Live slow, die old!
4 day fridge fermented pizza dough
3 day air drying jerky after a 3 day marinade.
I’m down with that.
But cleaning still needs to be 90mph because I’m gonna get bored and give up.
I got the 15 minute coffee down at least. I’m one of those coffee snobs, hand a Hario pour over and a French press, and use a gooseneck kettle. There’s no rushing a good coffee. I make myself about 20 oz twice a day. First thing before work, and again on my lunch break.
This sounds chill but are there actual evidence that taking it this slow improves your (mental?) health significantly?
My personal experience tends to agree.
Mine absolutely disagrees. After years (pandemic) of trying to be deliberate and slow, my mind has slowed down and doing anything quickly and efficiently is more challenging.
You need to turn off your grindcore and listen to some progressive doom metal.
Just listen to sleep and you’ll be good to go.
I actually did listen to doom metal to fall asleep when I was a teenager. Good times…
There’s a band that I forgot the name of… I saw them live and they probably played 3 songs in total. It was sooo slow. It was fantastic!
My wife got me into audiobooks. We’re both avid readers, and wanted to read when we couldn’t read. My wife, however, cranks her shit up to 2x to consume, consume, consume, and chastises me for listening at normal speed. I want to enjoy what I’m reading, bask in the world building.
Honestly it really depends on how boring parts are. If it’s 1x speed for some content and highly predictable what they are going to say, I for some reason assume I know the rest of the sentence they will say, then use the “extra time” I just gained and let my mind wander. Then I miss the next sentence. So strangely, I can understand things better at a higher speed because it doesn’t give me time for that bad habit. Maybe she is like that too, finding she understands it better if she listens to it faster because it makes her focus better.
I disagree with you completely! Out of principle, I can’t do that, it’s practically skipping ahead!
I did uparrow you, because despite our opposite perspectives, I appreciate your contribution to the discussion.
Does she not pause audiobook to think about economic currency conversion rates in that fictional world?
I get both your perspectives. My wife listens to audiobooks at normal speed and enjoys it. I listen in sometimes, but my brain isn’t cut out for it.
I read much faster than most (all?) narration, but when I speed it up, it loses something. I did listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed at one point, and it helped, but podcasts aren’t exactly narrative driven.
In the end, I find I just prefer written material in most cases. It’s just easier for me to focus on.
I only listen to 2x when I don’t need to connect/understand the information and just want to get the big picture.
I have some podcasts I’ll listen to at 1.2x speed but it’s usually because I’m trying to get it to properly fit a given drive. I have one relatively frequent drive that I can nicely fit 3 episodes of a daily podcast at 1.2x speed, but otherwise is too long for 2 episodes or too short for a third at 1x speed. For audiobooks though I stick with 1x so I can fully take in the content.
For reading I really only read in bed now, so it takes me about 2-4 weeks to finish a book usually
I agree with everything you said. Podcasts are shorter and so I don’t want to have 8 minutes left to finish later, because I just won’t. But I’m listening to 30-hour books, and I’m going to have a listen the way it’s meant to be listened to.
I also only read in bed, and I basically do a chapter a night, sometimes two if they’re short, and sometimes half of one of they’re long. I do try to find natural stopping points, I can’t stand being in the middle.
I sometimes slow some narrators because they talk too fast!
Need to get amongst some Slow TV!
Those Norwegian train rides are some comfy viewing.
My boss disagrees with this.
Smoked some bacon the other day. Took 8 hours after a week of curing the bacon. There’s not a moment I regretted from any of that time spent, and the bacon is delicious.
Poor pig :(
The pig didn’t feel the the curing or smoking.
It already takes me 15 minutes to brew about 10 cups of coffee for myself.
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I want to learn more about these 48 hour chocolate chip cookies
Simple way, make your preferred dough and then stash it in the fridge for a few days. Even just a few hours can make a difference, gives time for flour to hydrate at the minimum, longer is better for flavour.
Applicable to almost any baked good too, bread/pizza benefits from long, slow ferments, get some complexity of flavour + can help with the dough’s structure. Sour dough kinda forces you into these long fermentation periods, I tend to use a preferment (like a biga or poolish) when I’ll use bakers yeast.
Also can be convenient if you’re busy, it’s quick to mix things together, let the dough do the hard work for you.
These are pretty amazing
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/supersized-super-soft-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe
Most things by King Arthur flour are good! I like the Cornish pasty dough recipe they have!
If you ever get a chance, visit the King Arthur headquarters in Vermont. They have a calendar of baking workshops and training courses that are top-notch. The on-site bakery has breads, sandwiches, cakes, cookies, and even pizza dough.
I know! One day I will, but currently complete lack of money. Until then I will be happy knowing they’re employee owned and stuff.
Truth. I feel silly having brand loyalty to a flour brand, but I do. I think King Arthur puts out fresher, better flour, and I think their recipes and website are super solid. Legitimately a fan of a flour brand, lol.
Not silly! The flour is very exactly what it says, which is super helpful for certain very finicky foods! I know there’s a cookie I make sometimes that can get weird on some flours, it never ever fails to work on King Arthur! (I’m sure it would work on other brands though like I’ve heard good about Red Mill?)
Too slow, need to get thinhs done.
Too poor, I’m either working or dying
slowmaxxxing is a privilege
But I have to be at work at 8 AM tomorrow. How do I find the time to take it slow?
That’s the real question, isn’t it? When our employers demand more of our time than we get to spend with our actual families, the take-it-slow life just isn’t a possibility. Unless you’re independently wealthy.
IMO “wealthy” is not the threshold one needs to achieve. They key to a sustainable life is a low “burn rate”. This is why generational properties were so important and why it is a tragedy that it is so rare amongst working people in the US (for many reasons). That plus public transportation and basic healthcare. The US is designed to turn people into economic slaves by removing the option to work less.
If rent/mortgage, basic healthcare, and car payments were not a requirement, would you be under such pressure to stay in a job that exploits you? That’s why many municipalities do not allow multi-family homes because they don’t want multiple generations partitioning the big house your grandparents left you in order to fit your parents, your sisters family and your family under one paid off roof. Public transportation? Ha! Get a job to pay for a car, to drive to work, to pay for the car. Basic healthcare? You better not lose that job unless you want to die of disease or drown in medical debt.
When someone leaves you a home for nothing when most of the people around you cannot afford one, that is ‘wealth’. If I did not have to worry about rent, healthcare and car payments, that would make me wealthy - because it is the wealthy who do not have these concerns to the same degree as the majority of the population. Generational wealth is also a great way to keep the ‘undesirables’ out of a community - and has been used so multiple times in the past. It’s one of the reasons why people from poor families statistically end up just as, or even more poor than their parents.
I still have a mortgage, but I don’t have car payments and my bills have been steady for years.
I have never been stable by any historically recent metric, yet I can easily survive on $750/mth usd living in the US. Sure, a depressed area, but I can make it work.
I’ve never been stable so I learned to live on very little, and make up for it where I can. I won’t ever have money for travel, but historically nobody did. We are spoiled as fuck to think international vacations are a baseline necessity to call life good.
It’s not easy in today’s world but it is totally doable, if you don’t give a fuck about keeping up with people around you, and focus on what makes your life good.
I’ve reached a point of just not giving a fuck. I’ve begun to wonder if that’s why I’m getting laid off but if so, then I deserve it but with an asterisk.
I worked 30-40 hours and delivered exceptional work. Quality of which was on par with my peers who easily work 50-60 hours a week. My boss works 80+ hours a week and I just keep asking myself “why give the company so much of your life and it doesn’t give a flying fuck about you?”
I’m sorry if you don’t see me hustling. I’m going to give you my everything, but within the timebox we’ve agreed to. Yes, I’ll agree to work the occasional overtime for incident management, etc. but I am for sure not going to work 50-60 hours a week regularly.
My life is worth more than the job and I am not going to waste it behind a screen moving numbers around for more time than I need to.
There are jobs.
Im a flight attendant and work 72 hrs a month, my husband is a professor and is in front of a class 60 hrs a month.
(My husband and I certainly both came from privileged backgrounds (say middle class ish) and both got degrees that although our parents didn’t pay for they gave us resources - either way I wouldnt say our lifestyle is unobtainable)
Having said all that…in general you’re correct. Our case is certainly an outlier. We can’t all be flight attendants
Edit: our parents aren’t dead yet, but when they do pop off they each have a house we will get a share of (to your point)
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