"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:08:47 -0600, Damaeus
> > wrote:
>
>> *HE* got the wrong chips for *HIS* cookies.
>
> Chill out, dude. HE got the CORRECT chips for *HIS* cookies. You're
> spazzing out because he didn't buy the chips *YOU* like. He's fine
> with them, but YOU aren't and Christmas is long over, so RELAX!
> Nobody builds a long lasting relationship this way. It's the middle
> of February. Let it go.
>
>

They're probably cheap chips too. If he gave the brand, I don't remember.

In news:rec.food.cooking, Andy > posted on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:53:06
-0600 the following:

> Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > I will turn the big chocolate chips
> > into something else.
>
> Melt them down and try your luck at a few of these...
>
> http://alturl.com/ednir
>
> We had to be really good to get treated to them. It didn't seem possible!

I like long links, not shortened ones. For all I know, that could take me
to http://hak.kpfjl.ru/kak399/scr.asp

I wish alturl.com site offered a way for us to paste links like yours into
a field so we can see the link that will be loaded into our browsers.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith > posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:45:23 -0500 the following:

> On 13/02/2011 12:08 PM, Damaeus wrote:
>
> > I'm not being anal about the chocolate chips. I'm being anal about
> > people misunderstanding what's going on here. I provided a little
> > background story about how I ended up with chocolate chips I don't
> > want, and now everybody is being judgmental toward me, as if I should
> > be happy to have chocolate chips at all.
>
> You could have given the chips back to your friend.

That would be funny since we live in the same house and share all the same
groceries.

> I don't think that large chips are going to make much of a difference to
> the cookies.... for a normal person.

I guess I'm abnormal because I like tiny dots of chocolate in my cookies,
not big fat wads of it.

> If you think they are too big you can cut them into half or quarters or
> put them in a blender..... but you don't want to.

That's because I'm tired of cookies. I want something besides cookies.
When I get ready to make cookies again, I'll get mini chocolate chips.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011
00:30:46 -0800 the following:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:08:47 -0600, Damaeus
> > wrote:
>
> > *HE* got the wrong chips for *HIS* cookies.
>
> Chill out, dude. HE got the CORRECT chips for *HIS* cookies.

He asked me what he needed to get because he likes the cookies the way I
bake them when I have baked them for us. He wanted my cookies as I have
baked them in the past, but his acquisition of large chocolate chips
resulted in cookies that were not exactly like the ones I bake for us.
Nevertheless, he was not bothered by that, and neither am I. The point is
that neither of us want large chocolate chips in our cookies, nor are we
in the mood for cookies right now. That is why I posted the original
message which simply asked about how I should try to use these semi-sweet
chocolate chips to make a sweeter chocolate candy that would be more like
milk chocolate.

> You're spazzing out because he didn't buy the chips *YOU* like. He's
> fine with them,

No, he isn't fine with them. He likes chocolate even less than I do. He
does not want large chocolate chips in his cookies, either. When I make
chocolate pie, he likes so little chocolate that it looks more like a
mocha pie -- something that is light brown, not dark brown. I like the
regular, dark brown chocolate pie.

> but YOU aren't and Christmas is long over, so RELAX! Nobody builds a
> long lasting relationship this way.

Our relationship will be better if I don't bake cookies with large
chocolate chips. And again, we're tired of cookies. I'm going to use the
chocolate chips to make something else. This thread was not about mini
chips versus regular chips. It was about what to do with semi-sweet
chocolate chips when I don't want to use them to bake cookies.

> It's the middle of February.

The month is irrelevant to the point of the thread.

> Let it go.

Let what go?

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, "Julie Bove" > posted on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:43:37 -0800 the following:

> They're probably cheap chips too. If he gave the brand, I don't
> remember.

Nestl+AOk-.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:54:58 -0500 the following:

> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
> > Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:44:02 -0500 the following:
> >
> >> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Take them back and get what you want. It's really not a difficult
> >> concept.
> >
> > I don't think grocery stores take back food items unless there's
> > something wrong with them, or unless maybe it's a canned item.
>
> You'd be wrong. I got home once with a package of chicken that, when I
> took the plastic wrapping off, stunk to high heaven. All I had to do
> was give them a whiff of it at the customer service desk and they
> immediately refunded my money.

Well that's different. There's nothing wrong with these chocolate chips.
I just don't think a store will let me return something under the auspices
of nothing being wrong with them, but I just don't want them anymore. If
I find out that a grocery store routinely takes returns on things like
chocolate chips, candy bars, or other items that can be penetrated with a
syringe to shoot God-knows-what into it, I won't be shopping there
anymore, and I'll file a complaint with the health department. I can see
taking returns on canned goods, but I don't want to shop at a store where
someone has taken home a head of lettuce, then returned it to the store
for a refund when nothing was actually wrong with it. As a store manager,
I would be leary of people intentionally contaminating food out of spite
toward the human species.

> I can't imagine any grocery store that would refuse to give you an
> exchange on a couple of bags of unopened chocolate chips. If that's the
> case where you live I'd change grocery stores.

Well, what about exchanging 73/27 hamburger meat for 80/20 ground sirloin?
What about exchanging brown eggs for white eggs? What about exchanging a
package of ham for a package of balonga? Woulld you expect to get a
refund on a container of Yoplait yogurt even though an insulin syringe can
easily penetrate the foil cover and inject cyanide into it without the
buyer being aware of it?

If you want to shop at a store that gives refunds on groceries, good luck
staying well.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011
00:07:20 -0800 the following:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:03:22 -0600, Damaeus
> > wrote:
>
> > He didn't do ME a favor! He asked ME to bake the cookies for his
> > Christmas party.
>
> Christmas is long over, and you need to get over it. Move on.

This has nothing to do with Christmas, and I have nothing to get over. I'm
not even upset about having large chocolate chips. I'm just looking for
something to do with them that does not involve baking cookies.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, " > posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST) the following:

> On Feb 12, 6:58+AKA-pm, Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > Now how do I go about converting these rather bitter, semi-sweet
> > chocolate chips into something sweeter without ending up with a mess?
>
> You could always make something like buckeyes.

Actually I'll see if I can find a way to add something to it to make it
syrupy, but into something that won't freeze hard. I'll use it as a swirl
for homemade ice cream. The sweetness of the ice cream will be a nice
contrast for semi-sweet chocolate. I just want it to be soft in the
freezer. Some alcohol content will help, but I think it needs something
more. I think the corn syrup will help, but that would sweeten the
chocolate a lot. Still I don't think it'd be bad. Maybe I'd even use
marshmallows instead of the corn syrup. Marshmallows in Rocky Road ice
cream don't seem to freeze very hard at all.

I need to get some kind of injector that will let me fill a big, fat
syringe with chocolate syrup, then I'd stick it down into the bottom of
the container of ice cream and move it around, swirling toward the top
while I empty the tube.

Damaeus

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

> You could always make something like buckeyes.

Please elucidate. Some of us just know about the tree and we're lucky
to know that much. http://fwd4.me/vgT

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "Julie Bove" > posted on
> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:43:37 -0800 the following:
>
>> They're probably cheap chips too. If he gave the brand, I don't
>> remember.
>
> Nestlé.

Yep.

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:54:58 -0500 the following:
>
>> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
>> > Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:44:02 -0500 the following:
>> >
>> >> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> Take them back and get what you want. It's really not a difficult
>> >> concept.
>> >
>> > I don't think grocery stores take back food items unless there's
>> > something wrong with them, or unless maybe it's a canned item.
>>
>> You'd be wrong. I got home once with a package of chicken that, when I
>> took the plastic wrapping off, stunk to high heaven. All I had to do
>> was give them a whiff of it at the customer service desk and they
>> immediately refunded my money.
>
> Well that's different. There's nothing wrong with these chocolate chips.
> I just don't think a store will let me return something under the auspices
> of nothing being wrong with them, but I just don't want them anymore. If
> I find out that a grocery store routinely takes returns on things like
> chocolate chips, candy bars, or other items that can be penetrated with a
> syringe to shoot God-knows-what into it, I won't be shopping there
> anymore, and I'll file a complaint with the health department. I can see
> taking returns on canned goods, but I don't want to shop at a store where
> someone has taken home a head of lettuce, then returned it to the store
> for a refund when nothing was actually wrong with it. As a store manager,
> I would be leary of people intentionally contaminating food out of spite
> toward the human species.
>
>> I can't imagine any grocery store that would refuse to give you an
>> exchange on a couple of bags of unopened chocolate chips. If that's the
>> case where you live I'd change grocery stores.
>
> Well, what about exchanging 73/27 hamburger meat for 80/20 ground sirloin?
> What about exchanging brown eggs for white eggs? What about exchanging a
> package of ham for a package of balonga? Woulld you expect to get a
> refund on a container of Yoplait yogurt even though an insulin syringe can
> easily penetrate the foil cover and inject cyanide into it without the
> buyer being aware of it?
>
> If you want to shop at a store that gives refunds on groceries, good luck
> staying well.

I'm pretty sure all grocery stores will give a refund provided you have your
receipt and bring the item back in a timely fashion. How timely would
depend on what the food is. Obviously bringing back say...a freshly baked
cake some two weeks later probably wouldn't fly.

If you wanted to exchange those for mini chips then I'm sure there would be
no problem at all. Of course it would depend on the price of the item. If
they are not the same, an adjustment would have to be made. Either they owe
you money or you owe them some.

You seem to be making much ado about nothing.

The chocolate chips you bought are cheap. They will also keep for probably
at least a year. If you don't want to use them now, save them for something
later. Or donate them to a food bank, if you aren't going to take them
back.

If it were me, I would just buy some strawberries and dip them for
Valentine's day.

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
> In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011
> 00:07:20 -0800 the following:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:03:22 -0600, Damaeus
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > He didn't do ME a favor! He asked ME to bake the cookies for his
>> > Christmas party.
>>
>> Christmas is long over, and you need to get over it. Move on.
>
> This has nothing to do with Christmas, and I have nothing to get over. I'm
> not even upset about having large chocolate chips. I'm just looking for
> something to do with them that does not involve baking cookies.

Do you have any molds? Melt them down and make some sort of filled
chocolates. Or marble them with white chocolate and mold them since you
want something sweeter.

"sf" > wrote in message
news
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
>
>> You could always make something like buckeyes.
>
> Please elucidate. Some of us just know about the tree and we're lucky
> to know that much. http://fwd4.me/vgT

They're a no bake peanut butter cookie dipped in chocolate.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:32:08 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011
> 00:07:20 -0800 the following:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:03:22 -0600, Damaeus
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > He didn't do ME a favor! He asked ME to bake the cookies for his
> > > Christmas party.
> >
> > Christmas is long over, and you need to get over it. Move on.
>
> This has nothing to do with Christmas, and I have nothing to get over. I'm
> not even upset about having large chocolate chips. I'm just looking for
> something to do with them that does not involve baking cookies.
>
I have lots of suggestions, but you seem hell bent on milk chocolate
candy.


--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:13:15 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> I wish alturl.com site offered a way for us to paste links like yours into
> a field so we can see the link that will be loaded into our browsers.

Ftttt. It's a dipped chocolate cone. Nothing that will blow up your
computer.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:15:35 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> That's because I'm tired of cookies. I want something besides cookies.

Why didn't you just say that in the first place?
Google "Recipe +chocolat chips, -cookies"



--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:21:01 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> No, he isn't fine with them. He likes chocolate even less than I do. He
> does not want large chocolate chips in his cookies, either.

If either of you cared *that* much, one of you would have returned the
chips.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:18:58 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> news
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST), "
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> You could always make something like buckeyes.
> >
> > Please elucidate. Some of us just know about the tree and we're lucky
> > to know that much. http://fwd4.me/vgT
>
> They're a no bake peanut butter cookie dipped in chocolate.
>
OH! Thanks. Speaking of peanut butter cookies, I ran across a no
flour peanut butter cookie recipe (baked) and it's *really* good!

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:18:58 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> news
>> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST), "
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> You could always make something like buckeyes.
>> >
>> > Please elucidate. Some of us just know about the tree and we're lucky
>> > to know that much. http://fwd4.me/vgT
>>
>> They're a no bake peanut butter cookie dipped in chocolate.
>>
> OH! Thanks. Speaking of peanut butter cookies, I ran across a no
> flour peanut butter cookie recipe (baked) and it's *really* good!

That's what I hear but since daughter is allergic to peanuts and I am
allergic to eggs, we'll never get to try them.

" > wrote:
-snip-
>You could always make something like buckeyes.

Hehe--- I 'download all headers, then just navigate through the group
with my spacebar- I read the content first, not paying attention to
the subject, author, or quoted text until I need to.

I was reading through the 'what to do with Vienna Sausage' thread, hit
the spacebar- and read the above.

I just made buckeyes last week- so *that* connected. Before I read
for context, I had pictured grinding up the sausages, rolling them,
and dipping them in Nancy's jelly sauce. [served chilled, I
presume]

I'll second the peanut butter/chocolate buckeyes.

Jim

sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:
>
>> You could always make something like buckeyes.
>
>Please elucidate. Some of us just know about the tree and we're lucky
>to know that much. http://fwd4.me/vgT

Since our tastes often run in the same vein- Here's the ones I just
made. I used a couple grains of Himalayan pink salt to fill the
toothpick holes- chunky peanut butter, Ghirardelli milk chocolate. I
forgot the rice crispies that someone mentions in the comments. I
think I would have liked them

Recipe
http://www.staging-seriouseats.com/r...-buckeyes.html
http://tinyurl.com/64tcubs

Some history
http://www.staging-seriouseats.com/2...html#continued
http://tinyurl.com/67ghvvc

[for those who want to find their own links- google Liz Gutman
buckeyes.]

Jim

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:31:27 -0600, Damaeus wrote:
>
>> Well, what about exchanging 73/27 hamburger meat for 80/20 ground
>> sirloin?
>> What about exchanging brown eggs for white eggs? What about exchanging a
>> package of ham for a package of balonga? Woulld you expect to get a
>> refund on a container of Yoplait yogurt even though an insulin syringe
>> can
>> easily penetrate the foil cover and inject cyanide into it without the
>> buyer being aware of it?
>>
>> If you want to shop at a store that gives refunds on groceries, good luck
>> staying well.
>
> Most grocery stores *will* take returns, especially exchanges, on
> baking goods such as those provided you have a receipt.
>
> Why not try it with what you have? Then when it works, you can bitch
> at them.
>
> My store will take a return or an exchange on anything unless they
> think I'm abusing the system (often without a receipt). But the
> returned goods won't necessarily make it back onto the shelf (as in
> your case of ground beef). But the nestle chips would certainly be
> restocked on the shelves.
>
> Maybe you could get Geraldo Rivera or 20/20 to investigate this nasty
> practice. I can see how some people would be paranoid about it. But
> I don't think I really need or want all my food in child-proof,
> safety-sealed, syringe-proof packaging. And if I wanted to shoot
> cyanide into Yoplait I could do that right there at the store without
> having to purchase it first. Why risk the customer service people
> remembering my face as the guy who returned poisoned yoghurt? Or
> rabbit turds instead of chocolate morsels?

People can tamper with food even when it is on the shelf. Remember the
oddly tainted pills back in the 1980's? This was before tamper-proof
packaging. We were always on the lookout for people opening bottles. It
was common for people to open a bottle, pour the pills into their hand, look
at them, then close the bottle. Sometimes they even helped themselves to
one or two. Much harder for them to do that now, but if they were going to
do something such as use a syringe, I suppose it could happen. Not sure if
I syringe could go through a bottle, but it certainly could go through a
package of meat.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:32:08 -0600, Damaeus wrote:
>
>> This has nothing to do with Christmas, and I have nothing to get over.
>> I'm
>> not even upset about having large chocolate chips. I'm just looking for
>> something to do with them that does not involve baking cookies.
>
> Well, I don't think you're going to get an answer until we beat you to
> death about the rest of your post.
>
> But seeing as how it's a day for love, melt the chips and add powdered
> sugar to make them sweeter. I don't know how to get milk into them
> without changing the consistency. The powdered sugar in itself may
> change the texture - but since you don't have anything better to do
> with them...

You could do chocolate dipped strawberries or chocolate dipped whatever you
want and then add a drizzle of white chocolate. Wouldn't be the same as
milk but would taste sweeter.

On Feb 13, 2:32*am, sf > wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:55:26 -0600, Damaeus
>
>
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> > In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011
> > 22:41:42 -0800 the following:
>
> > > Did you look at Joy of Baking?
>
> > Yeah, I checked a few pages and found all kinds of stuff I didn't want to
> > make.
>
> > > I hate milk chocolate, so I won't search any further than this for how
> > > to make it or substitutions.
> > >http://www.joyofbaking.com/Ingredien...ion.htmlScroll down to
> > > "chocolate, milk".
>
> > I certainly wasn't expecting you to search the web for me. *I did that a
> > little, but so many search engines are a mess now with so many sites that
> > have no substantial content. *It's obvious many sites are only there to be
> > filled with advertisements.
>
> Isn't that maddening? *I've run across a few of them lately. *It's yet
> another reason why going beyond the first page of hits is often an
> exercise in frustration. *
>
> --
>
> Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I'd like to know how to get rid of "Bing" when I Google for an exact
location, using the correct URL. What I enter is always listed first
under "Bing," but it's so annoying!

N.

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:

> In news:rec.food.cooking, " > posted on
> Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:22:59 -0800 (PST) the following:

> I need to get some kind of injector that will let me fill a big, fat
> syringe with chocolate syrup, then I'd stick it down into the bottom of
> the container of ice cream and move it around, swirling toward the top
> while I empty the tube.
>
> Damaeus

I think your best success with that technique will be with homemade ice
cream before it is frozen solid. I don't see swirling a syringe through
frozen ice cream.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller

> > Take them back and get what you want. *It's really not a difficult
> > concept.
>
> I don't think grocery stores take back food items unless there's something
> wrong with them, or unless maybe it's a canned item.
>
> Damaeus

Sure they will....you'll need the receipt, though. It would be
obvious if a pkg. of choc. chips had been opened....

N.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:28:41 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> You could do chocolate dipped strawberries or chocolate dipped whatever you
> want and then add a drizzle of white chocolate. Wouldn't be the same as
> milk but would taste sweeter.

Pretzels are good dipped in chocolate too.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:36:22 -0800 (PST), Nancy2
> wrote:

> I'd like to know how to get rid of "Bing" when I Google for an exact
> location, using the correct URL. What I enter is always listed first
> under "Bing," but it's so annoying!

Are you saying you have a Bing toolbar that you don't want to see
anymore? That would be under View > Toolbars. Otherwise, give me a
URL that does it so I can figure out what you mean.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:58:33 -0500, Jim Elbrecht >
wrote:

> Recipe
> http://www.staging-seriouseats.com/r...-buckeyes.html
> http://tinyurl.com/64tcubs

Thanks, that looks easy enough to make with a child.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

On Feb 12, 6:58*pm, Damaeus > wrote:
> I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips -- the
> little teeny tiny ones, but he got the big chocolate chips. *Now I've got
> two extra bags of chocolate chips that I don't want to use so I thought I
> might try to melt them down to make some chocolate candy with a variety of
> chopped nuts in it. *But I don't like the taste of semi-sweet chocolate as
> a candy. *I want to melt it, sweeten it to make it more like milk
> chocolate, mix in some chopped almonds, pecans and walnuts, then drop onto
> waxed paper to cool.
>
> Now how do I go about converting these rather bitter, semi-sweet chocolate
> chips into something sweeter without ending up with a mess?
>
> Damaeus

If you're really intent on turning semi-sweet chocolate into milk
chocolate you need to add powdered milk, not liquid milk, and a little
more sugar to them. Semi-sweet chocolate contains 40% sugar by
weight. Milk chocolate contains 50% sugar by weight. Milk chocolate
also contains 15% milk solids by weight. The nutrition label on the
package should tell you how much sugar is in the chocolate chips and
from that you can figure out how much more sugar to add. You also
simply go by taste too.

In news:rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz > posted on Mon,
14 Feb 2011 06:05:35 -0600 the following:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:03:22 -0600, Damaeus wrote:
>
> > He didn't do ME a favor! He asked ME to bake the cookies for his
> > Christmas party. He wanted the cookies and they were HIS ingredients
> > for HIS cookies.
>
> So then he should every right to buy whatever size chips he wants so
> screw your damn "mini" chocolate chips.

He asked for "those cookies" (meaning the ones he likes in which I use
mini chocolate chips) and he mistakenly got the wrong chocolate chips. It
wasn't about his right to buy what he wants. If he just wants chocolate
chips, he certainly does have every right to get what he wants. But if he
wanted the cookies (as I make them) he should have gotten the mini ones.
Since he didn't, I have chocolate chips I'm not going to use in cookies.
Thankfully I've seen a few suggestions of what to do with them in this
thread from people who actually understand what's happening. Others are
getting caught up in my friend's rights, or getting caught up on my
somehow being ungrateful after he got the chocolate chips for me as some
kind of gift, which they weren't.

> <snork>
>
> This is a Classic RFC-style thread. Nobody knows the answer to the
> posed question so lets just quiz him to death about the rest of the
> post!

Many of my posts turn into this sort of discussion for some reason. I
don't know why.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Nancy2 > posted on Mon,
14 Feb 2011 10:28:32 -0800 (PST) the following:

> > > Take them back and get what you want. +AKA-It's really not a difficult
> > > concept.
> >
> > I don't think grocery stores take back food items unless there's
> > something wrong with them, or unless maybe it's a canned item.
>
> Sure they will....you'll need the receipt, though. It would be
> obvious if a pkg. of choc. chips had been opened....

But not if it had been penetrated with a tiny little needle like you'd see
on the end of an insulin syringe. You could squirt a little cat **** into
a bag of chocolate chips and whoever buys them would not discover it until
they get them home. "Eww, what is this liquid!" Sure, you could exchange
those, but who wants to go through the inconvenience?

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz > posted on Mon,
14 Feb 2011 06:33:31 -0600 the following:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:21:01 -0600, Damaeus wrote:
>
> > No, he isn't fine with them. He likes chocolate even less than I do. He
> > does not want large chocolate chips in his cookies, either.
>
> Why did he buy the big ones, then?

Probably because he didn't read the package carefully before putting them
into the shopping cart. He often does things like that. We like regular
sour cream, but occasionally he accidentally picks up the light sour cream
and even he gets upset at himself over that. Additionally, we use whole
milk. One time he accidentally picked up 2% because while Wal-Mart's
whole milk uses a red cap, HEB's whole milk uses a purple cap and their 2%
milk uses a red cap. He got the red-cap milk at HEB, so that's how he
accidentally purchased 2% milk. He likes to keep heavy whipping cream at
home for things like mashed potatoes. Occasionally he accidentally gets
the fat-free cream. When I tell him about it, he says, "Aw, I meant to
get the regular kind." He doesn't read the packaging carefully enough to
make sure he's getting what he really wants.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:51:22 -0600 the following:

> In article >,
> Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > I need to get some kind of injector that will let me fill a big, fat
> > syringe with chocolate syrup, then I'd stick it down into the bottom
> > of the container of ice cream and move it around, swirling toward the
> > top while I empty the tube.
>
> I think your best success with that technique will be with homemade ice
> cream before it is frozen solid. I don't see swirling a syringe through
> frozen ice cream.

Oh of course. That's how I imagined myself doing it. We have an electric
ice cream freezer and it's very soft once it's as frozen as it can get in
the ice cream freezer.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, " > posted on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:31:51 -0800 (PST) the following:

> If you're really intent on turning semi-sweet chocolate into milk
> chocolate you need to add powdered milk, not liquid milk, and a little
> more sugar to them. Semi-sweet chocolate contains 40% sugar by weight.
> Milk chocolate contains 50% sugar by weight. Milk chocolate also
> contains 15% milk solids by weight. The nutrition label on the package
> should tell you how much sugar is in the chocolate chips and from that
> you can figure out how much more sugar to add. You also simply go by
> taste too.

I wouldn't have thought of powdered milk. Thanks for the tip. :-)

A message to other posters in this thread: See how easy this was? This
guy ignored my little backstory about how I ended up with large semi-sweet
chocolate chips and went straight to the point.

Damaeus

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:06:16 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> Many of my posts turn into this sort of discussion for some reason. I
> don't know why.

Because what you're asking wasn't clear. Did you want to know how to
turn your semi sweet chocolate into milk chocolate or did you want
recipes using semisweet?

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:

> Many of my posts turn into this sort of discussion for some reason. I
> don't know why.
>
> Damaeus

It's a gift.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller

Damaeus wrote:
>
> Many of my posts turn into this sort of discussion for some reason. I
> don't know why.

Because you desperately need to take a course in remedial English, you
write like a dyslexic 2nd grader. "I don't know why." is not a
sentence. However don't feel badly, more than 50% of r.f.c. posters
express themselves no better... to wit that chesecake post I just
replied to.

On 2/14/2011 4:31 AM, Damaeus wrote:
> Well that's different. There's nothing wrong with these chocolate chips.
> I just don't think a store will let me return something under the auspices
> of nothing being wrong with them, but I just don't want them anymore.

I've swapped things like cat food that I got home and discovered it was
a flavor my cats won't eat. Sometimes the label colors are so close that
I get the wrong ones. The store has no problem swapping them for me,
even if they are just 50 cents a piece.

On 2/14/2011 3:06 PM, Damaeus wrote:

> Many of my posts turn into this sort of discussion for some reason. I
> don't know why.

I'd be proud if it was me. Try posting a math problem and see where
that gets you. Many help, a vast minority bring it up constantly as OT,
as if we never have OT threads here.