

I just finished indexing all my cookbooks (now time to digitise them/save the recipes) but how do i organise them?

I've got loads that are from series/different books by the same author, so I'm wondering whether to do it by last name alphabetically, then group by author if I've got more than one book from them. But then I'm thinking what about books that don't quite have "authors" for example books from Lola's Cupcakes or the Hummingbird Bakery, or the Primrose Bakery, the tie ins from the Great British Bake Off etc etc

I need some ideas please! I have about 300 books and a bunch of magazines I haven't indexed yet (all the books are done)

I just made some really really delicious gluten-free vegan crunchies (can't have dairy or gluten, the recipe doesn't have eggs anyway) and I wanted to post them on the gluten-free baking and old recipes subs because it's from a 1980s cookbook

Obviously as a South African English person I know the concept of a crunchie (me and my siblings were born in the UK, but both parents are both born and bred in South Africa. My mum's roots are just one gen, but my dad's roots go back to 1820/5 generations back. My dad's family/my extended family still live there)

I love them and I think they're awesome but how do you explain it to someone who's not South African? I was thinking something along the lines of this sort of coconut-y flapjack but that's not exactly true.

I'm not a delivery rider. I'm just a very regular customer.

Whenever anyone orders in our house, we all have the same codes (obviously all different codes, but in the sense none of them have ever changed. My mum, my brother, my sister, my BIL to be, and I all know of each other's codes)

Whoever's ordered it, anyone can pick the order up.

Say if my sister's ordered something, and it arrives and she's in the bathroom, I or somsone else can grab the door and give the rider her code.

It's been years and none of our codes have ever changed and I would assume they're meant to?

For example if you have a frequent enough driver (I often get semi regular drivers) who is not very law-abiding, they could memorise the code, punch in the code, and basically steal your food without delivering it.

I saw this on Google's AI overview:

Other users experience a completely random 2-digit code for every single order, which is the system's intended primary security measure.

Can somsone tell me if it's meant to be random or not?

I know I'm not like super close to a streak but once I hit 800 I feel like the dopamine is just gonna ebb away until they add till I get to a thousand do you recognize I'll put like other streaks like they did initially when they made basement dweller a thousand plus before people complained