I feel the most pride when I eat something that violates all of the popular diet patterns
like a rare juicy steak with half a loaf of bread
this morning I had bacon fried in gobs of canola oil
I'm not intentionally doing this, but it serves as a double-check that I'm not being controlled by anybody's narrative.
Fried stuff in gobs of canola oil definitely is the most popular diet pattern
yes but only Mike does it deliberately.
a lot of people smoke cigarettes for example, but they feel guilty about it. only Mike would smoke to improve his health.
that said, i did actually use both nicotine gum and patch for weight loss and i did this over 20 years ago.
so you are all amateurs compared to me.
back when i was using nicotine ( and steroids ) the psychos on the steroid forum i was on were actually advocating micro-dosing LSD as a performance enhancing stimulant. i have used LSD for recreation but even to me that sounded like an insane idea.
but using nicotine made perfect sense to me. it was well known that cigarettes cause weight loss as well as increase testosterone and it was also obvious that lung cancer is caused by actual smoking and not by nicotine, so using nicotine gum / patch was a no brainer.
i ultimately stopped because the feeling was not to my liking. i preferred other drugs like Ephedrine, Provigil and actual steroids.
I used some canola oil so the bacon wouldn't stick to the cast iron. It doesn't have enough of it's own fat to not heavily glaze the pan.
for all your contrarianism you fell for the cast iron meme.
i tried cast iron and sold it on craigslist within a few weeks.
cast iron is part of the whole paleo way of rejecting modernity.
much like you living off grid.
i guess that's your thing - to defy categorization by being a contradiction where you go off grid to raise sheep and fry them in cast iron ... using Canola oil.
get a clad pan. Demeyere is the high end ( no personal experience with it, but never had a bad product from Zwilling, and Demeyere is their top brand, and believed by many to be the best, though overpriced ).
https://www.zwilling.com/us/our-brands/demeyere/fry-pans/demeyere-stainless-steel-frypans/
but cheaper clad pans are OK too, just make sure they are not too thin. you don't need copper or silver - you just want aluminum core to be thick enough.
there are professional pans that are as thick as Demeyere but ugly, whereas Demeyere looks like Jewelry. and those thick professional pans are not exactly cheap either - in some cases as expensive as Demeyere itself. they might be more durable though if you intend on dropping them - sometimes Demeyere handles fall off because they are welded instead of riveted ( to avoid food getting caught under rivets ).
using clad pan just let the food stick, then use stainless steel scotch-brite to scrape the pan clean afterwards. it will scratch the pan but that's fine. you're not trying to keep the surface pristine - you just need a surface that can always be cleaned no matter how badly you burned the food simply by scraping it with the scotch-brite.
personally i don't clean my pan at all - i just get most food off ( by eating it ) and let the remainder dry. any bacteria will be killed the next time you use the pan.
a clad pan is an industrial tool. cast iron is a toy for posting pictures on instagram.
90% of all professional pans are clad. zero are cast iron.
Demeyere has identical performance to top professional pans - the only difference is styling and price.
professional pans also typically just have a flat aluminum slug on the bottom that doesn't go up the sides nor has any bottom layer of stainless steel - because they don't care how ugly that looks and it's cheaper to make and also makes for a lighter pan so the chef doesn't get fatigued.
Demeyere is pure excess all around and up the sides of the pan. Probably too heavy for professional use. They obviously have different lines in various thicknesses at different price points.
If i was getting a pan i would either get the top level Demeyere or a top level Professional pan, but the cheaper pans i have work perfectly fine so i won't be replacing them.
I bought the cast iron for dry cooking tortillas like my Mexican aunt Clarita taught me. It works very well for this purpose. I've been dual-using it for general frying but I will take your advice and get a proper clad fry pan.
this is what i meant by top professional pan:
it actually also has welded handles like Demeyere ( for the same reason of hygiene ) but because the sides are 100% steel ( the aluminum is only on the flat bottom ) the weld is arguably stronger. i doubt Vollrath pans have handles fall off like Demeyere.
i would probably either get Demeyere Atlantis:
or Vollrath Centurion ... just depending on whether you want the look of Jewelry of just a rugged professional ( but still high end ) tool.
obviously both lines have smaller sizes available - i just like large pans.
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actually i have to correct myself. Vollrath Centurion does have a layer of steel on the bottom, otherwise it wouldn't be induction compatible.
Vollrath being one of top makers of professional induction stoves it would be funny if their top of the line pans were not induction compatible.
to be induction compatible the bottom layer of pan must be magnetic ( aluminum isn't ). both Vollrath Centurion and Demeyere Atlantis are induction compatible.
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Wait wait wait wait, so ignoring health because I like me some trash, why would you fry bacon in anything other than its own fat, it's right there, there's plenty of it!
Bacon w/o oil glazes the pan too much, even constant scraping with a metal spatula doesn't keep off the brown sticky. In some recipe where I could deglase I wouldn't mind it, but in this case it was easier to just use oil.
I don't ignore health.
Bacon eaten frequently measurably increases your risk of colorectal cancer, probably due to the salt (or nitrate). But I don't eat it very often.
And diet patterns high in polyunsaturated fats significantly reduce all cause mortality. Many people are skeptical of canola oil due to the processing methods, but the health research hasn't picked up any health difference from chemically processed deoderized heated canola oil, and something like fresh mustard which is a very similar plant seed. So sure *maybe* canola oil is less healthy because of that, but apparently not by much.
Maybe all these studies are fooling me. Do your own research and choose your own belief system. I'm going to make my own conclusions about them. And if I die young from canola oil and I was wrong, oh well I'll be dead so I really won't care, will I?
Sounds like you need to get on the machined, well seasoned cast iron skillet train! I don't eat much bacon but that's because I got really sick after eating it once so I've kinda lost a taste for it.
Calorie for calorie canola and other seed oils are probably fine compared to other fats BUT I don't think it tastes as good and it's substantially less filling. It's really hard to eat an entire plate of fries fried in lard, it's stupid easy to eat a plate full of fries that have been fried in a seed oil.
I'm convinced our brains aren't wired to understand how many calories are being ingested when it comes to refined seed oils. I also happen to think they don't taste as good, so I stick to the EVOO, avocado, animal fat camp. Ghee makes the best popcorn.
Nutritional studies are a tough thing to do. There's a lot of variability in them since people are difficult to control (ethically). They don't typically account for long term exposure since there's limits to how long they can perform a study. Then there's also the factor of tight portion control for the purposes of limiting variables. Not something that's really done in real life. Even the knowledge of participating in a study is going to affect how people behave. Not saying it's useless information, but things to consider. Plus best of all it lets me Cherry pick data to justify my level of butter consumption.
I don't understand the bacon in any kind of oil. Just the mess alone makes it pointless.
😂 I’m with you on the bread but not the canola oil.
I put bacon on my donut so I can stick to my carnivore diet.
Owning the libs by eating steak, owning the trads by using canola oil.
Stay healthy
Health is more about how much you eat (not too much)... and not starving yourself of essential nutrients.... and keeping moving.
No, that's weight, not health.
That is the first part of health but you also said more without saying what health is more about THAN what you said. But if it were just about what you said, you should start throwing a daily mountain dew in and eating something you're allergic to.
Near the event horizon of a black hole, or simply near an object with immense mass, there could be a highly advanced alien civilization. They might be sending you signal commands about what to do, but due to the distance and the difference in the flow of time, it would take you millions of years to receive the signals—and extremely sensitive equipment to detect them.
Thus, even if we can't prove it right now, they are trying to control you—you are compromised even without the ability to receive their commands. You cannot be trusted.
Definitely don't trust me.
Why would you buy that shit? Lol
to troll me ...
I know exactly when I eat seed oils and when I don't.
haven't had them in a while
when i'm traveling i just drink Core Power Elite protein shakes ( sold at most good gas stations and supermarkets ) and once settled into a hotel i just go to a fancy supermarket and buy pre-cooked beef franks made from 100% grass fed organic beef and eat those
plus some oranges and spring water
all you really need
if you can find Quest protein shakes those are half the price of Core Power Elite ( because they are sold in packs of 4 ) and still pretty good ... but 4-packs are typically only sold in supermarkets, not gas station convenience stores.
of course Quest does actually contain seed oils ... but it's 2 grams of seed oils to 30 grams of protein ... and the dose makes the poison.
2 grams isn't going to kill you in an otherwise clean diet.
i respect your prerogative to maintain intellectual autonomy and assert your independence from the G-d of NOSTR ( me )
our friend nostr:npub1xy60n57p02ugl743zfag2ljftxh4s0ufpzu0wsmhdvng7hj5c0vqvx8w7v faces the same dilemma as you, namely he knows ( from many years of experience ) that i am always right, but at the same time he still needs to be his own person and therefore must occasionally find a point of disagreement with me, just like you do.
i try not to get mad because i want disciples, not slaves, and disciples should be able to have their own views, such that if i die you can take my place and not merely recite my teachings from a book like bible humping retards.
as Nietzsche said:
and there is a similar saying in Russian that goes "he is a bad soldier who doesn't want to be a General"
i WANT people to argue with me - it helps me stay sharp and helps them truly understand what i am saying instead of merely memorizing it - what i do not like is when they state their personal opinion that contradicts mine as if it was a fact, which is what you did regarding Klaus Schwab and WEF.
you basically just stated that i am wrong without any evidence, when it's something i have been looking at for decades and that is absolutely 100% consistent with all of the evidence and you likely barely even considered but then you make this completely unsubstantiated statement about how Tariffs are not driven by the desire of the WEF to deglobalize the world economy when i had actual mid-wits on speaker building forum understand my point yet it somehow went over your head.
i had literal morons whose job is to set up audio systems at rock concerts understand that international shipping is a major source of CO2 emissions and that Tariffs are a tool to lower that, and your response was "nah that's a CONSPEEEERACEEE theory"
like WTF ?
you should continue to think for yourself, even to the point of being contrarian on purpose but that should still involve THINKING and looking at evidence and so on and not merely making statements like " that's a CONSPEEERACEEEE theory ! "
i get it that you're such a huge conspiracy theorist and such a huge contrarian that you have come a full circle where you now support mainstream propaganda because negative X negative = positive ... and that's fine
but if you tell me that i am wrong i expect to see some reasoning / evidence especially when it is on a subject on which i know more than basically anybody ( which admittedly, is most subjects )
being a contrarian is good.
being intellectually lazy is not.
Get ready for the circumcision narrative that’s coming in hot now!
no, but you're being passively controlled by corporate supply chains.
also there's no way you don't fry bacon in canola oil intentionally. bacon comes with it's own oil.
our minds swim defenselessly in the fluid of information flows. you cannot stop your mind, and therefore your behavior, from being influenced from outside. all you can do is have a meta understanding of the process, try to internalize memes that work in your favor, form defenses like skepticism to prevent your mind from being taken by forces hostile towards you and hope you make it.
