{"id":59,"date":"2007-08-19T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/19\/computer-lover-cooking-terms\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T15:14:00","slug":"computer-lover-cooking-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/19\/computer-lover-cooking-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Lover Cooking Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. ACCELERATOR: Microwave
\n2. ACCESS DENIED: Diet Time
\n3. ALT: As in \u201calt and pepper to taste\u201d
\n4. ASCII: Callii Tech Support
\n5. AUTOEXEC.BAT: Cookies in your boss’ car
\n6. BACKSLASH: Do to piecrust before cooking
\n7. BACKUP: Leftovers
\n8. BASIC: PBJ Sandwich
\n9. BATCH: Mess o’
\n10. BINARY: Buy nary, eat nary
\n11. BLOCK: Cake baked with no eggs
\n12. BOOT: Heat your oven
\n13. CACHE: Do when egg is rolling off counter
\n14. CAD: Someone who promises to cook, then doesn’t
\n15. CD: When you don’t core apples before baking
\n16. CLUSTER: Kitchen advisors
\n17. COMMAND: Tell someone else to cook
\n18. COMPRESS: Knead
\n19. CONFIG.SYS: Have your sister figure it out
\n20. COPY: Double recipe
\n21. CRASH: Drop main course at big dinner party
\n22. CTRL: What you lose after crashing
\n23. CURSOR: Who you are after crashing
\n24. CUSTOMIZE: Add sprinkles
\n25. DATA: Sort-a like-a fig-a
\n26. DEBUG: Check the flour before using
\n27. DIP-SWITCH: What you do when you’re out of salsa
\n28. DIRECTORY: De place where de priest lives
\n29. DOCUMENT: Small, after-dinner candy
\n30. DOS: Dine Or Starve
\n31. DOT MATRIX: Dorothy’s mother
\n32. DOWNLOAD: Pour batter into pan
\n33. DOWNTIME: Time while brownies are baking
\n34. DRAG: Time while brownies are baking
\n35. ENTER: Put in oven
\n36. ESCAPE: Order out
\n37. EXPANSION: Too much yeast
\n38. EXPORT: Take leftovers to the neighbors
\n39. EXTRACT: Usually vanilla
\n40. F.A.T.: See \u201cAccess denied\u201d
\n41. FASTOPEN: Do to oven when you overbake
\n42. FLOPPY: Bake longer next time
\n43. FOLDER: Blender
\n44. FRAGMENT: What’s left of brownies
\n45. FREEZE: Do when you accidently quadruple the recipe
\n46. GIGA-BYTE: Enough for an army
\n47. GOTO: As in \u201cGoto restaurant when recipe bombs\u201d
\n48. HELP: Julia Child
\n49. HIGH DENSITY: Forgot to fold in the eggs
\n50. HIGHLIGHT: Top with white icing
\n51. ICON: I con cook anything better than you con
\n52. IMPORT: Borrow a cup of sugar
\n53. INTERFACE: Where a lady puts her dinner
\n54. LAPTOP: Eat only the icing
\n55. LOADHIGH: Put in freezer
\n56. LOG ON: Cook in fireplace
\n57. LOGIC: Why somebody else should cook
\n58. LOOP: Why somebody else thinks you should cook
\n59. LPT1: Put on front burner
\n60. MAINFRAME: Oven
\n61. MEG: Mc chickens lay ’em
\n62. MEGA-BYTE: Slow down!
\n63. MEGA-HERTZ: When you forget to use a potholder
\n64. MEMORY: Forget it – use a timer
\n65. MENU: Surely you’re kidding
\n66. MERGE: Nickname for margarine
\n67. MICROCHIPS: Serve with micro salsa
\n68. MODEM: Top with ice cream
\n69. MONITOR: Oven window
\n70. MONO: One-burner stove
\n71. MOTHERBOARD: Mom’s tired of cooking
\n72. NANOSECOND: Time it takes to eat DOS-Serts
\n73. NERD: Someone who understands this whole glossary
\n74. NETWORK: I slice, you dice
\n75. NORTON: Maybe he’ll fix these recipes for you
\n76. PARAMETERS: Kitchen doors
\n77. PARSE: Nickname for parsley
\n78. PASSWORD: \u201cDinnertime\u201d
\n79. PATH: Worn-out place leading to refrigerator
\n80. POSTCRIPT: Dessert
\n81. RAM: Overeat
\n82. ROM: Overeat in England
\n83. SCANNER: Guest deciding whether to eat
\n84. SCROLL: Recite list of ingredients
\n85. SELECT: Choose edible portion
\n86. SERIAL: What you eat when you burn dinner
\n87. SHAREWARE: Mom’s crock pot
\n88. SHIFT: \u201cCap\u201d cake with icing
\n89. SORT: Pick the burnt ones out
\n90. SPREADSHEET: Use under really messy cooks
\n91. TAB: Drink after \u201cPie A La Modem\u201d
\n92. TECH SUPPORT: Hello, Mom?
\n93. TOGGLE: Switch recipes
\n94. TURBO: High setting on microwave
\n95. VGA: Add food coloring
\n96. ZOOM: I can see it on the table now<\/p>\n

From \u201cQuick Bytes: Computer Lover’s Cookbook\u201d by Diane Pfeifer<\/p>\n

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