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Jul 20, 2011#1

blotsfan

Lately I've just had the idea to make a restaurant where you bring your own food and the chefs will deep fry it for you. Now, its probably never gonna happen, but it got me to thinking, what are your ideas of that nature?

Jul 20, 2011#2

Krisken

A Jump-to-Conclusions mat.

Jul 21, 2011#3

strawman

I dropped a hammer on my head today whilst installing a new garage door opener.

I think if you make a hammer that levitates above a human head rather than hitting it, you'ld probably make a million dollars. Perhaps the levitation bit would have some other interesting applications that you might make a few pennies off of as well.

Jul 21, 2011#4

David

Create "anti-hammer headgear" and sell them for $50 each.

But make them out of repainted bicycle helmets.

Jul 21, 2011#5

strawman

Oh, there's also the obvious billion dollar idea: Make software that punches someone in the face across the internet.

Jul 21, 2011#6

Cheesy1

Do you like to put margarine or jam on your toast, but are too much of a tard to figure out the complexities of a butter knife? What a mess!

You need: THE SPREADER!

Simply place your bread into the slot in the middle, scoop your favorite tasty condiment into the side compartment, press the big green start button and "WALLA!": a fast, evenly spreaded treat! No more poking holes into your bread like a brain-dead spidermonkey!

Normally, we would like to sucker your gullible ass into paying as much as $500 dollars for this! But because we don't want to press our luck, we'll cut the price to only 10 easy payments of $39.95! AMAZING!

But call in the next 15 seconds, and we'll DOUBLE your order! That's right, spread two slices of bread AT THE SAME TIME! Your life is incomplete without this, CALL NOW!!

(Stormtrooper operators are standing by)

Jul 21, 2011#7

kaykordeath

blotsfan said:
Lately I've just had the idea to make a restaurant where you bring your own food and the chefs will deep fry it for you. Now, its probably never gonna happen, but it got me to thinking, what are your ideas of that nature?

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/new-york-restaurant-will-deep-fry-anything-you-want.html
(need to get there one of these days)

http://www.thecountryboyrestaurant.com/you-bring-it-theyll-fry-it-at-fried-food-festival

Jul 21, 2011#8

GasBandit

blotsfan said:
Lately I've just had the idea to make a restaurant where you bring your own food and the chefs will deep fry it for you. Now, its probably never gonna happen, but it got me to thinking, what are your ideas of that nature?

Jul 21, 2011#9

Hylian

Peanut butter and Jelly Reese's cups

Jul 21, 2011#10

Chibibar

blotsfan said:
Lately I've just had the idea to make a restaurant where you bring your own food and the chefs will deep fry it for you. Now, its probably never gonna happen, but it got me to thinking, what are your ideas of that nature?

actually I think there is a place here in Texas that will BBQ/smoke/Fry it for you. A friend told me about it. I remember talking about it during Thanksgiving and there is a restaurant that actually does it (all year round)

Jul 21, 2011#11

Shakey

Hylian said:
Peanut butter and Jelly Reese's cups

Damn, that makes me want to make these with jelly on top.

Jul 21, 2011#12

LittleSin

WANT. RECIPE.

Jul 21, 2011#13

Chibibar

LittleSin said:
WANT. RECIPE.

me too!

Jul 21, 2011#14

Hylian

This looks like the same recipe

http://www.joyofbaking.com/PeanutButterCupCookies.html

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies:

2 1/2 cups (325 grams) all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup (226 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

3/4 cup (160 grams) light brown sugar

3/4 cup (150 grams) granulated white sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Garnish:

48 miniature peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray with a non stick vegetable spray, 48 miniature muffins tins.

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.

In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the butter. Add the sugars and beat until light and fluffy (about 2 - 3 minutes). Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. Fill each miniature muffin cup with about one tablespoon of batter.

Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes, or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges but still soft in the center. (Note: While the cookies are baking remove the foil wraps and paper liners from each peanut butter cup.) Remove the cookies from the oven, and gently press one miniature peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie. The peanut butter cup should be even with the top of the batter. Return the cookies to the oven and bake an additional 3 minutes or until cookies are golden brown. Remove from oven and cool completely (about two hours) on a wire rack before removing the cookies from the pan. These can be stored for several days at room temperature or in the refrigerator, or they can be frozen.

Makes about 48 cookies.

Jul 21, 2011#15

Shakey

Not sure if this is the one my mom uses, but here's a recipe.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/peanut-butter-cup-cookies/detail.aspx

Jul 22, 2011#16

blotsfan

kaykordeath said:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/new-york-restaurant-will-deep-fry-anything-you-want.html
(need to get there one of these days)

http://www.thecountryboyrestaurant.com/you-bring-it-theyll-fry-it-at-fried-food-festival

Ah well. Too good to be true. I need another way to become rich now.

Aug 8, 2011#17

S Shi

A restaurant in new york has been doing this since 2007

Aug 8, 2011#18

Officer_Charon

An indoor park. Not like a Chuck E. Cheese, but a playground, enclosed, for days when it's too hot/wet/cold to play on a playground, but you still want to get your kids out of the house. Sell healthy snacks for those feeling peckish.

Aug 8, 2011#19

HCGLNS

Idea: put Play-Doh in fancy container and sell it as "all natural stress relieving clay"

Aug 8, 2011#20

General Specific

A building for office workers to have races in chairs and an area to destroy computers, fax machines, etc. Serve typical sports-bar food.

Aug 8, 2011#21

Mathias

http://www.bulletballgames.com/

I just feel bad for this dude...

Aug 8, 2011#22

FnordBear

Probably wouldn't make me millions but...

Since geek culture has become more and more mainstream I would love to open a bar for geeks and nerds to hang out in. Living in a college town, there is no end of sports bars but there is little to no place for more esoteric tastes.

There would be a few TVs set up that have signs indicating sports will NEVER be shown. a TV constantly on Syfy channel (switching to something recorded when it goes to infomercials and wrestling). Servers in different cosplay outfits, costume contests, anime viewings, lady geek nights, etc.

Aug 8, 2011#23

makare

FnordBear said:
Probably wouldn't make me millions but...

Since geek culture has become more and more mainstream I would love to open a bar for geeks and nerds to hang out in. Living in a college town, there is no end of sports bars but there is little to no place for more esoteric tastes.

There would be a few TVs set up that have signs indicating sports will NEVER be shown. a TV constantly on Syfy channel (switching to something recorded when it goes to infomercials and wrestling). Servers in different cosplay outfits, costume contests, anime viewings, lady geek nights, etc.

That is the best. idea. ever.

Aug 8, 2011#24

FnordBear

I actually have a few specialty drink recipes if the idea ever gets off the ground.

The Neutron Bomb
1 shot jaeger, 1 shot of aftershock, 2 shots soda water, stir with cinnamon stick, serve in a wineglass with stick.

The Proton Torpedo
1 shot peppermint schnaps, 1 shot absolute vodka, mix with a can of ice cold sprite

The Black Hole
1 shot absinthe, 2 shots everclear, serve with ice and a spoonful of sugar.

Aug 8, 2011#25

Gusto

The Star Trek Experience in Vegas used to have a four-five person mixed drink called the Warp Core Breach.

Added at: 22:16

Aug 9, 2011#26

GasBandit

I was lucky enough to go to the 'experience a couple months before it closed down. I sat in quark's bar, and had myself a core breach. It was ok. But I liked sitting in Quark's with a beverage and a burger and watching star trek. I'm really glad I got to go to that before it shut down. As a long time Trek fan, it was like a trip to my own geek mecca. I even liked reading the info on all the displays they put around the parts where they expected you to be standing in line, and I took 2 hours reading them all even though there was no line at all. Did the full run of the ride/experiences, and got my picture taken both in a borg niche and the 1701-D's captain's chair. That was a good day. In an otherwise horrific trip to Vegas that involved sickness, delusion, hotel fires and frustration.

Aug 9, 2011#27

Hylian

I am saddened that I never got to make it to the Star Trek Experience before it closed

Aug 9, 2011#28

Biannoshufu

Mathias said:
http://www.bulletballgames.com/

I just feel bad for this dude...

Yeah. Game show loser, wasn't he? Poor guy.

My idea? Real life ignore button ( of the non lethal variety.)

Aug 9, 2011#29

blotsfan

Tinwhistler said:
Sounds similar to a place that opened in Houston around 2000ish called "U B Cooks" or something like that. Only in that place, you picked a steak, took it to a grill, and cooked it yourself. The friend who brought it to me thought it was so chic. I thought "If I'm just grilling a steak myself, why am I paying $50 for the privilege".

I evedently wasn't in the minority--the place went under in a few months.

While I see why cooking it would be unpleasant, I kinda like the idea of getting to choose your steak before they cook it.

Aug 9, 2011#30

Null

Picking your steak, yes. Cooking it yourself, having paid money and gone out? No fucking way. Goddamn concept restaurants.

Aug 9, 2011#31

Ravenpoe

Tinwhistler said:
Sounds similar to a place that opened in Houston around 2000ish called "U B Cooks" or something like that. Only in that place, you picked a steak, took it to a grill, and cooked it yourself. The friend who brought it to me thought it was so chic. I thought "If I'm just grilling a steak myself, why am I paying $50 for the privilege".

I evedently wasn't in the minority--the place went under in a few months.

Wait, what?

I can understand picking out your own steak, but you have to cook it too? What the fuck man... that's not a restaurant, that's an hourly grill rental.

Aug 9, 2011#32

Adammon

Some concept restaurants work.

I love mongolian grills and brazilian steakhouses.

Aug 9, 2011#33

Officer_Charon

OMG want Mongolian BBQ SOOOOO bad now! *sadface*

Aug 9, 2011#34

Cheesy1

We had a really nice Mongolian BBQ in downtown Modesto. My friend and I would gorge ourselves sick on that stuff. But when the economy went to shit in '08, they couldn't stay open. We were so pissed!

Aug 9, 2011#35

Officer_Charon

Also, I apparently post like a 13 year-old when I get hungry. *headwheel*
Added at: 17:25

Cheesy1 said:
We had a really nice Mongolian BBQ in downtown Modesto. My friend and I would gorge ourselves sick on that stuff. But when the economy went to shit in '08, they couldn't stay open. We were so pissed!

My first experience with Mongolian was a place in Auburn, CA, before I left the States last time. I GORGED myself there, to the point where my 15 year-old metabolism was sated.

I have never been able to replicate the experience, which is something that saddens me to this day.

Aug 9, 2011#36

Adammon

I had Mongolian for the first time this spring and found it amazing, cheap and stomach-bursting.
Added at: 23:43

Adammon said:
I had Mongolian for the first time this spring and found it amazing, cheap and stomach-bursting.

Also tried out a Stone Grill for the first time. It was a neat little healthy concept. http://www.stonegrill.com/dining_fs.html

Aug 9, 2011#37

fade

My wife has two that she's been talking about for years:

1. A restaurant with little bedrooms or cots where you can nap after your meal.
2. A shower with preset buttons, so you can save your perfect temperature.

Aug 9, 2011#38

makare

That shower thing already exists.

Aug 9, 2011#39

Ravenpoe

fade said:
1. A restaurant with little bedrooms or cots where you can nap after your meal.

Aug 9, 2011#40

figmentPez

makare said:
That shower thing already exists.

Yeah, there are even digital ones that allow you to set a specific temperature.

Aug 9, 2011#41

fade

Well, in her defense, she has been talking about it since I met her 15 years ago..

Aug 9, 2011#42

Mathias

fade said:
My wife has two that she's been talking about for years:

1. A restaurant with little bedrooms or cots where you can nap after your meal.
2. A shower with preset buttons, so you can save your perfect temperature.

They have those. You can adjust the shower handle to the water temp of your liking. After adjustment, just turn it all the way until you can't turn anymore. The water is at your temperature setting. Works even better with those funky "tankless" water heaters so you don't freeze your buns off in 5 minutes in the winter.

Aug 10, 2011#43

@Li3n

fade said:
she has been talking about it since I met her 15 years ago.

I think this product might help:

Aug 10, 2011#44

phil

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