I Crave Tasty Lava.
Mar. 8th, 2006 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraI dreamed of words--the appearance of them, not the substance--and text fonts last night. Most peculiar.
NYT article about using fudge to simulate lava for scientific study purposes (login required). See, the subject line of this post does make sense!
I've been really, really wanting fudge recently. I'm quite annoyed that grocery stores don't seem to stock it. The Muse has checked several (he was also correct in thinking that fudgsicles, in this weather, are not an acceptable substitute). The only places I know of that sell fudge are in downtown (Candyland) or the MoA. Since I'm not working this week, I don't pass through downtown every day.
So I tried to make fudge. Emphasis on tried. It should be noted that I made fudge a large number of times growing up. My experience should have counted for something. I even acquired the recipe that my mom thinks we used. I'm not quite sure how I managed to do it, but I scorched the sugar/cocoa/butter combination before succeeding in melting it all together. That was only the beginning of my problems, though. I'm just going to tell you now: don't even bother trying to use a meat thermometer and a regular thermometer in place of a candy thermometer. Does. Not. Work. And might break your regular thermometer. Or at least confuse it greatly, because it thinks you're dying. I think the fudge cooked past the proper stage (soft ball), too, and on into the brittle threads stage, though I'm not sure how, because it didn't cook that long after the sugar finally melted.
I ended up with a solid sheet of burnt-tasting, tooth-chipping, thoroughly inedible "fudge." I might need a diamond saw to cut it into pieces.
Sugar gives me no love. Usually I deal with unrequited crushes pretty well, but this, this I may not be able to work through.
I'm not even going to start going on about what happened when I tried microwaving a piece to soften it.
NYT article about using fudge to simulate lava for scientific study purposes (login required). See, the subject line of this post does make sense!
I've been really, really wanting fudge recently. I'm quite annoyed that grocery stores don't seem to stock it. The Muse has checked several (he was also correct in thinking that fudgsicles, in this weather, are not an acceptable substitute). The only places I know of that sell fudge are in downtown (Candyland) or the MoA. Since I'm not working this week, I don't pass through downtown every day.
So I tried to make fudge. Emphasis on tried. It should be noted that I made fudge a large number of times growing up. My experience should have counted for something. I even acquired the recipe that my mom thinks we used. I'm not quite sure how I managed to do it, but I scorched the sugar/cocoa/butter combination before succeeding in melting it all together. That was only the beginning of my problems, though. I'm just going to tell you now: don't even bother trying to use a meat thermometer and a regular thermometer in place of a candy thermometer. Does. Not. Work. And might break your regular thermometer. Or at least confuse it greatly, because it thinks you're dying. I think the fudge cooked past the proper stage (soft ball), too, and on into the brittle threads stage, though I'm not sure how, because it didn't cook that long after the sugar finally melted.
I ended up with a solid sheet of burnt-tasting, tooth-chipping, thoroughly inedible "fudge." I might need a diamond saw to cut it into pieces.
Sugar gives me no love. Usually I deal with unrequited crushes pretty well, but this, this I may not be able to work through.
I'm not even going to start going on about what happened when I tried microwaving a piece to soften it.