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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!

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.
- 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)

Hence why beta 1.7.3 minecraft is such a gem. It's the last major version that understands that the game is meant to be played slowly.

Explain?
- The next version added sprinting.
Alpha is even better because it doesn't have beds, which low-key ruined the game...
- Agreed. It completely destroys any challenge of surviving.

Shameless sloth propaganda

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I didn't get a slow cooker until I was an adult, and it was a life changer. I love a recipe that consists of "ingredients, plus 6-8 hours."

It's nice to put ingredients into it, leave/sleep/something and come back to food!!! I love it. Mine died recently, I was very sad.
I love my Le Creuset dutch oven. It’s just like you said (ingredients + 6-8 hours) but I add a stovetop browning step at the beginning followed by a deglaze, then add the ingredients, lid on, and into the low oven until fork tender!
- I’ve got a Staub Dutch oven and it’s my favourite kitchen piece I own, closely followed by my stainless steel skillet. Honestly if I lost all my pots and pans and had to start from scratch I’d buy those two right away and just coast for a while. Maybe a medium sauce pan for boiling stuff but that would be enough for a while. I do really enjoy cooking though so I’d eventually want to get all the stuff back, but I could survive and eat good food with just that.
Wow these beans are amazing, what's your secret?
I forgot about them

Mostly meh, but those long time cookies are amazing.

Just letting regular recipes sit in the fridge a few hours is a big shift in texture and taste that are beneficial to most palates. Obviously, preferences vary and there's no single "best" anything food wise, but you can get significant changes in intensity and depth of flavor with the long recipes

Tell us your wisdom oh Baker of the Mountain. Do you just use the same recipe or is it modified somehow to benefit from the dwell time? Best type of cookie for this treatment? Teach me something new that's not another reason to be depressed please.
- Yeah, it can be done with any recipe usually. It does benefit when you start with more complex flavors to begin with, but even the most basic tollhouse recipe gets changed over time just by chilling.
  Basically, it lets the flour fully hydrate, and the enzymes present break down sugars. You end up with layers of flavor as you eat each cookie.
  There is an upper limit to how long a given recipe can go, but the "48 hour" label kinda dials in the sweet spot for most.
  The absolute best cookie recipe I've seen that makes the best use of the method is Any version of Levain style cookies. That particular recipe is real forgiving, and they actually give a little info on what's going on. I've had them stay in the fridge for a week a couple of times, and be just as good as on day 2 or 3. IIRC, they specify overnight for the rest period, but unless you're getting started at dawn of the first day, you'll want to give them at least 36 hours in the fridge.
  The exception is recipes meant to be thin and crispy. They don't benefit at all, and you end up losing some crispness by trying.
  I've done pretty much every standard cookie type with the long rest, and with the possible exception of snickerdoodles, you'll see some difference in outcome that most people enjoy. Peanut butter cookies do great with it. So do the reddit-famous murder cookies. Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, I find I really notice more enjoyable flavors. Sugar cookies, and butter cookies, I'm on the fence with because you get a bit more chew, so the shift in complexity is kind of a side grade.

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...

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.

It already takes me 15 minutes to brew about 10 cups of coffee for myself.

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 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 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 sometimes slow some narrators because they talk too fast!
I tend to like 1.2x. I want to enjoy it, but audiobook narrators talk very slowly for clarity. If I listen that slow I tend to get distracted.

Too poor, I'm either working or dying

slowmaxxxing is a privilege

Not me. I require an external factor to force a sense of urgency or I don't do shit. When I was dating and had girls over all the time, house was spotless. Now that I'm married, not so much.

Always rocked out in primary school. Always got the same report to my parents, "Doesn't do well in unstructured activities." Add my chaotic good nature to that, yeah, I have to be forced to give a fuck.

As someone with ADHD, I feel this.
If there isn't someone constantly pressuring me to get it done, I will never start it. The only way I know how to work is under constant pressure. I perform my best when scrambling at the last minute to get it done before it's too late.

nothatscrazyineedtobefast

Okay Sanic.

I recently heard Michele Obama talking about wanting more slow boring days. For some reason it felt good to hear despite me ostensibly having very little in common with her.

48 hour cookies? The hell does it need to take that damn long?

mostly sit in the fridge for a while
the cookie wrapping part of melon pan? I make 3 batches worth of the cookie dough which has a sit in the fridge step, and make the buns over 2 or 3 days and take out the cookie dough as needed.

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.

That sounds fantastic!
I’m a coffee scrub. What I make tastes great, but only because I add stuff to it. I use a cheap-ass espresso machine, pull three shots worth, pour it over some ice, add some benefiber (flavorless powder, just adds fiber to stuff) and some flavoring (right now I’m rocking an horchata mix), then some oatmilk, then shake to mix it.
This doesn’t take 15 minutes, but it takes a lot longer than it should because I’m usually making breakfast at the same time. The ritual is quite relaxing though.
- If you enjoy it, that’s all that matters. I’m a snob over my coffee, but also a big advocate that if you’re not hurting anyone, do whatever you like.
  For me, I prefer a simple coffee. Starting with good beans (mostly African: Ethiopian, Kenya AA, Congo Kivu. I dunno what’s in the soil but African beans are better than anything else I’ve had. Costs Rican beans are pretty good too), the Ethiopian Sidamo Guji region is my favorite). Always light roast. Lightly sweetened with a touch of milk for creaminess.
  Closest I’ve come to enjoying “fancy” coffee is an Americano with milk. Not big on straight espresso, nor anything that ends in -chino (cappu, frappu, etc).
  If you are ever interested in some good beans, check out S&W Craft Roasting for really good stuff. For a budget brew, I go with Fresh Roasted Coffee (they have a website and an Amazon storefront).

Live slow, die old!

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.

Need to get amongst some Slow TV!

Those Norwegian train rides are some comfy viewing.

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.

My boss disagrees with this.

I thought that was called "being sloth-pilled." I just can't keep up with the kids' slang these days.

I support the right to abort

You need to listen to Sunn O)))

I am one of those 15+ minutes coffee guys. It is my centering ritual.

Watch a 1-3 YouTube series on a niche historical topic :3

https://youtu.be/83w4FgVkjUE

Nah, I’m good

Cookies I can 1000% attest to. The dough gets made quick, sure, but letting it age in the refrigerator for 3-4 days before baking makes a truly excellent cookie.

Varies on the type of course but chocolate chip nearly always wins here. That and with brown butter, also a "take it slow" process.

Paul Virilio rolling over in his grave upon hearing this

Don't ever watch or listen to anything at higher speeds. 1x or slower.

If you get bored/distracted, then that's something you have to work on

https://youtu.be/jrLJYU5jHjc

Too slow, need to get thinhs done.

But, I gotta go. I gotta go fast.

Some of these I agree with, but some just don't apply or don't sound like fun. I don't even drink coffee or eat chocolate chip cookies. Reading is very difficult, I really need white text on a black screen with the brightness up, I can't read out of a big fat book. But the things I do are all better when I take my time.