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

In article >,
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

"Something sweeter. . . . " Melt them with some corn syrup until the
syrup bubbles, then stir until smooth. Stir in a can of sweetened
condensed milk. Viola. Hot fudge sauce.

--
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

On 2011-02-12, Damaeus > wrote:
> I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips --

I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
feeble brain to handle.

nb

"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> On 2011-02-12, Damaeus > wrote:
>> I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips --
>
> I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
> feeble brain to handle.
>
> nb


I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense. He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet
chocolate chips in the post. What he got was a couple of bags of the
regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips. So what? What's the difference
from the other than the size? Why is he suddenly thinking they should be
milk chocolate chips? And what did he expect this friend to do, go back to
the store for him? Unless he's an invalid I suggest he go get his own
chocolate chips.

Jill

In news:rec.food.cooking, notbob > posted on 13 Feb
2011 03:02:00 GMT the following:

> On 2011-02-12, Damaeus > wrote:
> > I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips --
>
> I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
> feeble brain to handle.

I guess reading comprehension is too much for your feeble brain to handle.
As I said in the original post, I asked my friend who was picking up some
groceries to bring home some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips, but he got
the big ones, not the mini ones. I don't like the big chocolate chips in
my cookies, so I don't want to use them for anything. I thought I might
try to convert them into some kind of candy, but I don't like "semi-sweet"
chocolate candy, either. But I do like mini semi-sweet chocolate chips in
cookies.

Why don't *YOU* grow a brain before you criticze mine.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:13:56 -0500 the following:

> "notbob" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
> > feeble brain to handle.
>
> I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense.

That's because you have the same reading comprehension problem as the
person you're replying to.

> He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet chocolate chips in the post. What he got
> was a couple of bags of the regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips.
> So what?

So what? It's a matter of taste. I don't like big chocolate chips in
cookies. I like tiny chocolate chips and a lot less of them than what
most recipes call for. If you like 70% cookie, 30% chocolate chips, YOU
eat the big chocolate chips. I don't like my cookies that way and I have
every right to have a preference for how I like my cookies, and a right to
bake them the way I like them.

> What's the difference from the other than the size?

The size is the only difference I care about. I don't like big chocolate
chips in my cookies. Is that too hard for you to understand?

> Why is he suddenly thinking they should be milk chocolate chips?

I never said that. My post was asking what method I should use to convert
them into milk chocolate chips. This is a cooking newsgroup, if you
haven't noticed.

> And what did he expect this friend to do, go back to the store for him?

He wasn't going "for me" to begin with. He was going for himself because
he asked me to bake 800 cookies for a Christmas party. Mini semi-sweet
chocolate chips go in the cookies, and I had them on a computer-generated,
printed list, but he got the wrong ones. We had a couple of extra bags of
semi-sweet LARGE chocolate chips left over and I don't want them in
cookies I'm going to be eating. I used the large ones in the cookies for
his Christmas party. While I would have liked the small chocolate chips
in the ones I sent to the party, since I wasn't eating them, I didn't make
a big deal about it. They were a hit anyway, and the women were slipping
them in their purses to take them home.

> Unless he's an invalid I suggest he go get his own chocolate chips.

And I suggest to you that you take a class on critical thinking. Your
post was full of so many hidden assumptions that from my view, you should
be pretty embarrassed with yourself. Unfortunately, like a jungle ape,
you don't have the mental faculties to be self-conscious enough to realize
what an idiot you look like, so I'll leave you now and you can go look
like a jungle ape somewhere else.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:08:02 -0600 the following:

> In article >,
> 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?
>
> "Something sweeter. . . . " Melt them with some corn syrup until the
> syrup bubbles, then stir until smooth. Stir in a can of sweetened
> condensed milk. Viola. Hot fudge sauce.

LOL That sounds pretty good, actually. I might do that when I bring home
some glazed donuts.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, Damaeus >
posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:24:22 -0600 the following:

> criticze

*...criticize...

Damaeus

On 2011-02-13, Damaeus > wrote:

> As I said in the original post, I asked my friend who was picking up some
> groceries to bring home some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.....

> but I don't like "semi-sweet" chocolate candy.....

My reading comprehension is jes fine. I comprehend that you, by your
own admission, are an idiot.

nb

In news:rec.food.cooking, notbob > posted on 13 Feb
2011 04:36:26 GMT the following:

> On 2011-02-13, Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > As I said in the original post, I asked my friend who was picking up some
> > groceries to bring home some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.....
>
> > but I don't like "semi-sweet" chocolate candy.....
>
> My reading comprehension is jes fine. I comprehend that you, by your
> own admission, are an idiot.

Apparently not. If I was an idiot, I would have driven in my own car to
the store to pick up the chocolate chips my friend was going to the store
to obtain for the cookies for his own Christmas party. Since he was
going, why would I want to follow him?

You just want to win an argument, but you've already lost.

Damaeus

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:42 -0600, 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, why don't you do something else with the chocolate chips?
Make chocolate fondue, granola or cookies - those gooey bars on the
label of sweetened condensed milk are pretty darned good. Search
http://www.joyofbaking.com for "recipes using chocolate chips" for
ideas and recipes.


--

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

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:34:29 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> The size is the only difference I care about. I don't like big chocolate
> chips in my cookies. Is that too hard for you to understand?

If that's the problem, then chop them up with a knife. Chocolate
chunks are all the rage these days, so you'll be on the cutting edge
(so to speak).

--

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

In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011
21:04:06 -0800 the following:

> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:42 -0600, 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?
>
> Damaeus, why don't you do something else with the chocolate chips?

That's why I posted he to find out how one might convert semi-sweet
chocolate chips into milk chocolate candy. I don't want the final candy
to taste like semi-sweet chocolate, but I didn't want to ruin them by
adding the wrong ingredients.

> Make chocolate fondue, granola or cookies - those gooey bars on the
> label of sweetened condensed milk are pretty darned good. Search
> http://www.joyofbaking.com for "recipes using chocolate chips" for
> ideas and recipes.

I already know what I want to make, if it can be done with the chocolate
chips I have. I want chocolate clusters with finely chopped nuts in
them...and a lot of nuts at that.

Damaeus

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:22:16 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011
> 21:04:06 -0800 the following:
>
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:42 -0600, 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?
> >
> > Damaeus, why don't you do something else with the chocolate chips?
>
> That's why I posted he to find out how one might convert semi-sweet
> chocolate chips into milk chocolate candy. I don't want the final candy
> to taste like semi-sweet chocolate, but I didn't want to ruin them by
> adding the wrong ingredients.
>
> > Make chocolate fondue, granola or cookies - those gooey bars on the
> > label of sweetened condensed milk are pretty darned good. Search
> > http://www.joyofbaking.com for "recipes using chocolate chips" for
> > ideas and recipes.
>
> I already know what I want to make, if it can be done with the chocolate
> chips I have. I want chocolate clusters with finely chopped nuts in
> them...and a lot of nuts at that.
>

Did you look at Joy of Baking? I hate milk chocolate, so I won't
search any further than this for how to make it or substitutions.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/IngredientSubstitution.html
Scroll down to "chocolate, milk".


--

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

On 2011-02-13, Damaeus > wrote:

> Apparently not. If I was an idiot, I would have driven in my own car to
> the store to pick up the chocolate chips my friend was going to the store
> to obtain for the cookies for his own Christmas party. Since he was
> going, why would I want to follow him?

(if I was an idiot?)

> You just want to win an argument, but you've already lost.

As if one could actually win an argument with an idiot.

nb

In news:rec.food.cooking, notbob > posted on 13 Feb
2011 06:54:19 GMT the following:

> On 2011-02-13, Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > You just want to win an argument, but you've already lost.
>
> As if one could actually win an argument with an idiot.

You said it, not me.

Damaeus

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/IngredientSubstitution.html Scroll 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.

Damaeus

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/IngredientSubstitution.html Scroll 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.

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
> Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:13:56 -0500 the following:
>
>> "notbob" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> > I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
>> > feeble brain to handle.
>>
>> I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense.
>
> That's because you have the same reading comprehension problem as the
> person you're replying to.
>
>> He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet chocolate chips in the post. What he got
>> was a couple of bags of the regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips.
>> So what?
>
> So what? It's a matter of taste. I don't like big chocolate chips in
> cookies. I like tiny chocolate chips and a lot less of them than what
> most recipes call for. If you like 70% cookie, 30% chocolate chips, YOU
> eat the big chocolate chips. I don't like my cookies that way and I have
> every right to have a preference for how I like my cookies, and a right to
> bake them the way I like them.
>
>> What's the difference from the other than the size?
>
> The size is the only difference I care about. I don't like big chocolate
> chips in my cookies. Is that too hard for you to understand?
>
>> Why is he suddenly thinking they should be milk chocolate chips?
>
> I never said that. My post was asking what method I should use to convert
> them into milk chocolate chips. This is a cooking newsgroup, if you
> haven't noticed.
>
>> And what did he expect this friend to do, go back to the store for him?
>
> He wasn't going "for me" to begin with. He was going for himself because
> he asked me to bake 800 cookies for a Christmas party. Mini semi-sweet
> chocolate chips go in the cookies, and I had them on a computer-generated,
> printed list, but he got the wrong ones. We had a couple of extra bags of
> semi-sweet LARGE chocolate chips left over and I don't want them in
> cookies I'm going to be eating. I used the large ones in the cookies for
> his Christmas party. While I would have liked the small chocolate chips
> in the ones I sent to the party, since I wasn't eating them, I didn't make
> a big deal about it. They were a hit anyway, and the women were slipping
> them in their purses to take them home.
>
>> Unless he's an invalid I suggest he go get his own chocolate chips.
>
> And I suggest to you that you take a class on critical thinking. Your
> post was full of so many hidden assumptions that from my view, you should
> be pretty embarrassed with yourself. Unfortunately, like a jungle ape,
> you don't have the mental faculties to be self-conscious enough to realize
> what an idiot you look like, so I'll leave you now and you can go look
> like a jungle ape somewhere else.
>
> Damaeus


You're the one with the comprehension problem. Your friend did you a favour
picking them up while at the store. That's great! Saved you a trip. Saved
on gas money, whatever. You still can't magically turn them into something
else. Take them back and get what you want. It's really not a difficult
concept.

Jill

"Damaeus" > wrote in message
...
> In news:rec.food.cooking, notbob > posted on 13 Feb
> 2011 04:36:26 GMT the following:
>
>> On 2011-02-13, Damaeus > wrote:
>>
>> > As I said in the original post, I asked my friend who was picking up
>> > some
>> > groceries to bring home some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.....
>>
>> > but I don't like "semi-sweet" chocolate candy.....
>>
>> My reading comprehension is jes fine. I comprehend that you, by your
>> own admission, are an idiot.
>
> Apparently not. If I was an idiot, I would have driven in my own car to
> the store to pick up the chocolate chips my friend was going to the store
> to obtain for the cookies for his own Christmas party. Since he was
> going, why would I want to follow him?
>
> You just want to win an argument, but you've already lost.
>
> Damaeus


WTF does Christmas have to do with it? This is February.

Jill

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:

> In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' >
> posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:08:02 -0600 the following:
>
> > In article >,
> > 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?
> >
> > "Something sweeter. . . . " Melt them with some corn syrup until the
> > syrup bubbles, then stir until smooth. Stir in a can of sweetened
> > condensed milk. Viola. Hot fudge sauce.
>
> LOL That sounds pretty good, actually. I might do that when I bring home
> some glazed donuts.
>
> Damaeus

It is very good and it is very fast.

--
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

In article >,
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

Look for a recipe for fudge that involves marshmallows.

--
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

On 12/02/2011 11:34 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, > posted on
> Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:13:56 -0500 the following:
>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
>>> feeble brain to handle.
>>
>> I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense.
>
> That's because you have the same reading comprehension problem as the
> person you're replying to.
>
>> He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet chocolate chips in the post. What he got
>> was a couple of bags of the regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips.
>> So what?
>
> So what? It's a matter of taste. I don't like big chocolate chips in
> cookies. I like tiny chocolate chips and a lot less of them than what
> most recipes call for. If you like 70% cookie, 30% chocolate chips, YOU
> eat the big chocolate chips. I don't like my cookies that way and I have
> every right to have a preference for how I like my cookies, and a right to
> bake them the way I like them.
>



If you have to be so damned anal about your chocolate chips why not just
get a knife and cut htem into halves or smeller?

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:42 -0600 in rec.food.cooking, 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.

Chill in the refrigerator then chop in the food processor.

In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:44:02 -0500 the following:

> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > And I suggest to you that you take a class on critical thinking. Your
> > post was full of so many hidden assumptions that from my view, you
> > should be pretty embarrassed with yourself. Unfortunately, like a
> > jungle ape, you don't have the mental faculties to be self-conscious
> > enough to realize what an idiot you look like, so I'll leave you now
> > and you can go look like a jungle ape somewhere else.
>
> You're the one with the comprehension problem. Your friend did you a
> favour picking them up while at the store.

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. Since he likes the cookies that I bake, I told him what to
buy. He got the wrong chocolate chips, so he didn't get exactly the same
cookie that he likes. The whole point is that we had two bags of
chocolate chips left over and I don't like big ****ing chips in my
cookies, nor do I want to stand there with a knife and chop them into
little pieces, but I would like some milk chocolate candy with nuts in
them and if I can put those chocolate chips to use (since I don't want to
use them in cookies), that's great.

> That's great! Saved you a trip. Saved on gas money, whatever. You
> still can't magically turn them into something else.

They're forever chocolate chips? That's pretty depressing. That means I
can't even melt them down to turn them into a chocolate bar. Oh, you're
wrong about that. Oh well, I'm not surprised.

> 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

In news:rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith > posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:23:36 -0500 the following:

> On 12/02/2011 11:34 PM, Damaeus wrote:
>
> > So what? It's a matter of taste. I don't like big chocolate chips in
> > cookies. I like tiny chocolate chips and a lot less of them than what
> > most recipes call for. If you like 70% cookie, 30% chocolate chips,
> > YOU eat the big chocolate chips. I don't like my cookies that way and
> > I have every right to have a preference for how I like my cookies, and
> > a right to bake them the way I like them.
>
> If you have to be so damned anal about your chocolate chips why not just
> get a knife and cut htem into halves or smeller?

Why don't I just start a latch-hook project, knit a pair of socks or maybe
mow the lawn with a pair of scissors?

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. They act as if the chocolate chips were a special
gift to me and that I'm unappreciative of my friend's generosity. That is
nothing like what this is about. *HE* got the wrong chips for *HIS*
cookies. I used what was needed and we had a couple of bags left over.
Neither he nor I like big, fat chocolate chips. I don't want to cut them
into little pieces with a knife when I can more easily go to the store and
get the teeny-tiny chocolate chips. I will turn the big chocolate chips
into something else.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown" > posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:45:06 -0500 the following:

> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > Apparently not. If I was an idiot, I would have driven in my own car
> > to the store to pick up the chocolate chips my friend was going to the
> > store to obtain for the cookies for his own Christmas party. Since he
> > was going, why would I want to follow him?
> >
> > You just want to win an argument, but you've already lost.
>
> WTF does Christmas have to do with it? This is February.

You DO have a reading comprehension problem, or you're not reading the
messages at all. The chocolate chips were left over from my baking
cookies for a Christmas party he was going to. I didn't even go to the
party. I just baked a few hundred cookies for it.

Damaeus

In news:rec.food.cooking, sf > posted on Sun, 13 Feb 2011
00:32:11 -0800 the following:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:55:26 -0600, Damaeus
> > wrote:
>
> > 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.

Seems like the first page is where most of those types of sites are
located. I read an article yesterday saying that Google is thinking of
letting users create their own blacklist of websites so they won't even
show up in your search results. Oddly, they referred to data from some
Wiki search site as an indication that a user blacklist would be useful.
It's odd because to me it seems like a no-brainer that is obvious without
studying data.

I hope they allow this in two ways: Either build your own, private
blacklist, or use a public blacklist which has been built by all Google
users. They should even come out with "clubs" so trusted friends can
build a collective blacklist. Since the people in this group would know
each other, they could trust that their members are really clicking on
useless sites, and not just sites they don't personally like, but which do
contain useful information without looking like an aggregator or
advertising magnet. I'd like to set up some way to filter out sites that
have identical content. I don't mind seeing one aggregator site, but I
don't want to see on the first page eight out of ten results with an
identical news article.

There is definitely a way to configure search engines to do this. They
just have to program them to do it.

Damaeus

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> "notbob" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On 2011-02-12, Damaeus > wrote:
> >> I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips --
> >
> > I guess picking up actual milk chocolate chips was too much for your
> > feeble brain to handle.
> >
> > nb
>
>
> I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense. He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet
> chocolate chips in the post. What he got was a couple of bags of the
> regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips. So what? What's the difference
> from the other than the size?

To you, nothing. To him, he did not get what he requested and what he
expected. Somewhere in the thread he said he does not like the bigger
chocolate chips in his cookies. Just his preference. Seems as
reasonable as most of the stuff posted here.

> Why is he suddenly thinking they should be
> milk chocolate chips?

He is not. He wants to make the taste sweeter, "more like milk
chocolate," and make a drop candy that will use his too-big semi-sweet
chocolate chips. Personally, I don't think all the sugar in the bowl
will make the semi-sweet taste like milk chocolate ‹ there's more to it
than that. But his question was for some help from the

> And what did he expect this friend to do, go back to the store for
> him? Unless he's an invalid I suggest he go get his own chocolate
> chips.

> Jill

It doesn't look like he expects his friend to do anything; he was hoping
for some help here. My guess is that he will get for himself the
chocolate chips he expected. His request here was for suggestions to
use what he was provided with so as to not waste them. Didn't you just
say something about "waste not, want not" in your stovetop cooking
thread? It sounds like he's trying to use them rather than throw them
away. Kind of like you.

--
Barb

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> ...

> > He wasn't going "for me" to begin with. He was going for himself because
> > he asked me to bake 800 cookies for a Christmas party.
>
> You're the one with the comprehension problem. Your friend did you a favour
> picking them up while at the store. That's great! Saved you a trip. Saved
> on gas money, whatever.

Whatever, is right.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>
> It doesn't look like he expects his friend to do anything; he was hoping
> for some help here. My guess is that he will get for himself the
> chocolate chips he expected. His request here was for suggestions to
> use what he was provided with so as to not waste them. Didn't you just
> say something about "waste not, want not" in your stovetop cooking
> thread? It sounds like he's trying to use them rather than throw them
> away. Kind of like you.
>
> --
> Barb


Then my sincere apologies. But he could always just take them back to the
store and exchange them. I happen to prefer milk chocolate chips when I
make fudge. But I don't expect a magic recipe to turn semi-sweet chips into
something they aren't. And it seems to be a size hang-up. Men...!

Jill

In article >,
Damaeus > wrote:
> > 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

They very well might if you have the receipt. Without the receipt you
might be a screwed goose.

--
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

On 13/02/2011 12:08 PM, Damaeus wrote:

>>
>> If you have to be so damned anal about your chocolate chips why not just
>> get a knife and cut htem into halves or smeller?
>
> Why don't I just start a latch-hook project, knit a pair of socks or maybe
> mow the lawn with a pair of scissors?
>
> 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. I don't think that
large chips are going to make much of a difference to the cookies....
for a normal person. 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.





They act as if the chocolate chips were a special
> gift to me and that I'm unappreciative of my friend's generosity. That is
> nothing like what this is about. *HE* got the wrong chips for *HIS*
> cookies. I used what was needed and we had a couple of bags left over.
> Neither he nor I like big, fat chocolate chips. I don't want to cut them
> into little pieces with a knife when I can more easily go to the store and
> get the teeny-tiny chocolate chips. I will turn the big chocolate chips
> into something else.

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >,
> > "jmcquown" > wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't look like he expects his friend to do anything; he was hoping
> > for some help here. My guess is that he will get for himself the
> > chocolate chips he expected. His request here was for suggestions to
> > use what he was provided with so as to not waste them. Didn't you just
> > say something about "waste not, want not" in your stovetop cooking
> > thread? It sounds like he's trying to use them rather than throw them
> > away. Kind of like you.
> >
> > --
> > Barb
>
>
> Then my sincere apologies. But he could always just take them back to the
> store and exchange them. I happen to prefer milk chocolate chips when I
> make fudge. But I don't expect a magic recipe to turn semi-sweet chips into
> something they aren't. And it seems to be a size hang-up. Men...!
>
> Jill

The exchanging sounds like a good idea if it works. I was thinking that
he might very well NOT have the store receipt because the other guy
bought and paid - Damaeus is just the poor ******* who said he'd bake
800 cookies for a friend. I would not expect the grocery store to take
back the chips without a receipt or something to identify that they came
from that store.

I use a combination of milk chocolate chips and semi-sweet when I make
my fudge. And I usually prefer a milk chocolate candy bar unless it's a
Midnight Milky Way.
--
Barb
http://web.me.com/barbschaller

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

You could always make something like buckeyes.

"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. 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.

Jill

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.

--

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

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.




--

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

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:18:42 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> Seems like the first page is where most of those types of sites are
> located. I read an article yesterday saying that Google is thinking of
> letting users create their own blacklist of websites so they won't even
> show up in your search results. Oddly, they referred to data from some
> Wiki search site as an indication that a user blacklist would be useful.
> It's odd because to me it seems like a no-brainer that is obvious without
> studying data.

I think there are already lists like that... I can't think of what
they're called at the moment, but I will after I hit send. Good luck
with your endeavor.

--

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

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:49:34 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

> Look for a recipe for fudge that involves marshmallows.

I so resisted posting this recipe previously... but you *made* me do
it http://www.joyofbaking.com/candy/RockyRoad.html




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