Substitute the same volume of oil for butter - make sure butter is not liquid but room temp and soft (it’s very important that the butter be allowed to fully melt while only in the oven otherwise it’ll just pool all at the bottom of the pan and it gets gross)
Add another egg yolk
This takes a box mix from eh to absolutely phenomenal. The box mixes are the way to go since they’re premeasured, they have the perfect ratios of flour, sugar, leaveners, and they’re sized for normal cake pans.
Sorry to be pedantic, but I disagree with your second point.
Butter is about 15-20% water, so you'd want to substitute a little more than the volume of oil. So, if the box called for 1/3 cup of oil, used 1/2 cup of butter, or one stick, instead.
Also, unless you're making something as delicate as a macaron, melting the butter fully in the microwave first won't do any harm.
Yes, I usually throw in a full stick of butter for every box mix. The butter consistency is more about making sure it’s creamed in to the cake mix and suspended evenly so that the consistency of the cake is even throughout.
My partner absolutely agrees with this. She also recommends letting it sit refrigerated for at least 12 hours after cooking. Something about refrigerating it increases how moist it is. Everyone that eats her cakes are shocked when she mentions it’s from a box.
As far as I know, I'm the only mod at the moment. I think the kbin admin would be the only person you could go to if I'm not doing my job, but hopefully that won't be necessary, because I'm trying to continue deleting the spam.
Current situation:
I check at least once a day (and usually more often) for spam, and I permaban the accounts and delete the posts. But, the spammers are just creating new accounts, so there are always posts that are up for a bit before I remove them
Possible technical issues:
You should not see any of the spam posts at the moment. From what I'm seeing, I've deleted them all. Maybe this is an issue with federation. How many spam links are you currently seeing?
I have not seen any reports from any users so far. Again, perhaps a federation thing.
Future:
I'm happy to add another mod if someone wants to do it. Removing the posts every day is tedious. If someone knows a sensible way of automating the process so the posts are removed faster, all the better.
If there are spam issues for users from other instances but not for kbin users, I can try posting on another meta-type magazine/community for advice. I don't know enough to fix an issue like that at the moment.
From lemm.ee there appear to be a number of spam posts still visible, though the authors show as having been banned. I would assume its likely the same for lemmy broadly
Glad I could help, even if I don’t have a solution. If you need someone on lemmy to check if they’re still visible feel free to reply to me again or message me on matrix and I’ll take a look
My fiance and I loved hellofresh. They send you recipe cards with each meal, and we’d save the good ones so we could store buy the ingredients and make them again.
The meals are varied, but since you pick them I’m sure you could find heart healthy options.
Cost is pricey but they all are. And once you have those cards it’s a lot easier to pop into the store and get the ingredients you need if you really liked a meal.
I just tried hello fresh recently, and they send you a card to let someone else you know get a free box. I think you just need to pay shipping, which has a base price of $10 I understand. I can do you the code if you want?
Every plate is just like Hello fresh, but more affordable from what I can tell. OP, you may want to try to cook for yourself. If not, then factor 75 has a lot of options at reasonable prices.
I did Hello Fresh a couple years back and the food was really good - they’d also sometimes toss in little snacks which was awesome.
My biggest issue with them though was that they used FedEx and eventually I ended up canceling just because FedEx had this horrible tendency to lose the box of perishables and they’d finally show up a week later…
I felt bad because it wasn’t entirely Hello Fresh’s fault and they were always understanding when I’d call in to report it but it was becoming such a frequent occurrence that I just had to cancel…
Hopefully they changed it. This was a few years back and from the way CS spoke when I called them it wasn’t uncommon. I even left feedback when I canceled saying I loved the meals but the unreliable delivery was just too much.
Yeah, they clearly use a mix of delivery companies for various reasons. I’d say 90% of the time we get it from UPS. There have been stretches where it comes via LaserShip, and I think we do get it via FedEx once in a while.
I wonder if this has to do with where we live… We’re in Massachusetts.
I’m curious to see what they do if UPS goes on strike. I think that’s still a possibility.
Eggs are a good candidate for nonstick pans as are pancakes/crepes. Cheese things work well here too- one of my favorites is to crust a slab of halloumi cheese with za’atar spice and fry it with roasted veggies and couscous. Such a feat would be disastrous in a regular stainless pan.
Things not to stick in a nonstick include anything acidic (tomatoes or citrus), anything that needs charred or seared, and pan sauces (usually rely on browned bits left behind for flavor)
A Nepalese restaurant moved into a former Indian restaurant’s space in my neighborhood just last year, and I got to try a momo for the first time. It’s delicious. Anyone who has the opportunity, go and try them.
Lawry’s seasoned salt and pepper, 225 for 4 to 6 hours. Meat should pull back from the bone and the break test (rib meat cracks and wants to pull apart when you bend. Temp should be 200 to 205 or so. Some people promote 3/2/1 - smoke for 3 hours, wrap in foil with butter and vinegar then cook another 2, then unwrap, baste with bbq sauce and cook another hour to set the sauce.
From the kbinMeta thread: this is a known issue with the kbin codebase. Moderation does not always federate correctly. Unfortunately, it appears there is likely nothing I can do about it until that issue is resolved. Sorry!
Great for eggs and omelettes, just don't use metal utensils on them. Also great for sticky things like grilled cheese. Definitely don't put that in the dish washer even if it says dish washer safe.
I'm not a huge fan of ceramic coated pans as they can have issues over time with hairline cracks that cause things to stick. My preference is anodized aluminum (the dark grey colored pans).
Sorry, never saw your reply. Yeah just regular usage and fluctuations in the temp when you're heating it up and it cooling down. They take a while to form, and the more careful you are with it, the longer it'll take for them to form and have an impact to the performance. For example if you cook an omelette and immediately put water in there to clean it after, they're more likely to form.
@darknyght00 gave some good tips on non-stick. But I believe you'll need another, more heavy duty skillet for burgers and meats. I use cast iron for that.
if you have fruit on hand, you can add it to the batter to or on top before serving to add some "freshness" to the cake. Or with the fruit, like with apples, make a layer at the bottom of the cake tin and make a upside down apple cake, but this depends if you have them on hand first.
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