Comments by "" (@SG-js2qn) on "Adam Ragusea" channel.

  1. So brownies with skin are kind of like a "cake brulee." Sealed with melted sugar on top. If you get the skin-shell wet, the crispiness dissolves.
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  2. Real science doesn't have consensus. Here's my take on the origin of the pork taboo (which I see is finally briefly alluded to at the very end of the video). The pig was domesticated at least twice, once long ago in Mesopotamia, and once in the vicinity of China. They became identified with those cultures, just as others focused on the cow, fish, or poultry. The Semitic cultures of Judaism and Islam fought to maintain a distinct identity from the dominant Mesopotamian one. So they focused on promoting their own traditions of food, clothing, language, beliefs, family stories, etc. Anyone seen partaking of Mesopotamian culture was perceived as an infidel ... someone who was not being faithful to the ways of the tribe. FWIW, the Semites were pastoral shepherds, and their main protein sources were sheep and goats. This same problem also presented itself with resistance to Canaanite culture and Egyptian culture. IMO, this is very easy to understand. It's part of reinforcing tribal identity. I think the cleanliness issue is another retro-projection.
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  3. My theory is that wild grass seed heads were first used as animal fodder. Animals weren't necessarily domesticated at that time, but were being caught wild and fed wild. This is how early humans helped select for bigger seeds before they started eating the grains themselves.
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  4. Another way to figure this out: regardless of the depth of the brownie, the surface will always be covered with skin. Therefore, the skin is the brownie batter, not a subset of ingredients from the batter.
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  5. He needed to follow up Cherry Pie with Peach Pie ... or Banana Cream Pie.
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  6. I don't think my mother's fig trees had the wasps, but when ripe that hole at the bottom would open, and once that happened, tiny beetles would crawl in. So you had to be diligent about catching the figs when they first softened, but the hole at the bottom was not yet open. Some years it was impossible, but other years you could catch nearly all of them. Must have had something to do with heat or rain patterns.
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  7. Expensive cow bacon.
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