How come humanity has done so well making vegan butter but everything else doesn’t quite taste right

I’ve got some oat milk butter that tastes like freaking butter. It tastes like butter. We can do that but we can’t make vegan cheese that tastes like cheese? What’s going on?

There are only three chemicals that make up the flavor of butter. Those three chemicals are easy to produce and are often vegan. What we recognize as cheese flavor is dozens to hundreds of chemicals, the profile of which is unique depending on the cheese. So far, they haven't been able to create a decent vegan version because it's so complex.

I see. It’s like the fake vanilla thing.

Wait what's the deal with fake vanilla?

Most vanilla flavor doesn’t come from vanilla because vanilla beans are really expensive but nobody notices the difference because vanilla flavor only has like one or two chemicals in it that are really easy to make artificially.

Your daily reminder of what Democrats are fighting against in 2022 and 2024

Who wants to come with me to New Jersey to go on an exciting adventure to find the magical mystery baseball mud

POWERFUL American Potion Ingredient: Secret New Jersey Baseball Mud

Item: secret Jersey baseball mud

just realised rock around the clock means theyre going to rock during all the hours on the clock. always pictured it like this 

A story in two parts 😂😂😂

Happy 23rd birthday, Dipper and Mabel! 🌲🌠

You’re both fools!

Solid fucking point

Said this to my wife and she pulled out our vase with an octopus on it. She got me.

I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.

You guys sound like you know what you’re talking about but I’m gonna touch it every twenty minutes just to be sure

I’ve put this canvas to age in the basement like a fine wine, along another recent masterpiece of mine “I put the paint on me hand and I slap the canvas like a bongo”

Paint slapped on 6/9, as of 6/22 (I mean actually it was a couple days ago but I didn’t fully check the dryness then so I can’t be sure):

It is rubbery feeling and the peaks of paint move when you flick them. The texture is not at ALL what I expected tbh and it makes me excited to try a different experiment, thick brush strokes, you know, those mad thicc ones that swirl real good

Here’s an additional shot with my coffee cup for a further sense of scale so people will understand that these canvases are small and therefore stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me

I don’t know shit about art but isn’t this like a great example of art that pushes the boundaries of what art is? Like you’ve got your canvas with paint on it, but your reason for putting the paint there is totally different than why most people put paint on stuff. It’s like a study on texture or something.

Agreed, this is really cool and also I love the fact that you really wanted to touch some paint, so you just went out and bought a bunch of paint and made your own painting for touching purposes. That’s striking me as really really cool right now for reasons I can’t entirely articulate. 

For reference: Really thick paint on a piece of art is called impasto. Another really fun way to do it is with a painting knife: you can make each stroke SUPER SMOOTH like cake icing, but with visible, touchable texture between the strokes.

More impasto:

art by Jan Ironside, who does THICK IMPASTO FLOWERS THAT I SO WANT TO TOUCH

You LITERALLY sat down to watch paint dry…

Museums should have stuff like this on display JUST so you can touch it. With a sign like, “Feel me up! I won’t alarm!”

make good art

Only thing about thick impasto is that the paint can get a bit sharp sometimes. Like, I’ve cut my hand on dried impasto paint because the paint stroke was that pointed. -.-;

Every reply on this post is delightful

sorry this is not relevant at all but ive seen this post many times and EVERY SINGLE TIME “ stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me” makes me spiral ive never laughed so hard thank you

"Phonoaesthetics isn't my thing so I can't explain why, but German is an inherently funny language," exhibit A

I love it because it was a choice. They could have put the whole title in English, THE QUEEN. They could have put the whole title in German, DIE KÖNIGIN. Anyone writing at the spiegle speaks English proficiently, it was not an accident they choose chaos.

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

@digigal-transbian

Vampires and the filtered lights.

So I tried out Realistic Paint Studio a while back, instantly bought the full version. It’s a really cool traditional art simulator. Here’s a floral study with the oil paint set up that I finally finished.

Time Lapse of Plants - Three Days

Tfw you realize that much of Earth’s life moves and communicates on a time scale humans cannot hope to comprehend.

Plants exhibit a lot of behavior we typically associate only with animals, but don’t notice because of the difference in timescales and just how utterly alien plants are compared to ourselves. They communicate, the cooperate, they engage in parental care, and discoveries in the relatively new study of plant cognition seem to indicate that they have some capacity for decision making and learning. Just as we learned that animals are not, in fact, mindless, unfeeling automata we are now learning the same is true of plants.

I wish we could see them waving around and moving though in real time :(

Striped Eel Catfish (by David Doubilet)

[id: a group of striped eel catfish all facing the camera. they have pale yellow stripes running down their dark head and backs. their bellies and the whisker-like barbels on their chins are white. end id]

Wet beast Wednesday

Oh they're notching her tail. See the little bit taken out? That tells whoever catches her next to let her go-- it's a sort of "hey, this is a reproductive female; let's keep the cycle going by putting her right back in the water" signal. The bit will grow back in 2-3 shed cycles, which takes a couple years.

They know she's able to reproduce bc she was caught with eggs.

All over my US hometown people are flying the flag at half mast in honor of the queen. Genuinely ashamed, like we didn't declare independence for this smh

Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, Seattle, Washington, 1991.

James May