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Homemade Udon Noodles
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Ingredients

5 cups (600 grams) all-purpose flour, sifted, plus more for dusting
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups water

Instructions
To make Homemade Udon Noodles:

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and salt. Add 1 1/4 cups water. Use hands to mix until dough starts to come together in a few large lumps. Firmly press and knead the dough, incorporating any loose flour until there is none left. If necessary, add a little more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until you can incorporate all of the flour.
Lightly dust work surface with flour. Knead dough (folding and firmly pressing with your palm, folding and pressing forcefully) until dough looks and feels fairly smooth, about 5 minutes. Form dough into ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and let rest at room temperature for 1-5 hours.
On a lightly floured surface with ample room, knead it again for a few minutes. Divide dough into 4 equal-sized balls. Dust each ball with flour and cover with plastic wrap until ready to roll out.
Use rolling pin to roll out the dough, occasionally rotating the dough 90 degrees and lightly using with flour if it threatens to stick to the pin, until just between 1/8" to under 1/4" thick. If the dough is too difficult to roll out, cover with plastic wrap, let rest for 10 minutes, and then resume. This rest allows the gluten to relax and makes it easier to roll out.
Fold the sheet of dough into thirds (like a letter fold) and then slice widthwise into approximately 1/8" thick noodles. Gently separate the noodles and toss them with a little bit of flour, just so they don't stick together. Cook right away.

To Cook Homemade Udon Noodles:

Bring a large pot of water to boil and prepare a large bowl of icy water. Add noodles to boiling water, stirring frequently and adding 1/4 cup fresh water if the water threatens to bubble over, until they are fully cooked but not mushy, 7-12 minutes (depends on how thick your noodles are). Unlike Italian pasta, Japanese noodles shouldn't be al-dente, but don't let them get mushy.)
Drain noodles, transfer to icy water. Briefly and gently rub the noodles with hands to remove some of the starch. Drain from cold water.

@freemo
Do you think its possible to add links to the qoto services in any of these panels?

Looking for friends to talk to (video call?) And get to know. Preferably in the or western Europe but anywhere is fine as we can communicate online. Nothing specific just want to make friends with similar background.

About me: Venezuelan scientist/engineer and masters student living in UK.


>>more drama over topics I feel partisan on
<< I stay silent and observe
>> Everything blows up and everyone dies(in credibility)
<< "Glad that ain't me..."
== Certain topics create battlefields of senseless hillbilly-like, blood-feud festering fights over relatively meteokre shit that far below subsedes the original thesis of the otherwise civil discussion.

Let me know when we can hold a 'real' discussion on mutually concerning topics... Here's a earwig for you- I'm all about logos. That'll be my bane. Ofc I do have my non-solidified biases. But I should be open to being wrong, right?

The open peer-review process they do at F1000 is exactly what all journals should be doing. I love that they publish the peer review, in detail, right next to the article themselves.

f1000research.com/articles/9-1

@hans_w

Good point.

And by the way we have servers running most of the other sort of federating apps as you mentioned... qoto hosts a funkwhale ( audio.qoto.org ), peertube ( video.qoto.org ), matrix chat (element.qoto.org ) and about a dozen federating servers in general.

So your welcome to explore many of those services right here on QOTO, or you can use other instances if you prefer and it will interoperate just as well.

@trinsec @lucifargundam @yogthos@mastodon.social @worldsendless

New Mastodon user here; I love its concept. I'm still trying to get the hang of its federated stuff

So I setup a list of maybe 30 highly active matrix rooms organized into Matrix Spaces on the QOTO Matrix server (though you can access them from any spaces enabled matrix server).

Just login to your existing matrix account on any server, or register for a free one at element.qoto.org (registration open to everyone). Then join any of the following spaces (make sure you turn on spaces in your config under labs first).

Please let me know if you have any rooms you'd like to suggest to be added to any of the below spaces. Also, feel free to create your own space and share it.

:qoto.org - Rooms related to QOTO itself

:qoto.org - Various rooms from matrix servers that have a fediverse hosted as part of the same community.

:qoto.org - A collection of general topic STEM rooms like Electronics, Physics, Math, etc.

:qoto.org - Rooms specific to Countries, towns or regions around the world.

:qoto.org - Channels for various open-source projects

-distros_space:qoto.org - Rooms for various linux distribtuion flavors.

@QOTO

Id anyone wants to join, come on down to the qoto matrix channel

@freemo in your opinion, what are the most popular jobs for a data scientist? By that, I mean by refinement of industry and actual job title.

Matrix servers that have it enabled (including QOTO's matrix server) allow for ephimerial rooms. That is, you can set your messages in a room to automatically delete after a certain point in time. Anyone who is the admin/mod of a room can set it. That, combined with the end-to-end encryption and identity verification really makes this a win on privacy.

Please let me know if anyone needs help.

If you want to sign up or log in you can go to: element.qoto.org

Everyone is welcome to signup, you dont need to have a QOTO account. You can also login as a guest if you wish.

@QOTO

To anyone out there hosting a server of any scale, interested in connecting with the QOTO matrix server?

What I am proposing is I will add any Matrix server on the fediverse into our configuration under room directories on the condition the other server adds QOTO as well. This wont change anything functionally except to allow the server to show up int he drop down for matrix servers when searching for servers to join. It just makes sense to have the various fediverse servers show up in that list by default.

@QOTO

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