I’m a massage therapist and these are the same kinds of stones we use when doing hot stone massages! Oceanic basalt stones retain heat remarkably well and are so easy to wash/ disinfect. I never thought to use them with cooking! This is cool to see!
When cooking like this you just wash them and toss them back in the hot pan with some oil and they sterilize themselves just like cast iron cookware does.
The frying pan that I cook eggs in goes weeks at a time without ever getting washed, I just use a greasy washcloth to wipe any leftover oil or butter out of the pan and I leave it on the stove top.
The next time you heat it up it sterilizes itself all over again.
When cooking, I’m sure. However I use these on human bodies so I typically like to wash off body oils, massage oils, skin cells etc before cooking with them. 🙃
Oooh.. I live on one of the largest hunks of basalt (more accurately gabbro) in the states, and I have a huge lake that will make these for me....
I've been dying to make Naan, but no Tandoori.
You can make naan on a cast iron! It’s not quite the same but still tasty. I use [this recipe](https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/homemade-naan-recipe/) if you’re interested
TNG is in a bit of a renaissance I feel and it's so telling because those lessons really last in your mind. Fav show of all time for me, makes me feel at home.
As a girlfriend who watched it for the first time a few years ago I can say that seeing references like this in the wild and being like, "I get that!" are little bursts of joy as well.
I kind of feel like that with references to The Office. I hadn't watched it until this year, despite the fact that its original run was during my college years and most of my friends were big fans.
That episode profoundly changed me as a kid and the way I approached conversations with others.
I now try to better understand the cultural context behind the words because otherwise - all I will hear are words, not meaning.
Just want to echo this.
At least after season 1, Lower Decks is about on par with The Orville. No way could I accept it as canon to the prior series, but I can enjoy it as a parody with the same heart that gets to use actual Trek references for its stories/jokes.
The other new shows... uhh... not so much.
I'm also really liking Strange New Worlds too. It has the same episodic nature and humor of old Trek. While Picard and Discovery are fine for what they are, they just don't have the same feel to me. When we first started watching SNW I realized why - it's the light humor and one-and-done episodes that really made Star Trek what it is. Sure there's an overarching story, but each episode has a plot and it's resolved (unless it's a two-parter, but you get the idea.)
I know *why* TV has moved away from episodic storytelling, but I miss it and I'm so tired of every episode of every show being a giant cliffhanger and it taking 3 episodes to get anything done. /ranting
What race/cultures is this from? My parents are from Iran and they have a bread called sangak as well, but it's kinda different. It's cooked in a large stone/brick oven that rotates the base kinda like a pizza oven but the cooking surface is made up of rocks.(google images "sangak oven") I'd love to try these ones though, this seems thinner and crispier than the Iranian one, which are both things that I like in bread. What is this typically eaten with? The Sangak in Iran is typically eaten with stews or used as part of the traditional Persian breakfast. (bread, honey, jam, butter, feta cheese, mint leaves, walnut, cucumbers, and tomatoes).
None of the top comments got the food right. The one in this video is called shitou mo 石头馍 or shizi bing 石子饼 or shazi mo 沙子馍 and it's from Shanxi, China. It's written on the wrapper in the video.
Shanxi is widely known in China for having the biggest variety of breads (mo or bing ) and noodles.
Edit: for people assuming it was invented in Persia and then spread to china. At least in English and Chinese sources I couldn't find anything to connect the two dishes at all.
If anything, the oldest existing record of the Persian dish is from the 11th century while the Shanxi dish was first mentioned in a book written in the 800's AD. There are also Chinese texts from before 300BC saying that cooking millet flour mixed w water on heated stones is a cooking method dating to neolithic times.
Honestly it seems like a pretty intuitive way of cooking that I wouldn't be surprised if other cultures also do it.
It seems this is actually originally a Persian bread. I googled naan sangak and followed a few links leading me to several recipes and histories of naan sangak, also known as Persian pebble bread.
Sounds to me like the naan sangak that you know from your parents might be similar, if not the same dough, just a different preparation.
Finally, in the video, watch the dough when the guy picks it up from the table. It’s rolled out pretty thin. This is probably to have it cook more easily in the pebbles, but this would also automatically lead to a thinner, crispier bread.
I’d say use the sangak recipe you know already and play around with different preparations a little.
Edit to add: his preparation also for sure accounts for the bread being thin and crispy, since it can only puff up in the empty spaces around the pebbles. Anywhere where there are pebbles the bread can’t get puffy, only crispy from the hot pebble.
I think it’s referred to as Persian because it’s quite an old recipe. Which makes sense since a lot of flat breads like naan are pretty old recipes that haven’t changed a whole lot over time. I believe naan has existed in some form for like around 2500 years.
Yeah fair enough. Persia is more of an exonym, we’ve always referred to ourselves as Iranian and called what others refer to as Persia as Iran or Iranshahr
Yeah I can understand that for sure. I’m from the Netherlands and we have sort of a similar thing going on. We’re often referred to as “Holland” even though Holland is really only a specific area of the Netherlands.
In my experience bread dough is not difficult to make, but can be challenging to make well. If they can get dough from a guy who is known as the “bread guy” it would definitely be the better option than having to experiment around with several recipes and no frame of reference.
If you have already baked with dough that you know for sure was good, you might find it easier to experiment with, and judge your own dough, since you already have a reference point to compare with.
Pro tip for city dwellers: You can make your own Naan Sangak with several (I use a dozen) microwaved hot pockets in a bucket and a tube of crescent rolls.
Here is a pic I took of the last time I did this. It was once the hot pockets cooled off a bit. [Naan Sangak at home](https://imgur.com/gallery/StYNcKw)
I can just picture this guy pacing his house all night and waking up the following morning and it's still hot and he just grumbles to himself "I wish I could fucking cook!"
Then he's on YouTube in his underwear searching "how to cool a hot pocket tutorial"
Microwave at 70%, add a little extra time, and let things sit in the microwave for a few minutes before you pull it out. Everyone always reaches for their thing as soon as it beeps. Anytime you use the nuker do something else that will take just a few minutes longer. Like make a salad (no pun intended) to go with it, or get a Netflix show setup and paused. The lower power + extra time will heat more evenly, and the waiting time will redistribute the heat to the (still) cold center.
Microwaves have several settings. Theres no need to nuke everything at 100% all the time. Follow the package instructions, but for most things it'll reheat more evenly at a lower heat with an extra 30s. Theres no reason your leftovers have to be a mess of burnt and cold food.
Turn the power down a bit and set the food toward the side of the plate so it moves through any potential hot and cold spots rather than spinning in place. Move it around a little, flip or stir whatever youre cooking and keep in mind that leaving the lid on a tupperware will retain water and taking it off will lose water.
I wish I could travel the world. I don’t even care about eating it, but it’d be liberating to just stand there and see cool shit. Instead I work 60 to 70 hours a week and the best part of my day is sitting in the backyard for an hour with my dog before I gotta get ready for bed.
I was waiting for this comment lolol. The second I posted my comment I literally said to myself, “that poor bastard is probably standing there thinking the EXACT same thing”.
True, though at least we’d be more interested to watch him do his thing than he would be to watch me sitting on my couch and doing accounting in pajamas.
I went on a luxury vacation for the first time in my life.
It was weird standing around in paradise seeing bartenders and retail workers and maids with the same look I got when I worked those jobs.
One of the things I couldn't stop noticing and made it hard to enjoy my vacation. I couldn't get the help out of my field of vision and concern, lol.
Luxury vacations were not designed for the help, you see. So we try not to feel the guilt that we put upon our selves for being the ones we look at.
Remember. Experience is relative, and everyone deserves luxury in their best moments.
Signed , a housekeeping supervisor.
"I just stand here putting fucking rocks on bread everyday. What I wouldn't give to be able to relax in a beautiful home with a dog at the end of a long day..."
Lolol great comment. Although to be fair I don’t want to stir rocks either.. I don’t want to do shit. I want to remember what going to sleep with fuck all tomorrow feels like. I want to sleep
I *have* traveled the world, and I'm not going to pretend it isn't cool, *but* there are more downsides than most people realize, including missing out on a lot of things that make life really worthwhile, and I have often not noticing many of the amazing things around me. I hope you get the chance to travel, but that hour with the dog in the backyard sounds really appealing to me, so I hope you enjoy that when you have it.
I travel the world for work and I was thinking the same thing about the dog.
Life is about priorities. You can't have everything. Anyone can get a job that requires traveling the world if that's what they want to prioritize. If you want kids and a dog that makes it a lot harder to travel the world, especially if you're not rich.
hey just know most of the cool shit isnt that cool just different, i traveled a lot as a kid with my parents to mexico and there was cool stuff i never seen in florida but also a lot of horrible. For me the internet is probably the best thing humans have made and im lucky to be able to chat on it.
side note fuck internet providers in my state.
Lol appreciate the insight. In my opinion the internet was the worst thing to ever happen but I am the fringe generation between actually living without it and then growing up with it.
I remember riding my bike down the street knocking on doors and talking to parents to see who could come out and play.
I also remember when we first got AOL, and when AIM became huge. We stopped riding bikes to our friends houses and literally, in person, would say “hey let’s race home and talk online!!!”
That was the beginning of the end imo. But I’m also a turd that drives power equipment for a living so what do I know.
The internet gave people voices, without it people would have to rely on television and newspapers, it also it really connected people, the fact that people from other countries that wouldn't be able to chat is amazing, i use to have a gaming clan and its probably one of the most fun and interesting interactions.
What your talking about riding a bike and chatting is still a thing but in small towns, i grew up in a big county in florida and i never even knew my neighbors past the two next to me. I remember my cousin having AOL or one of the other providers and us waiting 15 mins to watch a youtube music videos.
No need to put yourself down, we all have opinions and sharing them on the internet is great, like talking to the person in front of you at the grocery story but not boring.
Also its perspective, all my cousins from age 10-30 years love online gaming but we still play volleyball on the weekends together, and i got them into board games. People just like to do what is fun, if your stressed out i recommend you do something new, if you want advice from some random guy in florida, see if you have any state parks near you or if you never tried it read or listen to a book while you drive or if able to at work. I have a shitty job but can listen to my audiobooks to keep my sanity.
You don't have to be as rich as you think. Certain countries offer working-holiday visas, plenty others offer casual employment to fluent english speakers to tutor at private schools.
For price of a 2006 toyota corolla you can kickstart your trip.
This is not to dunk on OP or anyone else, i know far too many of us struggle to even eat 3 meals a day, but the notion that travel is only for the upper class is no longer true.
Most of the people I met when I did a work holiday were not wealthy, just working casual jobs to cover the next day/meal/flight/whatever, many of them did farm work or worked at hotels/campgrounds with accommodation included. Mostly just working enough to get by, and then spending free time and extra cash bumming around and enjoying their life.
Western Chinese food always looks so simple yet delicious. I’d love to try Xinjaing cuisine too, it’s such a cool mix of Chinese and Muslim traditions.
My dad's from Xinjiang. It's pretty cool, but it's all kinda the same stuff.
Tomatoes, lamb, noodles. Most Xinjiang dishes we have at home involve some degree of one or all of those three things.
Chinese food from the Western regions is sooo good. There is an excellent series on Netflix called *Flavorful Origins* focusing on foods from various regions in China. They have seasons for Yunnan and Gansu Provinces, and everything looked delicious and interesting. There's also so much fermentation going on throughout the series.
(Wikipedia says there is also a season devoted to Guiyang cuisine, but I'm not seeing it available on Netflix in the U.S.)
This particular dish, shitou mo 石头馍or 石子饼 shizi bing is from Shanxi. Shanxi is known for their flour dishes and vinegar and is as Western China as West Virginia is Western America.
Can’t speak for Xinjiang since I haven’t been but many provinces in China put leek and other greens in their breads
Traditional Chinese pancakes without pebbling often look like that, just less dimples
Look at the rice cooker full of dough that the camera pans up to just before the first cut (at 12 seconds). It’s full of green stuff. It’s an herb or vegetable of some sort
next level naan
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpKyeYBWwE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpKyeYBWwE)
I think the large pan and rocks for street food has a strong charm of its own regardless
Street food as it's seen in other countries is generally illegal in the US due to cooking in an open space being considered a health risk. This is the case in all 50 states.
The closest we can get is food trucks and special permit events like carnivals and state fairs.
So we just do not get the diversity of snack street food. It's also extremely expensive to pursue licensing for even food trucks and such. A dude with a good idea can't just post up a stall and start serving weird tortillas on the sidewalk like they can in other countries.
You can find a lot of videos of police raiding illegal street food stands in all American cities. People try but it doesn't happen for more than a week.
I worked at a wine bar that sold crepes. We called them “asbestos hands.” When I worked there I could flip crepes with my finger tips. Helps to move fast. Doesn’t hurt to play bass guitar and develop callouses on your fingertips either.
the stones.... i need to touch them
They look like they would taste nice as well.
[r/forbiddensnacks](http://www.reddit.com/r/forbiddensnacks)
I’m a massage therapist and these are the same kinds of stones we use when doing hot stone massages! Oceanic basalt stones retain heat remarkably well and are so easy to wash/ disinfect. I never thought to use them with cooking! This is cool to see!
When cooking like this you just wash them and toss them back in the hot pan with some oil and they sterilize themselves just like cast iron cookware does. The frying pan that I cook eggs in goes weeks at a time without ever getting washed, I just use a greasy washcloth to wipe any leftover oil or butter out of the pan and I leave it on the stove top. The next time you heat it up it sterilizes itself all over again.
When cooking, I’m sure. However I use these on human bodies so I typically like to wash off body oils, massage oils, skin cells etc before cooking with them. 🙃
Yeah but just like cast iron that ruins the seasoning! (/s)
Good call
*unzips pants*
I'm disappointed In all of you.
Just trying to get their rocks off..
That is Naan Sangak
What type of stone is that?
Basalt Stones
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Jasper!
Yes^.
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Finally someone understands how to use this sub. I haven’t been there since like 2014 cuz nobody ever did it right lol
Dad? When did you get on Reddit?
When I got off your mom
*air horns blast*
No need to agate keep
Gneiss.
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Mine needs some Bahotsauce Stones
Get a slingshot and they become assault stones
Wait for the bass to drop and they become bassault stones
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Oooh.. I live on one of the largest hunks of basalt (more accurately gabbro) in the states, and I have a huge lake that will make these for me.... I've been dying to make Naan, but no Tandoori.
You can make naan on a cast iron! It’s not quite the same but still tasty. I use [this recipe](https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/homemade-naan-recipe/) if you’re interested
That's naan of your business, you pebble!
I would give you gold if I could, you magnificent beautiful bastard.
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Flavor crystals
looks like spring onions or chives
Maybe green onion rolled into the dough?
Username checks out?
idk..but the very next post in my feed was a ‘how to clean stones and pebbles’ post. Think it might be a sign.
A sign of what
They're probably basalt pebbles. They're dense and hold heat well.
>That is Naan Sangak "when the walls fell"
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
My wife recently watched this for the first time and she was so happy at that moment. Watching with her is like watching it for the first time.
TNG is in a bit of a renaissance I feel and it's so telling because those lessons really last in your mind. Fav show of all time for me, makes me feel at home.
Agreed! RLM's best critique of the new shows (not LD, obviously) is that they don't feel like a universe you want to live in.
As a girlfriend who watched it for the first time a few years ago I can say that seeing references like this in the wild and being like, "I get that!" are little bursts of joy as well.
I kind of feel like that with references to The Office. I hadn't watched it until this year, despite the fact that its original run was during my college years and most of my friends were big fans.
That's awesome. Definitely one of my favorite episodes.
That episode profoundly changed me as a kid and the way I approached conversations with others. I now try to better understand the cultural context behind the words because otherwise - all I will hear are words, not meaning.
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Pan, his wheat made whole
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LOL! Found one of my people it seems...
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Lower decks feels like a true successor to old Trek and the only one of these new fangled Trek shows that i feel like Gene would have signed off on.
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Just want to echo this. At least after season 1, Lower Decks is about on par with The Orville. No way could I accept it as canon to the prior series, but I can enjoy it as a parody with the same heart that gets to use actual Trek references for its stories/jokes. The other new shows... uhh... not so much.
I'm also really liking Strange New Worlds too. It has the same episodic nature and humor of old Trek. While Picard and Discovery are fine for what they are, they just don't have the same feel to me. When we first started watching SNW I realized why - it's the light humor and one-and-done episodes that really made Star Trek what it is. Sure there's an overarching story, but each episode has a plot and it's resolved (unless it's a two-parter, but you get the idea.) I know *why* TV has moved away from episodic storytelling, but I miss it and I'm so tired of every episode of every show being a giant cliffhanger and it taking 3 episodes to get anything done. /ranting
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"His stomach, growling"
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He paratha-ly will
But he could raita will and share the secret post-hummusly
What race/cultures is this from? My parents are from Iran and they have a bread called sangak as well, but it's kinda different. It's cooked in a large stone/brick oven that rotates the base kinda like a pizza oven but the cooking surface is made up of rocks.(google images "sangak oven") I'd love to try these ones though, this seems thinner and crispier than the Iranian one, which are both things that I like in bread. What is this typically eaten with? The Sangak in Iran is typically eaten with stews or used as part of the traditional Persian breakfast. (bread, honey, jam, butter, feta cheese, mint leaves, walnut, cucumbers, and tomatoes).
The writing on the wrapper it’s placed in looks Chinese to me. But they are neighbors to India.
None of the top comments got the food right. The one in this video is called shitou mo 石头馍 or shizi bing 石子饼 or shazi mo 沙子馍 and it's from Shanxi, China. It's written on the wrapper in the video. Shanxi is widely known in China for having the biggest variety of breads (mo or bing ) and noodles. Edit: for people assuming it was invented in Persia and then spread to china. At least in English and Chinese sources I couldn't find anything to connect the two dishes at all. If anything, the oldest existing record of the Persian dish is from the 11th century while the Shanxi dish was first mentioned in a book written in the 800's AD. There are also Chinese texts from before 300BC saying that cooking millet flour mixed w water on heated stones is a cooking method dating to neolithic times. Honestly it seems like a pretty intuitive way of cooking that I wouldn't be surprised if other cultures also do it.
Thank you, this should be at the top. Disregard the Persian credit claims. We tend to think everything originated in Persia.
I would love to know what it's called so I can look up recipes
It seems this is actually originally a Persian bread. I googled naan sangak and followed a few links leading me to several recipes and histories of naan sangak, also known as Persian pebble bread. Sounds to me like the naan sangak that you know from your parents might be similar, if not the same dough, just a different preparation. Finally, in the video, watch the dough when the guy picks it up from the table. It’s rolled out pretty thin. This is probably to have it cook more easily in the pebbles, but this would also automatically lead to a thinner, crispier bread. I’d say use the sangak recipe you know already and play around with different preparations a little. Edit to add: his preparation also for sure accounts for the bread being thin and crispy, since it can only puff up in the empty spaces around the pebbles. Anywhere where there are pebbles the bread can’t get puffy, only crispy from the hot pebble.
Nan sangak is the Iranian bread and we have it for breakfast quite often so yeah. Iranian or “Persian” as some people say.
I think it’s referred to as Persian because it’s quite an old recipe. Which makes sense since a lot of flat breads like naan are pretty old recipes that haven’t changed a whole lot over time. I believe naan has existed in some form for like around 2500 years.
Yeah fair enough. Persia is more of an exonym, we’ve always referred to ourselves as Iranian and called what others refer to as Persia as Iran or Iranshahr
Yeah I can understand that for sure. I’m from the Netherlands and we have sort of a similar thing going on. We’re often referred to as “Holland” even though Holland is really only a specific area of the Netherlands.
A so it’s the same situation as us then haha. We were named Persia based off one of our provinces (called Pars)
I'll ask my parents to see if they can ask our bread guy for some of the raw dough to try this out. Thanks for the big-brain idea!
Bread dough is generally not difficult to make. Check a few recipes and try making some yourself!
In my experience bread dough is not difficult to make, but can be challenging to make well. If they can get dough from a guy who is known as the “bread guy” it would definitely be the better option than having to experiment around with several recipes and no frame of reference. If you have already baked with dough that you know for sure was good, you might find it easier to experiment with, and judge your own dough, since you already have a reference point to compare with.
Your description of Persian breakfast just made my mouth water, that sounds amazing
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My Iranian friend said that it's from there.
Sangak is Iranian. It's a Persian word. Sang = stone, -ak = little.
Awesome, I was curious what it was called and now I know. Now I want to find some.
That is so cool! It reminds me of Lavash which is cooked semi-similarly
farsi
People out there cooking with rocks and sand while I can’t even get my hot pocket to cool down after putting it in the microwave
Pro tip for city dwellers: You can make your own Naan Sangak with several (I use a dozen) microwaved hot pockets in a bucket and a tube of crescent rolls.
I like that the hot pockets fill the roll of the inedible rock from the video rather than the food.
Imma need a video of this
Here is a pic I took of the last time I did this. It was once the hot pockets cooled off a bit. [Naan Sangak at home](https://imgur.com/gallery/StYNcKw)
How do you sanitize the hot pockets before the initial use?
https://imgur.com/gallery/StYNcKw
**I don't know what I expected**
Fucking got ‘em
I’m sorry. Let me help. The hot pocket cools itself down if you just leave alone
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I can just picture this guy pacing his house all night and waking up the following morning and it's still hot and he just grumbles to himself "I wish I could fucking cook!" Then he's on YouTube in his underwear searching "how to cool a hot pocket tutorial"
Microwave at 70%, add a little extra time, and let things sit in the microwave for a few minutes before you pull it out. Everyone always reaches for their thing as soon as it beeps. Anytime you use the nuker do something else that will take just a few minutes longer. Like make a salad (no pun intended) to go with it, or get a Netflix show setup and paused. The lower power + extra time will heat more evenly, and the waiting time will redistribute the heat to the (still) cold center.
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Microwaves have several settings. Theres no need to nuke everything at 100% all the time. Follow the package instructions, but for most things it'll reheat more evenly at a lower heat with an extra 30s. Theres no reason your leftovers have to be a mess of burnt and cold food. Turn the power down a bit and set the food toward the side of the plate so it moves through any potential hot and cold spots rather than spinning in place. Move it around a little, flip or stir whatever youre cooking and keep in mind that leaving the lid on a tupperware will retain water and taking it off will lose water.
I wish I could travel the world. I don’t even care about eating it, but it’d be liberating to just stand there and see cool shit. Instead I work 60 to 70 hours a week and the best part of my day is sitting in the backyard for an hour with my dog before I gotta get ready for bed.
To be fair the cool shit you’d see is from people who are working all day too.
I was waiting for this comment lolol. The second I posted my comment I literally said to myself, “that poor bastard is probably standing there thinking the EXACT same thing”.
That's kind of grounding to think about
True, though at least we’d be more interested to watch him do his thing than he would be to watch me sitting on my couch and doing accounting in pajamas.
Actually I'd be more interested in watching you do Accounting. But thats cause I'm an Accounting undergrad.
I went on a luxury vacation for the first time in my life. It was weird standing around in paradise seeing bartenders and retail workers and maids with the same look I got when I worked those jobs. One of the things I couldn't stop noticing and made it hard to enjoy my vacation. I couldn't get the help out of my field of vision and concern, lol.
Luxury vacations were not designed for the help, you see. So we try not to feel the guilt that we put upon our selves for being the ones we look at. Remember. Experience is relative, and everyone deserves luxury in their best moments. Signed , a housekeeping supervisor.
Really makes you think that we should make robots do more shit and lay back and relax more.
the way things are, automation just means more productivity (and fatter wallets for owners) and not more vacation
"I just stand here putting fucking rocks on bread everyday. What I wouldn't give to be able to relax in a beautiful home with a dog at the end of a long day..."
Lolol great comment. Although to be fair I don’t want to stir rocks either.. I don’t want to do shit. I want to remember what going to sleep with fuck all tomorrow feels like. I want to sleep
oh to live in a world where we're all specialized in a craft we enjoy and can afford celebrating the crafts of others all over the planet
Sorry friend I hope you find a way to make your life a little more interesting and spontaneous
Sounds like they're making the best of it, and rather it's society that needs to get our shit together
No worries. Living the dream one nightmare at a time. This is the way.
No, no it’s not lol
I *have* traveled the world, and I'm not going to pretend it isn't cool, *but* there are more downsides than most people realize, including missing out on a lot of things that make life really worthwhile, and I have often not noticing many of the amazing things around me. I hope you get the chance to travel, but that hour with the dog in the backyard sounds really appealing to me, so I hope you enjoy that when you have it.
I travel the world for work and I was thinking the same thing about the dog. Life is about priorities. You can't have everything. Anyone can get a job that requires traveling the world if that's what they want to prioritize. If you want kids and a dog that makes it a lot harder to travel the world, especially if you're not rich.
hey just know most of the cool shit isnt that cool just different, i traveled a lot as a kid with my parents to mexico and there was cool stuff i never seen in florida but also a lot of horrible. For me the internet is probably the best thing humans have made and im lucky to be able to chat on it. side note fuck internet providers in my state.
Lol appreciate the insight. In my opinion the internet was the worst thing to ever happen but I am the fringe generation between actually living without it and then growing up with it. I remember riding my bike down the street knocking on doors and talking to parents to see who could come out and play. I also remember when we first got AOL, and when AIM became huge. We stopped riding bikes to our friends houses and literally, in person, would say “hey let’s race home and talk online!!!” That was the beginning of the end imo. But I’m also a turd that drives power equipment for a living so what do I know.
The internet gave people voices, without it people would have to rely on television and newspapers, it also it really connected people, the fact that people from other countries that wouldn't be able to chat is amazing, i use to have a gaming clan and its probably one of the most fun and interesting interactions. What your talking about riding a bike and chatting is still a thing but in small towns, i grew up in a big county in florida and i never even knew my neighbors past the two next to me. I remember my cousin having AOL or one of the other providers and us waiting 15 mins to watch a youtube music videos. No need to put yourself down, we all have opinions and sharing them on the internet is great, like talking to the person in front of you at the grocery story but not boring. Also its perspective, all my cousins from age 10-30 years love online gaming but we still play volleyball on the weekends together, and i got them into board games. People just like to do what is fun, if your stressed out i recommend you do something new, if you want advice from some random guy in florida, see if you have any state parks near you or if you never tried it read or listen to a book while you drive or if able to at work. I have a shitty job but can listen to my audiobooks to keep my sanity.
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You don't have to be as rich as you think. Certain countries offer working-holiday visas, plenty others offer casual employment to fluent english speakers to tutor at private schools. For price of a 2006 toyota corolla you can kickstart your trip. This is not to dunk on OP or anyone else, i know far too many of us struggle to even eat 3 meals a day, but the notion that travel is only for the upper class is no longer true.
Most of the people I met when I did a work holiday were not wealthy, just working casual jobs to cover the next day/meal/flight/whatever, many of them did farm work or worked at hotels/campgrounds with accommodation included. Mostly just working enough to get by, and then spending free time and extra cash bumming around and enjoying their life.
At least you saw your team win the Super Bowl twice.
sitting in the backyard with your dog sounds cool though
a kind of stone tortilla, sometimes with meat or pickles stuffed in it. Deliciously cooked in midwestern China.
Western Chinese food always looks so simple yet delicious. I’d love to try Xinjaing cuisine too, it’s such a cool mix of Chinese and Muslim traditions.
My dad's from Xinjiang. It's pretty cool, but it's all kinda the same stuff. Tomatoes, lamb, noodles. Most Xinjiang dishes we have at home involve some degree of one or all of those three things.
Mmmm... cumin, you can't forget the cumin.
Chinese food from the Western regions is sooo good. There is an excellent series on Netflix called *Flavorful Origins* focusing on foods from various regions in China. They have seasons for Yunnan and Gansu Provinces, and everything looked delicious and interesting. There's also so much fermentation going on throughout the series. (Wikipedia says there is also a season devoted to Guiyang cuisine, but I'm not seeing it available on Netflix in the U.S.)
This particular dish, shitou mo 石头馍or 石子饼 shizi bing is from Shanxi. Shanxi is known for their flour dishes and vinegar and is as Western China as West Virginia is Western America.
That makes sense since someone said this is Naan Sangaak and Naan is a Persian word.
Mmm tasty oiled rock bread
It weirdly reminds me of the white part of a pomegranate. But I bet it tastes better
I see what you're seein'
Oiled metal Bread can’t compare
Νο joke, this seems extremely tasty
Just wait till you try it with tomato sauce and cheese
Why is it slightly green at the end tho
I’ll wager those are scallions or some herb
https://imgur.com/a/XHo7c2e
Can’t speak for Xinjiang since I haven’t been but many provinces in China put leek and other greens in their breads Traditional Chinese pancakes without pebbling often look like that, just less dimples
Green onion pancakes, yum!
Look at the rice cooker full of dough that the camera pans up to just before the first cut (at 12 seconds). It’s full of green stuff. It’s an herb or vegetable of some sort
looks like chopped scallions/chives
We were at a party His dough got put in the wok Someone reached in and grabbed it It was a Rock... Waffle! Rock Waffle! Oooh Ahh Rock Waffle! Oooh Ahh
I have a little stuffed lobster toy for my cats. Every time I play with them with it, I have to sing the song. Every time.
next level naan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpKyeYBWwE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpKyeYBWwE) I think the large pan and rocks for street food has a strong charm of its own regardless
This is making me hungry
Why can't Ohio cities have cool shit like that?
Well if you have a wok and a bucket full of pebbles, you can make Ohio a bit more valuable, culinarily.
Might want to wash the rocks a bit
And risk losing all the tasty minerals? No thanks, I like my waffles rocky.
vinyl chloride and butyl acetate are not minerals lol
Jesus, Marie.
When the moisture inside makes one explode, cleanliness will be a moot point
Street food as it's seen in other countries is generally illegal in the US due to cooking in an open space being considered a health risk. This is the case in all 50 states. The closest we can get is food trucks and special permit events like carnivals and state fairs. So we just do not get the diversity of snack street food. It's also extremely expensive to pursue licensing for even food trucks and such. A dude with a good idea can't just post up a stall and start serving weird tortillas on the sidewalk like they can in other countries. You can find a lot of videos of police raiding illegal street food stands in all American cities. People try but it doesn't happen for more than a week.
Except when jam bands come to town and set up Shakedown Street. Then you can buy a grilled cheese sandwich right next to a dude selling crystals.
Street trucks are even more expensive here than a typical Chipotle type of meal. In other parts of the world they’d be 1/10 the cost
You get poison trains and you like it
They also have rivers that catch fire.
You have exploding trains and whatever Cleveland is, what more do you want?
Probably food-handling regs.
Kinda looked like the inner part of a pomegranate that you throw away
Ahh the trypophobia bread
The holes are where the spiders eggs live.
ooh, omelette bread!
Came here to see if anyone else trypophobia was triggered
I really want to taste that bread
Rocks on rocks on woks
I’m just about stoned out of my mind right now and hungry af, if only I had some hot rocks and dough, I could be so happy
Sung to the tune of "Rock Lobster"- ROCK WAFFLE!!!!
I can make your bread rock 😏
I miss street food, some of the most interesting creative dishes I’ve ever come across.
why isnt he wearing gloves when working on those ver hot rocks. - redditors who have never worked in a kitchen before.
Know plenty of people who developed fire hands ability none compare to level of random foreign street vendors tho.
I worked at a wine bar that sold crepes. We called them “asbestos hands.” When I worked there I could flip crepes with my finger tips. Helps to move fast. Doesn’t hurt to play bass guitar and develop callouses on your fingertips either.
Don't forget to mention OSHA even though they only apply to one country in the world.
OSHA only applies during inspections in that one country too! Sort of like speed limits only count when you pass a cop!
What's the point of the little waffle pockets if you're not going to put sauce or some kind of filling in there?
More surface area. I have not eaten this food but it seems like it would mean more crispy outside bits and less squishy inside, by volume.
That's pretty cool.
That looks yummy
Rock Waffle!
Aren’t there rock deposits all over the bread?
It looks like it in the very last frame, but everyone is trying to say it’s “herbs”. It’s definitely not herbs.
Anyone else want to just pick up a double handful of those stones knowing damn well what a mistake that be?