Enjoy this outtake of the Ask Dad Labs podcast episode nine.
Hey, guys, no. He is not joking. That is not a joke. He really does have a food podcast incredible food. I mostly know about this pizza.
I have a,
I do have a Facebook group called cook the book with Ben. And I'm I don't know, if you've seen it clay, I'm assuming you've seen this. So my my mother in law got me this this instant pot cooking accessories kit. Right. And it has a cookbook in it, you would assume that a cookbook that comes with an accessory kit for something would use the accessories in the cookbook recipes. Right? So it's got like a strainer thing, you'd think it would have a thing for that. It actually does have a cheesecake recipe for the springform pan. That's the only accessory and it probably doesn't even reference it in the in the cookbook. But the cookbook is very, very obviously done by people who do not speak English. Do not use American or, you know Roman characters. They're not familiar with the letters. They are not familiar with how you format recipes, or what a recipe is. Because because there's there's a recipe in there. I'm trying to remember what it's for. It's for like, it's for like pasta, something. But the Ono is for meatloaf. I'm sorry. It's for meatloaf. The meatloaf recipe has apples. And like cinnamon and sugar. And it's got oats and it's got flour, and it is apple crisp.
It's a pie. It's a recipe.
It's actually it's actually apple crisp. But it says it's meatloaf. Okay, so they're their recipes that call for 23 cups of liquid, which is way more than any instant pot can hold. Yeah. But it's because they did an OCR scan of it. And it didn't pick up certain characters.
Or what
Yeah, he's making them he so I only talk
to him. So we're making these recipes. And we're figuring out what they're supposed to be. But we're making the recipes, because I don't want to waste a bunch of food. And so so we're doing them as close as we can and and I've got some friends who have joined in and they're, they're making them too
is the problem that there aren't any recipe books that you can actually follow? Or are you just perverse? Well, my question is, that's
the book that she gave him.
Yeah. So So the way this the way this happened was that, that when I when I showed one of these recipes, I took a picture of it and shared it. And a bunch of friends said I need this book. And I'm like I can't, you know, I'm not gonna sell it to you. I you know, but let's How about this, I'll share one recipe a week. And we'll we'll try to make it and you guys can see what these are. And and so for me, it's actually we're doing it in order because the book has no order to it. So even though there are four recipes for barbecue ribs, none of them were are within two weeks of each other. So it's not like we're having the same thing over and over again.
But it seems to me You're slavish Li following the instructions of an idiot, like, going,
right? What? That's a really good question. Other than it was a gift from a fan. Is there some larious is any reason at all, to continue putting yourself through that other than that you're neurotic. And yet you'd like to
know it's it's that what I really like about it is that I have one day a week, where I'm not using one of my normal recipes. I'm not doing you know, lasagna chili, you know, whatever we normally have on a regular week, I have to actually go out and shop for a recipe I never do that. I always just buy by staples, and I've throw stuff together and we ended up having the same same food every week. This way, I'm actually trying something different. Like we had lemon ricotta, which which was horrible, because it just was not good. But couldn't be the recipe, but we tried it. I did it according to the recipe. And and I think there's a problem. I think lemon ricotta is a bad idea. So I don't I don't think it's the fault of the recipe. I think the whole idea is bad.
I from what you've described. I beg to differ on that. I think I think you had a lot to do with the book. Well,
but so so. Yeah, but But see, I use that same technique tonight when I made mushroom risotto. And so I was able to make mushroom risotto in less than 20 minutes. Because I had used that recipe in the book, right? Yeah, I know another flex So, so it was it was definitely I definitely learned something from that. And and it reintroduced something that I used to do rizona if you've never made it, if you stir it, it can take hours. And and it's a lot of work. And if but if you do an instant pot, it's honestly almost instant. So 20 minutes is all it took. And it was done.
That's as usual, as we say. That was that was super weird, but totally wholesome.
Thank you. Thank you,
Gordon.
Good night. Everybody.
knows you guys. You guys called me, called me the mayor. I feel like I should we should call you the commissioner.
This has been an outtake of episode nine of the Ask Dad Labs podcast. Thanks to Clay and Nick as always, and listen to us at the next episode Episode 10 should be out any dates. Thanks
