rec.food.baking

Not quite. Rec is Recreation, nor recreational. Rec. is one of the original "Big 8" in Usenet newsgroup hierarchy (soc, sci, comp, humanities, misc, news, talk, rec) and food was put in the rec area, partly because it didn't really fit anywhere else, and partly because many people see preparing food as a recreational activity.

And, of course, just because it's in the rec. hierarchy doesn't mean that people can't make a living doing it. (rec.arts.sf.* have more than a few published writers and editors participating, rec.crafts.textiles.* have professionals in the field participating.) Unless it's a moderated list, there's nothing that keeps the pros out of the rec.* groups.

A lot of people on RFB do cook/bake for enjoyment, not for a living. Probably at least some of the "serious" bakers enjoy it as well.

Most Usenet groups are less than tolerant of off topic posts. Some are more tolerant than others. For a quick overview of Usenet and newsgroups in general, see Wikipedia .

Many years ago, before the Internet took off, the universities that were the main users of the usenet set up a set of standard groups. rec. was one, alt was another, biz was set up for business use, edu for use by universities, comp and sci are others. Alt is actually the only one that is a free for all, with anyone being allowed to start a usenet group in alt while all the others technically need to be approved by whomever controls that grouping, be it rec or comp or sci, etc. From the point of view of the universities that set this up, baking would be recreational... except for those few universities that have a hotel management or cooking degree available. That does not, however, mean that the users of the group have to BE recreational bakers. I am, but others are not... Anyway, that is how the group likely was created in and stays in rec...

RsH

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"Jenn Ridley" wrote

Hi. I am another recent lurker in this chatroom.

Not quite, the wikipedia web page says Rec is for "recreational activities".

Actually there were originally only a big six, and three got added later.

I would think professional cooking would be off topic here.

The let sex and drugs on the Usenet?! I need to get some kiddie filters installed.

--oTTo--

Hi, I was lurking here on the internet too and happened to find this on google.

Which is just a long, overly verbose way of saying "recreation". So the penultimate poster was technically correct, although marks should be deducted because they didn't check their facts before posting nonsense to unsenet (as one should always do).

Yeah, and "soc" was never that big at the time so it was more of big four and the other ones.

Yes, but if they do something recreational for a profession, what do they do in their spare time? and surely the time constraits on a professional would limit how much time he or she could spend checking facts and posting nonsense to usenet.

So the polite thing to do if you must post about professional matters on a rec group is label your posts, e.g. [OT](pro baker), so people know your comments are coming from someone who does baking for a living and not for the enjoyment which may or may not be part and parcel of your work place environment (i.e. bakeries).

In which newsgroups are sex and drugs off topic, they can be applied to just about any situation and go especially well with an assortment of baked goods on hand. Flaming on the other hand is an abuse of newsgroup netiquette and can have you reported to an ISP or Google.

And remember, if you must post binaries, please do so to an officially sanctioned binary group and then post a link to the pron in the group where you want to demonstrate your "skills in the kitchen".

You are right though, you shouldn't let your kiddies touch the internet with a 10 foot pole unless it has been filtered.

Are you oTTo from oTTo's bakery and coffee shop in Rochester MN?

All the best, CM

"C Mason" wrote

Right. If, by mistake, you put a worm on a hook and tie that hook to a bit of fishing line that happens to be on the reel of your fishing pole...

We're watching you.

--oTTo--

I'm not in any Rochester

"Mark Edwards" wrote

I was going to make a joke about putting my loaf in the oven later tonight, but I thought betterer of that half-baked idea.

--oTTo--

"Otto Bahn" wrote in news:d7fs0q$1rb$ snipped-for-privacy@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu:

Well, as long as you aren't paying that oven, or recieving payment for filling it, you aren't baking that loaf on a professional basis.

If you never had any aptitude for baking or any form of food processing( whether technical or craftsmanship) but was just forced to train in it for the purpose of earning a living ,then its likely that will be your mindset. But if you did it out of keen interest and it has become a part of your life and had enjoyed practicing it from the start as a hobby and it became your profession later; then the purpose of practicing such trade(or profession) has dual benefits:: It provides a sense of creative expression and a means of earning a living. . People in various professions who worked just for the keep, usually feel the drudgery in their jobs and seldom find enjoyment in it. That is maybe the reason they lurk( and even post) in the newsgroups to as a form of outlet for their work related stress.And the nature of their post shows the nature of their troubled life, They become net troublemakers/, ,craving for attention, .posting petty unrelated topics and replies.

I think there is no need for such. Only egocentric people do that, Supposing If you are a professional baker (or food technologist , chef, etc.) and in your free time enjoying,is the pleasures that internet can provide( e.g.newsgroups) and you come across somebody who pose a question that incidentally you know the answer, why should you prevent yourself from giving light to a particular topic? Just because you are not paid for that? But The internet is not paying you either to use it as a pastime.. As long as it does not jeopardize your business or employment( whatever be the case) then you have not done anything illegal. Therefore ....If you are in a cookery related newsgroups Helping somebody is the same, either its an old or feeble person to cross the street or just a hapless cooking enthusiast looking for answers to his/her cookery related questions. Roy

How much time did it take you to write all that?

--oTTo--

"When people say, 'Have a nice day!' they don't always mean it."

-- Anne Frank

You're mean. Just because old people are all old and feeble and stuff is no reason you should try to relocate them all to the opposite side of your street.

Also, why are you talking about cooking? Rec.food.baking is for baking. Cooking is over in rec.food.cooking. There's no rec.food.frying, so don't try to talk about making your own KFC or the Internet Police will arrest you before you've even finished asking what the Colonel's eleven secret herbs and spices are.

-- K.

(At least one of them is fish scales. Now you know why they're secret.)

P.S. Does anyone know how they get the bones into the Animal 57 before frying it?

snipped-for-privacy@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote in news:kibo-0106052008110001@10.0.1.2:

After being "processed" into a non-living state, and has been set in forms representing the various shapes needed, and before the "meat" gels, they press simulated calcium-based "bones" into the carcass pieces. Different forms get different "bones".

Which is what makes eating KFC so fun - trying to find the 1 "breast" shape that has a "thigh bone" in it !

I'd love to see the fancy machine they use to take the bones out again before they make the popcorn chicken.

Someone should invent popcorn popcorn. You'd pop some corn, then chop it up into little bits, then batter the bits and deep-fry them. But would popcorn chicken fried steak be a popcorn-chicken-style fried steak, or a popcorn-style chicken fried steak?

This one time I was eating at KFC and I found a drumstick with an entire horse in it. But it turned out to be just an animal cracker so when I asked the manager whether he thought I should sue him he said no.

-- K.

Is there a recipe for making Necco wafers at home from common household porcelain ashtrays?

I would have fixed the last word of this post for you but then I'd've got all shotten and stuff. So I didn't but now I have to watch out for metameatTerri and her paragun, I think.

Dave