You have roasted barley, an orange bell pepper and a well-stocked pantry. What are you making?
This is a hard mode challenge.
You have roasted barley, an orange bell pepper and a well-stocked pantry. What are you making?
This is a hard mode challenge.
Dude’s only posted this twice and is mad people are asking questions for something that hasn’t caught on yet.
If you want people to play your game, you have to explain the rules sometimes, and if you’re going to dish out rudeness, people aren’t going to play with you.
I had a great idea for it but seeing how you treated people asking about how this works put me off.
So clearly you don’t understand one of the core principles of cooking- presentation.
Yeah, it’s genuinely amazing how badly OP has managed to destroy a fun premise by just being unbelievably toxic.
exactly! I mean, define “well stocked”.
to me, a well stocked pantry has soups, canned meats, and other “meal ready” items.
at that point the two main ingredients just become ingredients.
It’s a challenge, not a competition. It doesn’t need formal rules. Fun, not a contract.
Challenge: “do something with a well stocked pantry”
What’s the challenge? Are you sure you don’t mean: “create a dish with no limitations but focus on X ingredient.”
Don’t be so vague. If you know cooking… then uh… “a well stocked pantry” = anything…
Any rules or explanation at all would be nice, though. In all the time you’ve spent being uppity to people asking genuine questions, you could have explained what you consider to be a well-stocked pantry a dozen times over.
Use the ingredients shown. Use other things you might have to make that possible. The more detailed the rules the less fun it is.
That sounds like better instructions.
I don’t have a pantry nor really grew up with one, so my idea of one is that huge one from The Shining
Pantry: The collective term for the things in your kitchen shelves, cabinets, fridge, freezer and and spice rack.
Why are you saying “anything and everything”… without recognizing how lame your challenge is by saying “anything and everything” ?
Because I’m not saying anything and everything. I’m saying stuff you generally have.
No you’re not!
“The collective term for the things in your kitchen shelves, cabinets, fridge, freezer and and spice rack.” Your words! That’s everything in the house man!
You literally cited anything and everything and later spelled that out. Look, just stop this shit and rephrase the question!
It’s not hard to say “okay make biscuits, but without buttermilk”…
Versus “make anything from your pantry, cupboards, shelves, spice rack, home or storage…but without buttermilk”
Can you not understand the difference? I could make a steak with your question, it’s not a challenge by the very nature of your own words.
Also do you not get a vibe from the sheer failure of a challenge this is? How many good recipes have you got in the comments, compared to folks reacting with… “what the fuck is so weird with this?”
I think the issue that people, including myself, are having, is that it’s undefined in such a way that is simultaneously too open-ended and also too restricted. Different people have wildly different pantry stocks and wildly different expectations for what is conventionally expected or keep on hand.
This is all extra so, when the question is for a fucking bell pepper and some barley. You could be anything from a farmer, to a chef, to a crazy person who doesn’t have black pepper and only eats canned hamburgers and pisses in bottles.
You need to realize that the notion of this question is deeply flawed, and that you can maybe try to compromise by just allowing everybody chef-show type freedom where as long as they use and feature these ingredients, or like just go rule-of-cool and let it breathe.
This all being said, I truly don’t care, I’m just trying to interpret where the top level comment may be coming from, because I’ve thought about these challenges before and held off because I know people can be difficult.
Personally… I’d probably see if I could deep fry or roast the barley to get it sweet, soft, and crispy, and spice it with like a light butter coating, and then mix that with slices of the bell pepper for finger food or a snack. Though, I’ve never had barley like that, so I don’t know what it tastes like or if it’s bitter or what cooking it would do, that’s just my instinct. Maybe try to find a dip that would synergize them. Probably try to avoid ranch though, that’s overdone and basic af
Okay. So what’s in there?
Duh everything in your kitchen!
What part of “all things in your kitchen, shelves, cabinets, fridge, freezer, and spice rack” sounds vague?
Then why are you being a jerk to people? If there’s no rules but people ask for clarification about things that doesn’t mean you should be rude to them. You can do better than that.
The rules are at the bare minimum. 17 people had no problem with the concept. 6 people did decided they needed more rules. Despite the complaints about a lack of rigid and formalized rules that sounds like a success. I responded to rudeness with rudeness using the tit for tat rules of game theory. I can only do as good as I can do. It’s a tautological certainty.
Nah man people just ask a simple question and you serve cunt. They aren’t even being rude. Social interactions aren’t beholden to game theory and rudeness doesn’t have anything to do with that.
You’re floundering trying to justify being an asshole, and the ratio seems to agree.
If you can’t do better then do us a favor and go away.
The first person to respond negatively said they would make steak without the barley that is the required ingredient because if they had a well stocked pantry they wouldn’t bother with the barley.
Does that set the stage for you to understand where things went south?
No, the problem is definitely with your communication.
All this time, you had the rule that you have to use barley. But instead of communicating that, you only wrote that you HAVE barley.
Having something doesn’t mean that you are required to use it. I have rice, it doesn’t mean I have to use it in my next meal.
If somebody makes a steak from the pantry without barley, they have not followed your hidden intention, but they have followed your instructions.
So… it just seemed like your challenge was “tell me a food you like” in an unnecessary roundabout way.
There is pedantic and then there is abusing language. The context was clear to nearly everyone except those operating in bad faith.
Things went with with your reaction to that and other people.
no guidelines? great!
I’ll just make a steak and baked potato with steamed broccoli.
the best challenges have zero guidelines.
thinking
No competition. No rules. No contracts. Just fun.
If you’d like, I can create a list of ideas for more games.