MapleEngineer

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 3 hours ago

Remember when Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands, and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clarke's office "worked with" the wealthy donors who gained over $8,000,000,000 of unearned value as a result of removing their land from the greenbelt?

You're going to get a $200 refund of the taxes you paid to fund Ontario's crumbling healthcare and education instead of putting that money into Ontario's crumbling healthcare and education, though, so it's all good.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 1 day ago

The Ford government is for sale but buck a beer, am I right?

Billions of dollars of graft for his wealthy donors and friends and crumbs for us.

[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone calm down. Ford's buddies who own the adjacent property and will inherit the extremely expensive land that the Science Center sat on will do very well indeed.

Everything is good in the world.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 1 day ago

Many of the people moaning about the government intervening in the Canada Post strike, and taking away the Section 2 rights of the workers, are the same people who falsely believed that being asked to wear a mask, stay home, and get vaccinated violated their charter rights.

Rights for me but not for thee.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 1 day ago

It's the same playbook used by the Republicans in the US. Obstruct the government then claim it isn't achieving anything and play to the grievances of the ignorant while promising to fix everything but offering no plans for how you will do it.

[–] MapleEngineer 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With so much wrong in the world and the US right now these fetid sacks of gangrenous anal sphincters are focused on hurting one person because it makes them feel good.

[–] MapleEngineer 32 points 1 day ago

Every accusation is an admission. The people we really need to Save The Children from are elected Republicans like this shit heel and that slimy shit heel Matt Gaetz.

[–] MapleEngineer 18 points 1 day ago

Every accusation is an admission. The people we really need to Save The Children from are elected Republicans like this shit heel and that slimy shit heel Matt Gaetz.

[–] MapleEngineer 74 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The US is officially a joke.

[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 1 week ago

That’s pretty awesome. “Tree to bottle”? That is, are you doing the whole process from managing trees, through to tapping, and concentrating? My grandfather was in the rubber industry, so, I find this stuff incredibly interesting.

Yes. Not only that but I build the machines and automation to bring the sap in from the trees, store it, run in through the RO, and store it again for boiling. I also welded the evaporator that I use to do the boiling.

[–] MapleEngineer 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think you give Musk WAY too much credit.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 1 week ago

He would first have to purge the military of career generals loyal to the constitution and replace them with loyalists.

Oh.

 

"If just one trans child is harmed it will all be worth it", says Alberta premier Danielle Smith.

 

I had a craving. I made char siu and my wife whipped up some delicious curried noodles.

157
submitted 2 months ago by MapleEngineer to c/foodporn
 

We make our own green curry paste. The makrut lime leaves, Thai green and red chilis, lemon grass, and chicken are from our back yard.

 

I liked the contrast between the yellow bedspread and the black cat.

52
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

I've got it loaded with 8 flavors.

Vanilla

Smarties (Canadian)

Oreo

York Peppermint Pattie

Aztec Chocolate

Skor Bits

Skor Bar

Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch

I hope the kids (and their sibkings and parents and the other team and the umpire) like it.

12
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

This is probably my favorite ice cream shop. It's located on Fairmont Avenue at Gladstone in Ottawa, Ontario CANADA. They make awesome ice cream including a large vegan selection. You can buy it by the scoop in cones or bowls, as ice cream based treats, in pints, or my favorite, in milkshakes.

I had a delicious chocolate milk shake this afternoon and it was absolutely delicious. It's not one of those nasty extruded frozen treat things you get at fast food restaurants. It starts with three scoops of hard ice cream and milk and they mix it right in front of you.

If you're in Ottawa please go by and check them out. They're good people and make great ice cream.

https://themerrydairy.com/

26
So much ice cream. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

I've been making ice cream. My son's softball team plays in a tournament in a couple of weeks. We have what we call the cake challenge where if they do any one of a number of things (hit the fence, score a home run, get a double play, get a bunt double) I'll make a cake and bring it to the next game. I've done it three times so far this year. I Decided that for the tournament I would make ice cream.

So far I've made:

No Nuts

22 x Vanilla

17 x Aztec Chocolate

12 x Smartie

11 x York Peppermint Pattie

12 x Oreo

Almonds

12 x Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch

24 x Skor Bits

12 x Skor Bar

That's 122 x 125 ml cups.

I hope that's enough.

20
Oreo Ice Cream (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

This is just my standard vanilla ice cream base (500 ml 35% cream, 1 L 10% cream, 300 g sugar, 15 ml vanilla extract) with chopped Oreo cookies. I put 12 cookies in each batch and each batch makes twelve 125 ml cups so each cup has a full cookie in it.

74
Ice Cream (lemmy.world)
 

I went looking for an ice cream focused community in the lemmy.world federated fediverse and couldn't find anything so I created one.

The Ice Cream community is focused on ice cream. Homemade ice cream, recipes, pictures, stories, good commercial ice cream, your favourite ice cream treat or favorite ice cream shop.

I make homemade ice cream and am in the middle of a run. I have made vanilla, (Canadian) Smartie, and milk chocolate almond cluster so far but I have a few more to make before I'm done.

I've posted my favourite ice cream base recipe and a recipe for spicy Aztec Chocolate Ice cream.

If you're a fan of ice cream come check it out.

11
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

I recorded a short video of the Cuisinart ICE-50 churning a batch of vanilla ice cream. The ICE-50 is a now discontinued and no longer supported with spare parts self-chilling ice cream machine. You just pour in the base, turn it on, and it makes a batch of ice cream in about 45 minutes.

The lumps you see are more frozen pieces of ice cream. It freezes on the wall of the tub and is scraped off by the paddle creating a slurry of more and less frozen ice cream. Once it's put into a container and frozen it's nice and smooth.

I would highly recommend the ICE-50 to anyone who is interested in ice cream making. They have not been made or supported for years but our two are tanks and just keep going. I can't offer an opinion on the newer machines other than to say if you buy one buy spare parts for everything you can. A motor arm, two stem and paddle assemblies or two of each if you buy them individually, a bucket, and at least four covers. That will keep you going for 20 or 30 years as long as the machine keeps running.

8
Kids! (self.icecream)
submitted 4 months ago by MapleEngineer to c/icecream
 

Yesterday, I was filling 125 ml cups with ice cream. I got 12 cups filled and in the freezer and had less than 125 ml left so I walked over and handed my 15 year old son the tub and the spoon that I was using to fill the cups.

[Later]

Me: How did you like the ice cream?

Son: It was great. What kind of berries were those?

Me: What berries?

Son: The ones in the ice cream.

Me: Did you not taste them?

Son: No, I don't like berries.

Me: They were (Canadian) Smarties (see NOTE).

Son: Smarties?

Me: Yes. You really should try things that I hand you.

Son: [Nomming on the smarties left in the bottom of the container covered in melted vanilla chocolate.] Uh huh.

NOTE: Canadian Smarties are like M&Ms but with milkier, smoother, better quality chocolate.

 

We've had the machine on the right for years. We bought it new. We bought the one on the left at the Liquidators restaurant auction. I've got vanilla base in both. I'm going to put one batch in the freezer for the family and the other in 125 ml cups for my sons softball team. (Canadian) Smartie, I think.

view more: next ›